“The power of a smartphone, no matter how advanced, will always fall behind that of a desktop, if merely due to the size and power needs of components.” HP on the convergence of the cloud and the mobile. Words future generations will laugh at.
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Adam Backstrom
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Adam Backstrom
Linode just upped the RAM on my VPS from 540 MB to 768 MB. Rebooting after 142 days uptime.
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Adam Backstrom
Apple announced the iPad a couple days ago. $499 for the 16GB WiFi edition. Looks pretty great for media consumption.
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Adam Backstrom
Sprint representative confirms that, “as you are a new customer, the two years contract date is mandatory.” Also said that the Palm Pre is expected before June 30, 2009.
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Adam Backstrom
Tagged ~100 messages in Thunderbird. An hour later, it crashes. Tag changes in prefs have reset, and newly-tagged messages are again untagged. Apple Mail is looking better and better.
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Adam Backstrom
The left button on my Logitech Bluetooth mouse is failing.
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Matt Thomas
The v270? Mine has been the best bluetooth mouse I’ve owned (least lag, quickest wake). I’m thinking about buying the v470 for work, since the 270 is discontinued
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Adam
Yeah, that’s the one. I’ve had mine since May ’07, I think it finally just wore out.
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Adam Backstrom
I like what little I’ve seen of Android and the T-Mobile G1, but the two-year contract is a major turn off.
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Justin
You can get it without a contract for the *actual* phone price. It’s a complicated little chunk of plastic and silicon and everyone who buys it gets the option of paying now or paying as part of their contract.
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Adam Backstrom
I’m doing some support for a Dell owner. He can’t find his restore discs, so Dell sent me the four original CDs for reinstall, free of charge. Sweet.
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Adam Backstrom
Cowon A3 60 GB @ $369 is now discontinued. Remaining choices: 30 GB @ $299.99 or 80 GB @ $439.99.
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Adam Backstrom
Time Warner shut off our Internet again when they hooked up our new neighbors, but they sent someone out to fix the problem the same afternoon.
Matt Thomas are discussing. 
Matt Thomas 12:55 pm on February 4, 2009 Permalink
…I’m not sure Apple Mail will be much better. Aside from my work email, I’ve switch to completely GMail setup
Adam 8:02 pm on February 4, 2009 Permalink
Yeah, I just use Thunderbird for work mail, with Gmail for personal stuff. I went back to Thunderbird after trying Mail again, briefly.