David Pitkin

I lost the LD-3W that came with my N800 Navigation kit on one of my trips, I just forgot it on the dash of a rental car. So here is the unboxing of the fancy new LD-4W from mobileplanet.com.

The box front and back and then the contents of inside . And here is all the stuff the karabiner that it comes with is a joke, brittle crappy plastic the device itself is awesome it is a perfect size and the addition of the hole allows you to actually use it with a suction cup and not have it awkwardly around like the old style. . It has soft rubber on the back so it does not slide around and uses the standard 2.5mm charging cable that most Nseries devices now use.

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They might want to update their Event schedule.

ZoneTag was the first mobile phone upload tool I used to send pictures to flickr, created at the Yahoo! Research Berkley lab. On the Nokia 6682 it was great, even without a GPS it would upload the cell tower information and they started to build a database so you could put it on a map. This was before flickr had geotagging. The other thing they did was suggest tags based on your location, so when I took a picture at Fenway it could suggest that tag on flickr, this was in 2006.

Fast forward and ZoneTag lacked in support for my newer phones and so I turned to Shozu for a while, the thing I missed the most was when I went to upload I could not tag or set the privacy of the photo being uploaded. This was a major disadvantage for me but I lived with it, I actually uploaded all my pictures as private and then selectively turned them public, but often forgot and never went back to tag.

Now with the new N95 and new version of ZoneTag prototype there is a ton of stuff, including the ability to tag a photo with a verb/Acton Tag like !scanr:wb will tell ZoneTag that I am uploading a picture of a whiteboard to send to scanR and have it perform OCR on that picture. Fantastic.

Now if only ZoneTag used the GPS coordinates as well as Cell Tower info…

I wanted to share the list of applications and setting I have done so far for my brand new N95 today.

Installed: WorldMate for weather Nokia Maps Nokia Map Loader downloaded NH, MA and CA to my 2GB card Shozu Conversation Handy Taskman Sport Tracker Google Mail Mobile Google Maps Setup GooSync to get my calendar, the database name is “Calendar” and use the other generic settings. Synced with iSync to the Mac address book

This device is fantastic.

Thanks to the host (Orange Labs) and organizers of Mobile Monday Boston for the chance to attend a mobile social networking panel last night. I wanted to just write a few of my notes.

• Mobile Phones are great social networking tools for a variety of reasons such as they are always with you, are key content creators (camera, microphone, keypad), have access to your location and make it easy to get your attention
• Nobody mentioned 3G at all, everyone mentioned facebook ( I just created a momo boston facebook group )
• Paying for your shortcode is expensive
• The four wireless carriers in the US continue to control distribution

Event details here

Anyone else having trouble with their iGoogle homepage? Mine shows me another users content entirely. My homepage is very different than what you see here.

It is nice to see that even a Google application can be busted pretty badly. Gmail did not let me into their mailbox and correctly displayed mine. Is iGoogle beta?

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I was thinking this morning about why I wanted an iPhone. It’s a step backwards from my “Nokia N80:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N80 but I still wanted one. I came up with two reasons.

1. Apple has done very little exposure of the fact that this is the coolest video iPod ever. Touch screen, 3.5” widescreen display, coverflow. If it had no phone features I would be ordering one. In this way they have managed the conversation around the bad parts like AT&T coverage and EDGE speed. So they managed my expectations and kept me subliminally hooked with the stuff you “forgot” about it, and you only forgot because they did not market that part.

2. I was then thinking about a post I can’t find now titled something like “Would your users stand in line for your products”. How about thinking of the flip side of that exact question, how could you create a line for your product? Maybe not take any preorders, release it after the work day ended on a Friday before a vacation week. Apple is good at so many facets.

My friend Donald already brick-ed his 4G iPhone! While syncing a lot of music and contacts it just locked up, he tried reloading it from iTunes twice but it still won’t boot up past the beautiful apple logo. He is on his way back to the store where I am sure they will swap it out. Oh and Dave had one that did not work with his wifi router which promoted the response “my router stinks” if your [INSERT OS HERE] phone had a 700MB Operating System and did not work with your preexisting network you think the manufacture could ever get you to blame your own hardware (even if it did stink)? Oh don’t worry I do think I am going to take a trip to Salem to pick one up.

Oh one sobering note, it is a odd time we live in to think while the country is at war people can line up outside of stores to buy a $600 gadget. Very strange.

In working on a short project a PDF was created from Powerpoint, everyone loved the result but it was not what the author wanted. I am working on the actual document so I started to look for a way to match what people saw in Acrobat. Turns out that everyone saw Adobe Sans MM which is the substitute font. The MM stands for Multiple Master which is a complicated cool font technology. It also means that the font everyone saw is pretty much impossible to easily reproduce.

First link in Google is to the flickr group dedicated to instances in the real world where Adobe Sans MM slipped through the creative process.

I got a Nokia CA-100 charger from Expansys via MobilePlanet today. It was kind of expensive at 41 US dollars, converted from the 18 GBP. Look at all the devices it can charge for me from any USB port I can get my hands on. This will be a most welcome addition to my laptop bag.