Category: Gadgets

I got an Ipaq 5550 just under a year ago. It’s great and I’ve gotten a lot of use out of it. Recently, however I’d had problems typing with it. I’d used to type up email when I was waiting around for things, and had found it very useful, but that became a problem. whenever I would type I would get spaces, or capitalised letters at random intervals. I put up with it for a while but eventually typing became impossible. realising I’d had it almost a year I got in touch with Ipaq online support. they have a live support chat and, working through the issue with them, they decided that it was a fault and that it was still covered by warrant. I’d also had problems synchronising recently, and I think the synchronising connector was just getting old and loose. I reported the problem Friday night, got a phonecall Saturday to arrange a pickup, UPS collected it on Monday, and by Wednesday I had it back working beautifully, complete with a new screen! WOOHOOOOOO! according to Ipaq Repairs a new screen weighs in at around 200 pounds, so, having had it all done for free, I’m delighted. Plus, it turns out I have 2 years warranty, not just one!!!!

I found a great site for downloading all sorts of media for the z600. my z600 has lots of themes, ringtones and other media for z600 phones. My current favourite themes are Monsters Inc and Diff’rent Strokes.

I got a new phone. I have a real penchant for gadgets, and my latest phone is no exception. It’s a Sony Ericsson z600. So far I only have the boring covers for it, but thanks to ebay I should have some better ones soon :D. I’ve found lots of good sites for screensavers, games, themes etc, so I’ll be making some posts. I think I’ll make myself a z600 page so I can keep all my links in one place.

I really want a Sony Ericsson Z600! It’s got everything I’m looking for in a phone. Problem is, I don’t need one – I have 6 months left on my current contract, so I’ll have to wait until April/May. I’m really bad at waiting for stuff . . .

Exolith.ch is an amazing site. It carries images of rock formations created in Woodland areas. I saw it a few months ago and I thought the images were great. Well, now that I’m back from New York I need something else as a screensaver for my t100, so I stole some of the images from exolith and I’m putting them up here for other people to enjoy. Exolith Screensaver If there are any problems with this I’ll take it down again.

SO obviously, having bought my PDA to able to develop Flash applications for mobile devices, so obviously I’ve been oplaying games with it 😀 Snails is a great game, I’ve never played worms, but apparently this is very similar. I haven’t ventured into multiplayer land, but singelplayer land is a lot of fun, and I don’t think my money was wasted.

. . . is an Ipaq 5550. I’m hoping to blog some of the interesting stuff I find getting ot know it and developing flash applications for it. my first plan is to write something so that I can blog from my PDA. I dont’ want to pay for the one program I’ve found so far without trying it, so I am going to try and write one. One page I’ve found really helpful so far is Pedro Ornelas’ XML-RPC Flash Lib

This is the latest set of images I made for my samsung t100. It’s pictures of New York, in preparation for my trip later this year.

I’ve made a new CTU Ringtone like the one from 24.

I’ve tried in the past to make a midi version of the file, to try and make a better file, but I’ve no real clue, so I kept getting it wrong. I finally found this 24 CTU ring tone by madsb.com in Midi Format. I’ve simply converted it to an .mmf format using this software.

I took the wav file from my previous post and converted it into an .mmf file for use on some of the newer phones (including my Samsung t100). I’ll try and do better later (it’s very quiet) but here it is: Download file