I just talked to someone who thought they pulled a quick one with their cell phone provider by entering in the id and password for the Edge network on their iPhone. I warned this person when they did this that they should double check and that they most likely will get billed for all the data that is transferred when they are playing around with their iPhone. She figured that since she did not sign up for any data plan that she would not get billed.
She got a bill for $2200.00 dollars.
Sunday, March 16, 2008
Saturday, March 15, 2008
Snergy
Do you use more then one computer at a time like I do. Some of you will ask, why in earth would you use more then one computer at time. Simple answer is that you have multiple things processing and doing them on one computer is slow.
If you do use a couple of systems and need to see what is happening on the different computers and want to save some space by eliminating the multiple keyboards and mice. You can do this by using a open source program called Synergy. This is not new, I thought I would post this as I had to add another computer into my setup and thought I would mention that it has full support for Mac OSX leopard. It works with PC/Mac/Unix and allow you to mix all the environments.
Just to clarify, this is not the same as using a switch to change the monitor to display a different computer, e.g. a couple of computer all sharing the same keyboard, mouse and screen. This only let you view one computer at a time. Usually you see this in a server room.
This setup allows you to see all the screens at the same time and allow you to have one keyboard and mouse with any costs. You can have all the monitors setup across the desk and have one mouse and keyboard for all the computers. When you move the mouse to the edge of the screen, it will move to the next computer. You can place the monitors across left or right and on top or bottom.
If you do use a couple of systems and need to see what is happening on the different computers and want to save some space by eliminating the multiple keyboards and mice. You can do this by using a open source program called Synergy. This is not new, I thought I would post this as I had to add another computer into my setup and thought I would mention that it has full support for Mac OSX leopard. It works with PC/Mac/Unix and allow you to mix all the environments.
Just to clarify, this is not the same as using a switch to change the monitor to display a different computer, e.g. a couple of computer all sharing the same keyboard, mouse and screen. This only let you view one computer at a time. Usually you see this in a server room.
This setup allows you to see all the screens at the same time and allow you to have one keyboard and mouse with any costs. You can have all the monitors setup across the desk and have one mouse and keyboard for all the computers. When you move the mouse to the edge of the screen, it will move to the next computer. You can place the monitors across left or right and on top or bottom.
Tavo iPhone gloves
Using an iphone in the winter with gloves on is very hard, your fingers cannot get the screen to react with gloves on. Tavo offers a pair of gloves with a special material on the index finger and thumb. They also have some rubber patches in the palms for better grip. The gloves work great as driving gloves in the car.
Monster iPhone adapter
Bought one of these adapters, works great with Apple ear buds, the adapter plugs into iPhone and has a separate line with a mic that you can clip on your shirt. Your old ear phones plug into this adapter. It was $20 dollars. I tried them with the Apple ear buds and they worked great. I tried with with my Shure headphone and the sound was not as rich.
Saturday, February 2, 2008
Online backup
A couple of ways you can do this.
Use gmail, save files as attachments. There is a handy download utility that will mount you gmail as a network drive on your pc. This allow you to drag and drop files to your gmail account. Mac , PC
Buy an .mac account. Comes with up to 10gb of storage, depending on how much you allocate to .mac mail. This cost $99/year, however there are a bunch of other services included with a .mac account.
mozy - 4.95/month and you get 2gb of encrypted storage. 30 days before older versions are deleted. - Good if you need to go back to an old copy of a file.
carbonite - 49.95/year, for unlimited space. Data is encrypted and they only keep recent copies.
Use gmail, save files as attachments. There is a handy download utility that will mount you gmail as a network drive on your pc. This allow you to drag and drop files to your gmail account. Mac , PC
Buy an .mac account. Comes with up to 10gb of storage, depending on how much you allocate to .mac mail. This cost $99/year, however there are a bunch of other services included with a .mac account.
mozy - 4.95/month and you get 2gb of encrypted storage. 30 days before older versions are deleted. - Good if you need to go back to an old copy of a file.
carbonite - 49.95/year, for unlimited space. Data is encrypted and they only keep recent copies.
OLED Displays
The next generation of displays shown at 2008 CES is the OLED displays with a 1,000,000 to 1 contrast ratio compared to 15,000 to 1 with current LCD and plasma. This is going to make the current LCD and plasma technology obsolete in a couple of years. Sony is shipping an 11" OLED TV, 3mm thick, in first generation.
HTC Touch - Youtube on Window Media Player Mobile
If you want to play youtube video's on an HTC touch cell phone, which has Window Media player.It is not straight forward like on the Apple iphone. Apple put a special player on the iphone to handle the stream from youtube. To get around this limitation on the HTC phone, you can download this HTC Media player and install in your HTC touch and allow you to play the youtube videos in explorer.
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