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Dealing With Your Cellular Provider’s Downtimes March 21, 2006

I just got off a tech assistance call to my cellular provider, which I initiated when I couldn’t access my email or the web from my new, beloved PalmOne Treo 650. After over a half hour of very pleasant assistance, we got nowhwere. Except that the tech rep admitted to the network being down out in the western provinces in Canada. I said that this must be the problem for me, somehow, as well. She was unwilling to agree and instead pleasantly sent me through configuring, trying, and reconfiguring my Treo’s network settings for a half hour or so.

Now despite …

Linux for PDAs? Cough It Up Already March 17, 2006

So I’m surfing the net and I come across this great big showy press release about a Japanese company acquiring PalmSource, the spinoff company that’s behind the PalmOS operating system for various mobile devices and PDAs. Seems the company is part of a group dedicated to creating a Linux enivronment on mobile devices, as well as a development environment for anyone wanting to writing code for mobile Linux.

But gosh darn it if I could actually find any damn info on where I can get mobile Linux or even when it’ll be released. Pretty damn frustrating, if you ask me. I …

Some Tricks For Your Treo

There are some excellent articles over at Treonaut giving a number of cost-saving tips for your PalmOne Treo. Overall, this is a great resource if you own a Treo, or even just a PalmOS-based PDA or smartphone. My fave article is the one showing you how to create your own ringtones at no cost. The article talks about the 3 different file formats you can use, and how much space they take up, which free software tools to use for creating the ringtones from your favourite songs, and so on. This is definitely worth a read.

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