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Review: Samsung Reclaim
Last week, I finally bit the bullet and got new cell phones for my wife and me. (The batteries weren't holding charges and I've been unable to get replacement batteries that hold a charge.) I was very cautious to pick phones that wouldn't affect my plan, so that pretty much ruled out phones such as the Pre or HTC Hero. As I liked the slider on the Pre I have for work, I decided on the Samsung Reclaim for our new phones (we already had unlimited data for both our phones; unlimited data being EVDO Rev. 0 data).
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Cleaning up after yourself
Yesterday I saw a Twitter post from Jonathan Wight of Toxic Software complaining about background apps that when you trash them, still keep running and he suggested using FSEvents to automatically terminate when that happens.
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Dollars for my Sony Reader
I wrote a few weeks ago that now that I have an iPad, my seldom used Sony Reader PRS-500 had no use to me. On the MacBreak Weekly podcast, I heard about
gazelle.com where you can sell old gadgets and get money. I didn't have high hopes as I usually keep gadgets to the point that they have very little value. -
Wasting money in the App Store
I just purchased an app called Time Master for my iPad for doing time tracking as I'm working on a number of projects. Unfortunately the developer doesn't understand user interface and added every feature in the book. The application is unwieldily and it took me 15 minutes to setup 4 projects. In addition, when you add projects and other things, you get a warning to backup your data before editing/adding information. Wow, I sure can't trust this program if the developer doesn't even trust the database. The response I got from the developer is that there is no backup for the data. Well, warning the users every time they enter the setup is a very bad idea.