Technology

Okay guys, it’s time to sell these two toys to fund my golf habit. Back in January I wrote about the huge cool factor behind the 770, and although I still think it’s extremely cool I just don’t use it enough to warrant keeping it. I’ve actually only used it about 2-3 hours max since I bought it early this Spring, with the keyboard only in use for about 30 minutes.

Here’s a review of the keyboard, it’s a beautiful little gadget that works perfectly.

Both the 770 and the keyboard for $260 USD and they’re both in pristine condition. Shoot me an email via the contact form if you’re interested in buying them!

Update: Sold!

Just a few days ago RIM’s Co-CEO/Chairman announced that many Blackberry features will be added to models coming out “by the end of the year” with WiFi support, image capture (camera), and MP3 playback capabilities on the short list. After settling the lawsuit earlier this year, RIMs subscriber numbers have been growing steadily, and although they recently announced the 8700 line I’m sure that at least one new product line will be coming out in Q3/Q4 2006 as per their announcement.

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I’m sure all of you get spam like me, in fact email spam is so integrated into our daily lives that I think if I didn’t get a bunch of spam emails I’d think something was up. This entry isn’t about how spam lords get our email addresses, or viruses received (I’m a Mac guy anyway), or malware, it’s about getting fooled even though we know technology like the back of our hands. What spam emails cause you to read them and click rather than delete automatically? Have you been fooled? Who fools you?

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I’m not sure how I missed this, but it seems Netgear is coming out with a WiFi Skype phone that looks very slick:

I don’t use Skype for calling friends, however nabbing this phone and using SkypeOut to call their regular numbers seems pretty fly. I read somewhere that the bummer is that there’s no web interface for the phone, so if you’re at an airport or another “hotspot” that you don’t control and have to login through the web to use, you won’t be able to do so, so no free calls. But at home I think that could be really badass.

I do use VoIP in my “office” already: I have a Cisco 7940 hooked up to VoicePulse Connect, with my G5 acting as the Asterisk server. Running Asterisk on my work computer (with Photoshop, Mail, TextMate, Adium, iTunes and Transmit running 100% of the time) takes the voice quality down a few notches, so I’m seriously considering buying an Intel Mac mini, sticking it and the Cisco phone on its own switch, and then running Asterisk on the mini to boost phone quality. Add to that the new Netgear Wifi Skype phone and a SkypeIn number and I’ve got some serious hotness.

So what’s your VoIP situation look like? Are you already running VoIP? Is it through your cable provider, Vonage, or a do-it-yourself plan like VoicePulse? What’s up?