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Or, “How the Pre will not save Palm”. Or, “How the Pre was dead before it started.” Or, “How the Pre was unfortunately conceived of by Palm, Inc.” Palm, Inc. has been on the proverbial corporate respirator for a really, really, long time. We all remember the days when it was just the Pilot 1000 [...]

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2009-04-27 :: mark // Software
An Android news day

Lots of Android news today. Cupcake (v1.5) for Android Developer Phone is official from HTC Vodafone Spain is launching the HTC Magic today, apparently Italy’s TIM is getting the HTC Magic Samsung officially announces the I7500 Android phone in Korea Awesome. If you haven’t played with the 1.5 release (Cupcake), I would definitely do it.

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Oh, how I love xda-developers. The ugly web forum hangout for all HTC-related hackery. I’ve been there since the early days with my Audivox SMT5600 (aka HTC Typhoon), and on through with a T-Mobile SDA (aka HTC Tornado), T-Mobile MDA (aka HTC Wizard), my current Sprint Touch (aka HTC Vogue), and HTC Touch Pro courtesy [...]

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Many people that use Macs need to use Entourage because their company utilizes Microsoft Exchange. That’s fine with me, as Exchange seems to be a perfectly functional (when someone else is running it) calendaring/email/addressbook “enterprise” thing. Plus, Mail.app is such a frustratingly bad piece of software. But this (probably) bug in Entourage is really silly. [...]

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Ah, the beauty of open source software. This is a long post that started with a simple problem. At work, we live behind the Great Olin Firewall (GOF). I checked out some code from an internal Subversion repository over HTTP. Now, I’m outside the GOF and I want to commit some important changes. We have [...]

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