Category: Gadgets


  • Yesterday, I had a new iPhone user complain that they were getting a message about a POP3 lock when attempting to get new messages from the mail server after checking email on their iPhone.  I have been doing this for sometime and never noticed this issue, but decided to investigate further when I had time.…

  • I have had a number of discussions recently about podcasts and how I listen to them, or find the time to invest in listening to them. After these impromptu discussions, I realized that I may have not provided the complete answer to the question.

  • I updated my iPhone to software version 2.2 and took some screenshots of the latest features. You can check them out on my Flickr photostream here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/14489567@N06/sets/72157609607880263/

  • Ok, this is the last post on the topic… but I thought I would share my usage, and see what interesting conclusions may be drawn from the numbers. Songs: 524 Videos: 0 Photos: 18 Capacity: 14.6 GB Available: 11.7 GB Call Time ======= Call Time: 5hrs and 58mins Cellular Network Data ================ Sent: 7.8 MB…

  • After 4 weeks with my iPhone 3G, I thought I would share some of the statistics that the phone has been keeping on my usage: Songs: 520 Videos: 0 Photos: 18 Capacity: 14.6 GB Available: 11.8 GB Call Time ======= Call Time: 2hrs and 25mins Cellular Network Data ================ Sent: 3.2 MB Received: 51.2 MB…

  • My iPhone 3G

    This post a long overdue… only if you were following my tweets, would you have known. I placed the order for my iPhone (16GB Black model) on the Monday after the crazy Friday they went on sale. I obviously, had to do the direct fulfillment at the ATT store in Strongsville (near work) since they…

  • Engelbart’s Usability Dilemma: Efficiency vs Ease-of-Use — The mouse was the original idea of Doug Engelbart who was the head of the Augmentation Research Center (ARC) at Stanford Research Institute. Engelbart’s philosophy is best embodied, in my opinion, in the design of another device that he invented, the five-finger keyboard – with keys like a…

  • In this post, I wanted to document the steps that I had to follow to enable the A/V controls (play, pause, next song, previous song) buttons of my Motorola-S9 headset with my windows computer using iTunes. Setup used: Motorola S9 headset Dell Latitude D830 Dell internal Bluetooth adapter (2.0 adapter with A2DP and AVRCP profiles)…

  • My new Dell Latitude D830 was just delivered to my desk. I already have it booting up and will probably spend the next few hours configuring it and getting use to all the differences from my Dell Inspiron 4150. First impressions: It seems a little thicker than the D820 Wide screen is nice, and definitely…

  • New Laptop Ordered

    Yippee!!! Today I placed an order for equipment that includes a new laptop for me!! I am pretty excited but at the same time slightly disappointed. I am glad to finally see an end for my existing Dell Inspiron 4150. Just sad that I could not come up with a compelling enough reason/justification for me…