Tapland RSS

The Tapwave Zodiac enthusiast site Tapland just added an RSS feed to their site. Some time ago I wrote a short article on Getting Started with RSS for Goodthatway.com which was an earlier site from Scott Raulinaitis who is also the founder of Tapland. If you're a Tapwave fan, be sure to check out Tapland, including their new RSS 2.0 feed and Mobile version.

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Posted in: PDA

Palm Webcam

From clievideo.com comes Palm Webcam 1.0 — a combination device/desktop application that turns camera-equipped Palm OS devices into a Windows webcam. I gave it a whirl with a Zire 72 and Treo 600 and it worked pretty well with Yahoo! Messenger. (Ahh, the best of both worlds…Palm and Yahoo!) The video quality in both cases was pretty good with a slight nod to the Zire 72 (which has a better camera than the Treo 600). The speed was much better on the Zire 72 as well: at 320×240 resolution, the app reported 4.9 vs. 1.6 fps on the Treo; for…

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Gmail Accounts

As I mentioned earlier, I finally got a Google Gmail account and have been playing with it. They must be opening up the gates a little more because I now have several 'invites' of my own to give. Does anyone who reads this want a Gmail account? If so, send a message to cantoni AT gmail.com. Update: All gone. If I get any more invites I'll post again.

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Nascar Tickets For Sale

This year I bought season tickets for Infineon Raceway here in the Bay Area. I've been selling tickets for events I can't attend and just posted the Saturday June 26 Nascar weekend tickets on eBay. If you or someone you know is interested, please visit my auction on eBay. Update: SOLD! I was glad to find a good buyer on eBay for these.

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Yahoo! Mail Changes

Today Yahoo! announced significant changes to the Yahoo! Mail service. Here are some of the highlights: Free accounts have storage increased from 4 to 100 MB Paid accounts (Yahoo! Mail Plus, SBC DSL) will increase to 2 GB (described as “virtually unlimited”) Attachments supported up to 10 MB More streamlined design for the mail interface Faster, improved search More account names being made available Clearly this is in part a response to Google’s Gmail service with free 1 GB mail accounts. Competition is a good thing — hopefully the expanded storage along with the new feature set will continue to…

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