Taken at the Inner Harbor in Baltimore, MD

A couple years ago, I posted how to fix your Dell XPS m1210 keyboard if it had a bulge in the keyboard.  A few months after that, I changed webhosts and managed to loose all the pictures, and today when searching through www.archive.org, I was able to find the thumbnails of all those pictures!

http://www.jrin.net/2006_06_06/why-the-dell-xps-m1210-has-a-flexablebulging-keyboard

go check it out if you happen to still have an m1210 which also happens to have a bulging keyboard (or just check it anyway for fun!).

Today, www.giveawayoftheday.com is making available Evernote Beta for free!  Check it while you can — Of special note, one feature I think is great is it’s ability to index any notes you take (copy stuff from the web, take digital pictures of rebates/business cards/etc) and it can make any text in those images (even handwriting) and make it searchable / indexable!

Direct link:  http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/evernote-beta/

Evernote Beta lets you capture any information from your real and digital life and then find it all easily anytime.

 

The latest version of Evernote, currently an invitation-only beta, gives users more options than ever before to create and find their memories - a Windows version (main download links), Mac version, Web version, Windows Mobile version, Mobile Web version, browser web page clippers, and more. All clients can be synchronized to one another via the web, ensuring that anything created in one place is accessible from all others.

 

In addition, all users now have access to Evernote’s powerful image recognition, which recognizes text inside of images so users can take camera phone snapshots of anything from whiteboards to wine labels.

Here’s a youtube video explaining what it can do:

Finally, a FREE and working desktop app to sync your outlook calendar with your google calendar!  This is especially great news for windows mobile users (among any other applications that use an outlook calendar) cause now both gcal and outlook can sync up with your pda/phones!  Now, if only there is a way to trigger a sync update when activesync syncs with a device..!

Direct link:  http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?answer=89955

Just saw this posted on lifehacker, tried it out, and had to spread the word!  This freeware smartphone app will turn your wifi enabled smartphone into a wifi router (ad-hoc, aka: computer-to-computer) — in other words, you can take your windows mobile phone, and if you have a data plan and wifi, you can have any other wifi device connect to it as if it were a router!  I could definitely see this as being useful when my Comcast connection goes down and my roommates and I all need to have simple access to email and such until it goes back up!  Not just that, but also if you have a laptop (or any device) that doesn’t have bluetooth to utilize the bluetooth internet sharing in wm6, you can just use this as devices are more likely to have Wifi than bluetooth. 

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While I can’t remember where I was  when I saw this (… was it the airport?), it definitely caught my eye.  More and more often I see devices that are traditionally coin operated ‘upgraded’ to accept credit cards, and for what ever reason, I had to take a picture of this! 

I remember seeing parking meters down in Key West having credit card options (which I thought was great!  I NEVER have change!), and I’m starting to see a few vending machines that take em too — I’m curious as to what other devices are now accepting credit cards which have traditionally been coin-only…!

As many sites have posted, google maps just recently released their new version (2.0.0) which now does location tracking based off cell phone towers!  It’s not quite as accurate as a GPS based location, but as you can see from the pictures above, it’s pretty close! 

Find out more information about Google Maps Mobile:
http://www.google.com/gmm/mylocation.html

Download to your device now by pointing your mobile browser to:
http://www.google.com/gmm

yay google!

Starting November 21st (through December 20th), buy a new Xbox 360, and get a free copy of Halo 3 in your mail box!

Here’s How to Get Your Halo 3 Game

1. Buy an Xbox 360 console by December 21.
2. Connect to Xbox LIVE.
3. Register HERE with promotional code XBX7777, your new console serial number, and a valid mailing address.
4. And look for your copy of Halo 3 for Xbox 360 in your mailbox!

Get Halo 3 free. Buy your Xbox 360 today!

(*Online offer valid in the 50 United States, D.C., and all United States military bases with valid APO/FPO bases. Offer expires 23:59 hr (PST) December 21, 2007. You must purchase a new Xbox 360 system between November 21, 2007, and December 21, 2007, establish a new Xbox LIVE Account, then register on the promotion website on or before December 21, 2007. Hard drive, Windows Live™ ID, and high speed Internet access required for Xbox LIVE account. (See Xbox LIVE system requirements at www.xbox.com/live.) Limit: one offer submission per person. Xbox 360 Halo 3 game will be fulfilled through mail by January 18, 2008. Fulfillment requires a valid mailing address. Not combinable with other Microsoft offers or rebates. Proof of purchase required.)

(Direct link to the offer:  http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/h/halo3/promotions/buyxboxgethalo.htm )

Sounds like a GREAT deal considering on black friday (day after Thanksgiving), many stores are going to have the 360 + 2 free games already (Forza 2 and Ultimate Alliance) for $350 — adding Halo 3 to the mix, and that’s one good deal!

I can’t express how excited I am over LogMeIn’s release of Hamachi for Windows Mobile (it may have been out for a while, but I just found out today)!  This opens so many doors for connecting your pda/phone to your hamachi network. 

for those who don’t know, hamachi is a free vpn client which can connect all your computers together as if they were on the same network, even when they’re not, onto their own virtual network (vpn).  It works behind firewalls and creates a secure connection between all computers (read more about hamachi security framework here).

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(image from mdhenly5)

Ah, finally, att / htc has released the windows mobile 6 rom for the cingular 8525!

Download link from HTC:  http://www.america.htc.com/support/8525/software-downloads.html
Direct link to the rom:  http://download.america.htc.com/RUU_…
Discussions about the rom over at xda-developers.com:  http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=340987

I have yet to install it myself, (yay classes!), but will update this post once I do — It seems as though some people are saying it’s actually the old rom, so lets hope for the best!

UPDATE:  I just installed it, and at first glance, there isn’t much difference from the previous "unofficial" official wm6 rom release back in July…

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