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Sad news to wake up to on a Monday morning:

Currently Marc’s immediate family as well as his brothers and parents are in or on their way to Albuquerque to be with Marc. Sue has asked me to keep Marc’s colleagues and friends in the technology community updated as information becomes available. Please do not contact [...]

Check out what Scoble says about the Kindle:

It’s obvious that they never had this device in their hands when they were designing it.
Whoever designed this should be fired and the team should start over.

Ouch.

I’ve always thought about what my perfect gadget would be, and I think we’re getting closer and closer to it, simply because I have several devices now which approach the ideal.
So here are the things needed for a perfect gadget:
1. Always-on connectivity
2. Sustainable power (preferably self-powering through solar-panels or a built in hand-crank like the [...]

Here’s a pic of my temporary Asus Eee PC (*) that I received today and already sent back to NewEgg. It’s incredibly small and I was super-excited about it, but after it got past this original boot screen and I launched Firefox for the first time, it became clear that there was something wrong. At [...]

So, now that Gmail finally gave me IMAP access (THANKS, GOOGLE!), I have a pretty awesome system setup. IMAP access via iPhone to my main (Gmail Apps), secondary (.Mac address), and tertiary (old regular Gmail account) email accounts. I set up READLATER folders in all three accounts, so now whenever I’m on my iPhone and [...]

Kristin and I have a new home phone number, and it’s over Skype with this new little wifi handset, so we can take it with us anywhere. We’ll be distributing the number soon, after we’re sure it doesn’t really suck as a phone.
As a side-effect of this transition (and my own stupidity for not creating [...]

So, my little-over-a-week-old iPhone has developed a problem. The casing on the right side near the bottom of the bugger has begun to warp. I noticed it when I was browsing the web this morning and the black little cover at the bottom was clicking slightly. Here’s a picture:

If you go to the picture page [...]

I decided to start a morning ride podcast, that I’ll be recording during my morning bike ride to work. It’s short and I’ll only do these whenever I have something to talk about. This morning, I talked about riding my bike to work, moving to LA, the iPhone, the Helio Ocean, Erica Sadun’s Voice Recorder [...]

So which is the better gadget at $299? A 4GB iPhone activated sans AT&T service contract (there are numerous ways) or an 8GB iPod Touch?
Here’s the list of things that the iPhone has that the iPod Touch doesn’t: Built-in Camera, Built-in Mic, Built-in Speakers, Stock widget, Weather Widget, Note pad, Mail.app, Bluetooth, and Google Maps, [...]

This is awesome: How To: DIY Cintiq screen tablet » Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog.

Netgear intros SPH200W WiFi phone with Skype - Engadget

…they’re very pretty and cool, but…
I’m starting to see and hear the type of real reviews of the iPhone (*) that I was hoping would emerge. Dave Winer’s is great: iPhone, month 1 (Scripting News). It confirms many of my assumptions about living with an iPhone.
If I were looking for a new iPod and mobile [...]

It’s just in a developer’s preview right now, but it’s not locked into AT&T and looks pretty promising: openmoko.com: Neo Base. Nice comparison here.

I just met Senator John McCain and shook his hand.

He kicked off D5 tonight. I think this conference is going to be pretty great. Also, I was walking next to Martha Stewart earlier. Spotted George Lucas.
Rafat Ali and I talked to Sky Dayton, the CEO of Helio about the Ocean and things we’d like [...]

I sent an email to Helio support and about 15 minutes later it was working again. Coincidence?

I’m loving the Ocean, but suddenly, it’s not signing into AIM successfully. Not sure why. I can sign in to Yahoo without problems.

All the trees are pollinating the air I breathe, and I feel about half the energy I normally have. It’s as if my consciousness is burried beneath 3 feet of cotton. In other news, I’m posting this lamentation from my Helio Ocean. Not enough energy to get to a computer. I need coffee…

It’s been so long since I’ve owned a “smart-phone” that was smart enough to not be running Windows Mobile that I’d forgotten how cool they can be. The BlackJack was nice enough, but it kept crapping out on me with a full reset needed once every other month, and for some odd reason the push [...]

zonageek: blog: The Geekster Moleskine

Okay. Now I may actually buy one of these… Either that or I’m going to hack my Mac mini to be one, although I think that’s slightly illegal…
Never mind. Hey, Trevor, are you still interested in my Mac mini? If you buy me an Apple TV, I’ll do a straight swap.