Call me boring, if you want. I have a hard time feeling so strongly about any piece of new technology (the new iPhone 3G included) to stand in line for hours, to get a chance to buy it.
Friday, we saw the line shown in this photo outside the Apple Store in Palo Alto. Saturday, we saw a comparable line outside the Apple Store in San Francisco by Market Street…
My friend Henkel keeps insisting that I get a GPS and I keep postponing the decision.
Today, I read that you can finally “Send To GPS” your Google Maps. This is becoming hard to resist.
Any GPS’ers out there? Any recommendations for a model? Do I hear Garmin?
You be the judge! I am seeing the future now: Santiago will want a Pleo… and perhaps I will want one too! 
One of the biggest annoyances I have always thought of in terms of electronic books (eBooks, downloadables, etc.) and reading them on a gadget has been: would I go to bed with this book? Would I read it while lying on my pillow?
Last week, thanks to Henkel, I learned about Kindle, Amazon.com’s new wireless reading device. Here is an excerpt from the Kindle development team:
We designed Kindle to provide an exceptional reading experience. Thanks to electronic paper, a revolutionary new display technology, reading Kindle’s screen is as sharp and natural as reading ink on paper—and nothing like the strain and glare of a computer screen. Kindle is also easy on the fingertips. It never becomes hot and is designed for ambidextrous use so both “lefties” and “righties” can read comfortably at any angle for long periods of time.
So, are you going to go to bed with Kindle?
I know this is like a non-revelation, but DVR rocks! We recently subscribed back to Digital Cable (for the fourth time or something like that), in order to be able to watch dLife on Sundays, I must admit.
We decided to give the DVR option a try and I am amazed at how cool it is: I mean… it’s like the good old VHS “set up the recording timer and forget about it”, but digital and much more robust: “do you want to record the episode or the entire series?” -how cool is that? COME ON!
Anyway… I know this is kinda lame, and I’ve probably been living in a cave when it comes to TV technology, but I love DVR!! 
Does anybody have experience with the Flip Video Camcorder? Another person recommended it to me and I just learned about it. Seems like a nice gadget, but I am not sure about it: the FIXED storage thing doesn’t excite me too much, but…
I had no clue until I saw this video of Stephen Colbert “reviewing” it…
Amy Tenderich, author of Diabetes Mine, one of the best diabetes blogs around, and published author of Know Your Numbers, Outlive Your Diabetes, wrote today an Open Letter to Steve Jobs.
Her point was basically how dire is the need for an improved design in the world of insulin pumps and blood glucose meters, two “gadgets” which diabetics depend on for their lives (you can live without a pump, by giving yourself insulin shots, but once you begin using the pump, it’s your portable pancreas, pretty much).
In writing this post, Amy draw attention from technology blog TechCrunch, which featured her on the home page today. I am very happy this happened, because it brings attention to diabetes as a true issue, one that is lived by 20 million of us, yet seems to be continually brushed aside and underfunded by the government (this administration, at least) in favor of other uses for our tax money. A TechCrunch home page spotlight on diabetes is certainly publicity for the cause that can’t be bought.
KUDOS to you and for all you do for diabetics, Amy!
To everyone reading this: help bring more exposure to the cause. Digg the story.
What an amazing piece of hardware! Sure it’s pricey, but it’s a matter of time until it starts being in the $200-$300 range, I am sure.
Check out a sampler of photos taken with a Nokia N73 cameraphone. Along with the Sony Ericsson K800i, it’s one of the top up-and-coming cameraphones among Flickr users.
I have my phone now, but I am sure I will be getting a good cameraphone (like the N73) next time I am shopping for one. It’s just unreal the quality photos and mobility you can get with one of these…
Like I’ve said before, there’s no stopping cameras or video shooting at concerts and many other places unless you start prohibiting cameraphones from this point on.
A little while ago, at work they added a service called Good Link from Good Technology that allows me to have permanent access to my e-mail, calendar, etc. and any changes/replies/etc. I do to items on my Exchange server account using Good Link get synchronized through the airwaves. I was beginning to need such connectivity as I was heading into a project that was demanding more of my time, so it made sense to take the leap.
What I wasn’t expecting was the effect that the software would have on my Pocket PC. Rebooting the poor thing has now become a daily routine, and one that certainly was not necessary before being so permanently connected. So, though the words “Pocket PC” should be scaring almost anybody away these days (read: go with a Treo or a Blackberry, if you have the option) having Good Link installed on it, seems to be a load these PDAs are in no shape to handle.
Recently it was announced that Motorola will acquire Good Technology, so I can only hope that the acquisition will translate into more stability in the application’s support of my poor ole Pocket PC. In the meantime, we’ll continue to deal with the not-so-Good Link.
