Tuesday, October 29, 2002

Mr. Mole Does Not Promote Safe CSS Scott Andrew: More CSS Than Can Be Handled Safely "Nearly 800 table-free CSS designs, courtesy of Meryl who is thankfully mirroring the original archive from webnouveau.net, which has gone AWOL. Admire, view source, learn." Miff has recently scaled up to CSS with the just mentioned Jazz 88 Schedule his most recent production. Run, Miff, Run. comment []  2:02:09 PM

Looking For A Multi-Media PDA. iPAQ out and Toshiba in? Periodically, I get the jones for a Personal Data Assistant (PDA) that I can use for blogging around the house, along with viewing pictures, transfering data to the home network and internet, recording voice interviews...you know, all that everyday kind of thing. Jeff L. at work has had an iPAQ for a while now so I thought I'd ask him about it. To prep, here are the things I'm looking for... MP3 Player Voice Recorder (with Microphone attachment prefered) Wireless connectivity: Roam the house and read my news aggregator anywhere (need a PocketPC version of the aggregator). Web Browser: Access to my weblog posting page anywhere in the house and over the Internet. USB connectivity: Connect the PDA to my digicam and transfer photos to the home PC or upload via Internet. GPS: Take the PDA on the road and map where I'm going and where I've been. Download waypoints (GPS coordinates for 'I was here') and draw maps of my travels. So, I talked to Jeff and here's what he uses his iPAQ for (mostly): Mapping: He's got a San Diego map (and downloads others for where he is going) that will point out businesses, etc. around where he is...after he punches in where he is. GPS would be nice here to eliminate having to type in street names and such. Wireless Connectivity: He can check email and surf the web from anywhere in his domain via his wireless access point. Email and Web Browsing, already mentioned. Jeff pointed me in the direction of the Toshiba PocketPC e740 as his current choice for his next-generation PDA usage. Integrated WiFi (wireless) is totally cool and it's got voice recording, MP3 playing, and a couple of expansion slots that would probably give me the USB connectivity (would sure be nice to use their cradle slot for this, when not using the cradle). A quick search turned up a problem with the battery in this model, so that's a strike against it (but it is limited to certain serial numbers, so maybe it's not all bad). Jeff also mentioned that it was available at CostCo, but all I could find on-line there were iPaq PDAs. The search continues. New equipment of some sort is coming, mark my words. comment []  11:18:49 AM