Juha Haataja: Universal Digital IdeasDigital Media, Digital Rights, Copyrights, Freedom, and the Future of Ideas.Getting to know Nokia E90 Communicator- August 23, 2007 Yesterday I got a Nokia E90, to replace an aging (a year old!) Nokia 9300i which has been in repairs repeatedly this year. Starting to use the E90 went mostly fine. I downloaded the iSync plugin for E90 from Nokia, installed it on my Powerbook (no restart needed), and synced the phone over Bluetooth. Contacts and calendar were up-to-date in half an hour from getting the phone. And getting my IMAP (over SSL) e-mail working too just a few minutes. At home I tested my wlan connection (WPA...http://radio.weblogs.com/0112083/categories/drm/2007/08/23.html#a4846 Getting an iMac- August 10, 2007 On wednesday I ordered a 24" iMac from Apple Store, customized with 2 GB of memory and 750 GB of disk. The iMac will be used by everyone in the family, for photos, videos, movies, music, and tv (I also ordered EyeTV and a usb digital tv stick). In October 2004 I had a 20-inch iMac G5 for testing at home, and it was quite a nice experience. The price of the 20-inch iMac G5 was about 2000 euros, with a much slower processor, only 256 MB memory as standard, and disk space starting at 80...http://radio.weblogs.com/0112083/categories/drm/2007/08/10.html#a4843 Bookcrossing vs. second-hand book dealers- August 6, 2007 Every once in a while there are articles about bookcrossing in Finnish newspapers. I have never got interested in this, although I have bought and sold hundreds of books in second-hand book dealers. Sometimes I wonder what has happened to the books I have sold, but on the other hand this does not interest me quite so much. Each book has its own life, and I have to let it go.http://radio.weblogs.com/0112083/categories/drm/2007/08/06.html#a4842 Where is the quality of electronics industry- August 6, 2007 Nokia is not the only company having problems with quality. Sony has once again problems, now with digital cameras, resulting in Sony recalling Cyber-Shot DSC-T5: "Sony has issued a recall on its Cyber-Shot DSC-T5 digital camera after identifying a manufacturing fault. Affecting just over 400,000 cameras worldwide with serial numbers between 3500001 and 3574100, the fault relates to the metal skin covering the base of the camera." What are "acceptable" problems with quality and what are not...http://radio.weblogs.com/0112083/categories/drm/2007/08/06.html#a4841 Yet another design problem with Nokia E90- August 6, 2007 I had a second look on a Nokia E90 today. My Nokia 9300 is once again being repaired, this time the backlighting of the cover display is broken. The phone is a year old, and has been in repairs for over five weeks, on three different occasions, for multiple different reasons (corrupting memory cards, broken hinge, broken backlighting etc.). But anyway - the power onoff button on a Nokia E90 is easy to press by mistake, a colleague said, thus shutting the phone without meaning to. Perhaps there..http://radio.weblogs.com/0112083/categories/drm/2007/08/06.html#a4840 Unmasking Fake Steve Jobs- August 6, 2007 "Thanks for all the fish" - the keeper of The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs was revealed by a reporter from The New York Times. I'm a bit sad to see this happen, the mystery is no more. It was nice to speculate on the blog entries, now you know that an editor at Forbes is writing the blog, and his position and opinions are apparent. The writing of FSJ was like the writing of a 14-year old boy - that is, not so nice, even rude sometimes, and suprising in many way. You don't see that kind of...http://radio.weblogs.com/0112083/categories/drm/2007/08/06.html#a4839 If not e-mail, then what- August 3, 2007 Yesterday I wrote a note about how badly e-mail is suited for collaboration. But are there better alternatives Or is e-mail a similar solution as democracy - which is a bad political system but better than alternatives. I have seen examples where wiki-systems have worked efficiently making collaboration productive. Also, often e-mail is used in situation where it causes grief instead of helping things further. In many cases discussions by phone or in person help to avoid unnecessary e-mails...http://radio.weblogs.com/0112083/categories/drm/2007/08/03.html#a4838 Nokia 9300i still broken - design problem with E90- August 3, 2007 Yesterday I got the 9300i back from repairs, where it was for a month. Today morning I noticed an interesting new problem: in the cover part of the phone the backlighting of the display does not work. Instead the backlighting of the keys is switched on. This does not help to see what is on the display. There are crossed wires or bits somewhere. To repairs, once again On Wednesday I got my hands on the new Nokia E90 Communicator. Felt quite sturdy, and my colleague said that the battery lasts...http://radio.weblogs.com/0112083/categories/drm/2007/08/03.html#a4837 Don't try to collaborate by e-mail- August 2, 2007 All too often you resort to sending an e-mail asking for comments, changes, ideas etc. - perhaps to dozens of receivers at the same time. This is a bad idea, as noted by Volker Weber at Write 100 times: email is a terrible collaboration tool: "An email in my inbox sent to 39 people, asking them: Any suggestions on theme would be gratefully received. And please forward this onto any other blogger you can think of. This from a person who knows that email is a terrible way of collaboration."http://radio.weblogs.com/0112083/categories/drm/2007/08/02.html#a4836 Back to work- August 1, 2007 After a vacation of 3 12 weeks, back to work. Did a lot of reading, mainly fiction, during the summer: three short story collections by Gene Wolfe, two novels by David Mitchell, novels by Jon Katz, Jens Ganman, Mary Willis Walker, Fred Vargas, Ian Rankin etc. About 20 books in all. The vacation was eventful: daughter hospitalized for a (suspected) adder bite, visiting Moomin world and Zoolandia, spending some time at the summer cottage etc. But now it's back to work - trying to pick up where...http://radio.weblogs.com/0112083/categories/drm/2007/08/01.html#a4835 |