Blackberry – no love lost
For a brief moment the other day I almost changed my opinion on Blackberrys. I was setting up a new Torch for a client and I caught myself thinking “oh, this is actually quite a nice phone…”
I got over it though.
- When setting up an email account they encourage you to use POP3 and leave messages on the server. This is a truly horrible way to implement mailbox synchronisation.
- On the rare occasion I come across a perfectly functioning trackball on a Blackberry I still don’t like the way it feels.
- The whole Alt / Sym / keypad layout never feels right.
Dongles!
Dear Geek,
My colleague has offered to show me his dongle. Should I feign interest or slap him?
Blushing of Beltinge.
Why @TweetDeck has rekindled my love affair with Twitter
Not long after setting up my Twitter account, I downloaded and started using TweetDeck, and a great client it is too.
However, having this great PC client did have a few downsides. Either the little pop-up notification would appear just as I wanted to click something underneath it, or something so interesting would pop up that I would immediately click on it. And then I’d be distracted, time would fly and I’d be doomed to get nothing done. Plus, if I was out seeing a client, there would be such a queue of updates waiting to be read that I’d fall so far behind and just skip a day. Or two.
But then they released a beta of TweetDeck on Android.