Looks like amazon lowered the price of the Kindle to $299, I don’t need one. I have the kindle app on my iPod touch. I would rather buy a 16 GB iPod touch for a little under $299.
Bought a zBoost YX300 cell phone booster on amazon. Seems to work sort of, I can talk on the phone without loosing signal if I move. I can browse t-zones sort of, kind of slow. Doesn’t really give me anymore bars, before I had one bar, but would constantly loose it. Seems to stay connected better now. Sometimes my phone says no bars, but it works.. So perhaps my phone is a dumbass, and doesn’t know if it has any bars or not. Don’t think I’ll send it back, seems to work good enough. Probably won’t really increase battery. It was only like 60 bucks on amazon. Would be funny if I sent it back though, I had to spit on suction cup things to get it to stick to window, haha. Oh yeah I’m not very far from the antenna that goes to cell phone… Sending text messages is instant now, even know it says I have zero bars.
Update
Think I got it working better now, put antenna on desk, where I’m at most of the day, if I go to tv, I can bring antenna with me. Don’t think I’m even a foot away now from it. Hmm think I get how it works now… Think your phone has to have at least one bar for it to work. cause phone works better still when sitting on desk, always get one or more bars while its just sitting on desk. So I guess it does give me more bars, when its on desk. Guess speaker phone works, haha.
There’s the antenna. And that is old cell phone.
So signal is pretty good while sitting on desk… Pick it up and it goes down to one or none. Hmm wonder why it doesn’t work on top of desk. guess it has to be right by it or something, haha. No big deal for me.
Pic of home screen with good signal. Wonder if you can get longer cable with antenna… or maybe a better antenna too. Guess I’ll find out after I trip on it and break it.
Update
Found this review, looks like they get five stars when holding their phone, wtf I can’t one or no bars when holding phone. Phone has to be sitting right next to antenna, maybe its because I’m more then 10 feet away. Pretty sure when I have it 10 feet or less away from base, I still don’t get signal when holding phone, at least not at desk. Maybe my thing is crap and doesn’t work right, to lazy to send it back. Or maybe my $200 cell phone is a dumbass. Going to try $80 cell phone. And then if that doesn’t work I’m going to get tape measurer.
Wait I should try calling somebody, hmm its 11:21 pm, I’ll try calling VOIP number. Maybe it only works for calls, which sucks if that’s the case. Other phone does same thing, if you put it right by it or under it, you’ll get full signal, now to call VOIP number after I look it up.
No green light blinking.. Damn it guess I need tape measurer.
Its about 10 feet away from fucking base thing, and desk is about 6 feet from antenna, but even right by the antenna it doesn’t pick up call, might pick up call if I put phone right by or under the fucking antenna.
These reviews must be written by the people who made it or something. Rebooting my phone 20+ times doesn’t work either.
Are you supposed to get “Network busy” with this thing? Haha, light still not blinking green. Changing settings on phone doesn’t seem to be helping either. The thing doesn’t blink green when it is handling a call, at least not for me. If I put phone on antenna and make a call, it doesn’t blink green, full signal then. So if you want to tape the antenna to your phone, this thing should work great for you. And putting it more then 10 feet away works. To bad I can’t hold phone.
Maybe there is interference, so maybe I should unplug routers, turn mac off, turn iPod touch off, turn blue-tooth off on phone, fuck that.
Looks like I need to send it back, either get money back or replacement. Hmm wonder if I can get new antenna only. I should email support.
Emailed support, now to wait and see what they say… Well amazon doesn’t offer an exchange program anyways… So I will have to return it and wait, then re order it. Won’t re order if it the price goes up though. Should wait for them to email me first though.
Update
Turned it off for a short time, it does blink green when it uses it, but will only use it if phone is under it, not touching it. When at desk it doesn’t use it. Ahh if you put it side ways you might be able to go farther then a foot. But only one bar according to phone. From the pic on that review they don’t have there’s on its side, strange. Sitting right by it and holding up to hear doesn’t use it. Think a foot would be the max distance if that, might be less then that. If you use speaker phone or a blue tooth thing it should work fine. Don’t move phone though. Wonder if there’s a way to reset it or something. Probably not. Oh yeah the window I put it in, my phone gets a full signal. So that isn’t the problem.
Nice reviews on newegg… One says antenna needs to be six feet away from base, and another says it needs to be as far as possible, one says they can be 20 feet away, another says less then a foot. So I guess less then a foot like I thought is right. Not sure how far the antenna should be, seems to work right on desk. So if I don’t want to use speaker phone, I’ll have to be right by antenna, almost touching it with my hear to phone, and phone to antenna. Oh yeah and its deactivated on newegg, maybe they are making new on that works.
It doesn’t always blink green either, guess only at random.
Maybe I’ll just use speaker phone or one of my bluetooth things that I don’t use. Hmm it would be cheaper to put phone in window and use bluetooth, perhaps that’s what I’ll do, or better do nothing.
Damn it I should of slept longer, but my arm was hurting. Read on tuaw.com that 3.0 might be released at 10 am.
Update 10:20 AM
Just bought the 3.0 update its downloading now.
That’s because many observers don’t expect a new iPhone will be unveiled. The Cupertino company’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference is about software, not gadgets. Some prognosticators say a new device – perhaps even a new family of iPhones – will be launched later this month or in July.
Good cause I don’t care about the iPhone. Not buying any phone that is locked down to a service, hell I don’t even need a cell phone or any phone for that matter. If I had to pay bill, I’d have no cell phone.
Might not have to buy OS X Snow Leopard, as I’ll eventually get an iMac. Doubt Snow leopard will be released immediately.
Funny how everyone is expecting hardware, does anyone realize the name of it is “World Wide Developer Conference”? Sounds like software, not hardware, at least to me.
A number of analysts expect Apple to hold a special event in coming weeks to launch a new family of iPhones, and to announce lower prices.
Ahh there you go iPhone humpers. Maybe they’ll lower price of iMac, still have to wait 2+ months, will want some money left in bank, and will be buying refurbished.
Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster speculates a device that is somewhat larger than the iPod Touch will be launched in the first quarter of next year.
That is what I want, then I won’t bother getting a new touch if they make a new one. I still have the first generation touch, waiting for third generation or tablet like mac.
Apple’s annual developers conference: Don’t expect a new iPhone – San Jose Mercury News.
The Sims 3 is pretty fun on the iPod touch. You can go to other people’s house, you can also barge in, to bad the doors are usually locked. You can talk to trees to, which is really fun/exciting. Oh yeah and I made my sim a maniac. He got fired from a job, for trying to steal something. Can’t play the mac version of the game, as my mac mini has crappy video. Not buying new mac for one game.
Thinking about buying an ASUS Eee PC 901, or some other netbook with linux. Had aspire one, but that one had small SSD low ram, wasn’t worth it. Now there cheaper and better, Eee PC 901 even has a better battery then my aspire one had. Would be nice to have bigger screen then touch to browse web while watching tv, and a full featured browser. Maybe apple will release a new iPod touch with bigger screen… Probably not anytime soon. I think I rather buy a netbook from amazon, easy return policy, fast free two day shipping. Depends if ubuntu will run on this without any problems, need to look into that. Ubuntu netbook page. Hmm looks like the HP works pretty good on it. Wait that HP model that works, can’t even find it. But the 1000 that HP lists on site has a sound bug. Doesn’t look to hard to fix, HP mini has real HD and bigger screen then the Eee PC 901. Hmm strange their site says different then what amazon has… Pass on HP mini, want one that comes with 6 cell battery. Hmm maybe this aspire one.
Update
Bought Acer Aspire One AOD150-1165 10.1-Inch Sapphire Blue Netbook – 6 Cell Battery instead of ASUS Eee PC 901. Will put ubuntu on it, once I get it. Same price that I payed for old aspire one that had crappy SSD drive, this one has a real hard drive. Hmm maybe I should of bought that newegg DIY bundle instead, ahh well I can buy that next month. haha. Or send netbook back and buy it. Don’t want that bundle, rather get a quad core processor, if I get AMD. So I’d have to manually pick everything out. Ahh well I have 30 days to try netbook out, if I don’t like it I can send it back.
Update
If I get it and it doesn’t work, or ubuntu is to much of a pain to get working on it, I’m going to send it back to amazon and get refund, have 30 days. Also I’ve read that acer’s supports sucks, and to get an rma is a pain, also heard from somebody else that somebody they know has an acer and they break down a lot. Must of got lucky with last Aspire One, good thing I sold it on ebay.
Said they only had one left, like the fact that you can use any headphones you want with it. But the headphones they come with will probably work fine for me, if not I’ll probably buy some really expensive in ear headphones. I think the iPod touch 2G has built in bluetooth, Apple said you’d be able to enable it in firmware 3.0. I’m waiting for the next iPod touch though. Might need an 8 GB microSDHC card soon. I like being an ass and buying the last one in stock, looks like they’ll have more on the 6th. Wonder if there’s anything else I want/don’t need that only has one left in stock. Hmm maybe I should just get the fasted 4 GB microSDHC card I can get… The cheap one I have is kind of slow. But works, so not a big deal. Might take all night though to copy all the music I selected to it.
There’s a pic of iPod touch on top of my new Nokia E63, as you can see the iPod touch is skinnier. The case I have for iPod touch makes it look fatter then it really is.
Note: I have an iPod touch, so I don’t know if everything is working, no microphone or second generation touch. I do hear message saying I need call out credit from gizmo5.
If your on a mac like me, then you need cross over games, as you can’t setup SIP with their shitty web interface.
After you have cross over games, or cross over office installed, install Nimbuzz for PC.
Now all you have to do is login to PC version, and setup SIP, really simple after logging in go to Settings | Calling Settings. And enter your SIP settings.
After you set it up, go on your iPhone and open Nimbuzz, and select phone calls, click the No operator selected thing and click Other VoIP Account.
Damn D-Link 615 router isn’t very stable. Sometimes iPod touch will disconnect mac from internet. Just rebooted it and changed the channel, now Airfoil seems to be working right. I got it for $29.99 from compusa.com. Hmm wonder if this router lets you assign IPs to different mac addresses, like D-Link. Hopefully it does. Read you can put D-Link firmware on it.
Update
Not on sale anymore. Good thing I’m on their mailing list, signed up for it sometime ago, probably when entering a sweepstake from em.
Got my Nintendo DSi that I pre ordered from amazon today. The screen is bigger and brighter and looks better, just put a game in, and you should notice right away. It connects to my router, can’t play any games online though, cause router isn’t setup as WEP. Though I could go outside or something and borrow somebody’s internet if I really wanted too. The browser works alright, don’t really need it, iPod touch’s browser is better. I didn’t use any of my free 1,000 points yet. Oh yeah and my M3 Simply doesn’t work with it, it just says no game inserted.
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Put xubuntu and boxee on my MSI Wind Nettop 100, plays 720p perfectly fine, at least everything I tried, tv doesn’t do 1080p, does 1080i though. There’s a bug in boxee, it crashes sometimes when playing an audio file, really annoying. Oh yeah put the boxee remote app on iPod touch, and changed wireless N router to mixed mode, so I can use iPod touch with boxee. Also bought a D-Link gigabyte switch, so I can have linkstation and MSI Wind Nettop 100 connected by gigabyte speeds. That came yesterday too, and works fine. It has a rebate according to amazon, but to lazy to fill that out, don’t care about rebate.
The iPod touch version will cost $9.95, fucking bastards always charging touch users.
“Meanwhile, Apple also revealed that Bluetooth support can be activated in the 2nd generation iPod Touches. ”
Quote from macrumors.com, hmm maybe I’ll buy a new iPod touch then, that comes with 3.0. First generation doesn’t have bluetooth. Wonder if my bluetooth headset will work with it, then I can use VOIP on touch.
Another new feature is “Third-Party Accessory Apps: Allowing accessory manufacturers to create applications to interface with their hardware accessories.”, so I guess somebody could make a microphone accessory for iPod touch, and then make app that’ll work with it, probably wouldn’t be a VOIP app, maybe they’d release an SDK, so others could make apps for it.
I don’t want to buy the second generation iPod touch though, waiting for the third generation.
Thanks to amazon they just released a free kindle app for the iPod touch/iPhone. Glad I didn’t ever buy a kindle, was thinking about it once, but never bought it. No need now, thanks to the free app amazon released for touch/iPhone users. Now I should see what books are available.
After erasing all content and settings, and then setting up as new iPod, not restoring backup, both SimCity and Pull My Finger work now. Before SimCity would just open and close, and Pull My Finger had no sound, though don’t bother buying Pull My Finger, the sounds suck. Erasing all contents and settings, is probably the same as doing a restore, and then setting up as new iPod. Guessing that something was corrupted on my iPod, and iTunes backed that up, so restoring the backup didn’t solve anything, just put it back in the same place it was before. Kind of pathetic that I had to do that, just to get SimCity to work.
Oh yeah and once you get SimCity to work, your battery will get drained very quickly, unless you don’t like it.
Just bought SimCity in the app store, and it just opens and quits, restarted like people say to do on tuaw.com, but that didn’t fix anything. Does apple even test these apps or games? Doesn’t seem like it, got ripped off two times, wouldn’t think ea would rip me off, but I guess they will. Won’t be buying anything from app store anymore, as my luck isn’t very good, two apps bought recently, and neither work as advertised, thanks assholes.
Update 12/18/08
Restored iPod touch and deleted some unused apps, still the game doesn’t work. Looks like it only works with the iPod touch 2g or something. Works for my uncle with his iPhone 3g. Though the requirements say that it works with the iPod touch, doesn’t say second generation only, fucking lying assholes.
Update 12/20/08
Works after erasing all contents and settings and then setting up as new iPod, not restoring backup. Now copying all music to it, will see if it still works after its done…
Update 12/20/08
Game still works after putting music back on it. Didn’t put pics back on it yet, might not, never really looked at em anyways.
Said it was compatible with iPod touch, didn’t say generation 2 only, I’m guessing the author is a fucking asshole, and made it only work with the internal speakers, so I wasted a total of $1.03 after tax on an app that is useless.
Oh yeah the new flip share software is way better, more responsive and looks better too. When opening the program on flip video camera it said a free upgrade to flip share, so downloaded it.
Update 12/17/08
Version 1.1 doesn’t work either, still no sound, don’t waste your money.
Today Apple announced a new iPod nano, and a new iPod touch. Also they announced a new version of iTunes, with a new feature called “Genius”, lets you “rediscover your iTunes music.”. The new nano’s have more colors, start at 8 GB instead of 4 GB, same price $149 for 8 GB, $299 for 16 GB. The new touch’s have a built in speaker. The starting price for the new touch’s is $229 for 8 GB, $299 for 16 GB, and $399 for 32 GB. I think I’ll be buying a new touch, the built in speaker is nice. Especially when taking a big ass dump, you don’t need head phones on, to watch a video, or listen to some music, or play a game.
Oh yeah there’s a new iPod classic too, only one size, and one price, two colors, $249 for 120 GB.
Forgot one more thing, iPod touch firmware 2.1 was released today, or is going to be released sometime today. iPhone users have to wait until Friday to get the 2.1 firmware.
You can go to the Apple store, to see new prices, and colors.
You can also go to tuaw.com, for more info on the updates.
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Finally apple released the new firmware for the iPod touch and iPhone, hmm can’t seem to remember what the bugs were or are, downloading the newer version now though. Haven’t really been using my iPod touch all that much lately, maybe to read some news, and check email. Perhaps those bugs, that I can’t think of, have been fixed.
iPhone 2.0.1 firmware out for iPhone and iPod touch – The Unofficial Apple Weblog TUAW
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