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Apple Keynote: Response

By Dan ⋅ August 7, 2006 ⋅ 3 comments

It’s that time again. The Mighty Steve has delivered his opening keynote for WWDC, and unveiled Apple’s latest raft of products. All, erm, three of them? As anyone who knows me, or who’s read this site for any length of time will know: I’m a big fan of Apple. I use an iPod. My home [...]

MDA Vario tweaks

By Dan ⋅ February 9, 2006 ⋅ 4 comments

I'd been somewhat plagued by slow performance on my Vario over the last few days. The thing started taking forever to respond to key presses, which got very tedious, very quickly. Launching the inbox to send a message locked the device for a few seconds while it caught up with itself. I'd read a while [...]

Acer 19″ Widescreen Goodness

By Dan ⋅ January 25, 2006 ⋅ One comment

Yesterday, I received my shiny new AL1916W monitor. For the last 18 months or so, I've used a LG 17" Flatron screen, and it's served me well. With the arrival of the Xbox 360 though, my trusty LG wasn't cutting it. You see, the 360 is unashamedly a beast of widescreen proportions. Trying to shoehorn [...]

802.11g on the Wizard?

By Dan ⋅ January 23, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

According to this thread, it's possible to enable 802.11g on the HTC Wizard (so Vario) using a couple of simple registry tweaks. You'll need to register for xda-develops before you can see attached binaries on posts. I haven't tried this yet – I'm posting this on my iBook and it's somewhat tricky getting activesync running [...]

The inevitable response

By Dan ⋅ January 11, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

As long as Steve keeps doing his thing, the bloggers will write about it. I've posted my reaction to Apple's keynote (are they really keynotes?) presentations before, and I'm sure I will do again. The last time, I moaned about how unexciting the new iPod With Video was, and how it hadn't convinced me to [...]

New phone

By Dan ⋅ January 3, 2006 ⋅ One comment

Recently, I flogged my M500 (the Orange equivalent of the I-Mate Jam) and got myself a T-Mobile MDA Vario. The key differences, in brief, are that the Vario has a slide-out (qwerty) keyboard and runs Windows Mobile 5. I've had the device for a few weeks now, and I think the time has come to [...]

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