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RIP Windows Mobile, Hello Android!

Over the years I have used at least one device from every major PDA/Smartphone line available. As you can see from the list below I have been with Microsoft’s handheld devices since their initial release of Pocket PC(Later renamed to Windows Mobile). After almost 10 years of using their devices I have finally had enough. [...]

Snow Leopard upgrade experience

I upgraded my 10.5.8 Leopard system to 10.6 Snow Leopard tonight and all said and done it went well. I did a 64-bit kernel install(forced using the 6 and 4 keys during install startup) on my MacBook3,1. The installation had no issues whatsoever and cleanly installed. It took about 45 minutes from the time I [...]

The State of Mobile Devices: Part I

The state of mobile devices has been pretty idle for the last few years. Only since the iPhone came out has there been interest by Microsoft, Google (Android), Palm (WebOS) and other Windows Mobile device manufacturers to innovate. The iPhone has been wildly successful because it just works. The iPhone OS (although Apple claims is [...]

Apple on Fox?

I noticed this on the political tabloid news station Fox today.

Brown County radio frequencies

Here are a list of radio frequencies I have come across in the Green Bay area. Motorola Type II Trunk 856.2125 / 856.7375 / 857.2125 / 858.2125 / 859.2125 / 860.2125 Users Brown County Jail Green Bay Police Department Green Bay Fire Department Green Bay Local Government (Water Department / Parks / DPW) Green Bay [...]