Hey, @Palm, why do my Pre's browser cards automatically reload pages when I switch back to them? Is neither necessary nor appreciated.
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November 2009 Archives
Inspired by Joshua Topolsky's musings from last year, I decided to try my hand at hacking together a mock-up of what might be a better combination of hardware features for the next webOS device from Palm.
Sure, the Pre is a nice phone, and its slider is a clever way of fitting a QWERTY keyboard into a portrait, full-touchscreen device. But, the hassle of sliding open and closed the keyboard makes me wonder if there's a better solution.
Behold, the FrankenPre!
Forgive my shoddy Photochopping ski11z...actually, "shoddy" is still too kind. But it's kinda sorta what I have in mind. An awesome keyboard, always there, with hardware phone buttons and a landscape, capacitive touchscreen (480x360 would fit nicely there...or, dare I say, full VGA?), and the requisite gesture area immediately below the screen (with glowing LED bar borrowed from the Pixi in lieu of the Pre's completely unnecessary button).
Now, I know what you're thinking: "Geez, Craig, you just 'shopped a landscape webOS screen into Blackberry body and removed the trackball" And that would be perfectly correct.
One of my biggest beefs with the Pre is its lack of buttons available all the time to do stuff immediately without accessing menus, scrolling through launcher screens, and so forth. Letting me assign apps and contacts to every button on the device would make it a faster, more efficient user experience.
At least, that's my story, and I'm sticking to it.
Sure, the Pre is a nice phone, and its slider is a clever way of fitting a QWERTY keyboard into a portrait, full-touchscreen device. But, the hassle of sliding open and closed the keyboard makes me wonder if there's a better solution.
Behold, the FrankenPre!
Forgive my shoddy Photochopping ski11z...actually, "shoddy" is still too kind. But it's kinda sorta what I have in mind. An awesome keyboard, always there, with hardware phone buttons and a landscape, capacitive touchscreen (480x360 would fit nicely there...or, dare I say, full VGA?), and the requisite gesture area immediately below the screen (with glowing LED bar borrowed from the Pixi in lieu of the Pre's completely unnecessary button).
Now, I know what you're thinking: "Geez, Craig, you just 'shopped a landscape webOS screen into Blackberry body and removed the trackball" And that would be perfectly correct.
One of my biggest beefs with the Pre is its lack of buttons available all the time to do stuff immediately without accessing menus, scrolling through launcher screens, and so forth. Letting me assign apps and contacts to every button on the device would make it a faster, more efficient user experience.
At least, that's my story, and I'm sticking to it.
Must review a paper. Yet, instead, I tweet. Damn you, lack of willpower! Damn you to hell.
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Watergate wouldn't have happened w/o professional journalists. Social media is not a substitute for a strong, independent media.
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Google needs to team up w/ Twitter and make the Trending Topics actually useful. Simple text search is so busted.
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Could I get the Eye-Fi card on Sellout.Woot.com right now to use MyTether on my @Palm Pre to post pics over cellular? Anyone know?
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Thanks, all, for the feedback on the RAM question. Verdict: go with 4GB now...can always add more later in empty slots.
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Thinking of buying my dad a new Windows 7 PC. He'll use for browsing, mostly. HP wants $80 to go from 4GB to 8GB on RAM. Good idea on Win7?
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Can't believe I'm filling up gator bags 2 days before December. Thanks, global warming!
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5-y.o. playing w/ make-believe friend, complains to my wife "she's copying me!"
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Went to my local @Sprint store & was floored at how up on smartphones the sales guy was. Knew processor specs, OS, apps, etc!
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Headed out to make some holiday gift purchases. Should be empty since everyone's at home recovering from yesterday, right? Right??
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This made me laugh }} RT @StopBeck RT @denkai: Remember - I play the devils advocate. // it's good to know the devil has a shitty advocate
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I wonder what it'd feel like to be like my son and have someone tell me it's time to take a nap. I guess I'll find out in 40 years or so.
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Holy cow...50 tweets away from the big 10K...better start planning now to make that one extra special. #pathetic
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Will Tiger Woods' accident throw a monkey wrench into Fantasy Davis Cup leagues? *kaff*
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Which raises the question: Could fake Twitter accounts be a new form of the Turing Test?
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Bot/fake/spam Twitter accounts are getting really sophisticated...took me >30 seconds to figure out one new follower was bogus.
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RT @Shoq: #iAmThankfulFor people who are on Twitter without any financial motive to be here. #p2 #tcot
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Official: Koenigsegg Backs Out of Saab Purchase http://is.gd/54mqy / Wow, I just heard about this. Not good news for my Saab-lovin' friends.
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Fixed a weird issue w/ my sis' Palm Pre where it couldn't find the update server. Reset it and it updated to 1.3.1 like a charm. #alliswell
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http://twitpic.com/r35nv - Noticed this WindowsCE ad in a 1998 Wired I just found.
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RT @Local12: Woman Looses Eye in Bar Fight - http://shar.es/aKzDo (ouch!) // how do you "loose" an eye??
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Sister assembled a heckuva Thanksgiving lunch...thanks, sis! #fb
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Now to unwind over some FPS and then sleep. Night all...happy Thanksgiving!
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UC was robbed by a bad call...or, to be more precise, the lack of a call...in the last second of the game tonight. #refusuck
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Hey @Palm and @Sprint, offer a $2/month service to back up all the media on my Palm Pre (photos, especially).
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This is journalism?? // RT @Genjinaro LOL! RT @FOX29philly: Girls fight at laundromat. They're vicious! See surveillance video today at 5.
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Glad to see that @Palm will be at CES 2010. http://is.gd/53zkK I'll make sure to stop by your booth. :-)
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I have a loon's call as my SMS ringtone...freaks ppl out a bit..."what was that? did you hear that?"
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I wonder: if Obama decided to not pardon the turkey and ate it raw on the South lawn, would that impress conservatives at all?
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"the U.S. holds the distinction of most religious and least prosperous among the 17 countries in the study" http://is.gd/53m4s
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WANTED: a dedicated Skype videochat device for $99...I'd buy one for every household in my family.
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RT @GuyKawasaki Barack Obama's teleprompter fails http://om.ly/cUpV // The Onion and Daily Show...best non-news around.
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Someone let me know when Foursquare supports Cincinnati, mkay?
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79.2% of Americans believe it is important that Pres. Obama includes health reform in plans to address economy. http://is.gd/52JZ6
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I noticed Al Gore has lost a lot of weight...looks pretty good, now...makes me wonder if he's considering running for something.
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One user's real-world comparison: iPhone vs. @Palm Pre. http://www.amazon.com/review/RW99OTR0OL1WO
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OK, time to feed the children. Thank goodness I'm not a parrot.
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Link - Reviews from the @Palm App Catalog...sounds like the ppl want a fix
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Watching "Walking with Dinosaurs" (BBC series) with the kids...they love it.
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I just realized that looking @ my Google calendar (mobile view) in the Pre's web browser is faster than using the Pre's Calendar app. WTH?
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That'd be nice. // RT @googleslave Google OS: the end of the hard drive? [CNN Tech] Link
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Sorry about the redundant auto-tweets there...forgot to turn off Twitterfeed. All fixed now.
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Today is the 150th anniversary of the 1st publication of Darwin's "On the Origin of Species." Truly one of science's greatest.
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RT @philosopher1967 Religious Leaders Call for Civil Disobedience if Laws Don't Respect Faith Link // Like suicide bombings?
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Sergey Brin: Android & Chrome OS likely to eventually merge link // That's what I said last week: Link
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RT @StopBeck RT @rkref: Do You Fear What I Fear #becksfavovoritexmascarols #p2
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Wow...according to this AdMob report, webOS already has as many handsets in use as Windows Mobile. Link If true, it's amazing.
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It's supposed to automatically feed new posts to Twitter...we'll see if it works.
More info on it is here.
Update: Huzzah...it works. Now to find something that does the exact opposite. ;-)
More info on it is here.
Update: Huzzah...it works. Now to find something that does the exact opposite. ;-)
Let's keep the need for health care in perspective. Compared to terrorism and foreign aggression, you're at least 32,000 times more likely to die from one of the many diseases our health care system prevents and/or treats.
In contrast, our federal 2008 budget for the military (not including FBI, CIA, etc.) was $613 billion, whereas our healthcare budget (Medicare and Medicaid) was $682 billion -- just 11% more.
On a per-death basis, that is ~$350,000 per healthcare-related death and approximately $11,000,000,000 per terrorism/foreign aggression-related death. Quite a disparity, no?
I'm not suggesting we spend the same per capita for defense and healthcare. That would be foolish, for one death doesn't risk the downfall of the entire country. However, it seems obvious that we can, and should, allocate more of our budget towards healthcare, as it's one of the most significant threats against Americans' well-being.
In contrast, our federal 2008 budget for the military (not including FBI, CIA, etc.) was $613 billion, whereas our healthcare budget (Medicare and Medicaid) was $682 billion -- just 11% more.On a per-death basis, that is ~$350,000 per healthcare-related death and approximately $11,000,000,000 per terrorism/foreign aggression-related death. Quite a disparity, no?
I'm not suggesting we spend the same per capita for defense and healthcare. That would be foolish, for one death doesn't risk the downfall of the entire country. However, it seems obvious that we can, and should, allocate more of our budget towards healthcare, as it's one of the most significant threats against Americans' well-being.
