Author: Kupitero
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The Great HP TouchPad Fire Sale
On the 3rd week of August 2011, HP announced the news that they were exiting from the very competitive mobile business. Apple and the Android-folks led by Google were making it too difficult for HP to breathe in the mobile arena. It had only been more than a year since HP acquired the PDA-smartphone-mobile device pioneer from Palm. On the following day, they decided to liquidate all their mobile devices inventory. And…
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Palm Pre (via Sprint) as a Personal Router – – The Easy Way
The typical scenario: OK, you have a Palm Pre with an unlimited data plan from Sprint. Yes, you make calls and can navigate the web but it’s really the small screen that turns you off when using cell phones for web browsing. Apple‘s iPad is a bit pricey (of course, you want the 64GB with WiFi and 3GS version) at $909 (tax…
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Palm WebOS 1.4 Worked Wonders
A big leap – from webOS 1.3.5.1 to webOS 1.4 indeed. Had Palm bundled out this version initially when they launced the Palm Pre last June 2009, it could have probably taken some bite off Apple’s iPhone -or, even Blackberry’s – stranglehold on the smartphone market! webOS 1.4 was the “real webOS” Palm was suppose to showcase their…
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On Now…Kupitero’s Keep Blog now using Movable Type 4.33
Wow, that was fun but a lot of coffee and beer were involved. I had completed the update of my blog site – which is linked via my website – from Movable Type 3.32 –> to 3.38 –and, now to its current version, 4.33. I would like to use the latest and greatest version, 5.02, but, I already have…
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There Are Saints…But There is No God???
Every weekday, after arriving from work, I always see my father, in his advanced age of 90, sitting on the La-Z Boy. That may not seem unusual but for the past 3 years, he had been talking more and more – and, in a very loud voice to almost everyone to who sets foot in…