TwitToday is a very simple Today plugin for Windows Mobile which lets you send a Tweet without launching anything. The first time I tried it, something wasn't working quite right and it kept giving me an error message.
I gave it another shot tonight and was happy to find that it works beautifully. Tapping the 'T' launches PIE and takes you to the mobile Twitter page.
The only gripe that I have with it, and its a tiny one, is that you need to tap the screen before you start typing, then tap the 'ok' button. I wish it worked by button presses only. But, its such a small issue. If you have the real estate to spare, go ahead and grab it from http://dalelane.co.uk/blog/?p=244
Monday, April 28, 2008
TwitToday- Pure Twitter Simplicity
You Need YouMail!
Sunday, April 27, 2008
A new use for Podcasts
A year and a half ago or so my daily commute consisted of a 90 minute car-to-NJ Transit-to subway trip each way and it was quite tedious. It was during these commutes that my love affair with tech intensified as I spent hours glued to my PDA. In those days, I watched 2 video podcasts- Geekbrief and Best Night Ever-usually on my way home.
Saturday, April 26, 2008
PDAmill Palm Games Free
WVGA Screen- What apps will run?
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Vollee- SecondLife on Your Phone
Even though I've pretty much given SecondLife the shaft for the past few months, I am pretty excited about this. Vollee is releasing a beta of their SecondLife client for mobile phones in May and its looking to be pretty robust! They haven't released a list of compatible phones yet, but they have clearly stated that it needs 3G to run (sorry, T-Mobile customers!). If it sounds like something interesting, go ahead and sign up for the beta!
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Info At a Glance- iPhone Home Screen
Ever since the iPhone was released it seems that everywhere I look I see homescreens modeled after it. I'm confused. I can't deny that there is a lot of innovation coming from the iPhone, but one of the least useful features in my opinion is the homescreen-it reminds me of the Palm launcher screen. I rely on being able to turn on my device and seeing a substantial summary at a glance. So to me, it is much more useful to see this:


Friday, April 18, 2008
IM+ Beta Supports Multi LogOns per Client!
So far, I'm reasonably impressed with it. In addition to support for multiple accounts per service they also have improved its appearance and made some minor tweaks to it.
What would really make IM+ killer is if they would add Skype support. Even just for text would be such a great feature! Do it, Shape Services! You know you want to!

Something Ain't Right
The Perai-H Looks Suspiciously Familiar!
I was browsing the web and checked out the TechFaith Wireless page to see what they have going on when I stumbled on the Perai-H Windows Mobile Phone which looks exactly like the UBiQUiO 503G, and has the same specs. A search on Google led me to find that the Perai-H was only submitted to the FCC last September, which means that this could very well be coming a carrier in the US soon.
HP Ipaq 900 Lust Kinda Waning....
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
What on Earth Happened to BluePulse? *Sob*

I HATE the Treo Keyboard
It seems like a million years ago when I had a Treo 650 and all was absolutely fabulous in my tech world. With all the great memories of my Treo 650, I was somewhat excited to get my hands on a Treo 750-even if it was just as a placeholder. But I am suprised at how unpleasant a typing experience I am having with it! My hands feel so cramped using it, and I can't seem to find the perfect way to hold it in such a way that I can easily type one handed without feeling like its about to topple out of my hand. I miss my UBiQUiO!
Luckily, I was able to track down my eBay seller and he is going to attempt to get my UBiQUiO fixed by Expansys. If he doesn't have any luck, I got a comment on an entry from an Expansys staff member a few entries ago who may be able to help.
Apart from the keyboard, there are some other Treo-specific quirks that are bugging me. While I like the threaded text messages, I don't like that it is a separate app and opening messages no longer shows texts as one of the accounts. And the Today softkeys are uselessly programmed in such a way that even using Tweaks2K cannot reprogram them.
And every once in a while when I type, the Treo seems to take a second to 'catch up'. In fact the only thing that I have really been enjoying as a major improvement over my Ubiquio is that the LED flashes when I receive an email.
So, the moral of this story is that I want my UBi back. In fact, I don't even want the Velocity Mobile 111 when it first comes out. I want to enjoy the experience of having a device that works which I enjoy and am used to!
Monday, April 14, 2008
A Rented Life?
Why Can't We Let the Dead RIP?
"I'll Be Back"
The past few days I've been sick. In fact, we all have- Seth must have brought some germs home from daycare and we all got knocked out. Between the Ubiquio mishap of last week then getting sick I feel like I missed week. Hopefully by tomorrow I'll be back to 100% and will be able to jump back on the blogging bandwagon.
Labels:my life
Thursday, April 10, 2008
The Sweet Agony of UPS
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
AOL MyMobile Beta
YahooGo raised the bar pretty high in the playing field of search engine/email mobile offerings. MSN Live has become the Windows Mobile defacto. Google2Go, not made by Google, was a dismal disappointment so we've been waiting to see who would step into the ring next.
AOL MyMobile is the next one to hit the scene and is in beta now. It looks pretty interesting, but its going to have to be something special to knock Yahoo out of its top spot.
Naturally, I don't have a way to test this as my Ubiquio died yesterday and the seller of my Treo 750 is taking his sweet time even responding to me. Anyone try it so far? What's the verdict?
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
My Name is Lulu, and I have a problem
I've just realized that I have a serious problem. I tried to guilt/force/trick the husband into swapping and lending me his Tmobile SDA until my Treo comes. He didn't want to and I got genuinely annoyed about it.
Is Windows Mobile ruining my marriage?
Death of my UBiQUiO 503G
The past few days I'd been noticing minor odd behavior on my UBiQUiO 503G- periodically failing to connect to the network, turning itself on and staying on...just enough to make me decide that it was time to do a hard reset soon and start over. But with everything else I'm working on at the moment, that was on my agenda for next week.
This morning I woke up and found that the device would not connect to the network at all- and apparently hadn't been able to all night. I tried a soft reset and it wouldn't come back on. I finally managed to get it to turn on after a hard reset, and dashed to drop Seth off at daycare.
I came home and decided that I would call Cingular/AT&T to find out if they could help me sort out why I still couldn't make a data connection. The service people had me perform a soft reset, and that was it. It just wouldnt turn on again.
I know its not a power issue, the light indicator lights up when I plug it into a power source. I get the logo screen for UbiQUio and then it just turns off. I was able to email the eBay seller he was nice enough to offer to ship it to Expansys for repair. I don't have a lot of faith in the company right now, but its worth a shot.
I ordered a used Treo 750 to tide me over in case it doesnt work out with the Ubiquio repair. And in the meantime I dug an old Motorola phone out of Dean's drawer and stuck my SIM card into that. I haven't used a phone phone in about 5 years. I'm totally lost.
Now I'm starting to wonder if this might not be a good time for me to consider a separate phone and a standalone PDA. It sure would sting a lot less when something like this happens.
Monday, April 7, 2008
An Exciting Adventure-eBusiness
Triforce-Ditch Your Stylus
Sunday, April 6, 2008
XperiaX1- Style or Substance?
I can't decide if I'm really into the Sony Xperia or if I've just been blindly seduced by its interface. I wish there were more information available about it already. And does anyone know if that's just the standard 6.1 interface?
MoFuse-Mobilize Your Blog



Nappak sleeping cube is a home away from home
The large nature of this and the fact it includes wheels when rolled up is definitely peculiar. Expect to have a slumber party in this thing, rolling it from cube to cube? Well, I guess that would work if you have a really relaxed office environment.
Playboy on your Phone- Porn on Your PDA
***Adult Content- Reader Discretion Advised***
Lets face it, most of us do it- you just never really hear anyone talk about it and I don't think I've ever heard anyone give instructions,either! I decided to do this topic because these days spamming has become so bad that if you even try to do a search of "porn" cross referenced with "pda" so many trojan (no pun intended!) and spam sites come up that its almost impossible to get any comprehensive information!
One of the assumptions I tend to make is that if you've got porn on your palm, you don't necessarily want the whole world to know it...which is why I'm always a bit confused by adult themed today screens and such.
Over the past years I've looked into discreet and interesting ways to experience porn on my device. The first recommendation that I would make is to use the password feature on your device. This should be a habit anyway, but if you work in a corporate environment, you definitely want that extra protection. Another cool thing I've seen is a special screen protector- it scrambles the image on your screen so that if viewed from an angle, nothing can be seen. This works great if there is a possibility of having someone peering across at your screen.
The first method is to convert your naughty pictures into a format you can easily view or watch on your device. My very first foray led me to Resco Photoviewer. This software from resco.net will allow you to create an album from your desktop which will consist of the pictures that you chose. The best plan is to create a folder on your pc and move all of your pictures into that location. This will make it easier to create your resco album. Resco albums are great because you can easily chose to encrypt them.
If you're okay with converting from your desktop, you can also create a powerpoint slideshow on your device and use your built-in slideshow viewer to watch.
The next is to use TCPMP to watch video clips. TCPMP is the premiere media player, and its free. Download it from the corecodec website and include all the available plugins to make sure you can play any media file thrown a it. Create a folder on your memory card and you can actually use programs like resco explorer to encrypt the folder.
There is also more and more software being created under the category of erotica. Strip poker games are extremely easy to come by, of course they are shareware. Adult games can be a fun way to entertain yourself when all you really need is a glimpse and not an outright ogle! But you'll have to get skilled at the games if you hope to see any skin.
Hubdog is a suprising source that will allow you to select channels with adult content such as Devil's Films- I'm talking real porn here, not the watered down teasers. The benefit of this is that it updated regularly- new content is only an update away. There are also several blogs that you can subscribe to and get images on your pda. The term subscription here is different from the conventional adult term- it simply means that you plug the address into your rss reader and the feed will be updated regularly.
And speaking of the world wide web, there are tons of sites that are optimized for mobile viewing. In the next few weeks I aim to compile a list and post it for those who are stumped. Hopefully this will be a group project... The list not the porn!
I updated a few of the links, and I was suprised to see that a lot of the products are still in existence.
Saturday, April 5, 2008
Minority Report Technology Already Here
PocketPC Thoughts has a story about the Microsoft Surface and the fact that the technology will be available in select AT&T stores by April 17th. Remember when we saw Tom Cruise manipulating data in Minority Report:
I for one thought it would take decades before we saw it in real life (kinda like the1981 future forecast). But here we are, barely 6 years later, and the public is going to have access to it:
Makes me soooo envious of what my son will see in his lifetime!
Friday, April 4, 2008
YouTube App Built Into Coreplayer!
Take that, iPhone users! Now Windows Mobile, Symbian and Palm users can get full YouTube support built in to the latest version of CorePlayer! The downside is that you'll have to purchase the third-party application, CorePlayer includes enough great features to make it worth the money.


Mobigasmic has been Awesomesauce Approved!
One of the best things that has happened to Mobigasmic in the past few months has been me joining Twitter. Its put me in contact with a lot off great people who share a lot of cool ideas and concepts. And the brief nature of Twitter means that even if I can't pop in for hours, it only takes a short while to catch up on what I missed.
The other benefit of has been that it exposed me to many likeminded-bloggers and included me in a neat network that I otherwise might not have found. Mobigasmic's move to Blogger has also boosted exposure and seems to be getting onto the radar of people who could really benefit from it.
In the course of my Twitter progression, I've come across one particularly fun young woman called Corvida, of SheGeeks. Corvida's main area of enthusiasm is in Social Networking, and I learn as much from her about it as I could from Wikipedia. She's also the first person who I've ever heard use the word Awesomesauce. So its a particular honor for my tiny piece of the web to receive the honor of being Awesomesauce Approved:
Thursday, April 3, 2008
Velocity111...Hey There Sexy....
The Velocity Mobile 111 is one hot piece of....phone. With Windows Mobile 6.1, WiFi, 3G and the all important QWERTY keyboard, this one is bringing it all to the table! At this rate, I may see this one before the HP910c....I looove the look of this, except that I don't see the soft keys on the front.
More info on this at Velocity Mobile as well as Engadget Mobile
Why I Love Naomi Campbell
The bitch just doesn't give a damn. And I mean that in the most complimentary way possible- who amongst us had not had the urge to throw something at someone? My only gripe about that incident was that she threw a Blackberry (everyone knows you need to throw like a Jasjar to do any real damage!)
And lets not forget her using community service as her personal red carpet/runway last year. Love it!
And now she's been arrested for being allegedly assaulting a police officer in a dispute over her misplaced baggage. Come on! They lost her bags! Cut a supermodel a break already!
Update-TV Guide Mobile
I added a reminder for a program but couldn't find it in my calendar after. It seems that the application sends you a text message at the scheduled time- pretty neat!
Labels:applications, pda
Mobile GBlogger and Feedburner Incompatible
All day today I've been fighting to figure out why Mobile GBlogger which I paid for, suddenly stopped working on my UBi. There are so few Windows Mobile blogging clients that work on Blogger that I couldn't just shrug it off. Well, I finally figured out the problem- I created a Feedburner account today and had selected in the option for my feeds to be redirected to the Feedburner-created feed. For some reason, Mobile GBlogger cannot find, post or draft entries when this is selected.
I had hoped to use Feedburners analyst tools, but I guess the information will be slightly skewered because some readers will choose to use the alternate feed. However, thats a price I'm willing to pay to enjoy the luxury of a full post composer, and editor on my Pocket PC Phone.
TV Guide Mobile now FREE!
So if you've got any flavor of Windows Mobile or blackberry device, head on over to www.tvguide.handmark.com And give it a try!
Drip, drip,drip...Memory Leaks
Lately I've been more aware of a memory leak or two on my device. Most notably it happens in Pocket Internet Explorer- if I try to launch a large page the used Program memory goes from this:
To this:
In fact, its gotten to the point that I switched back to Opera mobile as my default browser because even though it uses more Storage memory, it doesn't swell up the Program memory.
TinyTwitter does also do this to some degree over time. so I've pinpointed it to applications that require wireless updates. I'm going to try and find out how to fix this over the next few days.
Labels:os, pda, troubleshooting
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
FlightStats- Mobile Flight Info
What a Difference a Day(care) Makes
Modu Jackets- A New Spin on an Old Idea
Almost 10 years ago I bought my first pda- a Visor Handspring, and at the time it was the cutting edge of technology. One thing that set it apart was the ability to add modules to it and enable additional functionality. The Springboard modules could add MP3 functions, GPS functions, Wireless capabilities:
The new Modu phone is now recognized as the world's lightest phone, and is able to accomplish this feat by the interchangeable jackets that it slips into:
Its a shame that Handspring wasn't able to capitalize on this technology as clearly they were headed in the right direction. More info on the Modu phone can be found on the CNET Crave blog.