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Daily Archives: July 4th, 2002

Donations

Some of you may notice the new PayPal Donate button in the upper right corner of the site. I’m not begging for money, and the site’s not going anywhere. But someone in one of the many discussion threads supporting Wes Salmon suggested that he and the former moderators of PDA Buzz could get together, set [...]

Power-sucking Keyboard

Is it my imagination, or has the battery life on my Jornada taken a sharp turn southward since I started using the HP Pocket Keyboard? I saw mine drop to 25% today for I think the first time ever since I’ve owned the device. Jornada and thumbboard owners: do you see a decrease in juice [...]

Make Your Feelings Known

If you’re as outraged as I am about Handheld Media Group firing Wes Salmon, drop them a line and let them know how you feel. While they claim it’s just a financial decision, nothing more, I’m not sure I buy it. Wes was given the choice of being fired or doing what had been his [...]

Happy Independence Day

To all my US readers, have a happy and safe Fourth of July!

Giant-thumbed Mutant

Okay, maybe I’m just into change for the sake of change. (Not that there’s anything wrong with that…) Despite the fact that I stopped using my hp pocket keyboard shortly after writing a glowing review back in February, I’m back to thumbing away.
What changed? First off, I finally got Stellarmetric’s HPHotKey app to work properly. [...]

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Building a Better Mousetrap Dept.: Knowing all the bone-headed mistakes publishers are making today, if you were going to invent a new kind of publishing company, how would you do it? Seth Godin mentioned recently some of his ideas for a new kind of record label, but a lot of those ideas (like Internet-only sales [...]