Archive for Category: Gadgets

s60 3rd edition: using memos to replace to-do tasks

Friday, July 6th, 2007, 12:00 pm
Filed under: Gadgets, Technology

Just a quick update on my comments about the Symbian S60 3rd Edition dashboard — also known as the ”Active Standby” screen — that I mentioned in my previous post:
Quite accidentally, I’ve discovered that I can accomplish the effect I had intended in my complaints about the lack of customization of the Active Standby display (see screenshot at right.) I realized the other day [...]

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s60 3rd edition: dashboard customization?

Thursday, June 21st, 2007, 11:53 am
Filed under: Gadgets, Rants, Technology

As you may remember from my previous post, I picked up a Nokia N73 (Music Edition) smartphone on my trip to Thailand a couple of months ago. I’ve been getting used to it since, and I only have a couple of gripes about it thus far. The main thing would be the response time of [...]

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go ball glow!

Friday, September 1st, 2006, 12:06 pm
Filed under: Gadgets, Technology

A friend of mine from my Tribal DDB days, Alex Beim, is working on a very cool side project that might be of interest to some of you — Go Ball Glow.
He’s designing a system that seems to be in part art piece and interactive performance. To top it off, it looks like a lot of [...]

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monster icarplay cassette adapter

Tuesday, May 24th, 2005, 11:42 am
Filed under: Gadgets

Well, I’m back from Calgary, and as I was doing some cleanup around the house yesterday, I ran across the cassette adapter I had bought for my iPod shuffle a few weeks ago. Having forgotten I had it, I’d put it off to the side of my desk, which promptly got covered over with paperwork.
Cassette [...]

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a case of shuffle-itis

Saturday, May 7th, 2005, 1:48 pm
Filed under: Gadgets, Rants

So, as I had mentioned in a previous post, I bought a 1GB iPod shuffle a little while back. I have to admit, it’s a pretty sexy little device. Being the hardware junkie that I am, how could I say no? I’ve really enjoyed using it so far, and aside from a couple of [...]