What is it about Love?

If you have been reading my blog, this will appear well off topic. Sometimes though, you need to let your feelings be known. Today I had to make a really hard decision. For the first time in seventeen and a half years, I feel lonely. This morning, my constant companion for that period of time, passed away.

Passed away, is not the right description, and I feel some conflicting emotions over the decision I had to make. Diva has been my family, for the whole of that time, and today I said goodbye to her. Something went wrong with her earlier this week, From a Dog that was lively and alert for her age, she became distant, unaware. She wouldn’t eat or drink, and she wouldn’t walk.

I took her to the vet this morning, and I had to carry her there. He asked me some questions, and checked her out, and he just said to me, “I think it’s her time”.

She went to sleep at about 11.30, this morning, July 3, 2009.

Ever heard of “Silent Mode” for your phone?

Ever embarrassed yourself at a big meeting, or church, or any where else that you really should have turned your phone off, or at least to silent or vibrate? What about at a White House press conference?

I have [not at a White House press conference] on more than one occasion, and it brings a point to mind. “Are we so dependant on our mobile devices [phones] that we disregard some basic etiquette concerning their use, or is it just absent mindedness?”.

Of course many of us go through our daily routine with an always on mobile, face facts, we need to be connected, but consider the  ramifications in some situations.

Think about this, if you were a press secretary for the president of the US, your reaction to the first interruption was reasonable, the second really deserved a secret service takedown!

Consider how, where and why you use your mobile in relation to the situation you are in, I implore you!

 

White House confiscates hack’s handset " Register Hardware

Most Mobile, Beat Boxing!

My friend Jason over at his blog, highlighted for fun this video of beat boxing, and seriously this is one of the best examples of mobile technology I could think of, and it’s fun as well. How mobile is it, it is a human based form of emulation that rocks! Watch the Video and enjoy your weekend!

Short Sharp Infomercial

This is very funny, because it’s true, and considering lot’s of us are on plans that we don’t fully utilise, or for that matter completely understand, physical measures like this are probably realistic options, to help minimise our mobile expenditure!!

av u got ur sped tokking down pat, like your speed texting language?

Fring WeFi

The Fring client is a social networking client for WinMo and PC, and it already provides access to lots of popular services,

you can interact with friends on all your favourite social networks including Skype®, MSN Messenger®, Google Talk™, ICQ, SIP, Twitter, Yahoo!™ and AIM®. You can listen to music with your Last.fm friends, check out what each other are up to on Facebook, receive alerts of new Google Mail™ and tailor make your very own fring by adding more cool experiences from fringAdd-ons™

Fring may have just become a useful service, for one reason, a way to connect to  any available wifi network,

Of course the vid actually meets my geek rating as well!

check out Fring

Honey I Shrunk the Kids, New iPod Shuffle…

Apple have just announced a third generation Shuffle, that’s smaller, that has a larger memory capacity, and less moving parts than ever before, with some intriguing new features. The scariest thing here is that this little device will talk to you, hopefully though it’s not a little HAL from “2001 a Space Odyssey”, I can’t do that Dave!

The new device is smaller than a AA battery yet holds up to 1,000 songs, Apple said. The preshrunk Shuffle also adds a new VoiceOver feature that can recite song titles, artists, and playlist names, as well as provide status information, such as battery life. Speaking of which, Apple said the gadget’s battery life clocks in at 10 hours

The biggest innovation for the new Shuffle seems to be that the controls are actually on the native headphones, no click wheel, D-pad on the device itself. Hopefully the included ones are robust enough to handle the every day rigours of your shuffling!

Apple shrinks its iPod Shuffle | Apple – CNET News

Hands Up: is the Palm Pre an iPhone Killer?

I’ve never had a Palm device that I can recall, although I’ve resisted the urge to punch out the multitudes of people that have called my WinMo device a Palm Pilot.

The Palm Pre is, Pre release, Pre order, pre release and Pre viewed by many, but when Palm investors start playing up the Pre big time, you have to start wondering if they are getting the shakes over their investment, or if they really believe what they say?

“You know the beautiful thing: June 29, 2009, is the two- year anniversary of the first shipment of the iPhone,” McNamee said today in an interview in San Francisco. “Not one of those people will still be using an iPhone a month later.

I am incredulous at this sort of positive affirmation for an untested, untried, partially marketed Palm device that was rushed to the fore of Palms development process, to try to gain back some market visibility. Of Course investors in the company are going to talk it up, and I think that’s what they are doing!

Seriously, is the Pre???

Via Solsie.com

Which Windows Mobile Phone?

It often occurs to me, “How are we defined by our devices?” Now if you/I had unlimited disposable income, I would obviously gravitate to the latest and purportedly greatest device available! That’s not always possible for the majority of us though, and it’s demonstrated in this video

latest or greatest or what you find functional, what meets your current needs, here’s a wide opinion on what WinMo phone Microsoft MVP”s are carrying, interesting!

Via MobileDevicesToday