Entries from seikatsu tagged with 'gadgets'
Apple/Yahoo's Flashback from 11th Century
This is an actual screenshot of an attempt to get a weather report for Tartu, Estonia on my iPhone, using the standard Weather app, powered by Yahoo data. What's the joke? Yes, the city of Tartu used to be called Yuryev at some point. Namely between 1030 and 1061 when Prince of Kiev, Yaroslav I the Wise burnt down the wooden fortification dating back to 7th century and built his own. Just checked, Yahoo! Weather on the web has...
Skype for Your Mobile is here
It used to be that you had to be lucky enough to live in one of the eight countries of Hutchinson's 3 network to use the "official" version of Skype on a 3 Skypephone handset. That option is still there, but the world has gotten smaller again for those of us elsewhere, say in Elbonia. If you are a Skype user and have one of these 50 mobile handset models (more on the way), just go and download a client...
Me-too Moments: iPhone
I just checked, it has been 14 months since my enthusiastic post on the iPhone announcement and a liminal devices rant. Operator locking pushed me back from actually getting an iPhone for over a year. Will I get thrown out of the true gadget geek directory now? And now there I am, the last me-too kid on the block with the cool running shoes. Can't help but share some comments. As the whole internet is full of reviews already, I'll...
Thermal Portrait Snatched From Museum
Learned at the last minute that The Tech museum across the street from the hotel I'm staying at in San Jose is opened later than I thought. Spurred through just one floor there in 30 minutes and found even that limited glimpse very cool. Cleanrooms for chipmaking, multi-G robots, hands-on 3D rendering stations for a roller-coaster ride that you can then experience in virtual form and so forth. Silicon Valley in a condensed, playful form. Presentation-wise they do one...
私は東京を愛する!
Spent a few days in Tokyo. Finally. This place is now officially number #1 in my World Cities toplist. And frankly - I was sort of expecting (or hoping?) this to happen. The Skype Developer event I was attending there was a huge success with great turnout of interesting partners. Everything else in the counted few days before and after was just mind-blowing. I need to have the thoughts and emotions settle a bit to blog anything sensible. Until...
Solving the Home Storage Problem
As any next person these days I've been suffering for years with the issue of storage. I mean the digital photos & music & file backups, not golf clubs and bicycles this time. We have three notebooks in our household, one of them employer-owned e.g. both policy-wise and philosophically not personal content friendly. All running close to hard drive capacity. Plus I have a few external hard drives that are a burden enough to find and attach at the right...
K800i Rulez Flickr
As a follow-up on finding the best phone (for moblogging to narrow the scope), SonyEricsson K800i has now become the #1 choice on Flickr. (Some quite amazing photo samples behind that link as well)....
Gram of a Gigabyte
One of those moments when you feel really old and feel the Moore's law kicking in with a full blow. It reminded me the file server at my first job at Primex Data (nowhere to link to, as the company went down too early in the internet days) in 1993 which had a massive and expensive (a thousand dollars?) 300MB harddrive to host a few dozen users and still have plenty of room for the file archives of the...
Wii + Finetune: Living Room Jukebox
Got a tip from our unofficial Wiitards of Skype multichat that accidentally solved a problem I've pondered about for years but never have really come around to solving: an online digital music library played on where it should - the proper hifi / home theatre setup in the living room. There is a myriad of options. MediaCenter PC-s. Sonos. Airport Express and Apple TV. XBox360 streaming from a PC. And probably hundreds of niche solutions more. I just couldn't choose...
Some berries are blacker than others
After the recent odysseia of fixing my broken mobile communications I've now solved the written comms part as well. I've joined what some consider the forces of evil and landed on a BlackBerry 8800....
Bye-bye Nokia E70
That's it. I had enough. Nokia E70 was a dream phone found for me: Nice form factor, but still with a very usable QWERTY keyboard when folded open. Almost a big enough screen with an excellent resolution (640x480 or VGA). Camera with minimalistic feature set (but not bad quality at all, if you've been following the entries below) for moblogging. Wifi. Very good browsers, especially the HTML one with preview mode, but also OK for WAP. Downloadable applications for Exchange...
iPod revisited
I have owned an iPod for a couple of years now and rarely use it. First, there are not that many moments in the daily life in Tallinn when I could encapsulate myself from the world with headphones. Secondly, I have been too busy/lazy to get a proper iPod connector installed to my car. Being a bit on the hifi enthusiast side, I'd prefer proper cabling + charger dock to entry level FM transmitter. iPodding hasn't even really worked for...
iWii
Even though the numbers seemed funny at the time, it is obvious now that DS is a much more balanced person than I am. As of last night, my physical age is 75 and my brain age 33. Apparently the lust for (next-gen) gaming does not drop with age and Nintendo does a great job with bringing some appropriate sense into this as a good excuse to find time. (Not an issue with DS [edit: aha, confusing, meant the Nintendo...
Un-age your brain
A friend recently pinged me in fear: [13.02.2007 21:48:36] DS: anyway, wii is blaming me that my "fitness age is 66 years" and nintendo ds claims that my "brain age is 55 years"... For added context, he is not that much over 30. I remembered this chat when I read about the 4-week Quest to Be Smarter in Wired. There still is hope, isn't there? Even though I never played either of the devices referred to, I think out of...
Liminal devices, or if iPhone met Wii
Jaanus, sharing his initial thoughts on Apple iPhone speculates among other things on where the design could go further: ... taking the accelerometer (the portrait/landscape detector) and the proximity sensor a bit further and having a Nintendo Wii remote-like capacity to have the phone be fully aware of its 3d orientation and motion vectors. Though I can’t really imagine an application and use for it other than, say, theft detector. Here you go, Jaanus, some potential applications:...
AAPL post-iPhone announcement
So, the Apple iPhone is out. There are enough blogs covering every single aspect of that little piece of history made, so I will not dwell on the product features much. I want one very badly. You want one. And if you don't, you likely will at some point quite soon. Instead, let me share some initial thoughts I had from the amateur investor angle. No buy/sell/hold verdicts, just aspects to consider....
Arvuti pihus, tuvi katusel
Pikk ja põhjalik, aga hariv lugemine on Computer Collector Newsletteri PDA-ajalugu. Läbi on kirjutatud aastad 1975-95, ehk see lugu lõpeb seal, kus isegi vanemad inimesed (khm) mäletavad PDA-värki alles algavat. (ette rutates: EI, Newton ei olnud maailma esimene PDA JAH, Apple oli esimene, kes Newtonist rääkides hakkas kasutama sellist akronüümi). Isiklikus plaanis on kunagise Revo-kasutajana tore näha, milline nägi välja esimene Psion Organizer (1984). Ja võimalus mitte nõus olla ajaloolase väitega, et Newtoni (1994) käekirjatuvastus ei kõlvanud kuhugi -- kui...
Sülg-tilgub-otse-LCDle
Kui Pahtu täidab oma viiekümnenda-sünnipäeva-lubaduse ja avab lõpuks päris oma restorani, siis ma arvan, et me tellime seal oma igapäevast sidruni-oregano graavilõhet aeglaselt röstitud tomatigratäänil pärli-couscousiga sellisel moel: MenuVista shows what's on the plate for the evening Ma mitte ei looda seda, vaid muidu lihtsalt ei söö seal....
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