Conny Lundgren's blog » gadgets http://blog.refactor.se Thoughts on Java, Agile, OS X and life in general.. Fri, 05 Dec 2008 07:51:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Clean looking bag for MacBook http://blog.refactor.se/2007/03/13/clean-bag-for-macbook/ http://blog.refactor.se/2007/03/13/clean-bag-for-macbook/#comments Tue, 13 Mar 2007 16:35:19 +0000 conny.lundgren http://blog.refactor.se/2007/03/13/clean-bag-for-macbook/ It seams that I forgot to mention I picked up a “BlackBook” when I were on vacation to Florida recently, I can’t believe how much cheaper the hardware is”over there”. This far I am really impressed, it is plenty fast (upgraded to 2gigs of RAM) and perfect size. Finally I can use a laptop on the weekly flights.

But one thing is missing, I picked up a Incase Neoprene case at the same time I bought the computer (only thing available at the Apple Store, and only in not so nice ugly Red). But I really want a clean looking bag to go with it (no crumpler) preferably in black leather. I can’t seam to find a decent looking shoulder bag; the ACME made is pretty nice but not what I’m looking for.

Any tips on a good looking bag/case?

]]> http://blog.refactor.se/2007/03/13/clean-bag-for-macbook/feed/ 2 Go with Pro, or… http://blog.refactor.se/2006/12/12/go-with-pro-or%e2%80%a6/ http://blog.refactor.se/2006/12/12/go-with-pro-or%e2%80%a6/#comments Tue, 12 Dec 2006 12:38:22 +0000 conny.lundgren http://blog.refactor.se/2006/12/12/go-with-pro-or%e2%80%a6/ I’ve been looking into replacing my now somewhat aging 17” powerbook (1,67Ghz, 2GB RAM), although the Pb is really nice (big screen, reasonably fast) it suffers from a couple of drawbacks.

  • To cumbersome – I have been air-commuting for the last year, and the 17” is a bit to big to use and to carry around.
  • Development Performance – Using it to as my development machine of choice, the performance has begun to lag behind. It has really started to get on my nerves, mostly the compile/deploy cycle of Java EE development (Netbeans/Eclipse, JBoss AS/Weblogic)
  • Slow Virtual PC – I still need to access/use some windows software, not that often but the VirtualPC performance is sub par.

So my plan is to replace it shortly after Christmas, I were dead set on replacing it with a 15” MacBook Pro, but lately I have been beginning to wonder if the MacBook would fit the bill (I plan to hook either on up to a 23” Cinema Display and keyboard/mouse when developing at home) and recent blog post such as this added further decision frustration to the mix.

Any suggestions/recommendations? Is the MacBook good enough, or should I pay the extra premium to get the Pro?

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So far it has been a nice experience, more will certainly follow on this.

One minor trick was to get all of my contact (which is stored in my Mac iCal), after some research i came up to a solution that will have to do for now.

  1. Set your iCal to use vCard 2.1 (default seems to be 3.0) Preferences => vCard => 2.1
  2. Select all your contact (or the ones you want exported)
  3. Drag the selected contact into your desktop or folder, a file called something similar to “FIRST-ENTRY IN ICAL and 146 others.vcf” will be created.
  4. Beam this file to you M600 with bluetooth, run the file on the cellphone and voila, your finished.

I guess that will have to do until full iSync is available (note i don’t sync my appointments with my mac at the moment, they are synced with my current clients Windows PC running Outlook 2003)

]]> http://blog.refactor.se/2006/08/13/got-the-m600i/feed/ 2 Looking for a new phone (SEP990 or SEM600I?) http://blog.refactor.se/2006/08/10/looking-for-a-new-phone-sep990-or-sem600i/ http://blog.refactor.se/2006/08/10/looking-for-a-new-phone-sep990-or-sem600i/#comments Thu, 10 Aug 2006 13:49:53 +0000 conny.lundgren http://blog.refactor.se/2006/08/10/looking-for-a-new-phone-sep990-or-sem600i/ My Sony Ericsson P910 phone died early this spring, and was hastily replaced by non smart phone (a Motorola Razr V3x) since SE hadn’t released their P990.

Well, I have nothing to complain on with the Razr technically, but I am seriously missing allot of the features of my P910 (like descent calendars, qwerty-keyboard, good email support and so on). I am looking for a replacement for the Razr, I think I have come down to 2 alternatives namely the SE M600I and the (Finally released) P990.

I am currently leaning towards the M600, since I never use the camera and the smaller form-factor of the M600 seems nice. Currently none of the devices have support for iSync but I bet support will follow shortly.

I have surfed the net for advice, and for the P990 there isn’t that much information (the only started shipping this week), and the M600 seems to be suffering from somewhat buggy software (although i suspect the P990 has the same problems since it’s built on the same platform). Also it seems somewhat hard to get your hands on the P990.

Do anyone have any experience with either of the devices, all feedback is appreciated.

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