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DUN, Sprint, the Treo 650, and a Rehash of a Post

Back in March of 2006, I wrote a blog post on my old blogger account on using DUN via bluetooth to get online with a Mac. Then, I wrote the following:

1) Turn bluetooth ON on your phone but leave DUN OFF. This is critical. It took me a dogs age to figure this out. It isn't documented anywhere.
2) Go into your bluetooth menu on the laptop and setup bluetooth device.
3) Choose phone.
4) follow the instructions on the laptop. It will give you a passcode which you will enter into the Treo
5) Turn ON DUN on the Treo
6) Open Internet connect on your laptop

Cell Phone FlickrTip

I take at least one photo a day and send it to Flickr. Often this one photo is from my cell phone and documents a moment in my morning commute, stopped at a stop light, grabbing a coffee at my local drive through, or perhaps parked at work. I use a Treo 650 that has data enabled on it, but any mobile with a camera (and the ability to email will work).

The first step is to set up a Flickr account (if you don't have one already). A basic account is free, a Pro account costs $24.95. The difference is that a free account limits the number of viewable pictures to 200 and allows limited bandwidth for transfers and the Pro account allows you unlimited viewable pictures ridiculous amounts of transfer bandwidth.

KS Flickr Set

There has been an insane amount of rain around Wichita KS. While none of this Flickr Set reflect the crazy amount of rain, tomorrow I will add about 20 that do. In many places rivers are way above flood stage. Water is making its way onto city streets. Some parts of the state have seen nearly 10 inches of rain since it began on Tuesday.

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Digital Camera Wish

I take at least one photo a day and send it to Flickr.  Often that picture is taken from my cell phone, a Treo 650, and soon after sent to flickr via a special email address set up to accept photos and plop them into my photo stream.  Flickr then automatically adds my preset tags making them findable.  It is pretty slick and works very well with an Internet enabled phone.
The problem is that you end up being relegated to using whatever camera you have in your phone and while some phones with cameras take stellar pictures, you have very little control over the settings in the camera.  You sacrifice control for convenience/instant gratification.

Blogger and Qumana, one nit

This isn't a flaw in Qumana.  It isn't a flaw with Blogger either.  When I post to my Drupal site, the process is seamless.  I type in the Qumana screen, edit, spell check, link, embed.  The process is slick and quick.  In many ways it is a better experience than typing into the blog itself.  This morning, when I connected via DUN, and posted my previous entry it was lightning fast even on the Treo 650.  In other words, I think that Qumana will ultimately make me more efficient.  I may well load it onto my iMac at home as well as the portable I carry for work.

Sprint and Insurance

Today I dropped my Treo 650 today at work. The display shattered leaving large grey areas oozing through out the front LCD. It is times like this that I am glad we bought insurance from our phones. We pay $3 per month (although I think it is going to raise up to $4 shortly) and it covers accidental damage to the phone. My Treo 600 died and they upgraded me for free to the 650. Now with a cracked screen, they had it repaired in an hour.

Given that I would have to upgrade to a 700 now and that a 700 runs $300, if I make use of the insurance ONCE in 75 months--or 6.25 years, the insurance has paid for itself. I have used it twice in the last two years.

Drupal Posting On A Mobile

Some time ago I experimented with blogging on blogspot using my Treo. I recently realised that I have not tried this excercise on this newer Drupal site.

Again, being able to use a mobile to blog helps the NP community by reducing what a blogger needs to carry to post.

Between most mobiles having a camera and Flickr one can use a device like a treo nearly as effectively as a laptop in a pocket sized device.