Question of the Day:  How reliable are you at backing up data?

Admittedly, I am poor, but getting better.  It’s a short term goal of mine.  An external hard drive, combined with Dropbox is helping.

My one saving grace has been that Resco Backup does a fine job of copying my Touch Pro’s internal memory to microSD, but that’s been that’s it.

As a bit of a game junkie, I’ve got to confess that I’ve tried many different games over the years.  Chess games, solitaire, sliders, action, RPG, and so on.   You get the picture, I’m sure.  Actually, there are more games installed on my Touch Pro than there are productivity apps.  Honestly, this has caused a slight bit of numbness when looking for a new game to excite my senses, one that makes me want to revisit it after the initial five minutes of joy wears off.

Survive the ancient temples of Zuma, the critically acclaimed action-puzzler from PopCap! Deep in the jungle lie hidden temples bursting with traps and trickery, and it’s up to you to uncover their treasures. Fire magical balls from your stone frog idol to make matches of three or more and clear the deadly chain before it reaches the golden skull.

Explore all the temples – if you’re good, you’ll rack up huge combos and special bonuses that’ll help you on your way. But think fast and aim smart, or you’ll be history in this action-packed puzzle challenge!

• Cost:  $9.99
• Version: 1.50
• Supported Devices:  Windows Mobile Professional w/ Touch Screen, QVGA, QWVGA, VGA, WVGA
• 10+ MB of Memory
• Full Version (No Demo) Available Here
• Information for Previous Users:

Please Note: This is a completely new version of Zuma, totally rebuilt for all phones running Windows Mobile 5 and later. It adds compatibility for newer phones and has a new play mode, but if you already have Zuma, you’ll need to completely uninstall the previous version and you will lose your saved games. If you don’t want to lose your progress, please do not install this new update.

• Cumulative update for cities database and timezones
• Fixed bug in bio alarms dismiss feature

• Cumulative update for cities database

• Cumulative update for cities database

Version 2.3.1 | Aug-12-2010

• Fixed: Call Log records the modified number for outgoing calls. It should record the original unmodified number
• Fixed: “Change dialed number” uses modified phone number as {phone}

Version 2.3.0 | Apr-8-2010

• Now supports user-defined profiles
• Added option to filter call state
• Added new action “Send DTMF” for incoming calls
• Added feature to replace numbers in SMS with names
• Able to filter contact’s name for calls
• Able to use RegEx for filtering numbers and names
• Added command line parameter “-noprof” and “-prof” for profiles
• Improved “Change dialed number”. Now USSD can be handled flawlessly.

Question of the Day:  Do You Ever Unplug?

… that is, as in unplugging from technology.  If so, at what time of the day do you unplug?  My wife has many times proposed a digital bed time for me, as she read an article stating that a person should not use technology after 9 pm.  Me, I plug in at 4 am when I get up to do consulting work and am connected to either a laptop or my Touch Pro through out the entire day.  I work on my laptop in the evenings, surfing various sites, queueing items for JAMM and answering emails.

What do you think?  Is an imposed digital bed time a good idea?  Hit the comments below and let us know!

Rewind to a week ago last Saturday. My wife and I took my nearly one year old daughter to Tulsa to find her a new car seat. She’s just about to outgrow her current rear facing seat, and is now of age to face forward. This is something that all three of us have been looking forward to for a while.

Fast forward just a bit. After a long day of shopping, a baby getting just a bit fussy as well as a wife doing the same, and the car ride home starts. It’s nothing major, only about an hour. I can endure the two. I’ll be home soon.

My Touch Pro rings. Who is it, I wonder. It’s the same person it always is. A family member in need of some technical assistance. But I was stuck in a car, in heavy traffic, with two fussy people. The odds that this was going to be a calming call were slim. I slowly answered: “Hello”. A voice on the other side started rattling off questions, to which the summary is that they wanted to print a document from their Windows 7 laptop. They had never printed anything from it though, and walking this family member through the process of searching for a driver on the internet and installing it isn’t fun. I gave them the quick summary, hoping that it would at least ward them off until I returned home, where I could help them better. At least they couldn’t hurt anything, right?! Finally, I was off the phone. Trying to enjoy my ride home as best possible.

Fast forward about ten minutes. My Touch Pro rang again. Same person. I could only assume that something had gone drastically wrong, to which I was supposed to have the solution while driving in traffic in Tulsa. Aarggh. I answered, slowly. The voice on the other end “You won’t believe what happened…”, as my heart skipped a beat. “I plugged in the USB cable from the printer and turned it on. A bubble then popped up telling me that Windows was searching for a driver. It then downloaded something and I was able to print. The whole thing took about five minutes.”

To which I can only say to Microsoft: THANK YOU.