I’ve recently added a local, Nevada County resource to the Freebies and Downloads page. It’s a list of resources for getting rid of your stuff. You’ll see that the dump aka Transfer Station is mentioned on the page because really, that’s the only place that will take the junk sometimes. However, whenever possible keep stuff […]

Whoa-nelly! I publicly articulated thebad assumption that Verizon had disabled bluetooth hotsyncing capability. I read or heard it somewhere and took it to be true. Someone of the me-myself-and-I crowd is just plain ready to make them the “bad guys”.
Today when I started looking around for some kind of work-around, I found nothing (probably b/c […]

Just for fun (is this what she does for fun?!?!!? Yikes!), in the spirit of the Clean Desk Challenge, I cleared off the digital desktop as well as the glass desktop tonight:
   
What you can’t quite make out next to the phone is a bluetooth headset which got connected to the new Treo yesterday […]

Slightly blurry–having some light/exposure issues with the new Palm camera.
Have a few things to add to the like/dislike list for the new Palm Treo 755p:
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A kind reader wrote in and got me to look at the search function again in the Contacts mode. Turns out I have to push the alternate function key button […]

Quandary. I wanted to include a picture of my new phone in this Clean Desk Challenge report #16. However, my new phone is also my current photo taking device.
After months of moving in this direction, getting a “smartphone” finally moved high enough on the priority list to happen. I got a Palm Treo 755p […]

I can’t believe it has taken six years to pick this tip up.
Here’s the issue. Whenever you call a Verizon Wireless subscriber and get voice mail, you listen to the person’s message and then listen to the recorded voice jabber on and on about this option or that option. At this point in cell […]

Oprah has a list of 10 shortcuts in her December ‘07 online edition. It’s an interesting mix of tips–in fact, I wouldn’t have labeled this list as 10 shortcuts. I would have categorized them more like I did below (the tips are the ones listed on Oprah’s site):
Shortcuts

#2 Finish errands in a flash (The title […]