I love my iPhone, but it can really suck down battery juice with heavy use. Most of the time I’m close enough to a computer during the day for me to use a USB cable to keep the battery topped off. But I decided to get a few external batteries for those other times.
The first battery [...]
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Quick Review of Various iPhone External Batteries
Setting up Yet Another Webcam
Well, not exactly. Remember my older post about installing a new webcam for the cabin backyard because the old webcam overheated, resulting in blurry optics? Today I found a use for the old webcam – placing it above the garage door to check for snow in the driveway and street. It’s pretty helpful to know in advance how [...]
Review of BikeBrain (Archived from 2001)
Bike Brain – for Palm handheld PDAs – product review (no longer available – review archived from 2001)
I just received BikeBrain as a gift last week, and I thought I’d give some first impressions.
BikeBrain is program that is run on a Palm-series handheld organizer that provides basic cyclocomputer functions and ride routing. It comes with [...]
How I Blogged Bicycling Across the USA in 2001
(This page was originally written in 2001 to describe the setup I used on my cross-USA bicycle tour. The content on this page is now hopelessly out of date, but archived for historical interest. My modern day version of this setup is described in an another blog post.)
When I travel, or go on multi-day bicycle [...]
Alternative to Evite: Facebook or Socializr?
I recently had occasion to invite coworkers and other friends to an event, enough for me to want to use a site like Evite. But I’ve always been annoyed when receiving Evite invitations at work. That is not because the link in the message from Evite is blocked by my employer – I can’t blame [...]
The Cabin Webcam – Reloaded
In a previous blog entry from December 2008, I described how I made an outdoor enclosure for an indoor Panasonic webcam at my mountain cabin. Since the camera was rated for operation down to 40F and exposure down to 32F, I added insulation inside the enclosure to keep the camera warm. This worked well in [...]
Why You Haven’t Seen Gmails From Me – Solved!
Over the past few days I sent some emails that I thought would stimulate some discussion, but I heard no replies. OK, well people are busy, no problem. But then when I sent something from my iPhone today, I got some pretty quick responses. After checking with a couple of folks, it became clear that [...]
iPhone Crash – Lessons Learned
A couple of days ago my phone locked up on the Apple screen after rebooting, and the only way out was to put it into DFU mode and do a full restore. But all is working now, here’s what happened.
It all started when I used the HomeBudget app for the first time. When entering the [...]
Why I Like a Good iPhone External Keyboard
Back during my cross-USA bicycle tour in 2001, I composed daily email updates (this was pre-blog days) of my trip using a Palm Pilot docked into a Landware GoType external keyboard. To send my updates, I docked the Palm Pilot into the PocketMail BackFlip and then held the combo up to a pay phone (those were still [...]
Bit the Bullet, Switched from Palm Centro to iPhone
I was a happy Palm PDA user for years, and when it was time to get a smartphone, the Palm Centro was logical choice, in part to dodge the issue of migrating my contacts list and other data. Unfortunately, a year into my two year contract with AT&T, it was now plainly obvious that the Palm OS [...]