I held out for a long, long time. I'd even talked myself entirely out of getting one. Like they say in the classics though, "you think you've escaped, but they pull you back in". I now have a 32GB iPod touch and it's doin' alright, even though it took me nearly a week before I … Continue reading Living with an iPod touch
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I have been in the mobile phone market on-and-off for nearly 12 months. There wasn't really anything wrong with the N70, I guess I was just getting a little fidgety with lots of new "shiny" going around. The trip to the US in May, and seeing an iPhone in person for the first time, probably … Continue reading New gadget: Nokia E71
Thanks to work, I am now the possessor of a rather cool piece of kit: a tablet PC. It's a Mobile Computing LE1700, and I'm quite impressed with how it works. The big question though is of course... Will it run Linux?At the moment it's still running Windows XP Tablet Edition, but that's only because … Continue reading Motion Computing Tablet PC
Way back in May I had a hard disk in my laptop fail, and after the warranty replacement disk showed up it took me a few days to get around to doing the replace. It didn't get off to a very good start though... In the past when I've done this kind of recovery I … Continue reading Laptop hard disk replacement, part two
A couple of weeks ago I had bootup problems with my old Sony laptop. I had replaced the hard disk in it last year (February), and everything was pointing to another busted hard disk. First time I'd had a machine outlive two hard disks! :(Sure enough, I put a different disk in the laptop and … Continue reading Laptop hard disk replacement, part one
Bad things don't always come in threes. For my MythTV setup, four bad things all happened at once. First was that the governments of the Australian states that run Daylight Savings Time (DST) decided to jump on the energy-saving bandwagon and change the end-time for DST this year. Second was that the OzTivo folks changed … Continue reading MythTV fun and games
Since I have a few Cisco phones around here, I've played with XML apps. I have written a timezone calculator, an LDAP phone directory lookup utility (which hooks into the "external directory" function of the phones), an app that uses Qantas' WAP interface to get flight arrival/departure information, and the obligatory RSS reader. They work, … Continue reading Cisco XML apps: things made of fail
I've developed a very strong desire to be connected to people recently. In the last fortnight I've reawakened my Google account and regularly sit on Google Talk, reawakened an old Free World Dialup account and plugged it into my home phone system, and signed up to Twitter. I also found a mobile IM and SIP … Continue reading Which Nokia device to get?
I had pretty much forgotten about improving on the Power over Ethernet progress I mentioned previously. A couple of weeks ago I bought another 7970 that I successfully converted to SIP to run in the study, and I was considering buying a few 7961s or Linksys PoE-capable phones to use in other places. However, I … Continue reading PoE again: this time, success!
A while back I posted about my grief with the Linksys WIP330 WiFi SIP phone (it doesn't happen often, but it's a surprise when the ONLY hit you get on Google about a problem is your own blog post discussing it). The unit is still a bitter disappointment, but thanks to a firmware update it seems … Continue reading WIP330 progress: it’s a… phone
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