The lucky guys at PDA.pl not only got to have a HTC Touch Diamond 2, but also a HTC Touch Pro 2, and have recorded this hardware tour. Nothing else to say but check it out:
HTC Touch Pro2 – Hardware from pda.pl on Vimeo.
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TrackbackOk so everybody know that HTC’s TouchFlo3D is just about the slickest interface out there for Windows Mobile. One thing that’s bugged the crap out of me since I bought my Touch Pro is that by default you only see ONE appointment listed. Lot of good that does me! Well the wizards at xda-developers have done it again and released a wicked cool modification to do your choice of:
It comes in two flavors, one which works with any stock Rhodium TouchFlo device, or a T-Mobile theme for those with T-Mobile branded Rhodium TouchFlo installed. Why this functionality isn’t the default in TouchFlo I’ll never understand. I mean seriously, why do I need a giant clock!??!!? Show me some information on the home tab… well that’s to XDA now you can.
Read more and grab the files from XDA-Developers here.
Comments rss TrackbackMicrosoft has notoriously horrible ads. Apple spanks the crap out of them in creative ad campaigns. I have a ton of friends jumping on the Apple bandwagon. After looking at (and drooling over) their new gorgeous hardware I ask two things:
The “How much” question usually leaves my mouth hanging open. Ya… the OS looks pretty and the hardware is… well you can’t get more stylish hardware than Apple’s. Many of my friends also love to show off how they do this key-combo and then boom you see Windows XP running side-by-side with OSX. While that’s cool, I always question “if OSX is so good why do you even need Windows”. I’ve yet to get a good response to that. I also always question “what is it about OSX that’s so much better than Windows?” and the response… 99% of the time is “it just works.” To me, that’s a completely bogus statement. I have the 64bit version of Windows Vista on my machine and “it just works” all the time too; never crashing and rarely requiring a reboot.
When I purchased my current desktop I did consider taking the plunge into the Apple waters. I figured even if I didn’t turn into a Mac diehard I could always run XP side-by-side. Then I started comparing price/performance. Apple products just cost so much more for less hardware; I went with a non-Apple product.
So the new ad is good… and sums up my feelings. The 60-second ad is all about “Lauren,” who wants to buy a new, 17-inch-screen laptop for under $1,000. According to a report by the Associated Press, Microsoft hired Crispin Porter + Bogusky, the ad agency behind the campaign pairing Bill Gates with Jerry Seinfeld, to recruit “unwitting subjects by posing as a market research firm studying laptop purchasing decisions.” Participants found on Craigslist were given between $700 to $2,000 to buy a computer fitting certain criteria, and were told they could keep the computer they selected.
Lauren isn’t a die-hard Windows fan. She just wants a new laptop and is trying to decide over an Apple or Windows based notebook. But she can only fine one Apple notebook, a measly 13-inch Macbook, that fits in her price range and joking tells the camera, “I’m just not cool enough to be a Mac person.”
Check out the ad:
To be fair to the die hard folks, or those who know squat about buying a new computer… they don’t go into hardware specs. For one, they only have 60 seconds. Also… these ads aren’t targeting the uber geek. They’re targeting people like my mom and my sister… the average joe… who knows little about hardware specs, GPU’s, etc.
Comments rss TrackbackOk everybody knows that Pocket Internet Explorer (aka PIE) sucks. CNet reports that Opera Mobile 9.7 will support Flash and Ajax. Opera says Turbo can squeeze down data by 80 percent, clearing through slow and stubborn network connections quicker. Opera Mobile 9.7 boasts that it passes the Acid 3 test of Web standards with 100 percent, and that it supports Google Gears and the Open GL ES standard for graphics acceleration. Oh ya, and it’ll support widgets. NICE!
It’ll originally be targeted at OEM’s (in other words… the handset makers/carriers) but they hinted that end users will get a go at it as well.
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With blogs becoming more and more user-friendly everyday, the need for a “Featured Post” display became a necessity. Say, for example, you begin a free giveaway on your blog on Monday. By Friday, if you had posted everyday during the week, that giveaway post from Monday may be on page 2, never to be seen again. This is where a “Featured Post” display comes in most handy. It appears that the use of jQuery to implement a very eye-appealing animated “Featured Post” display is becoming more and more in demand in the world of Wordpress themes. Here are some of the most popular javascript plugins to get the job done:
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