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Kill cell phone speaker buzz
Jun 28
LG Viewty config
Dec 23
Probably crazy but we are trying to coerce an LG Viewty cellphone to work on ATTWireless — good tips here on how to get internet configured — Re: LG KU990 (Viewty) – Setting up Internet? – LG – Wireless Forums from AT&T
Best Wireless phones
Nov 18
Wirelessinfo.com Selects 2007 – News – WirelessInfo.com – Cell Phone Reviews and Wireless Plan Ratings — one list, we need a new one in the family
OK so I am in the grocery store this AM trying to check college football scores on my iPhone and what do I get? The stupid T-Mobile homepage because there is a Starbucks next door. And to support the iTunes store Apple slams you on to the stupid T-Mobile network, but no other web connectivity is allowed. This sucks. Here in the land of Starbucks, there is a Starbucks T-Mobile Wifi net about every 100 yards, so basically I have to turn off Wifi service continually. Sucks.
Apple — how is this a freaking benefit? You should let all my non-iTunes traffic default to a different wifi provider or edge. Starbucks — this is driving me out of your stores and pissing me off at you even when I am next door! You need to provide free Wifi. AT&T — this is completely screwing with customer perception of the network performance of the device. You need to help Apple get non-iTunes traffic onto your net. T-Mobile — I am never ever going to pay for your stupid service. You had better figure out fast how to shift to a free service business model or you will become completely irrelevant.
- Awesome Local Deals Content in Seattle & Atlanta at Starting Up by Rahul Pathak — Rahul talks about latest Judy’s Book release — the content is starting to vastly improve…
- Phil’s Blackberry app gets some good press coverage\
- The opportunity for Network Magic — home networks are just way too frickin’ complicated
- Marine forecasts for the San Juans — thanks Rich
- Rich also on how to read charts … I learned all this as a kid on Georgian Bay but a good refresher
- Brett finds the best guide to the west coast trail — good luck brett!
Andy wants a google phone — A Sack of Seattle: Google phone.
You can get a long way there today:
- Google mail for your domain — navigate to m.google.com/a and install. This is the app for your own domain mail, there is a gmail equivalent at gmail.com/app
- Google calendar — just go to calendar.google.com, it has a great mobile interface. and a great sms interface too
- Google reader — www.google.com/reader/m
- Maps — navigate to www.google.com/gmm/. another great app.
By the way, once you’ve installed all these, your blackberry will probably run out of memory and start autodeleting mail from your blackberry inbox with no warning. if you go to settings…advanced…applications, you can uninstall a bunch of cruft like all the language support you don’t need, all the crappy bberry apps and carrier apps you never use, etc. Love that MSDOS-style memory management
Ignition blog roundup
May 29
- Tong Family Blog: Best Seattle Restaurants — I use SeattleWeekly for recos but this is a good list too. Remember when CitySearch nee Sidewalk was actually useful for restaurant reviews?
- Lala’s music streaming plans get covered in TechCrunch
- Phil keeps knocking out Beyond411 features. And the app hasn’t bloated!
- Rich offers guidance on indoor sports photo lenses. I was super happy with my setup for lacrosse this spring but I will need to do something for basketball.
- Rich’s guidance on media players. VLC has saved my ass as well.
Ignition Blog roundup
Mar 16
- Network Magic gets some love up at eHomeUpgrade | Why Network Magic Kicks Windows Vista’s Butt in Networking and File Sharing Usability
- Andy loves referral hiring
— spontaneous support for jobster - Rich has all the blackberry pearl tips and blackberry games info
- Phil cranks out another version of Beyond411 for the blackberry. He also ponders the ineffectiveness of googlebase
- Martin (an ignition alum) has made another clean tech investment
A TeleNav! app was slammed on my blackberry today. I didn’t ever install it, it just showed up on the homescreen. Basically a kind of spam from cingular I assume.
Anyway i tried it. It wasn’t terrible, but I can’t see why anyone would bother, the google maps app is so much better. The telenav app is a bit of size/speed pig, it doesn’t show traffic data, no satellite views, no white/yellow pages lookup, an annoying upsell ad on the front page. I deleted it.
Berry411 wasn’t enough for him — now he is Announcing BerrySearch Beta: Info on the Go for the Blackberry ? Bogle’s Blog. Nice stuff.