15k! My highest ever tetris score on the Jesus phone!

Well it feels that way anyway, after upgrading the display last month, and with the new video camera and everything, the PC has just not been able to cut it. Yesterday I picked up an Invidia 8600 512mb PCI-E card for $80, and a step up to a e4600 processor for $130. P4 at 1.8 stepped up to 2.4 Core 2 Duo. A motherboard upgrade could have put me into the super fast league, but on it’s own this $210 is well spent.

Optus 3G is free until August 31st!!!, so that is the other “Speed” item on the weekend. I picked up a pre-paid card so I can divert work calls to the iphone on the weekends. I’m showing off last night when I realise it has a 3g service I shut everything down as a quick as possible, imagining my $30 pre-paid sim smoked in 5 minutes. I got home and called Optus to get the 3G service disabled. This morning the balance hadn’t decreased so I started to wonder if there wasn’t some hack here where the combination of unactivated iphone and unactivated sim led to free data. Of course there was a far less attractive explanation, all Optus 3G is free until the end of August!!!! I’ve been going nuts on the net all day :)

BTW I’m downloading more and more of the Colbert report, it’s Denny Crane republican humor in a news format.

Error: Invalid manifest or application descriptor
The “MIDlet-Name” attribute is missing.

These two lines drove me insane for 2 months as I tried to work out why I couldn’t install any of the goolge apps on my Blackberry Curve. The solution has finally come my way - I was using the WAP browser. I’ve tried everything, trying to install via the desktop app manager, having spud recompile the JARs into ALX files. None of this worked. Then I happened to find someone it was working for the only difference between us was that they had the “Internet Browser.”

In my company the “Blackberry Brower” is for the local intranet, our telco provider browser “Optus Zoo” is a WAP browser, neither of these cut it. The only way to install the google tools was via the “Internet Browser” of course

This one bites me everytime I wipe the Curve. In order to enable the keyboard shortcut to lock the device you need to remove the short cut for language selection, logical enough eh?  Navigate the following menu chain to disable language selection shortcut, and in turn activate the keylock combo (Alt + Enter) :

Settings | Localisation | Use Input Language Shortcut = No

if you work in an environment like mine leaving your desktop unlocked while you’re away from your desk is fraught with colleague danger. This project intro’s a new CodePlex project to build your very own auto lock for any blue-tooth enabled Vista PC. Comparable products exist on the market - but this is all free, just add a little of your time.

Kudos to JB for finding it

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Now this could be one of the coolest services I’ve come across. Unfortunatley they’re down for maintenance at the moment so must check it out tomorrow!

Webapp Qipit turns a digital photo of a whiteboard, handwritten notes or a typed document into a PDF. Much like previously mentioned Scanr, you can email cameraphone snaps to Qipit, or upload images via email or the web site. Qipit stores up to 100 scanned documents in your account for free, where you can make them public and tag them

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So two weeks ago I decided I’d had enough of the dodgy answer button on the trinity, so I decided I’d send it off for warranty repair. I know it was two weeks ago because I’m very aware it took two weeks for them to repair it.

It arrived back on Thursday afternoon. I got it all setup again, all setup that is as a mobile email device because it sure as hell wasn’t a mobile phone. A phone is used to converse, not something possible with my newly mute phone. The loudspeaker was fine, but the earpiece for phone calls was busted.

Facing another two weeks without the phone wasn’t going to work, so I decided I liked the idea that maybe they just hadn’t connected something back up and I really should pull it apart myself.First off with the case, I needed a mid-small torx for five screws, the fifth is obscured here in this pic by the stylus head which I hadn’t yet removed from the case.

Next the top of the case has three tab snaplocks to be pried open gently, then another two on each side of the case before popping the back enclosure over the usb jack on the bottom and off the device.

Rid of the mid plate the next step is to remove the three very small philips heads, the last is a tiny black one at the bottom end of the case. Once this is complete the board is apart from the screen. And there in the clear is the repair job screw up, the ear piece speaker has been placed in upside down. Phone is all back in working order and no two week trip to the repair shop!

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Emerson was tired from Harrison’s birthday party this afternoon. Being a demanding little princess she had Gab & I dumping our full attention on her, meanwhile just behind our backs at the other end of the table - Max discovered what was behind the bigger screw lid….

Do you have a pile of dust magnets you’ve convinved yourself you’ll rip for your digital pleasure one day? This guy has done it in the extreme, taking old wide groove 78s through cleaning, sourcing componentry, ripping then digitally processing with free tools. The results are astounding, check it out.

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