I’m thinking of getting a PDA, primarily for Reading and Word time. But barring me getting a really good deal on PDA I’m trying to decide if it’s better to hold out for an Electronic Ink device because of the longer battery life.
But what do all you PDA users think, do you use your PDA for much besides reading?
Anyone have any experience with Electronic Ink.
Wordpress 2.0.6 is out, so time to do the upgrades, for my blog it involves a bit more the a simple update as I run gallery embedded with Gallery 2. And updating usually takes a bit longer the famous 5 minutes 
I stumbled on Firebug and gave it a try, and so far all I can say is that it’s the bomb, it makes finding specific parts of the HTML document easy and is a significant time saver for Web development. Best feature is that it makes your HTML doc a collapsible tree and it starts out all minimized to the
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And don’t blame me if this happens next April 1st
Have you ever deleted a vital partition and needed to receover it, I recently had to recover a HD with deleted partitions. I never had to do that before so the first step was to google “free partition recovery” utility and several variations, and all the results are buyware, free downloads but only demos showing off the capabilities of their paid software. Most of these results hid the demo part so that you wouldn’t find out it was crippled until you burnt the ISO and booted from their recovery CD, that was just plain annoying — at least be upfront about it!!
So I add to opensource to the search query (free partition recovery utility opensource) and voila! Testdisk which not only recovered the FAT32 partitions but did so without having to reboot from Windows. Sweet!!
Also another Opensource solution that worked advertised for me this week was getting a Samba server up and running from scratch in about 30 mins using Ubuntu Server LTS. It really is as simple as running the install CD (which BTW was the quickest I’ve seen for Linux) and doing an apt-get for samba and sshd, even the reiserfs partition from my previous server was easily mountable. Nice!
This is especially useful for those who don’t use Outlook. I personally have been using Thunderbird with GPG and the Enigmail Extension as my email client for the past few years with pretty good success, I particularly like the ease of managing multiple email accounts and excellent IMAP support. One negative is that you lose Outlook’s calendar. I’ve tried using Sunbird for awhile but that’s never worked as seemlessly as I would have liked.
Now Google is releasing their Online Calendar as usual with google it works pretty well for a beta, the email notifications work well as do the SMS notifications, I might have to talk our home council into adding that to our phone plan, as SMS calendar reminders is pretty sweet, in the mean time don’t tell them that I’ve tested it 
What I would really like to try out is shared events and see how that works, so if you sign up for Google Calendar and have an event that you would like to send or share with LMK. If you don’t know my gmail account drop a comment and I’ll get back to you.
