Take a Stand

Posted by: Steve Laser on Mar 30 2007 - 634 views

I was smack dab in the middle of high school in 1980 when the Rush album Permanent Waves came out.  One of my favorite songs from the album (not cd!), was and remains, Freewill.  As I was listening to it last night on my Dell Axim while working out, I thought about one of the lines in the song.  When I first heard this line, I remember struggling to make sense of it, "If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice."  That just means you can’t opt out.  There is no abstaining in life.  Everything you do really does go on your "permanent record", just like your parents told you!

Taken in the context of mobile life, if you choose to buy a product or accessory, then you have chosen not to buy others.  You constantly make choices by not choosing.  By using or not using products and software, the same ideas apply.  And your feedback, as users of these items, is incredibly valuable.  Now more than ever.  Back in 1980, I had to go to the store to buy the Rush album.  Now I can download it.  I can buy a cd player or mp3 player online.  But before I do so, I would search for the various types of mp3 players available, like flash or hard-drive based players, then I would read reviews and user opinions before I bought anything.  Wouldn’t you?

In a broader context, the line from the song serves as a reminder that whether you take a stand or not, you ARE taking a stand.  Stand up for what you believe in.  Word of mouth is the best advertising.  If you like a product, service, software or company, join a forum or our blog, and spread the word.  If you don’t like said product, give the company a chance to fix it.  I think this is Web 3.0 or something like that.  Whatever it is, we are empowered simply because we are always making choices.  That’s just my opinion.  I dedicate this one to my former DJ friend, Mike N.

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Lookout Deepfish, here comes Minimo .2!

Posted by: PocketBrain on Mar 30 2007 - 1,601 views

(with apologies to Steve Laser)

     Some of you are no doubt familiar with Minimo, the miniature version of the Mozilla browser.  Created to run on your PocketPC PDA or PDA phone, it offers some of the browser functions that have endeared Mozilla to us, such as tabbed browsing, greater compatibility with non-mobile websites, RSS support, and support for Javascript.

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Lookout PIE, Here Comes Deepfish!

Posted by: Steve Laser on Mar 30 2007 - 539 views

Microsoft just unveiled Deepfish, a new type of browser that supposedly offers a more "desktop-like" browsing experience on your mobile device.  Other browsers just show you a partial view of a web page and make you scroll around to find things on the page.  You feel like you are in the forest and can’t see the whole forest, for the trees are blocking your view. 

The aim of Deepfish is to give you a view of the whole forest first, so you can choose where you want to go.  When you open a web page, you’ll see the whole page.  It will appear with tiny writing.  You can then focus in on a specific area, enlarge it, read it, back out of it, refocus on different areas, all as you see fit. 

The only thing that seemed to be missing was a way to open multiple tabs like in PiePlus.  Microsoft is only accepting a limited number of sign-ups to test this browser.  Download your copy now if you’re interested.  Maybe you’ll find a way to open multiple tabs.  View a video of the browser in action.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

See the square in the picture above lets you focus in on that area

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Opera 8.65 BETA for Windows Mobile 5.0 Released (for real this time)

Posted by: Brandon Steili on Mar 30 2007 - 2,334 views

Opera Software is releasing a preview of the latest public version of the Opera browser for Windows Mobile. With Opera Mobile 8.65 (beta), users across all the PocketPC and Smartphone versions of Windows Mobile get a faster and more user-friendly Web experience. Users can enjoy new features such as searching directly in the address bar, grab and scroll (PocketPC only), copy text, save function for images and the ability to import IE bookmarks.

Here’s the page link - but the downloads go to the original page with the old 8.x release…

http://www.opera.com/products/mobile/products/winmobileppc/index002.dml

Thankfully someone smarter than I in the forums (guiris) gave us the link for the FTP:

ftp://ftp.opera.com/pub/opera/winmobile/865b/

03/28/2007 12:59PM      6,002,916 opera_wm2003_ppc_865b.cab
03/28/2007 12:59PM      6,472,264 opera_wm2003_ppc_865b.msi
03/28/2007 12:59PM      2,518,068 opera_wm2003_sp_865b.cab
03/28/2007 12:59PM      2,943,032 opera_wm2003_sp_865b.msi
03/28/2007 12:59PM      2,557,186 opera_wm5_ppc_865b.cab
03/28/2007 12:59PM      2,995,272 opera_wm5_ppc_865b.msi
03/28/2007 01:00PM      2,507,641 opera_wm5_sp_865b.cab
03/28/2007 01:00PM      2,928,192 opera_wm5_sp_865b.msi

HAVE FUN!!! - expires June 1, 2007

Link to Opera 8.65 BETA for Windows Mobile 5.0 Released! - Pocket PC Addict Forums

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Nokia Leading the Way with 3 New Phones

Posted by: tjchan on Mar 29 2007 - 693 views

In a press release today, Nokia announced the new L’Amour Collection to CDMA markets with the new Nokia 7088, the Nokia 5700 which allows for mobile music, and the Nokia 5070 which couples fun with functionality. These new phones unfortunately will not be available in the United States for a time.
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Sprint WiMax Rollout Coming to a Major City Near You!

Posted by: tjchan on Mar 29 2007 - 384 views

Sprint’s WiMax solution is fast. In fact, it’s faster than Cingular’s HSDPA. And now, it may be coming to a city near you! A few months ago, our own Doug Goldring told us of the upcoming WiMax rollout but we had no idea where it would be deployed.  But now, according to Gizmodo, Sprint has now confirmed the availability of WiMax in the cities of Chicago, Detroit, Grand Rapids, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Minneapolis, Baltimore, Boston, Philadelphia, Providence, Washington DC, Austin, Dallas, Denver, Fort Worth, Portland, Salt Lake City, San Antonio, and Seattle by April 2008.

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