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May 2005 - Posts

• I Finally Have A New Phone

  This is probably the only place I'll ever call it a Scoblephone because in "the real world", nobody would know what I'm talking about. For them, it is the Audiovox SMT 5600. I resisted the phone for months because it isn't a flip phone and that is usually Read More... Posted Saturday, May 28, 2005 12:01 PM by sjh | 7 Comments Filed under: General, Mobile

• Does Yahoo! Music Engine Require Admin Rights?

  Apparently Yahoo! doesn't really care enough about their potential customers to answer my customer service emails, so I'm posting here hoping someone will be able to help. I only have a few days left in my trial subscription to Yahoo! Music Unlimited Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 18, 2005 8:40 PM by sjh | 16 Comments Filed under: Tech/Geek

• OpenNETCF Application Blocks 1.0 Released

  Not much information given, but according to the announcement, "The OpenNETCF team has worked with the patterns & practices team at Microsoft to provide a version of the Application Blocks for the .NET Compact Framework." You can download them here at Read More... Posted Thursday, May 12, 2005 7:22 PM by sjh | 1 Comments Filed under: Tech/Geek, Tools & Reference, Mobile

• W3C Pushing the Mobile Web

  My first experience building a website for mobile phones was in 2000 and my most recent was earlier this evening, so this looks like good news to me: The W3C, or World Wide Web Consortium, on Wednesday announced its Mobile Web Initiative, a new kind of Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 11, 2005 9:45 PM by sjh | 0 Comments Filed under: Mobile

• Windows Mobile 5.0 Released

  The rumors regarding the merging of Pocket PC and Smartphone versions of the Windows Mobile platforms were, unfortunately, just rumors, but there were plenty of other items that did materialize in the new version of Windows Mobile- Windows Mobile 5.0, Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 11, 2005 12:01 AM by sjh | 0 Comments Filed under: Tech/Geek, Mobile

• REST Doesn't Mean Lazy

  When Dare explained how some web apps were misunderstanding REST , I wondered how long it would be before something terrible happened via some company's so-called REST API that allowed a user to delete something (or order something) via GET. I think we Read More... Posted Sunday, May 08, 2005 4:41 PM by sjh | 2 Comments Filed under: Tech/Geek

• The Internet - I mean "Google" is down!

  I don't think there is any other domain that would freak me out like this, but Google is down and I don't like it. My search box doesn't work, my web mail doesn't work, and I feel like the world is no longer at my fingertips... I'm freaking out, man... Read More... Posted Saturday, May 07, 2005 7:41 PM by sjh | 2 Comments Filed under: Tech/Geek

• Where is the Nokia 9300?

  BargainPDA asks "Where is the Nokia 9300?" and I have to offer my answer: I think the few hundred that were made were stacked together with some mortar and now house the formerly homeless. What I mean to say, the things are bricks. Sure, it is the tiniest, Read More... Posted Friday, May 06, 2005 11:21 PM by sjh | 0 Comments Filed under: General, Mobile

• I Thoroughly enjoyed Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy

  I have read the books a few times, my girlfriend hasn't. We both thought it was great, as did everyone else at the noon showing yesterday, from the sound of it. I guess you could sum up my review as a big "ditto" to Steve Lacey's review of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I don't have as much history as Steve, but his review of the actual movie is so close to my own that I can't really add much. As for Eric Gunnerson's review, I disagree with absolutely everything he says except tha Read More... Posted Sunday, May 01, 2005 3:30 PM by sjh | 2 Comments Filed under: General