March 2006

Last week Engadget put up a contest offering a souped up Alienware PC for the best birthday cake someone could bake for their 2nd birthday. Well, I am delighted to say that the ‘winning cake’ was made by a Treonaut...

March 17, 2006 | Comments (6) | Read more...

Until now my favourite speakerphone has been the Supertooth II but this was before receiving and evaluating the terrific new MVox MV900 portable Bluetooth speakerphone for both the Treo 650 and Treo 700w. For starters, as you can appreciate above,...

March 17, 2006 | Comments (1) | Read more...

I am always trying to increase the overall speed with which I access applications on my Treo and I use a few simple tricks and specific third-party programs to help me do this – particularly ones that allow me to...

March 16, 2006 | Comments (11) | Read more...

*If you happen to have $25,000 to open a new account with Ameritrade… This is not the first time that I’ve come across a company offering a Treo as an incentive for new or existing customers but to the best...

March 15, 2006 | Comments (10) | Read more...

A few weeks ago I wrote about the excellent Aquapac Waterproof Case which I highly recommended as a terrific solution if you need to protect your Treo at the beach, while sailing or any other environment where it might be...

March 14, 2006 | Comments (5) | Read more...

As you might have noticed from some of the earlier pictures that I’ve taken with my Treo, I rather like being able to capture sunsets particularly the last moments when light falls and darkness rises in this case leaving a...

March 14, 2006 | Comments (1) | Read more...

For a while now I have been complaining that I need a “spare battery travel charger” because as much as the Treo batteries seem to last forever (even more so with my new Seidio 2400mAh Extended Battery) I still typically...

March 11, 2006 | Comments (5) | Read more...

I’ve never quite figured out the whole craze about buying ringtones – perhaps because I never felt a particularly strong inclination to pay again for just a portion of music that I typically already owned. At the same time, even...

March 9, 2006 | Comments (60) | Read more...

I just received my new Arkon CM910 Vehicle Mount Kit and naturally I immediately began comparing it to the other ones that I have. I expected no more than a ‘mild’ improvement but to my pleasant surprise the Arkon (below...

March 7, 2006 | Comments (12) | Read more...

Now that things have been settled in the four year long RIM/NTP patent dispute – with RIM choosing to pay NTP the princely sum of $612.5 million for a “full and final settlement” – the threat of a shutdown of...

March 6, 2006 | Comments (21) | Read more...