Category: PDAs
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Filing a Claim to Recover Part of the DRAM Settlement
Reading Time: < 1 minuteBack in the late 1990s and the first few years of the 2000s, I bought thousands of dollars of desktop computers, printers, servers, and handheld electronics. So I am one of the people who should be able to claim a share of the settlement in the DRAM Antitrust Litigation. If you…
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BlueLounge SpaceStation Organizes Cables for Laptop Users
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe BlueLounge SpaceStation is a desk organizer for laptop users that acts as a USB hub for all peripheral devices. BlueLounge SpaceStation [ Photo courtesy of the manufacturer. ] The photo I’ve chosen shows the bottom of the SpaceStation. The rubber feet set the SpaceStation 5mm above the surface of the desk. This…
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Treo 755p Demonstrates How Far The Mighty Palm, Inc. Has Fallen
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI used to love Palm Treo personal communicators like the Treo 755p. My wife and I had his and hers Treo 650s until June when I bought my iPhone. However in 2008, I cannot recommend a Treo in good conscience to anyone who does not work in an industry where Palm…
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Three-Part Article on Writing a Webcam Application for the Nokia N800
Reading Time: 2 minutesI got a Nokia N800 through the Nokia Blogger Relations Program several months ago. I found this device quite interesting, but I never had the opportunity to dig into it as deeply as I had wanted to. I started to think about it again about a week ago, when I was thinking…
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Handhelds from Palm Still Make Sense in Medicine
Reading Time: < 1 minuteLast night I solved the syncing problem that had limited Kathleen’s ability to use her Treo 650 with her new MacBook. I owe a lot of credit to the book Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Tiger Edition, which explained the details of the interaction between Palm Desktop for the…
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Nokia N93: The Swiss Army Knife of GSM / UMTS Multimedia Phones
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Nokia N93 produces DVD-quality video, has a terrific MP3 player, and includes wireless broadband and WiFi capability. It’s great for people who want a phone that can be used in relatively serious video production. [ Photo: Dave Aiello ][ Check out my Nokia N93 photo set on Flickr. ] A friend who works with Nokia…
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BusinessWeek Provides Manufacturing Cost Comparison Between Motorola Q and BlackBerry 8700
Reading Time: < 1 minuteYesterday BusinessWeek published an article that provides a manufacturing cost comparison between the Motorola Q and BlackBerry 8700 handheld communicators. According to the article, the Motorola Q costs about $158 to make. Some of the key components in the Q are: LCD display, $25 XScale microprocessor, $19 Digital baseband processor, $14…
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LeTour 2006 Version 2.0 Adds Rider and Team Lists, Fixes Treo Problems
Reading Time: 2 minutesDeepweb has fixed problems in LeTour 2006 that made it incompatible with the Treo 650 and 700p Datebook. [ Image: Deepweb Internet Solutions ] Our friend Ad de Vries and his coworkers at Deepweb in The Netherlands have released Version 2.0 of LeTour 2006. The major new feature of this release is the inclusion…