Archive for May, 2007

Blackberry 8830 launches on Verizon Wireless

One of the best Blackberry devices that gives you both CDMA/EVDO (Verizon's network in US) and GSM/GPRS roaming when abroad (basically what the rest of the world uses) has launched on Verizon Wireless. If you're on Verizon Wireless and have been waiting to jump on the 'berry bandwagon then this is the one you've been waiting for. Apart from the global roaming capabilities, it has the latest BB 4.2 OS, an amazing sc [...]

Dell Selling PCs and Laptop Preloaded with Ubuntu Linux

In what can only be called as perhaps one of the biggest if not the biggest milestone for desktop Linux in recent history, Dell recently starting sell three systems (2 desktops and one laptop) that come pre-loaded with Ubuntu Linux. I used Ubuntu for quite some time now and the newest release, Ubuntu 7.04 is a huge improvement from last year's 6.06 release but it's still got a while to go yet. First of all, Ubu [...]

5 Problems With the Upcoming Apple iPhone

Ok, lets get it out of the way. This is only my personal opinion and should only be taken as such especially by the Apple faithful. So where to start? Well as everyone probably knows a while back now Apple commander-in-chief Steve Jobs announced the iPhone and the Apple world collectively starting weeping with joy. Mind you a lot of folks who aren't real hardcore Apple users were also mesmerized by the shiny de [...]

First public beta of JiveTalk for Blackberry released

I just tried out this killer multi-client chat app and it truly is an evolution from previous chat applications for the Blackberry. It's currently in public beta so it's free during this time, although not sure what they're thinking of charging once it's officially released. I highly recommend anybody who is remotely curious - no anyone who HAS a Blackberry - go to www.beejive.com/download on your Blackberry bro [...]

Toshiba HD-DVD and Planet Earth (HD-DVD), what a great couple

So I know it might sound stupid to jump on the proverbial HD-format bandwagon since there really hasn't been a clear winner between HD DVD and Blu-Ray, I figured I might as well jump in. I went ahead and ordered a Toshiba HD-A2 HD DVD player from Amazon and of course the Planet Earth HD DVD set (original BBC series) to accompany it. I got the HD-A2 pretty quickly and it was very easy to setup via HDMI to my O [...]

Enable DreamScene in Vista Home Premium

For those of you who have Vista Home Premium and are jealous of those folks that have Vista Ultimate because of among other things the whole DreamScene spectacle, never fear because enterprising "hackers" are here. While browsing the Usenet via Google groups I came across a post by someone with a link to a ZIP file containing some DLLs, a registry import and quite detailed instructions. Figuring it's worth givin [...]

It’s been a long time…

Holy cow, it's been a while since I posted last on the blog. I've been extremely busy (not really) with work and personal stuff...that and I'm also too lazy to keep this thing up to date. Since I don't have any ads on here I don't make any money so hence no incentive to keep it jammin' as they say. In any case, I've made myself a promise to try and at least write 2-3 posts a week starting today - my birthday - f [...]