here is a quick time lapse of the night sky. nothing special or dramatic, just me having fun with my new gizmo.
i’ve been mucking w/ the site again, tweaking settings and changing themes. there is more of this to come. last night i added a plugin to push out my posts to the social sites that i frequent. so consider this paragraph a test for that.
now to the plea for forgiveness… i’ve re-started (is that a word) getting into photography as a hobby. this is not a cheap hobby to be in, but i have been VERY good about my spending habits, e.g., only spending when i have approval :).
today, i made my first impulse buy at rockbrook camera… the tc-80n3 (nice descriptive name), i.e., canon’s timer remote control.
amy, please forgive me and of it helps, i got a deal (grin).
I am still getting used to the new iPhone but overall I am pleased. the ability to let the boys watch a movie has already come in handy. downloading applications could get me in trouble with amy so I will have to pace myself.
one thing that so far has surprised me is at&t’s cellular coverage. I was not expecting it to be so good. what shocked me was that I am getting better coverage now than I was with sprint. granted I have only stayed in the city, but for my day-to-day usage this is a big positive. data speed has been okay and I only hope that it gets better once Omaha goes 3g.
after being a sprint customer for ~10 years, i am leaving them to give at&t a shot. i’m doing this for a few reasons.
at&t has said they are upgrading omaha to 3g before the end of the year, which “should” help with their coverage around here.
so today, i stopped by the at&t store and “reserved” my iphone and did all the preliminary “paperwork”. i will get everything switched over on friday.
i am not converting the family completely over, amy’s and the “home” phone contracts are not over until february. if all goes well with my conversion, we will move both of them at that time. if not i guess she can be a guinea pig with verizon.
last night my wireless router died. okay, died is a little harsh… it’s looks to be in a continual reboot cycle. anyway, this gave me an “excuse” to pick up a new router. so today, i picked up an apple airport extreme. setup took all of 5 minutes, and amy and i are back online.
i have aspirations of sharing our printer through it as well as picking up a raid 1 array for the household backups, but will need to get the home network “ironed” out first. if you have do’s/don’t around this please clue me in.
more restlessness has resulted in more playing around on my mbp. right now i have the following sitting in my dock:
mail, safari, delicious library, vmware fusion, remote desktop, transmission, gimp, handbrake, xcode, terminal, addressbook, iphoto, cyberduck, textwrangler, skitch, twitterrific, firefox, thunderbird, ibank, cuppa, ical
these have made it to my applications folder:
adium, appdelete, coconutwifi, colloquy, ffmpegx, flip4mac, google earth, gpsbabel+, growltunes, istumbler, magic number machine, mainmenu, mindnode, neooffice, sketchup, skype, vlc, xact
and these are in my preferences:
busysync, divx, geektool, growl, smartsleep
what am i missing?
I have been living with my Krusell case for a couple weeks now and i am very pleased. The leather has softened up and the magnetic lid “button” is working great.
The case has two sewn-on loops for your belt as well as Krusell’s Multidapt connector. The case gives you the option of inserting your Treo with its screen point in our out. I keep my Treo’s screen pointed towards me.
Once the leather has been “broken-inâ€, a magnetic button underneath the Krusell logo holds the lid shut. With the lid shut the only Treo parts exposed are the antenna, headset jack, and partial bottom side of the Treo. Exposing the headset jack was a nice feature, before I upgraded to a Bluetooth headset.
The case’s has beige leather lining that so far, is doing a good job of keeping my Treo scratch free.
I am very pleased with how snug the Treo is when using the case and I really like the bottom side cut-out, as it helps with one-handed removal of the Treo from the case.
I have yet to use the Multidapt belt clip and have instead been using the two sewn-on loops. With the loops being positioned towards the ends of the case, the case is very secure. I do have a concern with how well the loops will age and will update this review if any issues arise.
I wear the case on my left hip and have not found any issues with accessing the Treo in the car or getting in the way when wearing a seatbelt.
The case seems to very well made, and the two-tone leather and stitching is a nice touch.
I would recommend this case to anyone that cared to ask.