More Apple Ipod Stuff for Shopping

More cool stuff for Apple Ipods, Apple ipod photos, ipod shuffle, ipod mini.

Check out the cheap discounts below at TigerDirect USA



Logic3 EBC i-Station Docking Station For iPod
EBC i-Station Docking Station For iPod
Docking & Sound, the i-Station offers a complete solution to listen, recharge and synch your iPod or Mini iPod. It produces hi-fi quality sound from the combination of a sub-woofer, dynamic tweeter speakers and 3D surround sound processor. Operates on AC or batteries. 12 Watts RMS output, 6 Watts RMS Subwoofer. Firewire and USB 2.0 cables, adaptors for all iPod styles included. Compatible with 3G, 4G, and Mini iPods.

HP Apple iPod / 40GB / Click Wheel / MP3 Player
Apple iPod from HP 40GB MP3 Player

Powerhouse Technologies Migo Personal For iPod Software
Powerhouse Tech MIGO For IPOD Software

Apple iPod / 20GB (5000 Songs) / Click Wheel / White / 12HR Rechargeable Battery / MP3 Player
Apple iPod 20GB Digital Player White

Apple iPod Mini Armband
Apple iPod Mini Armband

Logic3 EBC USB Data Cable For iPod
EBC USB Data Cable For iPod

Logic3 EBC FIrewire/1394 Data Cable For iPod
EBC FIrewire/1394 Data Cable For iPod

Apple iPod Photo / 40GB / Click Wheel / MP3 Player
Apple iPod 40GB Photo Digital AV Player

Apple iPod Shuffle / 512MB / 120 Songs / White / USB Connector / Flash MP3 Player
Apple iPod Shuffle 512MB MP3 Player White

Apple iPod mini Dock
Apple iPod Mini Dock

Griffin AirClick Remote Control and Receiver for iPod mini
Griffin Airclick/Wireless Remote for Ipod Mini

Griffin PowerPod iPod Auto Charger - 3rd-4th Gen/mini/photo
Griffin Powerpod - Auto Charger for New/Orig Ipod

Apple Ipod Stuff and some websites

Here's some links to some cool Apple ipod links


1. Apple - iPod
Pocket-sized ultralight hard-drive based device. Includes technical specifications,
video clips, interactive demo, and availability information.

2. Apple - iTunes
The new iPod mini. 4GB and new 6GB models. Now starting at $199. iPod photo.
Your music and 25000 photos in your pocket.

3. iPodlounge | All Things iPod
The world's leading iPod resource for news, reviews, forums, tips and tricks,
downloads and more.

4. iPod Hacks :: The Latest and Greatest for Your iPod
Includes information about possible hacks, forum, news, and surveys.

5. www.everythingipod.com: The Superstore for your iPod.
We are dedicated to everything for your iPod or iPod mini. We have the largest
selection of iPod Accessories and Cases on the Web

Great deals for UK readers on Ipod accessories

For US readers, click here for Ipod stuff




Belkin Rubber iPod Sleeve / for 4th Generation / 20GB iPod (Frost White)
Belkin Rubber iPod Sleeve 4G/20G Frost White

Apple iPod mini / 4GB (1000 Songs) / Color Click Wheel / Green / 18HR Rechargeable Battery / MP3 Player with Apple iPod mini Dock
Apple iPod Mini Green 4GB w/ Mini Dock

Griffin iBeam Laser Pointer and Flashlight for iPod or iPod mini
Griffin iBeam - Flashlight and Laserlight for iPod

Tekkeon myPower™ Rechargeable Battery and Dock and FM Transmitter for iPod for iPod
Tekkeon myPower iPOD Rechargeable Dock + FM Trans.

Apple iPod mini / 6GB (1500 Songs) / Color Click Wheel / Blue / 18HR Rechargeable Battery / MP3 Player with Apple iPod mini Dock
Apple iPod Mini Blue 6GB w/ Mini Dock

Ipod and Taxes

2 things are certain in life. Death and taxes. I can imagine some country collecting taxes on music downloads since Ipod is one of the most popular gadgets this decade. See below

IF YOU were planning to set copyfighters alight with righteous anger it's hard to imagine a better scheme than proposing a surcharge on the amount of storage in MP3 players. This very thing is being suggested by the Dutch foundation Stichting Thuiskopie, previously an apologist for the levy on blank CDs and DVDs.

Let's even leave aside the essential absurdity of a proposal that would create such an utterly uneven market within what is supposed to be a common European shopping area that everyone would be importing iPods and other music players from Belgium, France, the UK…anywhere that was within the EU and wasn't the Netherlands. Unlike blank CDs and DVDs, which are recurring purchases, MP3 players are things that people buy only occasionally. If you're faced with an extra charge of €3.28 per gigabyte (that's €65.60 for the Archos) your gadget doesn't have to get all that capacious before it suddenly seems logical to spend the added tax on a short vacation instead. Especially given that the contents of any MP3 player change with some frequency. In the life of an iPod, a user could shuffle through terabytes of music.

Via Inquirer

Nokia 6255i Review

Nokia 6255i Review

The Nokia 6255i is a multimedia phone featuring a built-in MP3 player, integrated camera with flash and digital zoom, a video recorder, the ability to receive streaming video and audio, and removable MMC memory support. The 6255i features Bluetooth, speakerphone, voice dialing and command, and PC synchronization.

Nokia 6255i Phone Features

Voice

* Integrated speakerphone allows for convenient communications
* Record memos and conversations
* Voice dialing and commands
* Speakerphone

Multimedia Messaging Service

* Record voice clips and send them along with your photos and videos
* Create, send and receive messages with image, video, text and voice clips
* Multimedia card for storage of video clips, photos, MP3's and other multimedia files
* Text messaging - perfect for silent communication during meetings

USA Service providers: Cellular South, MetroPCS, Midwest Wireless
Nokia 6255i Phone. UK users can buy more Nokia phones here

PocketBreeze 4.3 for Pocket PCs

PocketBreeze 4.3

SBSH has just released version 4.3 of their 'Pocket PC Magazine best software awards finalist' PocketBreeze.

PocketBreeze- a Today screen plug-in for Pocket PC devices allowing you to view appointments, tasks, and email accounts status directly on your Today screen. Giving you a more intuitive interface to manage your daily agenda with up to 30 days agenda display, appointments and tasks in a joint display, advance tasks management and your contacts' birthdays and anniversaries. PocketBreeze integrates seamlessly with Agenda Fusion, Pocket Informant, and the default PIM.

Check it out ! It's worth a download.

Alarm clock that rumbles

This is simply cool. I used to have a cat that wakes me up at 7am by licking my feet.

Aaron Tang’s Anemone Clock rumbles when the alarm goes off, eventually shaking its way all across your room, forcing you to get up to stop it. But that’s not all — it keeps shaking when you pick it up, making it a frustrating exercise just to find the off button. Tang didn’t say if the clock had a snooze button so you can repeat this process a few times each morning.

HP IPaq series

iPAQ Parts 3100 Series
iPAQ Parts 3600 Series
iPAQ Parts 3700 Series
iPAQ 3800 Series Parts
iPAQ 3800 Series Parts (21)
iPAQ 3900 Series Parts
iPAQ 5000 Series Parts (22)
iPAQ 1900 Series Parts
iPAQ 1900 Series Parts (16)
iPAQ 2200 Series Parts (15)
iPAQ 4100 Series Parts (11)
iPAQ 4300 Series Parts
iPAQ 4300 Series Parts (7)
iPAQ rz1700 Series Parts (2)
iPAQ rx3000 Series Parts (2)
iPAQ hx4700 Series Parts
iPAQ hx4700 Series Parts
iPAQ h6300 Series Parts (1)
iPAQ Parts hx2000 Series

UK readers shop here for Ipaqs
US readers can buy Ipaqs here

HP iPAQ rx3417 Pocket PC

HP iPAQ rx3417 Pocket PC

HP iPAQ rx3417 Mobile Media Companion PDA handheld, powered by Microsoft Windows Mobile software, helps you enjoy your music, photos and video wherever you go. Never miss a memory - capture, share and print special moments using the integrated HP Photosmart camera (still photos or video).

This HP iPAQ lets you take your MP3 music and video formats with you anywhere you go. Using Windows Media Player on your PC, transfer music and videos to your HP iPAQ rx3417.

The 1.3 mega pixel resolution camera provides sharp high quality 4 x 6 inch snapshots that are ready to print. A self-portrait mirror on the back of your HP iPAQ rx3417 helps makes sure you are in the shot. Capture memories in action with Motion JPEG video and audio recording. HP Image Zone for iPAQs easily edits and resizes photographs on your HP iPAQ to wirelessly email or print them to share memories with family and friends.

Wirelessly print directly from your HP iPAQ rx3417 to a wide array of separately-available printers using Infrared, Bluetooth or Wi-Fi wireless technologies. HP Image Zone 3.5 for PC helps you organize, edit, print and get creative with your photos. Use your HP iPAQ as a digital photo album that is always with you, to view and share your photos in high-quality colour.

Stream content over your Wi-Fi home network and view it on your iPAQ while you move freely about your house. The integrated SD slot supports SD/MMC memory cards and 4-bit SDIO cards (SDIO Now! driver included). Also features an integrated microphone, speaker and one 3.5 mm stereo headphone jack.

In the box:
HP iPAQ rx3417 Mobile Media Companion PDA
Lithium-ion removable/rechargeable battery
UK AC adaptor + dongle
USB Sync cable
Slip Case
Stylus
Stereo headphones
Getting Started Guide
Special Features Guide
How Do I Guide
HP iPAQ Companion CD with User Guide, Outlook 2002, ActiveSync + Mobile Media
HP Image Zone CD

Additional Technical Details:

Integrated WLAN 802.11b, Bluetooth, IrDA and USB connectivity
Microsoft Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition software for Pocket PC
Pocket versions of Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel and Internet Explorer for Pocket PC
Samsung S3C 2440 processor @ 300MHz
3.5 inch (89mm) Transflective QVGA TFT colour display, with Portrait and Landscape modes, 64k colours
Photosmart Camera built-in, with 1.3 MP 1280 x 960 resolution, 4x digital zoom, video record and playback
77MB user available memory (includes 21 MB of iPAQ File Store)
Dimensions 4.5 x 2.8 x 0.64 inches (114.3 x 71.2 x 16.3 mm)
Weighs 5.2 oz (147.4 g)
HP image zone for iPAQs with HP Instant Share and HP Mobile Printing
Supports WMA, MP3, MPEG1, WMV, MotionJPEG

UK readers shop here for Ipaqs
US readers can buy Ipaqs here

Ipod Hacks

Wanna hack your ipod ?

Add a 300GB to your IPOD. Make a USB battery. Makre your own MP3 player. Record at high quality sampling rate.

Link

The Top 100 Gadgets of All Time

Mobile Magazine came out with a list of TOP 100 cool gadgets of all time in March 2005.

Noticed that they even posted the Rubik's Cube. My all time favourite. Have not even solved it yet.

"89. RUBIK'S CUBE, 1974
Invented in 1974 by Hungarian Erno Rubik, the Rubik's Cube hit America in 1980 like the avian flu, infecting millions and temporarily treating most ADHD symptoms before petering out in 1983."

See here

Siemens SL 65 Rockin Rio Escada Phone

Siemens SL65 Rockin Rio

Inspired by the seductive seasonal fragrance Rockin’ Rio by ESCADA, with its scent of tropical blossoms and delicate sorbet tones, Siemens has developed a special lacquer that shimmers pink, violet and gold as the light hits it. This flip-flop lacquer finish with luxurious mother-of-pearl effects lends a vibrant vitality to the soft lines of the phone’s contour. The Siemens SL65 Limited Edition ESCADA phone is the ideal accessory for flirting. The interpreted heart motif in pink, rose, and yellow will soon have everyone whether romantically inclined or not dreaming of hot parties and quiet sunsets on tropical beaches.

Three decorative pendants, made from genuine sweet water pearls, real silver pearls and the silver ESCADA logo set with zircon stones, accent the playful design of this luxurious accessory. And for wearing the phone around the neck, there’s a raspberry-colored band of soft leather with contrast stitching and a metal clasp bearing the ESCADA logo.

Starting beginning of May 2005 in ESCADA Shops and selected boutiques, at the ESCADA E-Shop at www.escada.com and at the Siemens Webshop at www.siemens-mobile.de (only in Germany).

Playboy on your Sony PSP

Playboy on PSP

Playboy has announced that they will be offering “downloadable beauties” onto the Sony PlayStation Pornable. They will be launching a feature named “PlayboyStation Portable" which will feature a sci-fi themed pictorial of the Cyber Girl for the Year 2005 Amy Sue Cooper.

"We know that many Playboy fans are also gaming enthusiasts who are likely to buy this type of device so it was a natural progression for us to design this sexy, action-themed feature," said John D. Thomas, editor of Playboy.com. "We always strive to stay ahead of the high-tech curve so as technology continues to change, we will continue to create features that will deliver Playboy content to customers on any media platform they wish to use." See playboy.com

PalmOne Treo 650 Review

Treo 650 

What ? No Wifi ? Too bad...

When palmOne's Treo 650 was announced last fall, the CMDA2000 1xRTT version was just on the horizon and appeared from Sprint in short order. The more impressive version, however, didn't appear until this year through Cingular. The GSM/GPRS/EDGE Treo 650 offers all of features we liked about the Sprint Treo 650 but also some of the shortcomings. Still, it manages to edge past its sibling and keep the "best communicator ever" trophy on palmOne's mantle.

At first blush, the Treo 650 is almost identical to the highly successful Treo 600. The 113 x 59 x 23 mm size is an almost perfect handheld vs. phone balance, and the 178 gram weight is noticeable but still only mid-range for competing communicators. Cingular's version has the same attractive light silver plastic casing as the Sprint version, but with a silly-looking dusty blue highlight around the screen.

The Treo's signature keypad has had some subtle but welcome improvements as well. The 4-row thumbboard is now slightly smile-curved with flatter keys, which, combined with some fancy accidental-press-detection software, make accuracy and speed extremely good with either one or two thumbs. New Home and Menu keys have been added right above the directional pad, and combined with palmOne's new one-handed navigation support (as seen on the Tungsten T5 as well), make the Treo virtually screen-touch-free for the built-in apps.

Connectivity on the GSM version of the Treo 650 is markedly better than on its predecessor, but still needs some work. Naturally it starts with a quad-band 850/900/1800/1900 MHz GSM radio with support for both GPRS and EDGE data service, making it one of the first communicators to take advantage of the faster service. In practice the EDGE connection was considerably faster on data transfer than either GPRS or 1xRTT, but latency was still rather high. Also, for unknown reasons the SIM card slips into a slot on top of the device instead of underneath the battery. Just don’t try to squeeze an SD card in there.

At the request of many, the Treo 650 also now sports a Bluetooth 1.1 radio as well for Bluetooth headsets or connecting to other handhelds. Unfortunately, like Sprint, Cingular has decided to disable the Bluetooth DUN profile, which would allow the Treo to be used as a modem for a laptop. (Some users have reported that the unlocked version does not have that problem.) Perhaps even more amazingly, there is no native voice dialing capability. palmOne offers an after-market program to provide it (for a price), but even then it doesn't work with a Bluetooth headset. For a phone in this price range (or anything over $100 these days), we'd expect voice dialing out of the box.

Although Sprint has made available a patch to address the memory problems on its Treo 650, it hasn't made it to Cingular yet. Specifically, the Treo 650 includes 32 MB of non-volatile memory (23 MB user-accessible) that does not lose data when power is lost. However, it also requires using a file system that stores data in pre-sized chunks, specifically 512 bytes. Any records smaller than 512 bites still take up 512 bytes. That doesn't sound like much, but with the bite-sized (pun intended) typical record size on Palm OS, trust me when I say this adds up fast. Hopefully Cingular will offer a patch like Sprint has to drop the chunk size down to 32 bytes, but for now the already-cramped memory space is even more cramped.

The power situation is more appealing, however. Non-volatile memory takes less battery power, and when combined with the 312 MHz power-friendly Intel PXA270 processors battery life iss almost unbelievable. In our standard play-music-until-it-dies test, the Treo 650 GSM/EDGE lasted a jaw-dropping 19 hours before even giving a low battery warning, finally dying around 19 hours 40 minutes to unseat its CDMA sibling as the longest-lived handheld in the universe. Most handhelds, in the same test, barely manage 7 hours of play time.


The Treo 650's software suite should be familiar to any Palm OS user of late. Combining Palm OS 5.4 "Garnet" with a full suite of PIM, connectivity, productivity, and multimedia applications, it should handle nearly any task. Of special note are Docs To Go 7 with native MS Office file support (on the included CD), RealOne audio player, a first-rate web browser, and palmOne's own picture/video viewer. Also of note is VersaMail 3.0, which handles multiple mail accounts with aplomb including POP3, IMAP4, and Exchange ActiveSync, the latter aimed at corporate users and a snap to setup.

The aforementioned one-handed software support, based on a "moving highlight" design, combines with smart auto-shift functionality, the keypad, and good software design for a virtually screen-free input system that is a joy to use. The Phone application has also been enhanced, with up to 70 speed-dial or speed-application buttons accessible from just the directional pad.

The included Camera, Camcorder, and Picture applications integrate to provide full functionality from the included VGA camera. Although only 0.3 megapixel and lacking a flash, picture and video quality is surprisingly good even in low-light, among the best VGA cameras on the market.

Conclusion

It's hard for palmOne to keep the Treo line on top with the flood of recent communicators on the market, but attention to detail and solid software do just that. The Treo 650 builds on the already-proven Treo 600 design and adds much-wanted features to round out the product. Sadly the lack of Wi-Fi, tight memory, and lack of built-in voice dialing mar what would otherwise be a near-perfect device. On the flip side, the best-of-class thumbboard, good camera, amazing battery life, and zippy-ness of EDGE connectivity make the GSM/EDGE Treo 650 our new favorite communicator. Of course, it only had to beat its CDMA sibling to do that.

Get a Treo 650 at TigerDirect for only USD $679.99


Treo 650 PDA Unlocked GSM Cell Phone
Treo 650 PDA Unlocked GSM Phone

Nokia 3230 Review and Free on O2

nokia 3230

13 April 2005.

Finally available, Nokia 3230 is Free on O2 - the Nokia Symbian phone everyone's been waiting for. Mobiles.co.uk first again with the latest phones!

So Creative

The O2 Nokia 3230 alows you to Create your own ringing tones, print your mobile images, play multiplayer games over a wireless Bluetooth connection, and browse HTML and xHTML Web pages. Plus, with the expandable memory slot, you'll have lots of space to be creative.

1.3 megapixel

The clear 65K colour screen provides the perfect image. Snap high-quality pictures with the integrated 1.3 megapixel digital VGA camera with digital zoom. Or record a video clip and share it with a friend in seconds.

EDGE

EDGE is a 3G-compliant data transfer technology that is up to three times faster than GPRS. If you value speed, the O2 Nokia 3230 is for you. Messaging, interactive online gaming and content download have never been faster. (As yet no UK's networks support EDGE).

Sounds amazing

The O2 Nokia 3230 uses the new hi-fi ring tone technology called "polyphonic". Its obvious that a great deal of research has gone into making the most of the amazing sound quality, the clarity and loudness of the sound at full volume simply defies belief.

Pop-Port^TM Interface..

The O2 Nokia 3230 mobile phone uses a Pop-Port interface connector. This new feature will be a primary interface connector in future Nokia phones.

It has been designed to support new advanced functionalities such as stereo audio, fast data connectivity and digital accessory identification. Pop-Port will radically expand the choice of ground-breaking and interesting accessories for the O2 Nokia 3230.

Text Messaging

The illuminated graphical color display is easy to read and is also ideal for SMS text messaging, especially with its T9 predictive text input.

Mobile Internet

You can connect to the Internet for a whole range of information and services, using the XHTML browser which gives a richer experience compared to regular WAP. You can surf enhanced WAP sites to find out restaurant listings, sports results and news, the latest film reviews. All this and more at your very fingertips.

GPRS...

As the O2 Nokia 3230 supports GPRS (General Packet Radio Service), you will be able to take advantage of this virtually permanent connection to your network, and you will only be charged for the amount of data that you transfer, and not the amount of time that your online.

MMS...

The O2 Nokia 3230 supports MMS (Multimedia Message Service) for Multimedia text messaging. This new technology allows you to send sounds, pictures, animations and formatted text in your message. These messages can then be exchanged between friends and family with MMS enabled mobile phones.

Java^TM technology

Thanks to Java technology, you can further enhance your phone with interactive, vibrant games, which can be downloaded and stored in the handset. They are easy to delete, so you don't have to worry about cluttering up your memory.

Almost everyone has downloaded screen savers and ring tones to their mobile phone at some time, and now with this added Java technology, this should proved hours of fun and entertainment for everyone.

Triple band

The O2 Nokia 3230 is designed around an internal triple band antenna which allows it to be used all around the world, including Europe, the USA and Canada on 900, 1800 and 1900MHz frequencies.

LG SCH-S250 5 megapixel phone

SK teletech smb 1000

Back and forth trying to one up LG, Samsung’s SCH-S250 may have been the first 5-megapixel cameraphone between the dualing megacorps, but we know it’s still not too often you get a swiveling-display cameraphone of any kind like LG’s new C960, let alone a 5-megapixel devices that not only does the whole digital camera thing (with flash!), but has a miniSD slot and MP3 playback. Looks like they might have just as easily crammed a qwerty keyboard in there too, but we’re not about to go railing on some hot Korean phone we’ll never get to touch anyway.

Koreans have all the luck.

Via Engadget

Intel to Release Wimax Chip

The world's largest chip maker sees in Wimax a potential profit source that it hopes will become as popular as its shorter-range cousin, Wi-Fi. Intel also believes it will stimulate computer sales in emerging markets where high-speed Internet access is unavailable or prohibitively expensive.

Wimax is not a guaranteed hit, as telecommunication carriers invest in wireless broadband networks based on cellular technology as well as WiFi hot-spots.

Intel's chip, formerly given the code name Rosedale, costs around $45 and is designed to power devices that will receive Wimax signals in users' homes. Major networking equipment makers, including Siemens AG (SIEGn.DE) of Germany and Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (HWT.UL) of China, will also announce products built on Rosedale, Intel said.

Unlike Wi-Fi, whose ad hoc networks can be set up by anyone to connect a single house or office, Wimax is engineered to cover an entire city via base stations dispersed around a metropolitan area.

Via Yahoo

President Bush and his IPOD ONE

Some news from Yahoo Buzz

We know searchers love their iPods, but even we were surprised to see President Bush has an Apple of his own. It's cool that the big guy is hip to the latest technology, but should we be worried? After all, mountain biking while listening to the driving drumbeats of My Sharona could lead to a skinned knee. Regardless, searches on "Bush iPod" zoomed from zero into the hundreds after word of Bush's playlist trickled out on the Web. Danger be damned!

With all the hubbub over what's on the President's iPod we thought he might want to squeeze in a few more songs to spice things up. We feel it's our patriotic duty to give ol' #43 fully vetted intelligence on some of the top songs and music artists in Buzz.

These highly searched songs would make fine additions to the most powerful playlist in the world:

* Candy Shop -- sorry, this 50 Cent hit is a breach of protocol.
* We Belong Together -- this one goes out to Old Europe.
* Boulevard of Broken Dreams -- no, this Green Day hit isn't about John Kerry's campaign.
* Slow Down -- smooth tunes by Bobby Valentino. Maybe a bit too randy for D.C.?
* Dreaming of You -- maybe this Selena ballad is better for dancing than it is for an afternoon bike ride?
* Beautiful Soul -- looking for the next Supreme Court justice.
* Mr. Brightside -- the Killers will get you over the steepest hills.
* Helena -- every president should listen to punk rock.
* Some Cut -- try some of this Trillville crunk on the White House press corps.
* American Idiot -- solely the opinion of Green Day.

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Use your Gmail account as a personal file server

Great article that I came about sometime ago and just posting it for your reading pleasure..

This is a fairly simple and useful trick to score yourself a gigabyte’s worth of free online file storage. If you already have a Gmail account, you can use it as a central file server that is accessible from anywhere you can access Gmail. If you don’t have a Gmail account… read on. We’re going to install a shell extension that will allow you to mount your Gmail account as a virtual drive on your desktop, so you can perform basic file manipulation operations without having to go through the web-based interface. Drag and drop, batch copy, create folders and delete files as you normally would in Windows Explorer, and be able to access your virtual drive from virtually anywhere.

There are some limitations and caveats associated with this how-to: Gmail doesn’t support files larger than 10MB, so you won’t be able to store large movie files or anything, but you wouldn’t be doing that anyway ‘cuz it’s illegal, right? Also, the Gmail drive shell extension only functions under Windows XP, but you’ll be able to access and download any of your files via any operating system and browser combination supported by Gmail.

Be advised that this trick is completely unsupported by the Google folk and so may cease functioning at any time — particularly following upgrades to the Gmail service. As far as we know this isn’t illegal (we actually read the EULA for you — that’s love, people), but we can’t guarantee Google won’t go all RIAA on us and crack down on this app, either, so use at your own risk.

Read on at Engadget

Super Guide for Mobile Downloads and Tech News
http://www.TheSMSGuide.com/

HP iPAQ hx2110 Review

HP iPAQ hx2110

The past eight months have seen a complete refresh of HP's iPAQ range, with the very last piece of the puzzle being the hx2000 series: a mainstream PDA aimed squarely at businesses. Whereas most manufacturers stick with only one or two different Pocket PCs, this means there's now a comprehensive selection of HP iPAQs for any need and any budget (see An iPAQ for every pocket, right).

In fact, this could be said for just the hx2000 series on its own. In the UK, it consists of three different models: the hx2110 we test here; the hx2410, which adds Wi-Fi and a 510MHz processor; and the hx2750, toting Wi-Fi, a 624MHz processor, 128MB of RAM and 128MB of ROM. The street prices rise as we'd expect: from £229 to £283 to £348.

The chief among these is its price: only the rz1710 is cheaper, but this sacrifices both Bluetooth and a CompactFlash slot. The latter means the hx2110 isn't the slimmest of devices, but this iPAQ has a clever trick up its sleeve - it doesn't come with a sleeve. Instead of a cumbersome pouch that adds bulk and doesn't allow you to see the screen without removing the device, the 2110's transparent grey lid means you can just switch it on and see the last active screen. And when you need to write or tap on the screen, you just flip it up.

The only design 'fault' is that the shortcut and navigation buttons are covered by the lid too, but this does make it almost impossible to switch on the hx2110 accidentally when it's bouncing round in a pocket or bag. Still, we'd have preferred a Hold button and the option of navigating screens with the lid down.

You can press the Record button with the lid in place, but after the first time we're not sure many people will. HP has sacrificed microphone quality for the sake of cutting costs, and we found recordings to be virtually unusable. The speaker is much better quality, but if you plan to take advantage of the built-in Media Player then you'll almost certainly use the top-mounted 3.5mm jack. The top is also home to the infrared port.

At first glance, the wide bezel gives the appearance that HP has made a sacrifice in screen size too, but the 2100 series actually includes a 3.5in TFT. Unlike the hx4700 or Dell's Axim X50v, its resolution is limited to 240 x 320, but it makes up for this with vibrant colours and amazing brightness if you select the top level.

For battery testing, we set brightness down to medium, which was still more than viewable. The hx2110 lasted for six hours, nine minutes when we set it idling, and eight hours, 43 minutes when playing MP3s with the screen switched off. Decent results, but they would have been longer if HP included the same 1,440mAh battery that comes with the hx2410 and hx2750, rather than the 920mAh unit that comes in the hx2110. You can buy the 1,440mAh battery as a £59 option, and it won't add to the weight or bulk of the machine, or you can choose an Extended battery (2,880mAh) that protrudes from the back for £92.

When you consider that the hx2110 includes only a 312MHz processor, 64MB of RAM and 64MB of ROM, and that it doesn't come with a USB docking cradle but with a synchronisation cable, the extra £50 or so for a hx2410 (which does include a cradle) seems much more reasonable. But if you don't have that flexibility in your budget, the hx2110 is a sound choice: it covers all the basics for the same price as the equivalent Axim X50, and delivers them in a well-rounded package. Thanks to Computer Buyer

For UK readers, Buy the HP iPAQ hx2110 from PixMania.