Month: September 2006

Treo 650/Cingular: atrocious GPRS speeds lately

Has anyone else noticed their web browsing speeds on Cingular GPRS (MEdia Net) have gotten *ridiculously* slow lately? It's driving me batty. As far as I can tell, the download speed is reasonable, but the upload latency has...

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del.icio.us client for Treo?

I think I'd like to have a del.icio.us client for my Treo. Why? Basically because the Treo is not great for reading a lot of pages and I'd like to bookmark them for later viewing when I have a big screen and a broadband...

Mac

Mac OS X 10.4.8 update

The OS X 10.4.8 upgrade appeared for me in Software Update this afternoon. Here's the skinny... The 10.4.8 Update is recommended for all users and includes general operating system fixes, as well as specific fixes for the...

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jhead to the rescue once again

While going through the pictures of our recent vacation, I once again noticed that we forgot to adjust the clock on the camera and so had a bunch of pictures with the wrong timestamps. Remembering that I previously had luck with...

Music

Rich Girl

A few days ago while we were on the cruise, we heard the song, "Rich Girl" by Gwen Stefani, Eve, et al. Now I've heard this song before many times - heck I'd even say that I like it. The interesting thing is that this time we...

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links for 2006-09-30

S30 on-off switch / lens cover - Canon Digital Photography Forums Some info on how to disassemble the sliding lens cover on Canon digital cameras. This inspired me to do it myself and do my own post with photos. (tags: canon...

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Fixing my Canon S40 digital camera

As I mentioned previously, I started having trouble with the sliding lens cover on my Canon S40 digital camera. After reading a bit on a forum about others successfully taking their cameras apart and fixing them, I went ahead and...