my mobile office in the coming months

Treo650 and MDA4, possibly the Nokia N91 as an wireless "modem" for a nice tablet from Apple.

Nokia770. First I thought about getting myself a Samsung Nexio XP40 or at least a XP30, but I guess they won't be available anytime anywhere...

Sanyo SD camcorder/camera, eventually the Pentax Optio MX4 for the 10 times zoom compared to only six times on the Sanyo.

Airport Internet sharing in MacOSX 10.4 server

I just found this hint (as always!) at my daily visit to http://www.macosxhints.com. No more need for third party software or using the CLI to get the last missing feature from MacOS X client in the server version.

Palm Lifedrive missing essentials

VGA, PalmOS6 (tabbed browsing and finally multitasking).

Nokia 770 Linux mini tablet

WVGA 800*480, WLAN, Bluetooth, 3 hours battery life, available Q3/2005 for 350$. Missing: SD slot (only RS-MMC), Infrared.

Gumball3000 in Vienna pictures

coolest number plate

Gumball3000 in Vienna pictures

only Austrian sponsor

Gumball3000 in Vienna pictures

smartest

Gumball3000 in Vienna pictures

dog choice

Gumball3000 in Vienna pictures

Monaco

Gumball3000 in Vienna pictures

most beautiful

Gumball3000 in Vienna pictures

celebrity

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crowded

Nine2Five Report for Hypercard incompatible with MacOSX 10.4!

So if you rely on the power of Reports for Hypercard from Nine2Five, DON´T upgrade to MacOSX 10.4. Unfortunately this means pretty soon Hypercard users, who also use Reports can´t buy new Macs anymore. What a shame for Apple to let one of their greatest applications ever done to die slowly!

Gumball3000 in Vienna pictures

second, but coolest

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first

Gumball 3000 in Vienna!

more details later...

Treo650 let´s you turn off backlight

After having my own Palm Treo650 GSM now for more than a week I finally found out some details about it´s LCD. It definitively IS reflective, which means it´s perfectly usable in bright sunlight, just as on my trusty old Palm Tungsten W. And compared to the Treo600 you CAN turn off the backlight on the Treo650, which saves a lot of power and is totally useless in bright sunlight. So battery life of the Treo650 should be way better than on the Treo600, possibly as great as on the Tungsten W.

BTW: the missing reflectiveness of the Treo 600 LCD was one of my main reasons, why I didn´t switch completely from the Tungsten W to the Treo600. The other reason was VersaMail on the Tungsten W, which just worked great for me, whereas the built in email client on the Treo600 was nearly useless for me. I just used it for posting via email, but as my main email client on the Treo600 I used MarkSpace Mail, which was quite ok, but cannot see the email addresses in the Palm address book, if you have more than a few thousand contacts stored. So having a Palm Treo650 I think I can finally retire my Tungsten W and Treo600 now.

Styletap PalmOS 5.2 emulator for PocketPC

StyleTap is a PalmOS 5.2 emulator for PocketPCs. No support for conduits, HackMaster style hacks and Bluetooth. Direct manipulation of Motorola 68000 hardware registers is not supported. Therefore programs that control things like sound or serial I/O by directly accessing the hardware rather than using the software API will not work properly. However, direct screen writes ARE supported. StyleTap™ Platform preview version is now available for a free 14-day trial. Cost of the preview version is 30$. This price includes a free upgrade to StyleTap™ Platform version 1.0 when it becomes available.

another webshop for PocketLOOX accessories

Brando in HongKong has a dedicated section just for PocketLOOX accessories, too.

Accessories for the FujitsuSiemens PocketLOOX 720

Pc-mobile has various cables and accessories for the Fujitsu LOOX 6xx/4xx/7xx series including the brand new adapters for connecting external microphones to the FujitsuSiemens PocketLOOX 720.

3M PX3 DLP projector

3M announced a 1000 ANSI lumen micro projector called PX3 with XGA resolution, 34dB noise, 0.9kg weight and a size of 20*15*3cm.

Canon XEED SX50

Canon has a LCOS projector called XEED SX50 with 1400*1050 pixels resolution, 2500 ANSi lumen and a contrast of 1000:1.

Gumball 3000

A car race across Europe called Gumball 3000.

PDF2RTFService for MacOS X 10.4

PDF2RTFService is a free filter service that enables many Cocoa applications, for example TextEdit or Apple Pages, to open Adobe PDF, PostScript and Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) files as paginated rich text documents. The application just needs to be able to read rich text documents. The actual conversion is done by Quartz and the PDFKit of Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, PDF2RTFService post-processes and paginates the output for better results. Great for converting all those PDFs to mobile devices without the need for Adobes email service to do the conversion.

UWB will be Bluetooth compatible

The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) announced, that Ultra-wideband (UWB) will be Bluetooth compatible. Great to see that they join forces. The more new technologies with backward compatibility, the better. One of the nice things on DVD technology is the ability to read CDs. Now if the same happened to Flash format cards, so that we can finally get rid of SmartMedia, XD, MemoryStick...

TI DLP chip with 1080p resolution

TI announced that their newest DLP chip with 1920 x 1080 pixels resolution is in volume production and the first products using it should be available July 2005.

"iCon Steve Jobs" bio (and all other titles from Wiley!) banned from AppleStores

Wiley, publishers since 1807 will bring a new biography of Apple´s Steve Jobs called iCon Steve Jobs: The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business. The book by Jeffrey S. Young and William L. Simon (ISBN: 0-471-72083-6, hardcover, 368 pages) should be available May 2005 24.95$. Seems to be a very interesting book, as Apple has banned all Wiley titles from their retail stores in response to this unauthorized biography.

Mitsubishi PocketProjector

Mitsubishi announced the PocketProjector , a SVGA DLP projector for 699$, that use LEDs instead of expensive light bulbs, weighs 14 ounces (397 grams) and fits on the palm of a hand. There is an optional battery pack for 149$ for projections without mains power. Should be available summer 2005.

new iMac G5

Apple just introduced the new iMac G5. 1.8 and 2GHz CPU, 512MB RAM, 160 or 250GB S-ATA hard drive (BTO up to 400GB!), IEEE802.11g and Bluetooth 2.0, ATI Radeon9600 with 128MB VRAM, Gigabit Ethernet, Combo drive or SuperDrive 8x with double layer support, but no LightScribe.

GSM/GPRS card for Fujitsu PocketLoox

Clove Computer has a tri-band GSM/GPRS card for the CompactFlash slot of Fujitsu PocketLoox PDAs. Cost is 222 British Pounds including headset for voice calls. EDGE (and UMTS for sure!) support would have been nice, too.

Nokia N91 with 4GB hard drive

Nokia announced the N91 mobile phone will ship at the end of 2005. Highlights: 4GB hard drive, 3.5mm stereo headset jack (finally!), WLAN IEEE802.11b/g/i, Bluetooth, USB2 with mass storage profile, tri-band (GSM/GPRS/EDGE 900/1800/1900), WCDMA (UMTS), 156grams, 113*55*22mm, 176*208 pixels, Symbian Series60.