Friday before I left work I kicked off the upgrade to Mac OS 10.6.3 on the MacBook Pro (MBP)  I use at work. I’d already upgrade my personal MacBook at home (that I got a deal on at MicroCenter) and I didn’t have any observeable problems or issues and I was confident that I could [...]

The first George the President: Taken on a cool night with a full moon. I don’t like how my Panasonic takes nights shots, they seem to noisy (specklie) to be. I still think my 6 year old Canon S200 did a better job at night, and overall!

Neat, a Tango theme for my N73 Nokia Mobile phone! http://wiki.sukimashita.com/Tango_Symbian60_Theme Grab the  Symbian60 3rd Edition (Regular, FP1) one for the N73.

If bluetooth works on your computer, then getting your system to talk to your N73 isn’t hard and I’m not going to cover it here. See this posting for what packages I needed to install to get bluetooth working in my Dell 700M laptop running Ubuntu Linux: http://timony.com/mickzblog/2007/10/09/ubuntu-bluetooth-sd-card/ If you have T-Mobile T-Zones Internet service [...]

Good blog posting about who has and who hasn’t bandwidth & spectrum amongst the US Mobile phone networks: http://blogs.gnome.org/dcbw/2007/11/05/t-mo-got-no-spec-trum/ The US has 6 bands that are or will be used for cellular communications: 700MHz – the new band, to be auctioned in February next year. There “open access” rules tied to about 1/3rd of the [...]

Just got a Bluetooth dongle (adaptor) from NewEgg (for $12.99). To get it to be able to browse (using Gnome) my phone I had to install the gnome-vfs-obexftp package (along with the bluez-gnome package). I also got a Kingston 2 GB MiniSD-Card for my phone (for $20.99), with an adaptor so I can plug the [...]

I ordered the phone from Buy.com. They had it for $339 and a coupon for $15 off any purchase over $200. Subtotal after the coupon was $320, but as they have a warehouse in Massachusetts there is 5% sales taxes on that, which add $16 to the total. But, that’s still cheaper that most of [...]