Mobile Archives

  1. BBReply on the BlackBerry 8700g

    I finally got BBReply properly installed on my BlackBerry 8700g. The trick is to do a full reboot in order to activate BBReply. This means: Turn the BlackBerry off Take the battery out Put the battery back in Now BBReply will be installed and you’ll have a Reply-To option in your menu. However now that…

  2. Calendar Hacking

    If I’m going to use this BlackBerry, I need to figure out a solution for my Calendars. My current idea is something like this: PocketMac can’t handle all my calendar data (due to volume or perhaps some invalid character somewhere), so if I reduce the data being sync’ed perhaps it will work. I can archive…

  3. BlackBerry Second Impressions

    Another 48 hours with the BlackBerry. There is a lot to like, and some not as much. The biggest issues for me are still the lack of IMAP functionality and the ability to reply from a different address. More notes: Battery life is decent – I got about 2 days out of it and my…

  4. BlackBerry First Impressions

    I took the plunge – I’m currently playing with a BlackBerry 8700g on T-Mobile. The keyboard is good. Why can’t I be logged into more than one IM network at a time? Odd. The interface for this thing is not as friendly as the Palm OS. I’m still having trouble believing this… but it appears…

  5. BlackBerry?

    The new BlackBerry looks pretty darn sweet. With T-Mobile’s reasonable voice and data plans (though not quite as good as what I have with Sprint), I’m quite tempted to switch now rather than waiting for the Treo 700P. I believe I’m outside my contract with Sprint, so I should be able to leave without hassle.…

  6. WordPress Mobile Edition 1.8

    I’ve updated my WordPress Mobile Edition plugin to version 1.8. The main changes in this release: Auto-redirects to posts use the proper WP 1.5+ variables. Localization. The download is available on my WordPress page. Enjoy…

  7. Mobile Computing, Part 2: Laptops

    I’ve hardly looked back since I upgraded from a 15″ PowerBook to a 17″ PowerBook, but there are a few times (often when travelling) when smaller would be more convenient. At Mashup Camp, I took an informal survey of the laptops I saw there. PowerBooks (and a few iBooks) were the laptop of choice, followed…

  8. Mobile Computing, Part 1: Handhelds

    Over the last few weeks I’ve been thinking about my mobile computing solutions, and thinking about making some changes. First the PDA/cell phone side of things. I’ve used a Treo for the last 4 years, before that I had a separate cell phone and Palm. I’ve been increasingly restless with my Treo lately – I…

  9. Treo 600 Dying

    My Treo 600 is dying, the Option, Shift, 0, Spacebar, Menu, Return and Backspace keys no longer work. The Treo 700p is supposedly coming in a month or two, so the timing is less than ideal for something like this (buying a 600 or 650 now makes no sense). Anyone have an old Sprint Treo…

  10. Juggling Phones

    I stayed with a few friends while in the Bay Area last week instead of getting a hotel (many thanks Eric, George and Shelby!) and managed to leave my Treo 600 USB charger in Oakland mid-week. The Treo lasted a day and a half or so, then I had to switch to the A900 –…

  11. North Platte = Sprint Roaming

    I was annoyed when I realized I was outside the Sprint data network1 at the hotel here in North Platte, Nebraska. Luckily, it seems that every motel here has free internet access – I certainly would not have guessed that would be the case. 🙂 Since I just got a nice fast mobile connection. [back]

  12. Sprint EV-DO with the Samsung A900

    On the recommendation of a colleague, I upgraded my T608 bluetooth mobile connection to a Samsung A900 (on Sprint’s EV-DO network – they call it “Power Vision”). I finally got the phone provisionsed and wow – was he right! This connection is bloody fast! The process was not without its hiccups: I was first told…

  13. Tasks From E-mails

    I’m surprised at how useful I’m finding the new “create task from e-mail” feature in the upcoming release of Tasks Pro™ and Tasks. This was a frequently requested feature, but not one that I thought I’d use that much myself. Turns out, I was wrong. 🙂 I haven’t yet set up any automatic task creation…

  14. No Blackberry

    Eric got me all curious about switching to a Blackberry instead of to the Treo 650 (or 700 or whatever comes next). I called Sprint today to find out about my options and was told that my “unlimited vision” data doesn’t cover the Blackberry. You have to add an additional $45/month plan just for the…

  15. Dead Treo 600, Again

    My Treo 600 went from 100% battery around noon to completely dead around 7:30pm. I’m not exactly sure what caused the battery drain this time1, but I sure am tired of losing all my data every time this happens. Perhaps it is time to upgrade to the 650. My hunch is ChatterEmail could be involved…