posterous.com

i overheard posterous mentioned everywhere, on twitter, on plurk. So it tickled me to try it.

posterous is blog service that provide a flexibility for people to post using his/her e-mail, and it's no need some kind of registration form either.

just send e-mail to post@posterous.com, then it'll generate a temporary blog for you which later need to be setup by you.
your 'e-mail' will be shown on your 'going to be' posterous blog.

you can send normal text, pictures, video from your mobile phone, using your e-mail client.

but the problem arise after i try to send a picture which i took using my treo650, then send it via gmail using snapper.
the picture size is only 92 kb. when snapper send it, it become 125 kb (which is normal for e-mail size marked up due to header thing).

since treo 650 is doesn't have 3G capability, i send it using GPRS network.
and it took me averagely 30 minutes just to send 1 picture. and it failed due to timeout.

so there goes fun, i probably won't use my handheld to send blog (pic) post to my blog at posterous.

strange crash

last week, i had a strange experience. my treo650 crashed. then while it reset, it was reseting twice.

for a moment i'm affraid that it'll go for infinitive loop, thankfully not. but when it finishes restarting, the screen is back to default, no wallpaper on the pone screen, just plain blueish gradation.

hey what's wrong? i checked another application in the treo650, it's all there. but, when i open the application, it goes back to default preference. like a new fresh installed ;( ..argh!

so i try to re-setting every applications in my treo. then when i try browsing using web/blazer it crashed! hua!

i try several times, sometimes it works normally, but most of the time it crashes on blazer. *sigh.

finally. i fed up. then i hard-reset my treo650.
to hard reset treo 650 is almost the same as soft reset. which is stick your stylus into the hole near the battery.
after you see progressing bar, press the red phone button. then when you see palm logo, wait for 2 seconds, then release the red phone button.
then it'll prompt you wheter you want to erase the data or not. press up on d-pad for yes as the answer.
then your treo will be formatted.

google map application for palm OS

finaly, google launch it's google map application for palm OS devices. it's already compile as PRC, so it will be easy to install.

you can download it by directing your palm OS browser to http://www.google.com/gmm then download the application.

later when it has finished downloading, then you must run the installer that you've just downloaded.
then you can open google map on your handheld. but don't forget it need internet connection to browse google map.

i'm using treo 650, and it's smoothly open. but unfortunately since i'm living in jakarta, indonesia, the map is not really detailed. but at least i can view satelite imagery of the city :)

google map for palm OS have features such;

• find location,
  just type any location you want, then google map will show you where is it.
• find near by business,
  let say, if you're hungry, and you want to eat pizza, then type on the pizza on the search box, and google map will find it, if the business is registered in the map.
• direction,
  google map will find direction from one location to another location.
• traffic,
  google map will show you traffic in current opened map, if available

info via: id-PalmOS mailing list

game: wait for it

Wait For It is a new game for palmOS 5 from Daily Mindfulness.

Tired of multiplayer first-person shooter games that reward 14-year-old punks with itchy trigger fingers? Put the ultimate gaming skill--patience--to the ultimate test with this unique multiplayer contest game from the creators of Don't Step There! The object of the game is simply to wait more efficiently than your competitors (AI or human). If you're stuck alone, sitting around waiting for an errant friend at the movie theatre, quickly fire up Wait for It on your Palm device and start playing immediately with real people around the world. There's no skill necessary; just the ability to wait patiently for long periods of time

you may download it from http://download.com

a new hotsync cable

it's been months ago that i broke my hotsync cable. the pin on the right broke. but it's working just fine for synchronizing and charging.

until one month ago, the cable failing to sync. but still able to charge which sometimes causing extreme hot.

from id-palmOS mailing list, most of people suggest to clean the cable pin using cotton bud and alcohol.
I've tried it, and it wont do. the cable still fail to hotsync.

so i browse milis id-palmos' archives, and i found out that somebody just bought hotsync cable from one of the famous person ^:) in milis, zay.

later, i contact him whether he still had this hotsync cable. he said he need to check whether the cable still available.
then i arrange time to meet him in persons, since his office near by mine, but unfortunately the time is not on my side, so i failed to meet him.

i want to have discussion about my broken d-pad, zay is famous for fixing error in treo, so i wonder that he will be able to fix mine.

because there's small chances that i can meet face to face, than i request for the cable price and his bank account. i send the inquiry e-mail along with my address.

several days gone by without answer. and suddenly a package came to my house. and it's the hotsync cable!
wow! i even hadn't transfer any money yet.
now! i can hotsync, and charge with pleasure ;P