new toys, etc
new toys, etc
I’m really enjoying my sexy new phone. I’ve got it set up so that
certain addresses from within my company get forwarded to my gmail, so
i’ve worked around that piece, they’ll just get email responses from an
odd outside address. Oh god, i’ve become that guy, who’s too cool for
IT.. anyways, i’ve figured out how to send pictures to my flickr
account, and more importantly i have discovered the “outbox” in the
sprint mobile application. here’s how: i tried to post three pix at once
but it said i didn’t have enough memory to send that, so then i tried
two pix. still no go. in desperation, i tried one and STILL got
“there is not enoug memory on the device” or somesuch. I look, there’s
still 47 meg free, i’m using about a third of it, but as i click through
i see that sprint mobile is the largest file. it was up to about 6.4
meg, which doesnt seem like much but when you consider that the whole
pda’s main storage is about 64 meg… so i looked into the app and found
that it saves a local copy of the mail that I send out in a folder
called outbox. I deleted the pix i had sent up already and then looked,
the size had dropped to 2.4 meg. Sometime about now i tried again and
sending a pic worked. Of course in the process i had deleted the
solitaire program off my pda, so i had michelle beam it back to me. It’s
nice having matching phones, we can beam all kinds of things back and
forth such as astrological information we’re saving into a program
called delphi. (i wonder how i export that…) Thanks to Amy’s explaining
how easy it is (email a midi or mp3 to myself and open the attachment) I
now have a great variety of ringtones including things like the waltons
(using for family), looney tunes, the linus and lucy theme from Charlie
Brown, the imperial theme from star wars (should give that to boss man)
Yes, I can give everyone their own ring, and now that I can pick the
rings i use more easily the more variety i can put in there. I like
being able to know approximately (or exactly) who it is from across the
room. So far I haven’t posted any naked picture with my phone. One thing
that i have found handy is that I am interacting with some of my
favorite web-based services via email. with flickr, i can post emails
directly via mail, so i can take a picture of something with the
built-in camera, save it, then switch over to the mail program and send
that pic to an address which is a weird name composed of two words
separated by a number - easy to remember if you’re just out there and
want to post something. At last I have a place I can send the “dumps of
pics” emails I keep getting from people. hmmmm. I’m taking pictures of
my friends and putting them on the contact list so i’ll see their pic
when they call. Hey, man, it’s the future, i have a video phone. almost…
i wonder if there is a way i can stream video to something? i know i can
take video and i should be able to send it somewhere.. guess i need to
learn about youtube now.. damn. So this thing is feeding a nerdy thing
in me that hasn’t really been fed in a long time. I’m enjoying it right
now, being able to do all that internet-on-the-go thing that i have
heard so much about. I can now easily become part of that mob of rogue
photojournalists using the wireless infrastructure to get the word out.
I wonder if there is a macro program i can get for the palm to automate
even the part where i send the email.. just grab the latest one, toss it
at the IMAP servers at google.. thank you.. maybe i need to write some
code..