Sunday, 14 October 2007
Mobile at last, dang
« Roll your own poor man's injection, dirty style.. | Main | Not all code released under the Ms-PL and Ms-RL will be open source. »First of all, I'd like to thank whoever stole my Blackberry that I left on the Helsinki to Kuopio train (my camera that my stepson left on the way back was returned). That dang thing never actually worked. That made me get off my butt and buy a new phone. My crackberry never worked. It crashed on the way home on the day I bought it, but I figured that was an update or something (which crashed my previous phone on its first startup without fail), but that dang thing crashed randomly all the time and often times without switching to the JVM error screen so that I didn't know it had crashed.
I thought about buying an iPhone, but I just don't want to be associated with those suckers, besides I was mad at Apple for disabling my MacBookPro from running Linux (this I fixed). Frankly Apple's advertising annoys me. I'm beyond caring about being cool. I leave being cool to emaciated 20 year olds that shop at the GAP. If I want to be that cool I'll buy my own 20 year old to do it for me, sheesh....two if I want to be doublekool. I also resent locked phones. Like I want to pay some ridiculous amount to use my phone abroad. No way dude, I'm buying a pay as I go GSM card so bite me! There is also my theory that the reason my MBP runs so hot is that Steve Jobs wants to solidify his position as Alpha male...
I didn't really think about another Blackberry. As much as I wanted to get Meldware working with it, I had enough time getting the freaking Internet to work with it. No cool telnet or ssh or whatever! All the dreams I had about checking server logs from the train never came true. So that was out. (if you don't have a dud then it should work with IMAP)
Instead I walked into the Palm store while I was in the Atlanta airport with time to kill and saw a bunch of phones that weren't locked for relatively little. With a 30 day no-risk return policy, I was doing that. The only problem was that Versa Mail was a piece of crap. It insisted on loading THE ENTIRE MAILBOX INTO RAM and thus threw an OOME since my mailbox is a few gigs over the 8mb. Today while waiting for Billy (12) to get a turn at the soccer ball, I downloaded another app and it worked with Meldware right off. I was pleased. It even let me decide not to download my whole mailbox but stick to newer mails (essential cause it couldn't hold it). The only problem is that a certain open source diva sends email in embedded apple-encoded mime format which it doesn't seem to like much.
Now I just have to find a better calendar app for it.
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I generally use DateBk3/DateBk5/DateBk6 (I guess it's up to version 6 now, but I started with 3 and have been working up). It's not perfect, but it does have some nice things that the standard calendar program doesn't have.
It can be a bit busy on the screen at times, though....
Andy,
I am trying to get in touch with you, give me a call on my iPhone:) because I am so cool....
Ben
I always likes Agendus by Iambic for the Palm Platform. I used it for years until I got, ironically, a Blackberry Pearl.