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January/2006


Treo madness

I got a Treo for work a week ago. I will never, never go back to a dumb phone again. I'm madly in love with this thing.

And now, I present you with a list of palm apps I've found to be must-haves... or maybe just too cool to not have installed. (Sorry, I'm too lazy right now to link these apps to their respective sites.)

ChatopusJabber client. Works in the background. Does SSL.
Clicker (Salling)Remote control your mac via Bluetooth. Wow factor++.
ConverterQuick conversions for hundreds of formats.
Dir AssistFrontend for yp.com, much faster than using the web browser to get the same info. Integrated with the dialer.
Easy CalcScientific graphing calculator.
FileZFile management deluxe.
FlyBackupAutomate palm flash backups to external SD card.
FlyZipKeep prc files compressed - expands them transparently and automatically. Slick.
IPCalc+IP calculator cheet sheet, because I require lots of pen and paper to do the equivalent.
LJPNES/SNES/GameBoy/etc game emulator. Oh yeah!
mo:BlogBlogging app that supports FTP upload and the MovableType protocol. Future version will support Atom.
P.PitchGuitar tuner.
PalmaSutraYeah, it's exactly what it sounds like. The funniest part about this app is that you can take notes on each position in its database. "This one was good.", "So was this one."
PalmVNCYup, VNC client. A little crashy, but functional.
psshLook at me, I'm a remote sysadmin. mutt and w3m even work. Probably the most useful app in this list. for me.
pTunesmp3 player - even plays streaming internet radio. Smart enough to pause on an incoming call.
SiEDA decent text editor.
TCPMPVideo player - even does DivX. Really nice.
TealDocDecent DOC reader, with full screen and auto scroll.
TechnicianPhone technician - does a load of stuff, but I only care about mp3 ringtones. I made my own, Good times.
VFSFTP+Surprisingly full featured FTP client.

Am I missing any must-haves? Let me know!!

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Darts in the office!

 

My father-in-law gave me a really nice dart board last xmas. Finally got it put up in my office, and got my ass handed to me by work-pal Rowe in the first game played on it. Fun!!

Thanks Jim.

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my heart stopped for a sec

Easily the most frightening mannequin ever produced.

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scp wackiness

Here's something that has never made much sense to me.

hotsoup ~ > scp nonexistant_file root@example.com:
root@example.com's password: 
nonexistant_file: No such file or directory

Why does scp do all of the expensive networking and key exchange, only to tell you that your source file doesn't exist? The source is local, you'd think it would check that before doing anything else.

Am I missing something here? Or is this really silly?

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It's just the wind. But it's freakin scary.

When we got a house, I figured it would be a good idea to get an alarm. Last night, it went off as we slept.

I was asleep for just about an hour when Deena shook me awake, "WHAT'S THAT? Do you hear that??"

It was just the warning beeps at this point, saying that a door has bee...

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