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With the launch of the Jesus phone iPhone locally, I thought it would be a nice time to take a look back at all the mobile phones I’ve owned…and also see how far phones have come.
Siemens S25
My first ever mobile phone, it was really advanced in in its time, featuring 8-colour screen at a time [...]
While I’m still an avid Palm user ( I presently use the Palm Centro phone), it saddens me to see that the pace of software development for Palm OS devices has slowed down dramatically in just a few years. It’s also annoying that recently available iPhone applications appear to be more attractively priced than most [...]
Whoever could have imagined when the iMac was first introduced by Steve Jobs 10 years ago
that it would evolve into something like this?
Throughout its many incarnations, the iMac has never ceased to amaze with its unique visual looks and ease of use.
Enjoy a video of Steve Jobs’ introduction of the very first iMac way back [...]
While I’m still a staunch user of the Palm Centro, which I really love very much, I have been exploring the iTunes App Store for worthy iPhone applications (using my iPod Touch)…in case I do ever get an iPhone in the (probably distant) future.
One of the best free gems I’ve seen so far is Zenbe [...]
YAHOO.Shortcuts.annotationSet=YAHOO.Shortcuts.annotationSet||{};Looks like anyone wanting to run a different operating system no longer needs to fiddle around with partitions - you can do it in “virtual machines” and now for free too, with the release of VirtualBox.
Also handy for the Mac or Linux user who needs to run that occasional Windows application
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Right now, whenever I’d like to be able to view a movie I own on a portable multimedia device (e.g. my recently-acquired iPod Touch!), I’d have to “rip” and then encode the desired movie into a suitable format (e.g. H.264 or Xvid).Simple enough a process (if you know how to do it), but definitely time-consuming. It [...]