HOW-TO: Make a customized RSS screensaver in Tiger – Engadget – www.engadget.com

Stubborn friend of mine asserted that clamshell phone will never be reliable base on a single bad experience he’s had… I’ve had quite a few clamshells that worked perfect after years of serious use… I couldn’t find a clamshell stess test at the LG website, but a brief Google search found me this picture…

Story: Sony Ericsson Tour: Part II (MobileBurn) Clamshell hinge stress test pic

No WiFi for the Samsung i730 – Engadget – www.engadget.com

not like I would ever want a PocketPC, but this still must piss off a lot of people, like those at HoFo.

So I installed the 3COM drivers and software for my 3CRWB6096B Bluetooth PC card last week, setup the virtual ports, but HotSync never showed those COM ports in the pull-down menu.

I was trying to get Internet Sharing to work, after much research and about 15 minutes of trying different things, I concluded that the 3COM driver does not support Internet Sharing. There used to be a patch that would get the Widcomm driver to work with this card, but the patch had been removed from the site.

So after playing with BT for like 15 minutes I decided to give BT HotSync another try… This time I went into the BIOS settings of my POS Dell D600, disabled the IR port, probably disabled the COM port also, not quite sure what I did. Anyway, I booted it back to Windows XP (vs. Gentoo), and wala!! I see COM5 listed in HotSync… Went to the Treo and tried a BT Sync, it worked…

Amazingly all this, plus Internet Sharing, worked out of the box with my PowerBook. LOL!

Windows sucks!!

Finally got my Verizon Treo 650 from Fedex this morning. I love it!! It solves my PIM mess. I’ve got most of the stuff working with the Treo, actually everything I wanted to work with my PowerBook is working fine. I made this post at HoFo about the Bluetooth capability of this phone…

I love it so far, highly recommended!!

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The bundle seems like a good deal, I’ll download the evaluation and compare it against Ecto, which I was 95% sure I was gonna buy… My copy of Ecto is still under trial period coz I haven’t quit the app for the last couple of days… 🙂

I’m gonan give this a try…
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I was able to order one via the north VZW store in Austin, should have it this Friday, will blog more about it when I get it. Very excited about this phone, I hope it’d be able to solve my PIM mess…