Congratulations and thanks to Daniel Pasco, who has created a fantastic solution for using the BlackBerry 870* series as a Bluetooth modem in Mac OS X. I’ve just tested a development build that allowed me to browse the web and download mail. Awesome! Daniel claims the bounty. Daniel is hard at work polishing it up…
October, 2006
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Understanding HTML, XML and XHTML BBColors 1.0 Google, YouTube and Copyright – good question. Jack Slocum’s Blog – WordPress Comments System built with Yahoo! UI – slick, slick, slick. Maybe a tab complex from the usability side still, but that can be solved. Kissinger’s back in the White House. By Christopher Hitchens – Slate Magazine…
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Since I installed Boot Camp, I’ve been rather annoyed that my MacBook boots into Windows unless I hold down the Option key and choose the Mac OS X startup disk. The other day I mentioned this while chatting with a friend who works at Apple. I believe his answer was something like, “Huh?” Turns out…
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I started the draft of this post back in May, and had this much written as a placeholder: Exchange integration is always going to be easier for Windows Mobile. RIM should be working hard on making the BlackBerry work well with non-Microsoft server integration solutions. My conclusion was also that RIM should strongly consider putting…
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I’m still pining away for “over the air” (OTA) sync for my BlackBerry and I’ve been thinking more about Google Calendar as a result. Google Calendar is interesting to me because it is basically what I would have built (minus some of the SMS features) had I decided to build a calendaring system. Everything is…
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I’ve fleshed out the How To page for PHP Tag Engine. It’s still pretty sparse, but a lot better than what was there before. I think what is really needed is an example implementation so folks can see how easy it is to drop in – maybe for something nice and basic like an open…
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One of the trade-offs to going with a fully WordPress driven site for content is a little URL awkwardness for image and archive files you want to show/link to on a page. For example, in a “standard” site it is pretty easy to have a page at this location: http://example.com/foo/ and a related file download…
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I’ve made Tasks Pro™ 1.7rc2 and Tasks 2.7rc2 available for download. These releases have a few minor changes since the rc1 versions: PostgreSQL 8 compatibility changes. MS SQL tagging compatibility changes. Reduce server load when creating RSS feeds and iCalendars for a task and all sub-tasks. Add compatibility for an alternative e-mail attachment format (e-mail…
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Dave’s 2006 Offseason Plan – a friend and I were talking about the Mariners and their personnel. My main point is that we need to stop paying more than market value for players. Overpaying for individual players hurts the team in other areas. 162 – well said, my friend. the show with zefrank – that…
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Wow – seeing the Yankee offense shut down so thoroughly was both surprising and impressive. Tigers – A’s for the AL crown, should be a good battle. If Zito pitches well, the A’s have a good chance. Yankees 2006 payroll: $198,662,180 A’s + Twins + Tigers 2006 Payroll: $208,434,171 No additional commentary needed. 🙂
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The BlackBerry 8703e is very similar to the BlackBerry 8700g, but there are some differences. They are subtle, but they make a noticeable difference in the user experience. Key Shape – This may be the biggest issue for me. The keys are shaped slightly differently on the two devices. The 8700g has a slant along…
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My BlackBerry 8703e came in today. I spent much of the afternoon and evening mucking around with it, trying to get it to work as a modem. Everything started rather encouragingly – the Sprint booklet includes a chapter on using the phone as a modem. Unfortunately, the steps did not work for me – I…
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I’m not normally one for the blog chain letter, but I do like the sentiment and the video is fun. 🙂 Thanks Gareth.
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I’ve gotten a few questions about the new version of this site I’ve mentioned I’m working on, so I figured I’d just blog a response. I’ve been making good progress on it, but it’s been a bit more work than I’d expected. Partly due to my own scope creep. 🙂 The little template system I…
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After a week on the MacBook, it’s really nice to be back with my normal monitor set-up. The timing on sending in my 30″ for repair worked out well. DHL tried to deliver it on Friday, but with no one home to sign for it I got it back yesterday instead. Unfortunately, Apple didn’t find…