I'll be there. Will you? Let me know!
Cal-IT 2004 8-9 November 2004, Hilton Metropole Hotel, London
"A delight for the ears. A feast for the eyes. Though it’s no bigger than a pack of playing cards and weighs in at just over 6 ounces, iPod Photo delivers a one-two sensory punch. Letting you carry an entire library of your favorite music — up to 15,000 songs — or enough photos — as many as 25,000 ..."
Photo © Copyright 2004 Apple Computer, Inc.
"Run your very own library from your home or office using our impossibly simple interface. Delicious Library's digital shelves act as a visual card-catalog of your books, movies, music and video games. A scan of a barcode is all Delicious Library needs to add an item to your digital shelves, downloading tons of info from the internet like the author, release date, current value, description, and even a high-resolution picture of the cover. Import your entire library using our exclusive full-speed iSight video barcode scanner, our Flic® Wireless Laser Bar Code Scanner, or (the slow way) entering the titles by hand."
Price $39.95 USD.
The release date is set for November 8 (tough timing as from the 9th everything will be about Mozilla's Thunderbird and Firefox).
DL is the new venture from Omni Group's Wil Shipley and Mike Matas.
The good people at PalmOne had the opportunity to release a truly fantastic follow up to the 600. It would have been easy. Add wi-fi, upgrade the memory and if in the mood, throw in a better camera.
Unfortunately neither of these simple upgrades are present in the company's latest Smartphone.
I can only speculate that a better camera is not perceived as a priority (I agree). More memory would have made a lot of sense, especially as the T5 suddenly has a (hypothetical) 256 MB crammed in to its E style casing.
But, why no wi-fi? With several handset makers, and corporate customers, pushing for technology allowing callers to jump (actually it's more like sliding) from cellular to radio, this omission is really strange. As any Palm hardware fan knows, PalmOne haven't exactly snuggeled up to 802.11b. But there is one big reason why they should: because we, the users, want it!
Maybe it's time to stop waiting and get a Clie when my trusted Tungsten T finally kicks it.
Does what it says on the tin. A good read, I recommend it.
Brought to my attention by Macfeber.se.
My two cents on some of the finders:
JiWire is "the most comprehensive hot-spot list you'll find online". This might be true, but it is also way of the mark. It fails to find the three Starbuck hot spots around my house in central London, and it also tells me that the Docklands area, which is about 45 minutes away by public transport, is 0 mile's from my location. It does a better job with US locations.
My rating: 2/5
Total Hotspots has a clean user interface, maps the locations and manages to include wi-fi networks I didn't even know existed in my area. It does a great job of US searches too and lists every hotspot I could think off while testing it. Hands down my favorite.
My rating: 5/5
The Wi-Fi Alliance's Wi-fi Zone forces the user to drill down to get the info. First choose country - click - state - click - choose the city from a long list etc. The results don't include many well known hotspots like Starbucks.
My rating: 3/5
Wi-FiHotSPotList.com is cleand and fast. The only downside is that if a location has several networks, like Royal Grounds Coffe on Fillmore Street in San Francisco, it will list them as seperate entries in the search results.
My rating: 4/5
NMV Global's Wi-Fi-Zones delivers by far the worst search results. Avoid to save time.
My rating: 1/5
At $1.99 per month, it certainly is a special rate! Non SBC DSL subscribers still get a fairly good deal, $19.95 with a 12 month contract.
The main reason for the $1.99 deal is to increase the value of SBC's DSL offerings. But wouldn't it be great if SBC went all out and offered access to its FreedomLink service at a really low cost across the board? Say $4.99 for non SBC customers? A trusted brand combined with a low price at popular locations (currently UPS stores, McD etc) could have a great impact. Maybe one day.
/Jaan
"InterComm™ is next-generation instant messaging software that makes communication more productive for team-based projects."
Tried it, liked it. Available for Mac OS X 10.2 or greater and Windows XP plus Windows 2000.
Five Across in some ways reminds me of HotDesk. I was completely sold on it in the late 1990's and strangely pleased to see that they are still around. A similar (and multilingual) web-based collaborative service is provided by Swedish Projektplatsen. I don't have any hands-on experience of it, but people I trust rave about it.
Rafe Needleman has reviewed the uPC on behalf of CNET and gives it a "Fair" rating, 6.7 out of 10.
Photo © Copyright 2004 OQO, Inc.
The part of this that really excites me is the prospect of mini Apple stores at airports. But wouldn't it be great if the stores also sold the tunes?
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