Oct03

Fitbit Ultra activity tracker available – A few initial impressions

by todd on October 3, 2011 at 12:44 am
Posted In: Hardware, Mobile Technology

Fitbit provided me an evaluation unit of the new Fitbit Ultra activity tracker that became available today ($99.95).

I’ll have a more detailed review available later (probably on SocialTimes.com). But, here are a few initial impressions.

- Same size as the original fitbit
- Display is brighter
- Belt clip design looks much improved
- New sensor! Altimeter for stair climbing stats and more
- New Fitbit tracking web page design

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Sep30

Windows Phone 7.5 tip: How to use the new app task list

by todd on September 30, 2011 at 11:32 am
Posted In: Microsoft, Windows Phone

Windows Phone 7.5 has a lot of new features. One of favorites is its ability to navigate among recently launched apps. You can see how this is done in the video embedded above. You press and hold (long press) the back button at the bottom left of a Windows Phone devices held in portrait mode. This brings up a list of large icons representing recently used apps. Navigation is side-to-side. Tap any of the apps to bring it to the foreground for use.

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Sep29

Bumper crop of app updates. Are these all Mango-ized for Windows Phone 7.5?

by todd on September 29, 2011 at 1:51 pm
Posted In: Windows Phone

After a successful forced update to Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango) on an HTC Surround, I decided to update the HTC HD7 that serves as my primary voice phone yesterday. This morning, I saw the biggest group of app updates I’ve ever seen in a single day: 12.
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Sep29

iPhone 4 Camera message: The iPhone needs to cool down before you can use the flash

by todd on September 29, 2011 at 1:26 pm
Posted In: Apple

This is a screenshot of the message I saw after picking up my iPhone 4 to take a photo. The iPhone had been lying idle for at least an hour before being picked up. No calls had come in. Nothing except normal background processing for things like email had been going on as far as I am aware. The air temperature is about 82F: Warm but not hot. So, why this message?

I should also note that I was not trying to use the flash.

I think I may need to make a visit to the local Apple Store Genius Bar soon.

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Sep29

Amazon Kindle Fire Silk web browser server-rendering privacy issue? What about Opera Mini & Skyfire?

by todd on September 29, 2011 at 1:10 pm
Posted In: Android, Mobile Technology, Tablets

Amazon’s soon-to-be-available Kindle Fire tablet’s browser achieves its reputed high performance by using Amazon’s cloud services to perform server-side processing. There’s a bit of hand-wringing going on because of potential privacy problems related to the server side interception and processing of web page requests.
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