Tag Archives: mobile

sadness for my dead palmtop

September 21, 2007 – 11:36 am

I dug my Zeos Pocket PC out of a box and apparently let out the magic smoke when I tried to plug it into a universal wall wart adapter. The voltage and polarity were right, and I’d used this adapter with this palmtop before – but this time, it literally smoked and smelled of [...]

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Sticky Tags for Twitter?

August 21, 2007 – 11:31 pm

I should elaborate on what I mean by tags in Twitter, since I got a few head-scratching responses. No, fitting tags into the 140 characters for a message won’t work. And, no, tagging every tweet as you go is a horrible approach – no one will do it. What I’ve thought might work, though, [...]

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the iphone will not be your new mobile computer

January 12, 2007 – 11:01 am

“We define everything that is on the phone,” he said. “You don’t want your phone to be like a PC. The last thing you want is to have loaded three apps on your phone and then you go to make a call and it doesn’t work anymore. These are more like iPods than they are [...]

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