Palm Battery Strikes Again

My Palm Zire 72 died again. Crap!

Just a few days without charging, and it went back to factory settings and erased everything. I've just about had it.

So, I took a break from my Zire. When I get around to setting it up again, I'll be prepared. I bought Backup Buddy from www.bluenomad.com. Backup Buddy can backup to either a PC or SD memory card (that's my choice). Unlike HotSync, it backs up everything- like a snapshot of the Palm's memory. I'll post again when I have a chance to try it out.

I've had my eye on the Treo 650 for a while (not the 700). The Palm TX looks pretty tempting too. But I'll give my Zire 72 another chance with Backup Buddy.

Dell 2005FPW LCD

At work I do alot of graphic design and animation for the 16:9 video format. But I only have 4:3 CRTs. So when the right deal came up I sprung for the 16:9 Dell 20" LCD. (Spotted on www.techbargains.com).

Key features:

• 20.1-inch, Wide Aspect (16:9) Active Matrix TFT
• 1680x1050 Pixels
• 300 cd/m² Brightness, 600:1 Contrast Ratio
• 12 millisecond response time
• VGA / DVI-D / S-Video / Composite
  
• USB 2.0 Ports (why not?)
• PIP (picture in picture) and PBP (picture by picture) (only with S-Video & Composite)
• Adjustable height & rotation (very cool!)

Nice clean design.

Go portrait mode for less vertical scrolling.

What else can I say? It looks really good. Highly recommended.