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The inPhonite Migration: Update

It’s been awhile since I’ve written something in this series, detailing how I’m migrating from my Palm T|X PDA to my iPhone. The goal is to not carry both around with me at all times. As of today, I have basically achieved my goal and am now using the iPhone for the last [...]

Imperfect Storm

It’s the war of the touchscreen phones! Is it a coincidence that yesterday marked the release of both the Blackberry Storm (i.e. “the iPhone killer”) and the 2.2 iPhone firmware update? I say “No!”, it is not a coincidence!
I haven’t seen the Storm yet. One of my co-workers went to a [...]

Chasing The Pregnant Dragons

Anything ever invented eventually shows up at the iPhone App Store. Case in point: The old Atari 2600 game Adventure (iTunes Store link here). Adventure was the first of its kind in many ways. It arguably started the whole action-adventure videogame genre, which is my favorite videogame genre. It also contained [...]

Signal To Noise, Part 2

To recap from Part 1: A month ago, I started experiencing Internet connectivity problems with my DSL (provided by “company Q”). The problem was tracked to “signal disparity” caused by the installation of new fiber-based DSL infrastructure in my neighborhood interfering with my old style Central Office (CO) based DSL line. There is no [...]

Signal To Noise

Yeah, I know I’ve been pretty silent lately. That’s mostly because I’ve really been enjoying my time off from blogging and I like having time to do other things. But it’s also partly laziness. And it’s also because of the problems I’ve been having with my Internet connection, which have finally been [...]

The inPhonite Migration: iPray, youPray

There’s plenty of decent prayer applications for the Palm platform, but I was worried that when migrating to an iPhone, I’d have to give them up. Not to worry! There’s an iPhone application called Pray in the iTunes app store that should do everything I require of a prayer app.
Okay, I’m kidding. [...]

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