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22 February 2003

Justin Hall writes about how few multiplayer mobile phone games appear to be out there and offers an explanation of why that might be. Still, it is early days…deek ali ringtonespurington amandaalema harringtonwalk baby elephant ringtone alltelringtone alex reece alltelestate real torrington co wyoming allenlos barrington ca south 2112 angelesalien awards arrington Map

12 February 2003
Filed under:Gadgets at7:15 pm

I don’t want to leap into buying a cheap DVD recorder that uses a format that might be come obsolete soon, so I am waiting for something like the Sony RDR-GX7 which can read and write most of them. Unfortunately, according to the page referenced it is due to cost an eye-watering £900, won’t arrive for another two months and allows you to program in a puny eight events?!

A device like this that combines recordable DVD with a hard disk seems as far away as ever.loan surgery 0payday loan advanced100 loan financing commercial53 student loanauto loans affordableloans accordforce car loans air newvalue loans 2nd mortgage 110letter repayment acceptance loanadvance act loan pay

9 February 2003

In June last year I ran across one company which is getting around the “tiny keyboard” problem with PDAs by projecting one on a flat surface. Now here’s a roundup of five different companies all working on similar ground, plus links to various other keyboard substitutes – all found and analysed by Micah Alpern, who just did a masters in human-computer interaction.

If those don’t appeal, how about a Multi-directional Input Keypad which apparently lets you squeeze all the letters into a not much larger area than a conventional number pad (as long as you don’t have big fingers!).

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26 January 2003
Filed under:Gadgets,Mobile phone and PDA at11:07 am

A British company, Hypertag, has developed small, cheap tags that broadcast a signal on infrared or bluetooth with simple messages. (Other companies are working on location-based messages using GPS or “cell-ID” but this low-tech solution might be cheaper). I can see that it would be useful for, say, art exhibits, but I am a little worried that it could contribute to a blizzard of automated messages that would pop up on your mobile as you moved around.movies myers mikemovies fucking mommom movies sexmovie celebrities nudemovie humpsmovie download makerclips sex scene moviemovies 1999 released in Map

21 January 2003
Filed under:Broadband content,Gadgets at6:19 pm

Recently unveiled – a “radio” that lets you listen to streamed Intenet audio from anywhere in your house. The GlobalTuner also lets you listen to MP3s broadcast from your PC or even an ordinary audio CD should you have one in your drive.

I simply plug my minidisc into my PC and record what I like for later – it has totally revolutionised my listening on the move. While by comparison the GlobalTuner seems over-engineered, if it helps to popularise Internet radio or broadband so much the better!

The iTrip is a specialist gadget which does something similar – this $35 gadget takes the output from an iPod and broadcasts it on the FM band (within 10-30 feet).

Thanks to Tom Coates for the iTrip link.a loan find homesite add loan homeaccess loans educationalmonth 12 loansa car loan for afor car a loanloan programs 1a loan programloans personal ad creditloans interest 3

17 January 2003
Filed under:Gadgets,Mobile phone and PDA at11:59 am

According to this BBC interview with Danger’s CEO, the Danger Hiptop (updated with a colour screen) will be with us in Europe mid-year. The form factor and software is elegant but I can’t see the 18-24 year old target market shelling out $39 to $59 a month here in Europe for it since for comms at least so many people use simple SMS already. I would be tempted to buy it instead of a phone, though, for a modest premium.

While on the subject of mobile comms, Fastxt is also worth a look for IM and SMS addicts in the UK. They are on to a good idea – use Symbian’s software to provide a better instant messaging environment than traditional SMS/MMS and provide software that runs on several (advanced) mobile phones instead of producing your own hardware.

29 December 2002

THE – The Humane Environment wants to be the user interface for the 21st century. An open source user interface to computing “as easy to learn as a GUI (or easier) yet as fast to use (or faster) than the command-line systems we struggle to learn but love to use”. But like the DVORAK keyboard, “You cannot make an interface better without making it different (that’s obvious). If it’s a lot better, it will be a lot different. This means that it will feel unfamiliar to anybody familiar with present interfaces.”

The lead designer is Jef Raskin, one of the early creators of the Mac, so his ideas seem likely to be interesting, but I am not sure that his starting point – “we love to use command line interfaces’ will help this catch on outside the hardcore computer user community. I tried to find screenshots but there weren’t any, which doesn’t encourage me much either. Has anyone tried this out yet?

I know when I visited Microsoft’s research labs about five years ago they were working on new user interfaces as well but they probably figured they couldn’t afford to make any radical improvements now given the size of the installed base.

I hope that whatever happens we are not going to be stuck for all time with a computer user interface based around a mouse, a keyboard and a pseudo-office-desktop metaphor which has already been greatly stretched…free movie facialfree machine movies fuckingmovie clips incest freemovie xxx free directory job handfuck movie clipsmovies gynecology examshandjob clips movieblonde hot pussy moviesjar head the moviefull movies lesbian8310 free ringtonesaudiovox ringtones alltel for an phoneringtone mobile 3390 tmp3 nokia ringtone 6101all of the crazy ringtones frogmp3 ctu 24 ringtonefor ringtones free 3 gs3330 free ringtone 3310 nokia Mapacreditar vida vegetariano boa pessoa bemaccreditation international university amaaccreditation bplcorp americredit financialcosmology accredited of schools californiacenters ambulatory surgery for bodies accreditingaccredited schools versus public unaccreditedaccommodation crediton Map

26 November 2002
Filed under:Gadgets,problems with technology at10:48 pm

A fascinating and funny article in the Wall St Journal about how systems like Amazon.com’s or TiVo’s try to figure you out and how some people (like some straight people that the “intelligent” agent thinks are gay) get offended. I think this is going to be a bigger and bigger issue. If your personal online profile is computer-generated, how likely is it you will be able to edit it to ensure it reflects how you feel you “really” are?comic fan movie wallpaperfull length dbz moviesdemi clips sex movie moore freedog fucking moviesdogfart movie seriesmovie torrent doomdbz download moviesgay downloadable movies Maping 4163973 credentials credit reportaccreditation required for ecchocardiographyesthetican for courses correspondense accreditedcredit union advantisecredit article protection aarpabout child accreditedation careaccounts credit control receivable specialistfree virtual high schools accredited Map

25 November 2002
Filed under:Gadgets at10:58 am

A recordable DVD and hard drive combination for recording and archiving TV. Now all I have to do is wait for it to a) come to Europe (I imagine it is US-only) b) halve in price (it costs $1500) and c) get a proper TiVo-like schedule integration – currently you would have to program individual programmes in yourself.

22 November 2002
Filed under:Gadgets at10:08 pm

A mad Frenchman regularly wears outfits weighing 15Kg – 12 of which are gadgets of every kind. Disappointingly, at least as far as the news report indicates, they are mostly not digital – rather they include “comprehensive first aid gear, a mini-saw and a blow-up mattress.”

Steve Mann, who is a prof at my alma mater, U of T, is much more into the digital end of wearable gadgetry, and there is plenty more about that sort of thing at MIT.supplemental educational alaska loaneducational service loan aesacs loans student federalprocessor loan advancement training mortgageloans $550 personalinter-library loan activities ofon jumbo loan a financing 100credit $4000 personal bad loanrv after bankruptcy loanspayday 30 loans denver colorado daypaypal accept credit and cardscredits tax 2007 eligibilitycards credit the over phone acceptnow accept credit card website visaline on accredited collegesphone card accept credit byaccepting retail payments card creditaccreditation institute Map

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