Tuesday, 7. July 2009, 18:27:37
Blackberry, Technology
In the tradition of Pimp My Ride and Trick My Truck, I decided to
get down and pimp my Blackberry a bit.
Originally I had thought that I wasn't going to mess with the thing.
Keep all the defaults, no additional apps, keep the native Blackberry
screen theme. In other words, mess with it as little as possible.
But that lasted about till the next tide came in. And so when my new
rubberized skin arrived for the phone that was the perfect excuse to
change some things. And so I decided to do a Pop Art, Andy Warhol type
theme.
You can see the result above. A bit gaudy, but it wouldn't be Pop Art
if it weren't a bit toward the gaudy side. I might not be finished with
the whole pimping process yet. But for now I'm happy with it. One thing
is for sure, the thing doesn't scream out "Old fart's phone" like a
couple of other ideas I had.
And by the way, I apologize for the quality of the photo. I'm not an
advertising photographer. Or any type of photographer really. And I
also missed the fact that the skin had slipped a bit on the bottom. And
that the screen needed to be wiped off a bit. And the color balance is
off just a tad -- the skin is a deeper color than that, more of a wine
red. And of course then there's the glare.
Jeez. Trust me, it looks better in person.
Thursday, 2. July 2009, 19:55:48
Blackberry, Sasha
Sasha, taken with my phone camera.
Pretty girl!
I don't want to bore or perhaps even frustrate
anybody, but some 3rd party seriously needs to
develop a new Device/Computer interface for the
Blackberry. Because Blackberry's Desktop Manager
is totally f***ked. It took me 30 minutes to get
this photo from my BB to my laptop, and in the
end the only way I could do it was to e-mail the
photo to myself from the phone and then go to my
mail account from the laptop and copy it from there.
And in related news, it seems that any type of
mobloging for a post involving pictures from my
phone is impossible. I tried it seven ways from
Sunday and even got some help from Furie, but it
just won't do it. My phone and Opera Mini just
aren't working together properly as far as
uploading images. Now I wouldn't be doing that
type of thing very often anyway; but it would
be nice to know that it is there if I want it.
But it isn't.
Tuesday, 30. June 2009, 18:04:02
Blackberry, Technology
Yesterday I downloaded Google Mobile to my Blackberry. Now I could
access Google through my browsers, of course -- Opera Mini and the native
Blackberry browser. But I thought that a Google shortcut with the icon
right on the menu might save me a step or two if I was going directly
to Google anyway.
The application downloaded quickly and installed without any problems.
I fired it up to try it out.
One thing I noticed on Google Mobile was that it had a voice activated
feature. You don't have to type in the search string, just speak it. Well
I've never been much into the whole voice activated stuff. And in fact I
have voice dialing turned off on my phone. But I decided that since I had
some time to mess with it, and simply because I was curious, I would try
it out.
In order to use the feature on the Blackberry I was told to depress and
hold the SEND key and then speak the search term into the device. So I
depressed the key.
"Paris Hilton" I said, making sure to enunciate as clearly as possible.
The little spinning wheel popped up as Google made the search. I held my
breath (okay, I actually didn't but I want to create some suspense here).
The results came back.
"Winston Churchill" I read in the Google results list. Over and over,
this or that hit for Winston Churchill. And not one single hit for
Paris, not even the Paris in France.
LMAO.
To be fair I should mention that I tried the voice search for Paris
Hilton again and the second time around did get hits for her.
After that I decided to google my own name.
"Edward Piercy" I said into the device.
What I got back were a bunch of hits dealing with tattoos and body
"piercings." No wonder I don't get more visitors to my blog than I
do. People start out kinda-sorta wanting to visit my blog, but then
become distracted by a photo of some girl getting her nipples pierced.
I mean, how can I complete with that?
Paris Hilton.
Now wait just one cotton pickin'
minute here...
Sunday, 7. June 2009, 18:53:49
Technology, The Four Seasons, Blackberry
My new Blackberry Curve 8330.
Well, it's here. Finally. After months and months of talking about it
and doing posts about it and mentioning it in just about every other
Comment I make, my new Blackberry is here.
I primarily choose the Blackberry for its keyboard. The device is
perfect for text. And considering that "typing" is pretty much what I
do these days, as you might have noticed from this blog, I decided that
the internet superiority of the iPhone took second place to the ability
to do text. And for that the Blackberry is a pleasure instead of a pain
to work with.
Every time I pick up the BB I think about the old Star Trek series and
the tricorders they used to have. The crew would beam down to some
exotic planet and Spock would whip out his tricorder and say something
like "Captain, I am reading an unidentified life form on the other
side of that rock outcropping." And then they would go to the other
side of the outcropping and Kirk would get into a fight with a big
lizard creature.
The Blackberry isn't the tricorder -- at least not yet. But I can do
some very similar things. I can get the time and local weather and
temperature. I can find out information on the internet. I can catalog
new life forms (aka hot babes) at local shopping malls using the 2 MP
camera. And using the GPS feature, I can enter into strange new
neighborhoods and still locate the nearest pizza place.
So it looks like I'm good to go.
Beam me up, Scottie.
"Captain, I have just received a very important
e-mail from sexenhancementpills.com."
Sunday, 24. May 2009, 22:36:21
Blackberry, Technology
I was looking through a list of add-on Blackberry applications the
other day when I came across Phoney Call. This app lets you program
your Blackberry to ring at a predetermined time as if you are getting a
real incoming call.
If you have a meeting at 3:00 that you are simply not prepared for,
just use Phoney Call to ring at 3:10 and then tell them you have a
client that you have to take care of immediately. Or let's say you are
out on a date and know within 20 minutes that it's going nowhere. No
problem, you simply go back to the restroom and set the phone to ring
five minutes later and then tell your date that your Aunt Mildred is
dying and that you have to leave.
It seems that we can now have our machines lie for us. Or at least join
in the conspiracy. Which to me seems kinda...
Wait, I have a call. I'll get back with you later on this.
WIDGETIZE