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Third Time’s the Charm? Blackberry Bold

By ⋅ January 6, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

I recently had to part ways with my Blackberry Pearl – some heartache, I suppose, but time and product innnovation march on. There is a lot to like about the Blackberry Bold – I am definitely happy to have made the change … <aside> … although my inner conspiracy theorist sees a case of planned [...]

New Twitter features starting to make things more relevant

By ⋅ June 3, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Here’s a new plugin for Firefox that’s helpful for my use of Twitter – twitterbar. Yes, there’s a number of plugins designed to integrate Twitter with Firefox, but this one seems to work fine. Note that it works better now that I’ve upgraded to Firefox 2.0 – always a good idea to keep up with [...]

Noisy little Blackberry Pearl

By ⋅ February 28, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

attributed to RIM) … Unfortunately, this “buzzing” is a characteristic that is unavoidable on any mobile phone that operates in the GSM 850/1900 MHz range (not just BlackBerry, but all other phones also). Essentially, whenever the phone transmits or receives on the 850/1900 MHz band any nearby speakers are “excited” and there is an audible [...]

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