Exciting (rumor) news from O’Grady’s PowerPage – Apple Developing Wireless Broadband Card. So with EDGE Everywhere, the promise of 3G is finally becoming reality. Only a few years late, but who’s counting?
More skinz
Looks like I can soon get skinz for my iPod too! Can’t wait!
Safe Jacking?
“Jack Sharing” seems to have became main stream as Wired News ran a story about it, Feel Free to Jack Into My IPod. Personally I have not seen this happen in my Tri-State area but let’s face it, I don’t have spare time during the day to have leisurely walk. And there is something personal about sharing your musical taste to a ‘real’ stranger. Sharing over the net is pretty annoymous, most of the time you just download the track you want and that’s it. But with “jack sharing”, you are standing right there in front of the stranger while sampling her/his music. Not sure I like that. Now, if I were approached by a beatiful blonde woman with a iPod to “jack share”, things may be different 😉 Somehow I don’t see that happening in Manhattan but I will keep my fingers crossed and my eyes peeled…
EDGE Everywhere
First, my cell phone number is going to be portable and now AT&T Wireless said at Comdex today that EDGE is in 6,500 cities. Let’s hope AT&T gets its finger out and offers the P900 next year (not that the P900 use EDGE but that’s beside the point). Then I can switch from Cingular to AT&T and combine my wife’s cell phone account and mine into one. “The future is bright. The future is…” Opps, that’s for Orange in the U.K. 😉
Fixes for my gadget-less status
To keep my brain active for the next few months until the P900 arrives in the US as well as for the next two weeks while I am working in Portland, I am planning to do the followings:
1. Develop a ZeroConf (otherwise known as Rendezvous) library in .NET/C#.
2. Using this library, develop a Window instant messaging client that will work with iChat over ZeroConf/Rendezvous. I will call this application, uChat.
3. Play with the CommuniCam for my T68i that I just got from eBay. Here is a picture of my TiBook with the urban MacSkinz.
Lost in Colonisation 