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Yesterday I downloaded a 3.5 meg MP3 to my phone as I walked around the LES. Not sure how long it took, but a while later I pulled the phone out of my pocket and it was done. I couldn't find the file at first, but then I opened up the MP3 player, and the song had gone right into the library. Automagically. And the MP3 player app isn't even a standard app - I downloaded and installed it myself, so this is some very sophisticated integration. Nice job Treo.
PIctures from my new Treo 600 moved to inside the comment thread...
Just got my Treo 600. It's charging now. I tried to make this post using it but it ate two consecutive attempts because I kept pressing a wrong key. I'll have to unlearn and relearn a lot of keyboard muscle memory. What I know as the comma key now means, apparently, go back to the main menu and don't bother remembering the current content of this textarea posting box.
This thing is significantly more sophisticated than my last mobile device. I think it lacks a bit of design elegance that the hiptop had (both in terms of the device itself, and the software interface,) but it more than compensates, as far as I'm concerned, by being much more like a small computer than like a phone. I can SSH into my server from it! Wow wow wow wow wow. It's not perfect, but you can see it from here.
Many more, possibly too many more, comments to come.
Wow. Technorati growth statistics:
Allow me to give you some growth statistics: One year ago, when I started Technorati on a single server in my basement, we were adding between 2,000-3,000 new weblogs each day, not counting the people who were updating sites we were already tracking. In March of this year, when we switched over to a 5 server cluster, we were keeping up with about 4,000-5,000 new weblogs each day. Right now, we're adding 8,000-9,000 new weblogs every day, not counting the 1.2 Million weblogs we already are tracking. That means that on average, a brand new weblog is created every 11 seconds. We're also seeing about 100,000 weblogs update every day as well, which means that on average, a weblog is updated every 0.86 seconds.
Squeezebox wireless interface between computer and stereo. I'd need to see the software interface before deciding, but this might be really useful.
Worlds smallest flying microbot. Controlled by bluetooth.
I am going absolutely crazy not being able to buy a Treo 600. Can someone clue me in as to how I can obtain one. Obviously some people are getting them. Yet the guy at the Sprint store in Manhattan told me their store had only gotten 2 units for sale!
Started reading Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver today.
And oh yeah, my phone is not working. Or, rather, you can call it, and it rings, and I can answer and even speak to you. But I can't hear anything you say. So it will be a rather one sided conversation. You might have doubts, but I did not arrange this on purpose.
Email works though, so send stuff here, or right to my phone if you have that address.
I'm back after a few days away. Not the best in my life.
And, in better news, Mimi is back too (first of three entries.) With baby Nora. Somehow this makes me very happy. Congratulations.