Daniel Von Fange

BlackBerry 7250?.

I've lost my Treo 600. I'm considering getting a BlackBerry 7250 this afternoon as a replacement instead of going to the Treo 650.

Treo 650:
Pro: Good camera/video
Pro: Zillions of third party software
Pro: Slick phone software

BlackBerry:
Pro: Slick email software
Pro: Slick web browsing software

Any reason I should avoid the BlackBerry 7250?

Update: Fifteen minutes after calling Sprint for a new phone, someone called who found my old phone. I'm sticking with the Treo 600 until the next generation of smart phones come out.

My Old Games.

From ten years old to fifteen, I earned money for one reason - to buy computer games. My brothers and I played them with a single minded intensity. We were impressed when we found out that an adult played one our favorite games, Privateer. But we were shocked later, when we found out that he knew a quarter of what we did about the game.

I was cleaning out some shelves today and couldn't bear to throw away these games without keeping something to remember them by. So I took some photos of the old favorites. (These photos are in no order)

PhoneNotify.

There's a website that lets you send text-to-speach phone calls. PhoneNotify is part of a commercial service, but they have an open testing area. Sadly, I don't foresee it being open too much longer since it's too easy to abuse. But for now I have been making myself laugh by receiving phone calls from strange people of the future.

(Via Lifehacker)

PHP OpenID Libraries at last.

Now we can play with PHP and OpenID. Dan Libby has released and OpenID library for PHP.

What the heck is OpenID? It's an up and coming distributed identity standard that is simple enough to actually work. With OpenID, I can assert that I "own" a particular page, and your website can verify that. You could say that "braino.org" and "example.com/mike" can login into your protected area on the site, and yet not have to store a username and password for them.

Stat Counter.

I have an eccentric non-profit client with a tiny brochure website powered by Movable Type. They needed some way of tracking hits. The site was on a very basic hosting plan, so the stats needed to be externally managed. I found StatCounter this morning. It's free, invisible, and does nice reports.