Gravitational Pull: A blog about tech and other stuff.
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Someday my phone will come…
In the continuing saga of my seeking a new Sony Ericsson S710a cell phone that doesn’t cost $900, I discovered that Amazon.com is, or maybe is, selling the phone for just $420 and offering a $150 rebate making the final price just $270. That is an amount that could be in the budget. But —…
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This is a test of the emergency relaxation system
This is only a test. You are booked on the last flight of the day out of Logan Airport in Boston to Miami, where the temperature is 80 degrees. A snow storm is bearing down on New England. If you don’t get out tonight, you aren’t getting out — there is no sunny beach vacation.…
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Visual Poll, Miami Beach running path, 8 a.m.
(seen in use by strollers, runners and assorted grand mothers) Sony devices: 2 Old fashioned tape players/unknown brand: 2 iPods & iPod minis: 17 iPod shuffle: 1
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Oy vey – not the Moto iTunes phone
Deja vu all over again? On Monday, it seemed according to several reports that Motorola’s upcoming E1060 phone would be able to play songs purchased from Apple’s iTunes music store. Alas, no, as MobileTracker points out today in a report debunking the previous reports. I’ve corrected my entry from Monday as well.
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Motorola Doesn’t Shows Actual iTunes Phone again
(Updated 2/16 – not the iPhone) Motorola tantalized the masses in January at the Consumer Electronics Show with a demo of a mobile phone that could also play digital music in Apple’s iTunes Store format. While a billion reporters and bloggers sought to be the first to post a picture of the first phone compatible…
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Now everyone will want one
Engadget got their hands on the about-to-be-released Sony Ericsson S710a that I’m lustin’ for and, no surprise, they love it: “The screen, by the way, is a huge, bright QVGA affair that make all the other screens jealous. They will hide in shame and envy.” ” The phone is metal, not plastic, which gives it…
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Nifty weather display for Macs
Someone was recently complaining that there was no Mac equivalent to the program Weather Bug, which sits in the Windows taskbar and displays the temperature and an icon for current weather conditions in a city of your choosing — and links to a lot of ads when you click for more details, yuck. Anyway, all…
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This could be my next PDA
A blogger on the site 43 folders writes: Recently, I got sick of lugging my Palm V around, so I developed a vastly superior, greatly simplified device for capturing and sharing information. I call it “The Hipster PDA.†This was me back in the old days and it still might be me if not for…
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How much is that phone(y) in the window?
I’ve said in print that I’m lusting for the new Sony Ericsson S710a mobile phone, but wow, $900? Ouch. I guess I’ll be lusting for a while longer.
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Review of iPhoto 5.0
(Updated with quick slide show button on 1/27 and on 2/3 with 5.01 release) Steve Jobs’ introduction of the updated iPhoto in the iLife suite had me salivating immediately. Cutting the price of photo prints in half from 39 cents to 19 cents and offering a zillion new options for photo books (also at lower…
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