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Sprint finally came through with the Bluetooth Dial-Up Networking for the Treo 650. It was posted last night on Engadget but waited until this morning to do the update.

palmOne - Support - Download & Install Treo 650 Updater for Sprint PCS:

The update went fairly smooth, other than the normal Now Up-to-Date rigamarole to keep duplicate events from occurring on our shared calendar server (which I almost botched!).

Back when I was a freshman in college (circa 1987) I had a Commodore 64. One of my favorites was the Sid Meier classic, Pirates. I would procrastinate for hours by playing this game. My roommate Chris Clements was so addicted that he would stay up all night playing this game. One morning when I got up about an hour before my 7:30 a.m. class on Friday (What can I say? I’m a morning person!), he was *still* playing.

“Sid Mieir’s Pirates”

The PC Version has been out since late November 2004. I remember almost purchasing it for my Wintendo while browsing at CompUSA over Thanksgiving, but it seems like such a great title for X-Box that I’m committed to waiting for it on the console. Well, that and that price hasn’t really come down enough for me to stop waiting; even the used prices are still close to $40!

[Updated to fix Amazon links.]

[composed and posted with ecto]

I noticed this on this quote on the AFP548 website.

AFP548 - Tiger Server Overview:
Wrapping up

Apple has said that they are going to slow down the pace of major OS updates with 10.4. With all of the new features that Tiger brings this is a pretty good idea as the additions of GUIDs and ACLs alone will take some time to really get the hang of.

AMP is only cost-effective if Apple releases paid versions at least every 18 months, so unless we see increased value or reduced pricing, I don’t imagine that we will renew our contract.

eReader Pro is the doc reader that I use On My Treo. It’s available for free on most platforms (Macintosh, Windows, Palm OS, PocketPC and Symbian).

UPDATE: I should mention that advanced features of eReader Pro are enabled only after you pay for it.

By far the most amazing utility for Mac OS, quicksilver is the kind of tool that defies description. It’s an application-launcher, file-locater, and general productivity-enhancer. While the Spotlight feature is OS X 10.4 provides a few similar features, quicksilver definitely does it better. It does have a steep (but short) learning curve, but once you understand the basic concept of what it’s doing, you’ll be amazed at how useful it is (even in its current beta form).

Since I am asked on a regular basis, I have been meaning to post about what is currently on my Treo. That’s up next.

I was paging through an October issue of Network Computing, and noticed a reader poll for an article entitled Vendor Profile: Cisco Redux. In responding to the question “Which of the following statements best describes you organizations’ reason for buying from Cisco?”, 17% of the 847 respondents, said that “No one ever got fired for buying from Cisco.”

Now I don’t have any information on how the poll was conducted, so I don’t know how true the statement is (at least 144 of the 847 respondents claim they were never fired for buying Cisco), but it sure is funny.