When I get any free time I want to play with the phone. I used flightview this week it worked great, but I think it drained my battery quickly. Used the sprint navigation when crossing on a ferry. It was funny to see the car drive across water. I have a couple draft posts written about using the phone, but so little time to polish them up.
Monthly Archives: June 2009
flickr added the pre to photo tracking
Way back on June 7th I submitted a request to flickr because they weren’t recognizing my photos taken with the palm prē. Well they said they would look into it, but never got back to me. I see they have it now and it shows 3,357 photos uploaded in just 12 days! Pretty cool!
http://www.flickr.com/cameras/palm/?s=users#models
I noticed that the iPhone has 10 million photo’s uploaded to flickr. That’s a lot of photos.
Installed WordPress 2.8
I just updated this blog to wordpress 2.8. I don’t see a difference yet, but there isn’t much on this blog yet to notice a difference. :). The install was easy. The hardest part was removing the old directories from my server. I’m not using a smart FTP client so I had to delete files before I could delete directories.
Quick Wallpapers
While reading some tweets about the prē I noticed preThinkingcalled out for wallpapers. I had some images I had set aside as possible Vista backgrounds awhile ago, so I grab a couple and re-sized. Enjoy. If you somehow found this page other than through twitter you can follow me there as @pixxels. In the future I’ll be uploading more to my flickr set for Palm Prē wallpapers
Along came the prē
Some will be surprised that getting a palm prē is what pushed me into starting a blog. It would have made more sense to start this thing when Nora was born (photo stream). However, I didn’t think the possible audience was large enough to justify a blog solely dedicated to her, and I wasn’t sure from a privacy point of view I wanted to blog about her. She is THE MOST FABULOUS little girl in the world, but it’s mostly family that will want updates about her.
As for the prē, I did get one. I was 3rd in line at my local store, and so that you know what to expect in future posts here is a little backstory; I like Palm, I still have a Vx and a Centro in the house. I like the prē so far, it does some cool things and it feels like a great platform, but it needs more to be a smash it. In general I’d classify myself as a power user of technology. I usually root for the underdog as I think competition is a powerful driving force for innovation.
Here is one of the first pictures I snapped with my new phone.
Here is what I wrote on a pure html page last week just before launch. In summary I don’t think Sprint did a great job with the launch. In hindsight maybe they did the best they could with limited supplies.




