My Digital Life

The week of April 21st in My Digital Life

Two weeks, I had issues with my iGo Juice charger not charging my AT&T Tilt and my X60. It was a bad cable between the charger and the devices. The cable is braided and looks heavy duty but probably one of the connectors went bad. I received a new one for $19.99 and everything is working fine. Along with my Lenovo charger going bad, two power supply in three weeks is very bizarre.

I use Wikipedia as a source of reference for my blog. Encyclopedia Britannica has noticed that a lot of bloggers are doing that and is offering the service free to web publishers. I heard about it from techcrunch via twitter. I signed up but have not heard back, apparently since they got the publicity they have been swamped.

My WebIS Pocket Informant 8 (review) vs Birdsoft's Xtreme Agenda (my review) comparison has been published today on pocketnow.com.

I ordered a SanDisk 8GB micro SDHC card for my Tilt from Digital Media Outlet for $56 and it includes a USB adapter. I will use it during my vacation to copy still pictures from my Sony camcorder's Memory Stick to the micro SDHC card using my Delkin USB Bridge. I will then be able upload the pictures to the Kodak Gallery using my Tilt. We will have to see how well this work since I have not yet figured out how to filter the copying.

I am still having some issues with my Dell XPS 720 blue screening and coming in and out of suspend for no apparent reason. I will have to allocate time to further research these issues and probably call tech support...

This week:

• Start my review of SBSH Mobile Software Facade application. This is a smartphone (Windows Mobile Standard) today screen replacement.

Twitter comes to the rescue a UC Berkeley graduate journalism student

I follow TechCrunch's Micheal Arrington tweets. Yesterday, he posted this entry about a UC Berkeley graduate journalism student, James Karl Buck, who was arrested on April 10 without any charges in Egypt for photographing a demonstration. He used his mobile phone to twitter the message “Arrested” to his 48 followers, who contacted UC Berkeley, the US Embassy and a number of press organizations on his behalf.

He was released the next day. It sounds like he was detained rather than arrested since it looks like he was able to use his cell phone. This shows the power of this technology in an emergency, especially when travelling. He could have sent a text message to one person, but by sending the SMS to twitter he reached 48.