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September 2004
More Treo 650 Rumors
Thursday, 30 September 2004 9:49 A GMT-05
A user on TreoCentral posted some more pictures of a Sprint-branded Treo 650, the successor to the Treo 600. Most of the pictures are pretty blurry, so I’m not sure if that is meant to keep people from seeing things that may reveal something that
Category: Gadgets and Technology
Blackberry on a Treo
Thursday, 30 September 2004 8:33 A GMT-05
After months of rumor without much official word, there’s finally a bit more hope for those interested in having the Blackberry wireless services for their Treo 600. In other words, Treo owners who need Blackberries to communicate with their corp
Category: Gadgets and Technology
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Doling out disinformation
Wednesday, 29 September 2004 2:12 P GMT-05
It’s been a while since the orange juice industry and potato industry decided to go after the low-carb diet movement because of its threat to their business. I haven’t heard much since, except for some in these industries making a decision that
Category: Health, Diet, and Nutrition
Epson P-2000 Photo Fine Player
Tuesday, 28 September 2004 10:33 A GMT-05
By way of Gizmodo, there’s news of a new portable device by Epson that can display pictures, download them from Compact Flash or SD cards, and possibly play music and videos. The only information available right now is in Japanese, so I’m not e
Category: Photos Gadgets and Technology
Standard Bearers
Monday, 27 September 2004 8:07 P GMT-05
Two new standards were introduced today in the real of digital photography. Or I should say, one new standard, and a standards body. Time will only tell whether how these pan out. Standards in technology are one of those sticky issues. On the
Category: Photos Gadgets and Technology
Adventures with car stereos
Friday, 24 September 2004 10:14 A GMT-05
First a disclaimer: I’m no audiophile. I’m a gadget geek who can tell the difference between an MP3 Encoded at 196kbs and… 32kbps? Or between a reporter talking over a telephone line and one talking live. I can make out the extra channels
Category: Gadgets and Technology
Roll Reversal
Friday, 24 September 2004 8:27 A GMT-05
Three women from Los Angeles just started a company called Carb Couture with the aim to defend their right to enjoy carbs. How silly is this? It is really sad when people feel so threatened by their environment that they have to declare their lov
Category: Health, Diet, and Nutrition
Competition for the iPod
Thursday, 23 September 2004 12:17 P GMT-05
There’s been a slew of news recently that would have us believe that the iPod will no longer have the easy road it’s been on as the dominant MP3 player over the last few years. I have had an iPod for about a year now, and while I certainly enjo
Category: Gadgets and Technology
Canadian low-carbers left out in the cold?
Wednesday, 22 September 2004 11:59 P GMT-05
I am no big fan of low carb food products that try to mimic high-carb foods like bread, candy, pancakes, and countless others. They tend to be highly processed with dubious claims based on the iffy status of sugar alcohols. Nevertheless, the rece
Category: Health, Diet, and Nutrition
Synch for Sidekick finally here
Wednesday, 22 September 2004 2:19 P GMT-05
Well, after driving me and countless other Sidekick users away due to their idiotic and anti-customer policy of not offering a product that had already been developed, T-Mobile has finally decided to offer Outlook Synch for this device. Unfortunate
Category: Gadgets and Technology
Canon’s new Digital SLR
Tuesday, 21 September 2004 11:03 A GMT-05
Nikon recently announced its flagship 12MP DSLR, the D2X, close behind Fuji’s S3 Pro. Now Canon has gotten into the fray with it’s latest and greatest, the top-of-the-line professional EOS-1DS Mark II. The highest priced of these cameras it i
Category: Gadgets and Technology
Missing my board buds
Friday, 17 September 2004 11:02 A GMT-05
Last weekend, I couldn’t get to a bulletin board which I’ve spend ridiculous amounts of time over the last 4 years. It’s the official Protein Power Bulletin Board, linked to the official Protein Power website. Protein Power is the “diet
Category: Health, Diet, and Nutrition Journal
D2X finally announced
Thursday, 16 September 2004 11:05 A GMT-05
In the professional Digital “compact” (meaning sensor sizes up to 35mm but not larger) SLR market, Nikon, Cannon, and Fuji have been battling it out for a few years now. Earlier this year, Canon took the lead, some would say, with its EOS-1D Ma
Category: Gadgets and Technology
XM Satellite Radio to be transmitted via Internet
Thursday, 16 September 2004 10:44 A GMT-05
XM, the more successful of the two satellite radio companies that began transmitting a couple of years ago, has decided to expand its reach to internet broadcasting. I used to own an XM radio, and while I enjoyed the better-than-FM quality of XM, a
Category: Gadgets and Technology
Sidekick II upgrade offer temporarily on hold
Thursday, 16 September 2004 10:16 A GMT-05
My wife, who has my old Sidekick, got an email from T-Mobile last night that the Sidekick II $100-off upgrade offer for current Sidekick owners is on hold. Apparently there was such a huge demand from these owners that they had to shut things down
Category: Gadgets and Technology
More signs of the Treo 650's Arrival
Thursday, 16 September 2004 8:54 A GMT-05
According to mytreo.net, PalmOne is now giving away 3 free accessories (valued at $80) with new Treo 600 purchases. In other words they are trying to clear out inventory by enticing new customers to jump on this special offer. They are only avail
Category: Gadgets and Technology
Audio Books at $10/pop
Wednesday, 15 September 2004 11:59 P GMT-05
Those who’ve read my blog for a while will know of my long-time membership with Audible.com, which provides audio books in the form of digital files you download from their site, kind of like MP3 files, but with copy-protection. Initially, one co
Category: Gadgets and Technology
Sidekick II upgrade offer
Wednesday, 15 September 2004 8:35 A GMT-05
T-Mobile has finally heeded the screams of its Sidekick community and thrown them a bone with a special $100 off the Sidekick II, making it $199 for previous Sidekick owners.The only problem is that it seems like most of the tens of thousands of curr
Category: Gadgets and Technology
Treo 650 almost here?
Tuesday, 14 September 2004 7:42 A GMT-05
According to several articles posted last night, High Tech Computer (HTC) just started shipping the next Treo model to PalmOne in large quantities. HTC is apparently the company that is manufacturing the phone, and they probably best known for Pock
Category: Gadgets and Technology
Fuji S3 Pro
Monday, 13 September 2004 9:13 A GMT-05
DPReview.com just posted a hands-on preview of the new Fuji Pro S3 that I’m aware of. Fuji has become one of the top makers of digital SLR’s (and prosumer models), and many professionals are using Fuji S2’s. Fuji has been innovators in CCD
Category: Photos Gadgets and Technology
September 11th
Sunday, 12 September 2004 11:47 A GMT-05
Got this out a day late, so I apologize. I thought it appropriate to reflect on September 11, not only due to its inherent significance to me, the U.S., and really the world, but also because it seems to be what pushed blogging into the forefront a
Category: Journal
Get your DVR soon
Friday, 10 September 2004 2:02 P GMT-05
Very related to my last entry, I came across this piece on SiliconValley.com (by way of Gizmodo) on new restrictions for DVR’s. Tivo and ReplayTV, the two major DVR players, have agreed on restrictions that would limit recording capability to jus
Category: Gadgets and Technology
The future of Video Content
Wednesday, 8 September 2004 9:26 A GMT-05
By way of Vastly Important News, here’s a piece by Newsfactor about a rumor of two popular consumer media technologies teaming up together – Tivo and Netflix.Media content companies have been dragged kicking and screaming into the Internet age.
Category: Gadgets and Technology
To speed up or not to speed up.
Friday, 3 September 2004 2:08 P GMT-05
I recently traded in my older 30GB third generation iPod for one of the newer 40GB 4th generation ones. Other than the added capacity and storage space, the main reason, I told myself, I needed one, was the new iPods’ ability to speed up or slow
Category: Gadgets and Technology
Trouble for Wimax?
Thursday, 2 September 2004 7:29 A GMT-05
Mike Mesnick has a report about troubles getting Wimax, the next generation of wireless networking technology that increases the range many fold and that has gotten tons of buzz in the press.“No one denies the potential of WiMAX as a wide area broa
Category: Gadgets and Technology