The Nexus One Car Dock is well constructed and sturdy. It communicates with your phone via Bluetooth.
It works ok, but there is one show-stopper in my book. NO LINE LEVEL AUDIO OUT port. If you want to connect it to your car stereo and listen to audio, you have two options:
Bluetooth (which most cars don’t [...]
by Ron on December 5, 2009
Don’t forget to remount in rw mode:
mount -o rw,remount /
Also, cron needs to be started:
/opt/etc/init.d/S10cron
I recently had the opportunity to try out the Elgato Turbo.264 HD encoder/accelerator.
The device does what it claims… it transcodes most any type of video file and produces an H.264 file formatted for your device (iPhone, iPod, AppleTV, BeyondTV, etc.). The processing time is (more or less) equal to the length of the video. e.g. [...]
Andy Ihnatko has a review of the Air Sharing iPhone app at the My Digital Life Podcast & Blog.
Of particular interest to me… Andy says:
“Music and video are both formats that the iPhone OS can simply view outside of the iPod app. If I just copy it into my Air Share, I can play it [...]
The original Jawbone headset by Aliph provides excellent noise reduction.
However, the unit has a design flaw; the charger fits too tight around the back of the unit. In fact, as I recently found out, it is SO tight that it can easily destroy the headset when removing it.
When I contacted Aliph customer service, they were [...]
by Ron on February 20, 2009
Feeling kinda blah? Got the winter photo blues?
Check out Zach Arias’ video post from Scott Kelby’s blog.
by Ron on September 4, 2008
Wahoo! Not sure when it started, but yesterday I noticed IMAP mail was flowing immediately to my Blackberry Curve (I’m a BIS user on T-mobile). Then today, I see this post over at Blackberry Cool which confirms I’m not the only one!
http://www.blackberrycool.com/2008/09/bis-customers-now-getting-instant-imap-e-mail/