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RIP Ricardo Montalban
As most people my age I was first exposed to Ricardo Montalban as Mr. Roarke on Fantasy Island. I later saw him in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, by far the best Star Trek movie. As I grew older I saw him in many other productions from earlier and later in his career […]
Teens Arrested After Calling Victim
There was a story in the news this morning about five teens who were arrested after calling the man they had mugged the day before and taunting him. The call was traced by police and the kids were arrested. This is exactly the reason we need to keep our kids in school. Instead these kids […]
Websphere Everyplace Micro Environment For Palm
I was trying to get something to work on my Palm Centro last week and found that I needed to have Java installed. Unfortunately Palm and IBM stopped supporting Java on the Treo/Centro product line about a year ago. The last time I ran into this problem was when I wanted to install Opera Mini. […]
Pre Puts Palm Back In The Game
The big news at last weeks Consumer Electronics Show (CES) was Palm’s keynote in which they announced their new operating system, called WebOS, and the first device built on that platform, the Pre. The pundits are abuzz about whether this is an iPhone killer or not. It certainly looks like a variation on the iPhone […]
Palm Introduces the Pre
Palm Inc. introduced the Pre today. This is what I’ve been waiting for. It’s very iPhone like in nature but has some nice touches of it’s own. The big feature is: Instead of typing on a virtual keyboard you can slide out a full QWERTY keyboard. I’ll post more about this when I have something […]