Treonaut

5th day with the treo 650. Finding the builtin thumboard convenient and weirdly usable for both two or one hand typing. Remarkably stable, it does help to be a late adopter. Lovin the chat like interface for SMS. It helps a lot in picking up where you left off on your last conversation. Great battery life, finished a 40 minute vidcast, played a bunch of mp3 songs, halfway thru an ebook and several RSS feeds and it still has 17 percent left. Dunno how it fares for cellebabad scenarios, as I havent found someone foolish enough to test it with me. A pleasant surprise, your GPRS connection settings are automatically configured. No more fiddling around with GPRS chat scripts.

It also plays nicely with Tiger. No problem syncing via the USB cable or bluetooth. This has no wifi, unlike my old clie. So the most practical means of getting avantgo content is via syncing with an internet enabled computer.

Not treo sprcific, Avantgo's RSS support is a most welcome feature. Now you only need one mobile web content manager for handling RSS and web clippings for sites designed for mobile devices. The best part is that the software and service is free (up to 3mb). The wireless option also lets you choose which channel gets updated. Quite useful to cut down GPRS connectivity costs.

The bundled Realplayer is quite capable of handling mp3s, and the freeware Tcpmp is an insanely reliable video player that can play movied at 30fps.

Photoblogging is also an easy to do on the treo. Am using flickr and blogger combo to simplify posting a photo taken from the treo to flicker and to my blog. Can be done via MMS or as a versamail attachment. Although the former would be cheaper since MMS messages are billed on a flat per transaction rate. Unlike email which is billed per kb.

The usual Palm PIM goodies had also recieved some nice updates. Color coded calendar entries makes it easier to group events.

The main killer app would be PSSH, which works smoothly with the treo (just like isaw and cheap red wine). This allows you to login to your ssh enabled server whenever and wherever you like as long as your location is covered by your celco.

More on this treonatical adventures later. For now all I can say is: its a damn slick and functional convergent device.

cheers!

nox

Rojan and Me.

Rojan and Me.
Originally uploaded by nocs.

To be hugged and kissed, to hear her sweet voice say "I love you Dad!", PRICELESS... Life is good. There still is hope.



Am the happiest father in the world!

Market! Market!

Market! Market!
Originally uploaded by nocs.

Family fun at the mall. Trying out if this place has something for cheapskates like us.



Yes the guy wouldn't move. Obviously we haven't put anything on his box yet. When it does, the kids love it to the max. Ah yes, you can just watch em' for free.

10 kilogram bundle of joy

10 kilogram bundle of joy
Originally uploaded by nocs.

Janro with his refreshingly infectious smile.

Gary Mercado blogs about the newIpod Nano on INQ7.net. The wonderment does start when you hear the songs and how Apple managed to make it so simple. Simply, music in you pocket.

Now, I still don't own an Ipod. But Kiyosaki is the one to blame. I want the next purchase in my "want" category list to come from my asset column. Suddenly paying 20k plus for an ipod video doesn't appeal that much anymore.

Must resist, must resist...


Heto na ang pinakahihintay natin...
Heto na tayo magkayakap sa dilim...
-APO Hiking Society (playing on an imaginary ipod)

Disconnected

No DSL connection yet on the new apartment. Bayantel can't commit a timeframe, as it depends on the availabiliy of a slot on our area. Other than that, loving the only one jeepney ride routine from the MRT. Its actually much cheaper than the tricycle ride when we were in munoz.

On another news, seriously pondering kiyosakis' book "rich dad, poor dad". So true, we direly need to teach our kids the value of financial literacy early in life. Truly worth reading.

Also got a new tool/toy! Allows me to ssh into our servers in virtually any area where there is cellphone coverage. Provides audio/video entertainment, manage my schedule, and yes, can also handle phonecalls. An added bonus, it doesnt run on windows :D

Cheers!

Nox

Disconnected

No DSL connection yet on the new apartment. Bayantel can't commit a timeframe, as it depends on the availabiliy of a slot on our area. Other than that, loving the only one jeepney ride routine from the MRT. Its actually much cheaper than the tricycle ride when we were in munoz.

On another news, seriously pondering kiyosakis' book "rich dad, poor dad". So true, we direly need to teach our kids the value of financial literacy early in life. Truly worth reading.

Also got a new tool/toy! Allows me to ssh into our servers in virtually any area where there is cellphone coverage. Provides audio/video entertainment, manage my schedule, and yes, can also handle phonecalls. An added bonus, it doesnt run on windows :D

Cheers!

Nox

MacDevCenter.com: Getting the Video out of Your New iPod--for Cheap!... all you need is a videocam A/V to RCA converter! no need to buy those expensive ipod video accessory. they basically just switched the default video output (yellow) with the right stereo (red).

still hoping santa would give me an ipod so i can test this undocumented feature.

found the recent discussion on pinoyjug regarding code/application performance rather amusing.

somebody was foolishly pitting his flawed arguments against a bunch of battle hardened veterans. looking on it on another perspective, some developers would probably take a lifetime to finally "get it". these are the types who doesn't understand you can go to from point A to point E without going thru point B,C, and D. in short clearly lacking instincts. worse this typical stereotype would defend to death that you need to go thru B,C, and D to in order to go from A to E.

for example, why waste your time which looping construct is faster (while(true) || for(;;))? isn't it common sense that you should be looking more at what is executed inside those loops?

simple, readable and elegant code is the key to creating "tune-able code". focus first on making the code work correctly and predictably. then do your benchmarking. premature optimization is the root of all evil.

me? nahhh, am no guru. but man, i've got instincts.

Opera Mobile Platform. AJAX gone mobile. Ohhhhhh. Titilating.

5 days of flu, 1 day for moving to the new apartment, 3 days without an internet connection. Life is still good.

I held the new ipod in my hand. But my credit card didn't comply. Forever out of reach.