Following up on their recent iPad release, Spotify have shown some Android love and released a brand new app – it looks great, and more importantly can actually handle my hundreds of playlists! d^_^b
O’Reilly Media Dropbox Sync! (Beta)
I am a massive O’Reilly fan, and a serious consumer of eBooks – but one of the greatest hassles with my ever-burgeoning collection is organizing my library and syncing it to my various devices. O’Reilly is currently beta testing a feature that allows you to sync any or all of your eBooks with your Dropbox account, in whichever format(s) you prefer; I think they chose me since I own an absurd quantity of their publications (I basically have my own personally Safari!) – so having my purchases automatically downloaded onto my desktop machine, and one click away on my NOOK Color, iPad, or phone, is huge! (♥o♥) The NOOK Simple Touch, since it lacks a Dropbox app (or any apps, without rooting) is now the only remaining device which will be seeing a USB cable any time soon!
Pebble Digital Watches are a Pretty Neat Idea
Perhaps I’m just amazingly primitive, but the Pebble E-Paper Watch for iPhone and Android on Kickstarter may be compelling enough to rekindle my childhood obsession; this was a time when things like temperature and altitude were not so easily obtained as they are now via apps and widgets, and I couldn’t help but bore anyone who’d listen with continual updates of these exciting (to me) measurements (even when up to 50 meters underwater!)! I can’t recall the last time I donned a timepiece on my arm, but the concept of a fourth screen to supplement my third – not to mention one with its own SDK – may prove irresistible! ￣～￣
[Update 2012.05.09: It did – I’m now a backer!]
The Joy of X
Wow, really enjoying my Droid X again since solving its performance problems! Caught up on Hanselminutes Podcasts via Pocket Casts while simultaneously navigating via Google Maps Navigation - both broadcasting to my car speakers via Bluetooth so I can concentrate on driving – pausing occasionally to capture ideas via Evernote‘s audio recording feature – this is more like it! (^o^)
Solved: Motorola Droid X Performance Issues
I was really pleased with my Droid X when I first got it. Such a big screen! So much potential! But at some point things started to slow down – a lot – to the point where just about everything – even answering a phone call – was somewhere between an unpleasant chore and impossible at times. I lived with it – I don’t really need a smartphone, I sit in front of a desk most of the time while my X sits in its lovely little docking station – and I have more mobile devices and gadgets than I can count, so, they just took over focus from my frustrating phone. Then Read More…
