The View

I spent five hours on a bus today.  During that time, I watched two movies, one on my Creative Zen Vision M 30 gig player, and one on my Nokia N810.  Here are my impressions:

Since I got my Sony Ericsson w580i camera-phone, I’ve been pulling it out to take random snapshots.  I decided to post a couple of them here to demonstrate the quality of this device.  For reference, these pictures were taken with the camera set to maximum quality.

Someone arrived here yesterday after searching for “word processor for nokia 810.”  Here are a few suggestions:

Notes

The N810’s built-in “Notes” application is good enough for note-taking and rough drafts.  You have your choice of fonts, as well as italic, bold, and underline styles.  You can also do bullet lists and numbered lists.  I’ve used it while offline to write blog posts, which I then copied and pasted here.

Search engine traffic statistics are a great way to see what your site visitors are looking for.  I recently noticed that I sometimes get visitors who, based on their search terms, probably didn’t find what they were looking for on my site. I know how frustrating that can be, so I’ve decided to follow the example of another blogger (unfortunately I can’t remember who) and start addressing some of those unanswered questions.

This is a belated followup to my previous post about the Nokia N810 Internet Tablet.  I hadn’t received the tablet when I first wrote about it.  I listed some of its features that made it attractive to me, and promised a review once I had the device in hand.

I previously wrote about Spiralfrog.com, an ad-supported website with free and legal song downloads.  Unfortunately, they have since closed their doors.  I tried to visit a couple of days ago, and found only a blank page.  A Google search yielded an article on CNET.com, “Requiem For A Frog,” confirming that the site is out of business, and speculating about the reasons for the shutdown, which included the current bad economy, and the fact that Spiralfrog’s restrictive DRM was a severe handicap in catching on with listeners.

Last week I got stuck in a traffic jam on the 91 Freeway in Los Angeles.  Nothing new there, but once I got to the front of the queue, I saw the aftermath of what looked like a head-on collision between a car and a street sweeper truck.  I’m still scratching my head trying to figure out how this happened.  I don’t think anyone got seriously hurt.

What is Spiralfrog.com?

Spiralfrog.com is a website that offers free music downloads.  It is legal because it is ad-supported, and has agreements to share its revenue with the labels.

The Good:

• Free, legal music downloads

I previously wrote about Knetwit, the knowledge sharing site where you can upload your class notes in exchange for cash or merchandise, and view notes from others who have taken your classes.  (Click here to read the original post.)  At the time, they had a limited selection of merchandise from which to choose.  I checked back today, and discovered that Knetwit has vastly expanded the variety of items in the Knetwit store.  The difference is huge!  They have gone from having one type of TV or MP3 player, each requiring hundreds of thousands of points, to having dozens of choices, many of which could be earned fairly quickly.

How the heck do you set up MyPhoneExplorer to sync with your Google Calendar?

I previously wrote about using MyPhoneExplorer to synchronize my Sony Ericsson w580i with my Google Calendar, but did not provide instructions.  One of my readers emailed me recently wondering how to set up Google Calendar synchronization.  Here are the instructions I gave her, along with some screenshots: