It’s an unseasonably warm and rainy January here in Warren, where warm actually means daytime highs of about 30 degrees and ’seasonable weather’ would be closer to zero. The point is that it’s the worst possible winter weather: the rain ruins the regular winter activities, and it’s still too cold to take up summer activities. [...]

Posted January 14, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Photoblog, Technology, Warren. Tags: ashton, clie, cute, kid, kids, lo-fi, palm, pool, soggy, video, waterproof. One Comment.

My Treo rocks. Part of my love for the new gadget is how I can now AIM on the run without SMS. Sure, I risk frostbitten fingers as I walk across campus and I’d probably be a lot better off if I just called the person, but…but…
Anyway, Everything Treo was near the top of my [...]

Posted December 16, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: aim, aim client, cellphones, chat, communication, im, instant messaging, mobile communications, mobile phones, palm, treo. 17 Comments.

I’ve been talking up the Pepper Pad and Nokia 770 a lot, and I’ve mentioned a moment of lust for the LifeDrive (despite my complaints against PDAs), but today I bought a Treo 650 (even though I had doubts).
My decision surprised me, but the following factors all weighed in its favor:

My cell phone contract expired. [...]

Posted December 10, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: cameraphone, cell phone, cellphone, palm, palmone, pda, phone, small camera, smart phone, smartphone, treo, treo 650, treo650. 7 Comments.

Geolocation by GPS my be the most straightforward approach, but we mustn’t forget the other ways to get lat/lon coordinates.
All current cell phones support aGPS positioning to comply with federal E-911 mandates, but not all phones make it easy for the user to get that information out of them. Still, some do and GPS-enabled moblogging [...]

Posted June 13, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: agps, cell phone, coordinates, geolocation, gps, lattitude, longitude, map, mapping, maps, moblogging, network, networking application, palm, picture phone, social networking, wifi. 5 Comments.