November 11, 2007
Best. Picture. Ever
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February 27, 2007
Export Mac OS X Address Book Entries to TomTom POI
After finding out that my TomTom didn’t know how to retrieve the telephone numbers from either my Treo 650 or my Nokia E61, I wrote an AppleScript that exported the Mac OS X Address Book’s telephone numbers directly to the file format used in the TomTom. You can read about that and grab the script here.
Unfortunately, the TomTom’s address book only stored two fields, Name and Number. I thought it an obvious omission that TomTom did not expand that to full street addresses so that TomTom users could navigate to their friends.
So again, I did some research…
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November 11, 2006
Nokia E61 Review (from the perspective of a Treo 650 User)
I wrote this a while ago, and it could probably use a few more drafts and some more polishing, but I fear I'll never release it if I don't just do it now.... so here it is...
Like many others before and after me, I came to a Nokia E61 from a Treo 650. I had been a Palm OS user from 1999 and always carried two devices, typically the Palm and a Mac-and-Palm-friendly Ericsson/Sony Ericsson phone. The Treo 650 was my first proper converged device. I unsuccessfully hand a Handspring Prism with the VisorPhone add-on which was possibly the worst phone I'd ever used. The Treo 600 was very appealing, but I couldn't go back to a 160 x 160 display due to me religious use of SplashData's SplashMoney.
The 650 was without a doubt the most capable device I've owned. From being fully internet capable, being able to track ALL of my finances, have dictionaries, the Leonard Maltin Movie Guide, the Navman SmartST software and more. However, the devices memory and stability were shocking.
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November 2, 2006
Revenge of the Nerds!
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July 15, 2006
Party!
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