A little update I guess is due. First thanks to everyone who bought gCalWall. I know I promised some of you an update and that is coming. I plan on starting it next week (hopefully). Apple still hasn’t fixed the API to allow me to save your wallpaper automatically, but I can work on some of the bugs and tweak things to work faster, so that’s what I’m going to do.
I’ve also decided to just leave pricing where it is. I think for what it does and the fact that I can’t set the wallpaper for you, it’s a fair price.
Again thanks to all who have purchased gCalWall. It’s definitely done well enough to cover a nice vacation with my lovely wife!
I just had a support email come through this morning. And while as usual I responded… this one isn’t going to work out too well.
Recipient address: –CUT—@hotmail.com
Reason: Remote SMTP server has rejected address
Diagnostic code: smtp;550 Requested action not taken: mailbox unavailable
Remote system: dns;mx2.hotmail.com (TCP|17.148.16.101|63745|65.55.37.88|25)
So, if you sent in a support request to me this morning and your name is Gregg, I’m not ignoring you. Your email address that you put in the contact form just doesn’t work.
I’ve been spending a lot of time today going over in my mind if the Kindle might be the right device for me and my ever growing need to read. If you’re wondering why I’m reading… when there’s 200+ pages of Core Data waiting for me to read through, 200+ pages of Core Animation, and another couple hundred pages of Obj-C 2.0 waiting for me. And all of that is sitting in eBook format.
Now, so far I’ve been OK reading a bit here and there on my MacBook. The screen is good, and the text spaces out nicely… but I can’t really take my MacBook with me to my mother-in-laws, to my parents house or to work and fit in a few pages here and there. Not to mention even if I could the MacBook is just too darned heavy and too darned valuable to lug around everywhere I go.
Which leads me to – why not just use the Kindle software on the iPhone and be happy with that? Good question. The price of the books still applies. I have full connectivity everywhere just like the Kindle. I mean, basically it is the Kindle software… on my iPhone. Well, I have it already and the iPHone screen while gorgeous just isn’t the right thing for reading a 300 page book. Its too small and really does hurt the eyes.
Anyway, I’m thinking of a Kindle. I’ve looked at a couple Sony devices – and while I really like the form factor, the lack of content in the Sony store, the prices, and the lack of connectivity is really what are keeping me from going with the prs-505.
I guess I’ll keep racking my brain to see if I can come to a conclusion. I really need a device I can take with me everywhere and squeeze in the tons of reading I have to do. But, until I’ve made a decision – maybe I can win one?
I’m going to let this video speak for itself for the most part. I plan on going over the interface you see for the HP Mini Mi in a video sometime over the next few days, so keep an eye out for that, but for now here’s a couple links:
So last night my daughter goes to make a phonecall. Note she’s standing right on front of me when she does this – and she opens the phone just like anyone else would with a Razr (the little thumb flick open thing they do) and the phone litterally snaps off at the hinge.
So now I’m calling AT&T for the 4th time.
1st time I got hung up on. Why? Because I told the lady I did not want to be transferred to insurance as the phone was not dropped and this was not an insurance issue.
2nd call dropped. Shocker.
3rd call – 20 minutes long and the final person said their systems were updating and they would call me back in 30 minutes. It’s been an hour.
4th call coming up.
Business Customer Service is not fairing well today.
4Th Outcome:
On the 4th call to AT&Tfor warranty support – 3rd transfer during this call10:04 AM yesterdayfrom twhirl
Another transfer … this time to Motorola because AT&T is saying its not covered under warranty because its physically broken.10:26 AM yesterday
Motorola says they won’t do anything but have me send the phone to them to determine if they will fix it under warranty. $75 if they won’t.10:48 AM yesterdayfrom twhirl
No joy. Phone is broken due to MFG. defect. Nobody (AT&Tor Motorola) is willing to send a replacement. AT&T says send it to Moto. and hope.11:00 AM yesterdayfrom twhirl
So- after 2 hours and 17 minutes of actual on the phone time… I get an email from Motorola and some information on how to send my daughter’s phone to them so they can determine if they need to charge me $75 to fix it. The pessimist in me is pretty sure how all of this is going to turn out.
So… in the mean time, my daughter is using my standby T-Mobile SDA. WinMo 6 is just to much power for an 11 year old.
So apparently there are only a certain set of known keys for the Windows 7 Beta – which so far I’ve been able to confirm that these are the only ones being generated. Rather than have you waste a bunch of time trying to get a “special” key that’s just for you – here they are:
There are 14 known keys for windows 7 and here they are:
32bit
QXV7B-K78W2-QGPR6-9FWH9-KGMM7
TQ32R-WFBDM-GFHD2-QGVMH-3P9GC
6JKV2-QPB8H-RQ893-FW7TM-PBJ73
4HJRK-X6Q28-HWRFY-WDYHJ-K8HDH
GG4MQ-MGK72-HVXFW-KHCRF-KW6KY
Lawrence Livermore Laboratories has discovered the heaviest element yet known to science. The new element, Governmentium (symbol=Gv),has one neutron, 25 assistant neutrons, 88 deputy neutrons, and 198 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312.
These 312 particles are held together by forces called morons, which are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called peons.
Since Governmentium has no electrons, it is inert. However, it can be detected, because it impedes every reaction with which it comes into contact. A tiny amount of Governmentium can cause a reaction that would normally take less than a second, to take from 4 days to 4 years to complete.
Governmentium has a normal half-life of 2 to 6 years. It does not decay, but instead undergoes a reorganization in which a portion of the assistant neutrons and deputy neutrons exchange places. In fact, Governmentium’s mass will actually increase over time, since each reorganization will cause more morons to become neutrons, forming isodopes.
This characteristic of moron promotion leads some scientists to believe that Governmentium is formed whenever morons reach a critical concentration. This hypothetical quantity is referred to as critical morass.
When catalyzed with money, Governmentium becomes Administratium (symbol=Ad), an element that radiates just as much energy as Governmentium, since it has half as many peons but twice as many morons.”
This is a picture we took of my daughter – she was dying to open her birthday presents at dinner the other night. I miss being this excited for my presents…
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So last night my daughter goes to make a phonecall. Note she’s standing right on front of me when she does this – and she opens the phone just like anyone else would with a Razr (the little thumb flick open thing they do) and the phone litterally snaps off at the hinge.
This is a picture we took of my daughter – she was dying to open her birthday presents at dinner the other night. I miss being this excited for my presents…
