Yes, despite the negative reports, I went on to 2.0.2 to try to get better 3G reception in my area. Swisscom says I should have 3G, and I don’t have it. Let’s see… still Egde only. I will have to run around the house to catch the good waves. The next step is to jailbreak [...]
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Posted 26 August 2008
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On the Palm, I used Top Secret, with no desktop counterpart (I had no need for one). After a quick market check, I found SplashId, which has many interesting features :
multiple mobile platforms (not that I have any intention to ever use Windows Mobile, but Series 60 is nice to have)
sync to a desktop version
export [...]
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Posted 13 August 2008
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Being a UNIX geek, I thought it would be cool to have a ssh client associated with the VPN client. I found it on http://www.instantcocoa.com/products/pTerm/, but so far, the app isn’t available outside the US :
Looks like SSH is still considered as a weapon by the security theater paranoids in the USA. In a post [...]
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Posted 12 August 2008
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I don’t know what Apple had in mind when they decided to exclude a To-Do application from the iPhone software set. That a big no-go for me, but luckily, third-party developers have stepped in.
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Posted 09 August 2008
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My iPhone 3G had really a bad time to get contacts from iTunes sync. I googled a lot, and tried a lot of cookbooks involving removing caches, shifting away syncservice directories, and even singing a little bit. And then, I went back to my UNIX roots, and thought about log files…
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Posted 07 August 2008
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The first USB sync with a selection of a few contact groups in iTunes worked fine. And then it broke badly, I can’t use it anymore, my iPhone contact list is emtpy, I tried “reset sync history” in isync preferences, “replace info on this iPhone”, nothing work. Bad bug, please fix it !
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Posted 06 August 2008
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I was looking to replace my aging Sony Ericsson W810 and my Palm T5 by a smartphone, and that iThing came out at the right time. With the corporate deal from Swisscom, I got it in exactly 8 days, not bad.
I was surprised, there is no quick-start guide in the box explaining how to insert [...]
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Posted 06 August 2008
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My 5-years old UPS being dead, with no replacement battery available, I ended up buying a new UPS. I selected the APC brand, as the Linux support is available by their own software, plus the venerable apcupsd.
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Posted 04 August 2008
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