Archive for January, 2004

Looks like T-Mobile is sending out notices to everyone about their added coverage in the different metro areas. I got mine yesterday. Here are scans of the mailer. Basically, it says that here in the San Jose (South Bay) area they have added some 171 new cell sites to improve coverage. [...]

So, over the last few days I wanted to give the new healthy menu of McDonalds and Burger King out. They are now offering low-carb sandwiches and even meatless burgers. I tried out McDonald’s offerings first. I had a Grilled Chicken sandwich on Wheat. It was not that bad, pretty [...]

T-Mobile Grows!

So, it looks like T-Mobile had a huge growth spurt last quarter! That is huge compared to their additions last year and blasted right past analysts expectations (882,000 additions). What’s even cooler is the sixth place T-Mobile (out of six carriers) added more users than the second place (Cingular who added 642,000) [...]

Looks as number two, Cingular is really serious about picking up another mobile company in an effort to grow past their biggest competitor Verizon. The bid is in, Cingular has official offered to pick up number three mobile provider AT&T. If the merger would go through it would make Cingular the number [...]

You had to know it was coming. I have switched my iBook browsing back to Mozilla Suite 1.6. Camino is very cool and I cannot wait to get my hands on the final release, but the nightly build crashed one too many times for me tonight and I moved back to the [...]

Torque (2004)

Go into Torque not expecting much and you will walk out with a silly grin on your face — and be rather entertained by this mindless fluff that was released a few months short of summer. Go into Torque expecting anything other than a mindless action flick and you will walk out rather [...]

Backup Applications

I tried and tried to like Dantz’s Retrospect for backing up my iBook, but I couldn’t. The damn thing is just way to complicated for regular backups. All I wanted was something to simply backup my user files and be done with it. When I joined Apple’s .Mac I wasn’t expecting [...]