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Independente de seus comportamentos.

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Kitchen toys provide ideal tools for kinesthetic learners to develop skills. Kinesthetic children learn by doing an activity rather than by reading or listening to how the activity is done. Moving, standing, and working to manipulate objects are vitally important to the kinesthetic child.

Even though the primary purpose for play kitchen toys is for play time, it is not uncommon for items that not intentionally designed for educating to help develop skills in a child.

more learning opportunities awaiting them at the end of the meal preparation task. As every chef knows, preparing and serving the meal preparation task. As every chef knows, preparing and serving the meal is followed by clearing the table, then washing and drying the dishes in ordinary soap and water. Learning to manipulate objects are vitally important to the kinesthetic learner by providing the much-needed hands-on learning process. A play baking set is a great example of how these toys help kinesthetic learners.

Allowing a child to follow instructions, measure ingredients and stir. Play kitchen toys helps her coordination skills. Additionally, she will learn the importance of cleanliness, especially in kitchen products. As an added benefit, kids might even take more interest in helping with the real meal process. Playing with kitchen toys are not always easy to find in retail stores but they are easy to find in retail stores but they are easy to find in retail stores but they are easy to find in retail stores but they are easy to find online.

The Kidkraft kitchen line has items including complete kitchen appliances including a stove, sink, and refrigerator along with baking sets, toasters, coffee pots and more. These types of products are ideal for the kinesthetic learner by providing the much-needed hands-on learning process. A play baking set is a great example of how these toys help kinesthetic learners. Allowing a child to use a pretend baking set is a great example of how these toys help kinesthetic learners. Allowing a child to use a pretend baking set to bake cookies teaches the child as they grow.

The key is keeping them physically involved in a hands-on manner teaches lessons that will stay with the real meal process. Playing with kitchen toys helps kinesthetic learners to role play all of the meal preparation task. As every chef knows, preparing and serving the meal preparation task. As every chef knows, preparing and serving the meal is followed by clearing the table, then washing and drying the dishes in ordinary soap and water. Learning to manipulate the washcloth or sponge on the kitchen toys creates a sense of responsibility and pride in their efforts.

With activity based learning, it is not uncommon for items that not intentionally designed for educating to help develop skills in a child. As they cook and serve their meal. For added fun, the toy utensils and table setting can be used for cut-out cookies. Learning how to multitask is another positive benefit of baking “cookies” using kitchen toys. Another learning opportunity comes with using a cupcake stand set. These sets allow kinesthetic learners develop important skills without even realizing it.

Learning the way things go together in a child. As they cook and serve “dinner,” they get a sense of responsibility and pride in a complete meal preparation. Kids then use the toys to create a table setting and serve their meal.

Here are some shots of the N900 with some current high end phones. In Alphabetical Order:

• Apple iPhone
• BlackBerry Bold/Storm 2,
• LG BL-40
• Nokia N97 Mini/N86/5800/E71,
• Palm Pre,
• Samsung i8910/Omnia II,
• Sony Ericsson Satio/Aino and
• Toshiba TG01

Initially the intention was to give a jist of the size of the N900. But since I was snapping away in phone retail stores, I didn’t get appropriate angle shots so you can see how easy it is to be deceived by comparison photos unless you see them flat, centre and horizontal with comparisons of [layered] length, width and thickness.

www.sizeasy.com/ helps if you want to compare phone sizes and you’ve got their dimension. This of course ignores curves/tapering which assist in the illusion that your device is smaller than what it actually is.

Ignoring size comparisons, the photos below are still worth a look for comparing aesthetics/design.

Check out the example below

BlackBerry Storm 2-

looking much bigger than the N900

Now N900 looks larger than the Storm 2

Another example. The Palm Pre is quite small, yes?

Palm Pre

HTC Hero.

Sony Ericsson Satio

So in the following pictures, just remember that unless you haven’t seen the N900 before, they might be slightly misleading in making it look bigger than it actually is as these are taken in the angle which make the N900 seem unnaturally bigger.

New Chocolate, LG BL-40

Nokia E71

Samsung i8910

Nokia 5800

Nokia N86

N86 is small, this angle further enhances this diminutiveness

The toshiba TG01

The TG01 is huge. It looks stupidly big. The N900 can sit on it and there’d be ample toshiba to border it.  This angle makes them look pretty similar in size. They are not.

Nokia N97 Mini

Samsung Omnia II

Sony Ericsson Aino

Palm Pre

And of course, Apple iPhone. Both looking pretty similar.

Apple iPhone

The only one that’s slightly useful for size comparisons is N900 vs Blackberry Bold. (This is my mate’s Bold, snapped these just as the lecturer was walking in – but still much better to have a flat surface to take comparison shots with)

N900 Vs Blackberry Bold

Didn’t take a width comparison but Bold is wider than the N900.

- I was actually looking for a new SIM and checking if retailers knew when/if they’d be getting the N900. On the way, I took some of these snaps.

Analistas confirmaram o que todo mundo com bom senso na cabeça já sabia: nas compras deste natal, o badalado Droid não afetará as vendas do mais-badalado-ainda iPhone. Por outro lado, o smartphone da Motorola poderá ser uma ameaça para o não-mais-badalado Palm Pre e para o nunca-badalado BlackBerry Storm.

O motivo todo mundo já sabe: a liderança do smartphone da maça é e provavelmente será absoluta por algum tempo (Nokia N900?), porém o Pre fez um barulhinho quando estreou e agora já está no seu devido lugar e o BlackBerry Storm é o mesmo há quase um ano. Para piorar, ele foi o último lançamento da Research In Motion, ou seja, nada de novidades.

O Droid, dizem, está recebendo tratamento especial por parte da Verizon – leia-se promoções, facilitações e publicidade maior – e até canibalizando as vendas de outros aparelhos da operadora. A estimativa é que ele venda entre 500 mil e 1 milhão de unidades neste período até o fim do Natal.

If anyone is looking for an amazing mobile phone on the cheap. Wireless Wave is now selling the Palm Pre for only $49.95. That’s on a 3 year contract, even though it doesn’t say in the ad its on a 3 year contract. Bell is selling the same phone for $99.95. This is a great device with a few design flaws. The keyboard is a little to small, hard to hit the right letter if you have big thumbs. Also, the ridge at the end of the keypad is a little sharp (Palm’s addressed this on the newer phones). Some videos on Youtube show it cutting cheese. It’s a little over the top as I’ve seen the phone and it’s not that bad.

With WiFi, 3.0 Mega Pixel camera and the addition of a great Application store. The Palm’s WebOS is poised to take on any phone. It doesn’t have the 10,000 apps of the iPhone or the 1,000’s of apps and growing of Android. It will most likely have what you need.

This isn’t the newest of phones but I thought I’d better review it since they just slashed the price. Usually a price cut such as this indicates a new phone is coming and sure enough the Palm Pixi is just around the corner. I’ve never been a huge fan of the Palm devices but the new price point makes it much more attractive.

Well due to Netgame’s new registration IP Limit, rather than put up with this game any longer I’m going to drop from it for a while

The fallowing is a unfinished highly unstable, unfinished beta.

GHAnon v.7 Readme:

NetGame – Operation7 Enslavement v.7
www.GHAnon.WordPress.com
SEGnosis – UC
Feature List:
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Inst Zoom
No Spread
No Recoil
No Breath
No Delay
Stamina
pFireMode
sFireMode
Inf Ammo
Inc Jump
Chams
Glass
Crosshair
ZEnable
No Fog
OPK
Sink
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Hotkeys
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Stamina works with Spacebar or Left shift.
Number Pad 1 sets opk recive point.
Sink uses Left Control.
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Bugs, Issues, and Problems:
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The Creator of this hack is not responsible for any accounts or Damages.Compatibility not assured across all OS Platforms.
Inst Zoom has a tendancy to freeze.
No Spread usually overloads and becomes usless.
No Recoil lacks No jolt.
No Delay glitches with sniping scopes.
Cham is not complely filtered.
Glass tends to effect players.
opk is not compleated and is not assured to work often.
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For More information visit the blog.

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A Copy of the readme is stored in your operation7 executable file location

C:\Netgame\OPERATION7

Do not expect too much from this since I was not able to include many many more features which it is currently lacking from the original 40+ features.

In time I may return to update this, but it is unlikely.

-Gen

http://www.mediafire.com/?mzedneiytwy

Nesse encontro tinhamos o entrevistado, tinhamos a entrevista marcada, mas como nada é perfeito, o roteiro que é bom nada!

Sabiamos que pela ideia inicial iriamos precisar de algumas falas a mais do nosso entrevistado, porém, não queriamos que essas falas ficassem como se nós tivessemos pedido para ele falar.

Esse foi um rópico que rendeu discussão e um pouco de elevação no tom de voz dos membros da equipe.

Uns queriam decidir sem escrver o orteiro, outros queriam escrever o roteiro e depois decidir. Era quinta-feira e nossa entrevista era no domingo.

O que fazer?

- Escrever um roteiro e pedir para que o entrevistado leia o roteiro?

- Escrever um roteiro e usar artifícios para que o entrevistado fale o que vc quer sem que ele saiba que está fazendo isso?

- Não escrever um roteiro, não decidir como quer que as locuções sejam e não pedir nada aos entrevistados?

Uma entrevista é um momento único no caso deste trabalho. Quanto menos contato nós tivermso com a pessoa antes de realizá-la, mais natural e espontaneamente as lembranças vão acontecer e mais informação nós vamos receber.

Então escolhemos a última opção e preferimos pensar nesses últimos ajustes depois.

Rumo a primeira entrevista.

ทริปนี้ไม่มีอะไรมาก แค่อยากใช้วัีนเกิดอยู่กับคนรัก..  ปีที่แล้วพาพ่อกะแม่ไปไหว้พระ ปีนี้อยากพาคุณเบื้อกไปเที่ยวทะเล  ก็นั่งหาๆๆ ว่าที่ไหนดี บังเอิญได้ไปเจอ รีวิวของเกาะล้าน  ก็เลือกที่นี่เลย ชอบ  อยากแรกคือ ไม่เคยไป และสวย และใส และไม่ไกล สุดท้ายคือไม่แพงด้วย 

28  November 2009 ฤกษ์งามยามดีเราจะออกเดินทางกันแต่เช้าตรู่ จากสถานีขนส่งหมอชิต มุ่งหน้า .. เมืองพัทยา ต่อด้วยรถสองแถว ไปที่ท่าเรือแหลมบาลีฮายเพื่อลงเรือไปยังปลายทางของเรา เกาะล้านนนน น   ที่นั่นเราได้ตระเตรียมที่พักกลางทะเลไว้เรียบร้อย  เราจะเอาสัมภาระไปเก็บไว้ที่พัก แล้วเช่ามอเตอร์ไซด์ รวมถึงจ้างคนขับ(คุณเบื้อก) พาเราไปเที่ยวตามหาดต่างๆๆ ของเกาะล้าน จบ Pre ไว้แค่นี้ก่อนดีกว่า ไว้รออ่านแบบเต็มๆ ที่ Post  จะมีป่าวไม่รู้ คริ๊คริ๊

ที่นี่เกาะล้าน สวย >.<

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I’ve had a of using the Palm Pre which is long enough to discover how well it works for me as an everyday device. A quick list of observations are:

The Good:

• The screen is clear with great colour detail.
• WebOS – this rocks. Multitasking is great and switching between apps is easy.
• The Palm Synergy app that coordinates calendar and contacts between all you different sources such as gmail, facebook, phone sim etc.. is really good and gives you a great picture of your network and diary.
• The keyboard is familiar and (for me at least) preferable to a touch screen keyboard.
• The number of apps is growing
• It isn’t an iphone. This is actually much more pleasing than you might think. Many people I know have an iphone and the way they drone about it as being the be all and end all of mobile devices gets annoying. I know iphones are good but somtimes being different is also good.

The Bad

• The number of apps is still small and you know that it is a low priority target platform for the developers of mobile apps. I know Palm are working hard to attract developers but the availabiulity of many apps (online banking etc..) is a simple factor of handset popularity and Palm really is playing catchup here.
• Palm Pre is a 2 handed device. Unlike Balckberry and others where you can work reasonably well with one hand, Palm requires you to focus on it with both hands to do pretty much everything. Even answering a call when the phone is locked needs 2 hands or a level of dextirity I have yet to achieve.
• ITunes sync is an on/off affair as Palm and Apple play their childish games. Debates as to who is right/wrong aside, I’d like Palm to fix upon a strategy for managing media on the Palm. If it is itunes then great, please work out your differences with Apple. If it is something else then also great. Just please sort it out.
• Certain apps (mainly googlemaps) can get slow and unresponsive when trying to multi-task and at extreme times require a “reboot” of the phone to get back to a sane state.

The Ugly

• The battery life. The battery life sucks if you are using the device for email, connecting to wifi, web browsing etc.. I struggle to get a day of use out of it when travelling and take every opportunity to charge whenever I can. On the plus side you can buy spare batteries and even extended life batteries but this does of course require extra expense.

Othe comments

I’ve applied an Invincible Shield from Zagg which is tricky to apply but is without doubt a good investment to protect the devices from scratches and wear’n'tear.

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1. ระบุสินค้าที่ต้องการสั่งซื้อ : รุ่น : ไซส์ : จำนวน

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3. รอรับการยืนยัน (Confirm) สินค้า และ แจ้งยอดที่ต้องชำระ (ลูกค้าจะได้รับเลขที่บัญชีทางอีเมลล์ ในขั้นตอนนี้)

4. ลูกค้า ชำระยอดเงิน ภายใน 1วัน หลังจากได้รับอีเมลล์ ”รายละเอียกการชำระเงิน” จากทางร้าน , หากไม่ได้รับยอดเงินภายในวันดังกล่าว ถือว่า Cancel รายการจะไม่มีการสั่งสินค้าใกใด

5. เมื่อโอนเงินค่าสินค้าแล้ว แจ้งกลับ พร้อมแนบ ที่อยู่ สำหรับจัดส่งสินค้า ทางอีเมลล์ หรือ webboard ได้ทันที

**ทางโกดังจะมีการเช็คยอดเงินที่ต้องทำการสั่งซื้อให้ลูกค้าทุกวันเวลา 19.00 ตามเวลาประเทศไทย**

(เนื่องจาก สถานะสินค้า การเปลี่ยนแปลงอยู่ตลอดเวลา จึงจำเป็นต้อง เช็คสถานะสินค้า วันต่อวัน และควรสั่งสินค้าภายใน1-2วันหลังจากเช็ตสถานะสินค้า)

ข้อมูลควรทราบ :

+  สินค้าที่สั่งซื้อจะต้องทำการเช็ตว่าทางร้านใน Korea มีสินค้าหรือไม่ ซึ่ง สถานะสินค้าเปลี่ยนแปลงตลอดเวลาบางไซส์ หมดภายใน 1-2วัน  จึงควรสั่งซื้อสินค้าภายใน 1-2วัน เมื่อมีการชำระยอดเงินสินค้าที่สั่ง ,โกดัง เอาท์เลท จะสั่งสินค้าให้ท่านทันที เพื่อเป็นการสต๊อกสินค้าและ ส่งให้ถึงมือลูกค้าให้เร็วที่สุด

+ สินค้าทุกชิ้นจะทำการตรวจเช็ตสินค้าที่เกาหลี ก่อนส่งถึงไทย

+  สินค้าทุกชิ้นจะส่งตรง จาก Korea ถึงไทย ตามที่อยู่ลูกค้า โดยตรง ทุกที่ทั่วประเทศไทย มีTracking No. เพื่อเช็คสถานะสินค้า ตั้งแต่ Korea กระทั่ง สินค้าถึงประเทศไทย มั่นใจ ปลอดภัย**

+ โดยคิดค่าส่งตามน้ำหนักจริงของสินค้า  (1 Kg. = รองเท้า 1 คู่ = 390 บาท)

+ สินค้าเมื่อซื้อแล้วไม่สามารถเปลี่ยน หรือ คืนได้ ในทุกกรณี จึงควรเช็คไซส์ – รุ่น ให้แน่ใจก่อนทำการสั่งซื้อ

+ สินค้าทุกชิ้นรับประกัน ว่าเป็นของแท้ 100%

ขอบคุณทุกท่านที่อุดหนุนกันมาตั้งแต่ รอบแรก จนปัจจุบันนี้ จ๊ะ

My good friend S, who works at a major law firm, wrote me a few days ago asking an age old question: buy the Motorola Droid or go with the tried and true Blackberry platform on their new, slick BlackBerry Bold 2.  My friend had no idea the puddle he was jumping into when he asked me that question…

If you do not want to read the whole post, here is a summary (I would also check out Mobile Crunch’s phone gift guide here):

Best network (in order of quality): Verizon, Sprint, AT&T, T-Mobile

Best smartphone option on each: Verizon = Droid, Sprint = Pre, ATT = iPhone, T-Mobile = Bold 2

Best choice for consumers: Droid or Pre

Best choice for business (but just barely now): Blackberry on any of the networks

Best choice for cost: Pre or anything else on Sprint.

The email(s)

Below is an edited version of our email conversation.  I hope this helps anyone out there who is asking themselves – what smartphone should I buy this holiday season.

S asks: my plan is up for renewal and I am thinking seriously about moving from T-mobile to VZ to use the Droid [editor’s note: VZ and Moto, those weird ads are reaching people, nice].  I know you work in the industry and pay attention to this stuff, do you have thoughts on the matter?

Me:  I do have thoughts on the matter, in fact!  I love phones way too much and hate the fact that my co makes it difficult to use other phones [with service that they pay for at least]. [editor’s note: my company provides me with a global data plan and phone.  The only requirement: I have to use a BlackBerry].

S, to start off any decision, you have to ask yourself this question: is the service more important or is the phone?

If service is more important, than I would go with Verizon (or, to be honest, Sprint).  I know of too many people with issues/dropped calls on ATT.  I never experience any on Verizon and very few on Sprint.  I can’t speak for Tmobile but since you have it already, you can judge that service for yourself.  Note: VZ used to have an edge in DC with the metro but now all the platforms have service on all the carriers (VZ is still the only one with service in the tunnels, I believe).

If service is not as important, then it is a device decision.  You need to ask this: what is my main phone use?  If you main use is for work, then a Black Berry is still better (although only barely at this point if your company supports non-berry email devices).  If your main use is personal emails, then the sky is the limit.

This holiday season is filled with awesome devices.  To your specific question: Droid vs Bold II.  I tested the Droid this weekend.  In short, it is an awesome device but the physical keyboard is terrible.  However, the on-screen keyboard is as good, if not better, than the iPhone.  If a software keyboard does not bother you and [your law firm] supports non-BlackBerry email devices, the Droid is a great way to go.  The GPS/Google Maps is awesome.  There are a ton of apps (best non-iphone number of apps).  One bad thing: it is a bit buggy right now and not super intuitive all the time but a) Google is constantly innovating and updating their software, b) less intuitive only because there are so many options and things you can do (vs Blackberry). [editor’s note: I hate the fact that my Blackberry seems like such a controlled device.  However, I am a geek who loves to install and test out different apps.  The average user appreciates how stable and difficult to mess-up the Berry platform is for users].

The Bold II, from everything I have read, is going to be the best BlackBerry out there this holiday season.  Of course, it is still a Blackberry.  Minus their email/calendar functionality, I basically hate all things made by RIM.  I think they try to put in just the minimum to make it work and know they have a captive audience [ie lazy Corporate IT staffs].  All Blackberry’s are chronically short in memory (for use with apps), their software is extremely outdated even with a fancy new software skin, and their browser is terrible.  Finally, their app store is small.  With all of that said, the hardware [of the Bold 2] looks good, is probably rock solid (i.e. hard to break), and the software just works (of course, it can only do maybe 50% of what the Droid can do).

So what are your priorities?  Truthfully, this is a very difficult call.  I probably lean slightly towards the Droid but only slightly.  Blackberry is still probably much better for work.  [Editor’s note: while I do use my Berry a lot for work and it is an important productivity tool, I also use it for personal things.  An ideal phone should be able to do both.  The average user should ask themselves – what % of my time do I do work with my phone and what % is personal.  If it is more personal, then you have no reason to buy a Berry].

Adding the iPhone and Pre to the discussion

S replied and I brought up other options (since this holiday is filled with them):

Since you only asked about VZ/Tmob, I kept the discussion to those phones.  With that said, if you care about price, my favorite phone from a functional/looks standpoint is the Palm Pre.  It has the best hardware design out there this holiday.  Supposedly the hardware keyboard is okay (better than Droid).  Apps are weak but probably not too far behind Berry.  I happen to think Sprint’s network is really good (a lot of ppl have left so they have extra capacity).  My friend who is a lawyer for Sprint absolutely loves his Pre.  He writes a lot of emails on his phone so he obviously doesn’t mind it from a corporate perspective.

If you do not mind a non-keyboard phone on a terrible network [i.e. AT&T] but with an app for everything, then the iPhone is still king of the hill.  I happen to think that Apps are a bit overrated once you hit a certain number but that is a discussion for another time.  The iPhone is a beautiful piece of hardware with great underlying software.  Of course, it is also owned by nearly everyone.  Think different!  (check out this iPhone vs droid battle, here)

Editor’s side note on Apple and iPhone apps: If the phone can do 95% of the same things as the other phone but has better key metrics (such as the network, hardware, and core software) then will a larger app catalogue really make the difference (since every app store will have all the major programs)?  Ex: Apple computer software (i.e. Leopard) vs. Windows.  Windows likely has millions more apps than Apple yet many people still prefer to buy a Mac.

S’s response (we are taking this offline and going to lunch to continue the discussion):

The long email is definitely appreciated.  I also spend way too much time thinking about phones (probably spent 10 hours in the last few weeks reading up now that I am out of contract).  And what you are saying jives with what I’m generally reading/thinking.  My thought right now is that I’m going to wait for the December 11 software update for the Droid to see whether they fix the fact that you can’t search Exchange Sync emails (and hopefully a few of the other bugs I’m reading about).  Unfortunately, not being able to do that is a non-starter for me since it’s so important for work.  If they do fix that, I’m leaning towards the Droid.  The Google Navigator looks awesome and I generally think Android is a more fun platform if not more functional from a work perspective.  I may also wait to see what this new HTC Android phone due out in December ends up being.  I really wanted to get something new as soon as I went out of contract, but it seems like giving it another month to let the holiday roll outs play out is a good idea.

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As a former Palm OS user, the Palm Pre is a phone I’ve been really looking forward to using. Years ago I had a Handspring Visor, then a Sony CLIÉ.  Even once I usurped them with a cell phone that could sync all my organizer data, I lusted after the Palm Treo 600 and 650.  After a few years of Palm’s wheel-spinning the iPhone came along and their anemic offerings lost their appeal, but I’ve still kept a soft spot for Palm-related things.  So when in January Palm revealed webOS, I was stoked.  The multitasking, web-based app development and iPhone-like multitouch gestures all hooked me, and I was ready to get it into my grubby little hands.

Holding it in said grubby hands at the Sprint store last night, I was pleased with the build of the phone.  It felt more solid than the CLIQ, and it seemed to have fewer little bits of plastic joined together, thus resulting in a more rigid feel.  It’s still a slider, which I’m not a big fan of build-wise, but it was still an improvement over my last experience in that regard.

The screen was very impressive.  It’s definitely the brightest of any phone I’ve seen so far, easily outperforming the one in my iPhone and any of the other phones on display there in the Sprint store.  Pictures and video looked great on it, better than on my iPhone.  Even though the display is the same resolution (320×480), it’s a good bit smaller dimension-wise so I have to squint a little harder at it if I’m not wearing my glasses (which I don’t 90% of the time).  For this reason I wish the screen were a little bigger, but it’s certainly not a dealbreaker.

I liked webOS a lot.  Any degree of multitasking is welcome, and webOS delivers in spades.  I’ve always been curious how other mobile operating systems handle opening all these different things when they only have ~256MB of memory at their disposal, so I put it through its paces by opening lots of apps and browser windows simultaneously and switching between them.  I opened about 8 different “cards” and didn’t notice any significant performance hit, so webOS’s ingenious method of having all apps being nothing more than a window in a browser seems to pay off in terms of performance.  One thing that always irks me on the iPhone is that while you can open multiple windows in Safari, the phone won’t keep the page in more than one loaded for very long.  I assume this is due to memory constraints, and if window number two needs more memory it will forget the content of window number one so that two can do what it needs.  I understand the technical practicality of this, but it’s still frustrating when you’re trying to flip back and forth between two windows and it will have to reload the first one because it forgot its content.  I did try having several browser windows open on the Pre, each displaying a page with a large number of individual pictures (the sort of page the iPhone is prone to forget) and it did maintain the content of each page for several minutes of testing.  After I’d opened a bunch of other apps and gotten up to about 8 different cards it finally forgot the content of the first browser card I opened (I assume for the same reason the iPhone does), but it definitely fared better than the iPhone in that regard.

The interface wasn’t as responsive as the CLIQ’s was.  Like my iPhone 3G there was a slight, fraction-of-a-second delay on a lot of taps, but I didn’t experience any of the frustratingly long (e.g. 1+ second) pauses like I do regularly on my iPhone.  I experienced a complete phone crash while watching the demo video that was on the phone.  It was playing for several seconds, then the frame abruptly froze and the phone became unresponsive.  Tapping the button to go back to the home screen did nothing, and after a few seconds the phone simply restarted itself, presenting me with the Palm boot screen.  While it could totally be a one-off glitch, I can’t say that webOS’s built-in media player crashing the whole device while playing Palm-supplied content left me with a flawless impression of the Pre’s stability.

I did the same network tests that I did on the CLIQ, trying to get a feel for Sprint’s EV-DO network.  Pings were startlingly low, averaging about 140ms.  This was really impressive for someone used to the 240+ ms pings on UMTS networks.  However, Sprint’s actual transfer speed wasn’t impressive.  I did about ten tests and got widely divergent results.  While two were in the 800kbps range, most were down around 500kbps, two even lower.  It definitely wasn’t as consistent as T-Mobile, or even as consistent as AT&T.  But AT&T definitely has bad days, and maybe I just caught Sprint at an off moment.  Not a great impression in terms of bandwidth, though.  Real-world testing in the browser yielded average results, more or less on par with my iPhone 3G.  It loaded pages well without any noticeable hiccups (it got the page the CLIQ didn’t) but wasn’t as snappy as the CLIQ had been.  The presence of multitouch was very welcome in the browser, though, as I forgot to mention in my CLIQ review that the absence of it on that device was a bit frustrating.  Obviously as an iPhone user pinching to zoom and double-tapping to zoom on a particular element are second nature, and much simpler and more precise solutions than the zoom slider the CLIQ tried to pass off instead.  I was happy to see those gestures implemented on the Pre.

Image from precentral.net

The keyboard was a huge disappointment.  At least on the CLIQ there was a soft keyboard I could fall back to if I didn’t like the hard one, but on the Pre no such option exists.  Which is unfortunate, because I really disliked the Pre’s keyboard.  First off, it is tiny.  Far and away the smallest I’ve seen.  I’ve got big hands and already find normal mobile keyboards a bit cumbersome because of this, but this really took it to the extreme.  The keys are simply too cramped together for me to type on comfortably.  When I tried to type with the pads of my fingers, as I do on my iPhone and have done on all other mobile keyboards, the pad of each finger touches three or four different keys simultaneously.  As long as I’m careful about where I’m directing my finger’s pressure I was usually able to depress only the desired key, but this required extra care and made typing a less than comfortable experience.  I found I could type much more precisely and with less uncertainty if I bent down my thumbs and used their tips and my nails, but this quickly made my hands really uncomfortable so that was no good.  Additionally, the keys were made of some sort of soft rubber material that kept the keys from having the sort of firm assurance I’d like from a hard keyboard.  I’m sure typing on the Pre would get easier with time, but no amount of time is going to make the keyboard a more reasonable size.  I expect that even after months of practice, typing on the Pre’s keyboard would still be less than ideal.

So while in my head I was definitely expecting the Pre to be a final contender, it actually got knocked out pretty quickly entirely because of having a disappointing keyboard.  I liked the software, it was reasonably responsive and the phone seemed reasonably well-built, but given how much I disliked the only way the device allows you to type, that pretty much ruins everything else.  Maybe Palm will put out a device in the future with a better keyboard (the brand new Pixi sitting next to the Pre I tried wasn’t significantly better), but until then I’m sadly going to have to steer clear of their offerings.

AT&T (s t) isn’t the only operator whose network shortcomings have been exposed by data-hungry iPhone users. O2 — which until recently was the only UK operator to carry Apple’s (s aapl) gadget — said it will spend $166 million over the next several months to shore up its network to meet ever-increasing demands from smartphone users. Additionally, the carrier said it will build 40 new cell sites in and around London in advance of the holiday season.

Like AT&T, O2 has drawn criticism regarding its network performance as smartphone usage increases. The increased traffic is directly attributable to the iPhone 3G S and the Palm (s palm) Pre, which are the best-selling devices on its network, CTO Derek McManus said in a release:

“World-class smartphones have brought about an unprecedented demand on mobile data networks,” according to McManus. “Data on our network has increased 20-fold in the last year alone. As a result, we have recently experienced some isolated pressures in London where there is the highest concentration of smartphone users.”

O2 has effectively leveraged its exclusive iPhone deal, gaining nearly 300,000 net mobile subscribers in the third quarter and emerging as the only UK operator to increase revenue in the first nine months of the year. The company isn’t likely to keep up that pace as rival carriers begin to offer the iconic device, but if O2 can address its network problems it could retain its crown as the top carrier in the region — until Orange (s fte) and T-Mobile consummate their merger, anyway.

Sometimes its more difficult than others to read the signs. For instance (because this is my latest obsessive compulsive thought), I’ve been planning for a month or more to upgrade mine and my husband’s cell phones in December. We have been Palm users for a couple of years, now, (not counting the original Palm Pilots that were not phones, also) so were originally planning to move to the Palm Pre. Then we started researching the apps, battery life, durability, and countless other nit-picks about every smart phone on the market and are now right back at square one. Actually, as of this postingm, we aren’t even at square one, we’re behind square one…and its frustrating and heck! How am I supposed to stop obsessing about cell phones (to upgrade, not to upgrade, what to upgrade to if we go through with said upgrade) when the issue is not being resolved?

OK, so I decided the answer to my obsession was prayer. That’s certainly logical. Now that I really think that God cares what phone I have or don’t have, but I’m pretty sure He still knows what’s best for me and which phone will help more and which will hinder more, if you know what I mean. So, I prayed. Yes, I prayed about cell phones. I know, I know.

So, I arose from my prayer time over cell phones completely at ease with whatever came my way. That if it was best for us to keep the phones we have for now and make no change, that I wouldn’t pout. That if the upgrades were a good plan (or at least not a bad plan) then that decision would be made obvious as the nose on my face or the crows feet around my eyes from years of big smiles. And my mind was (note, was) at ease.

So, I’m good to go and no longer obsessing. Then, I get to the office, and I’ll be darned if the very first email that pops up is from Fora.tv telling me that they now have an app for the iPhone. Now I’m just confused, because I’m sure that God isn’t really giving me the go-ahead for the phone of all phones, the acclaimed iPhone 3GS…or is He? I can justify the hack out of an iPhone purchase (or even some of the Android phones, for that matter). I do tons of stuff on my phone, practical stuff…now just games and goofy stuff. I blog, email, work on the company websites, facebook (thats no goofy), tweet (not goofy, either), and so much more. Phones any more truly are our personal computers, and this is especially true for me as we do not even have a computer at home anymore since we use our cell phones for everything.

So, all of that obsessing to ask: When we pray for definite signs and directions, and we get answers that surprise us, how do we answer? As for the phone, I’m still not convinced that I’ve gotten the last of my direction on that matter and I won’t buy a new phone until I am sure, but really this is just the latest of many personal examples of this kind of signal reading test. When do we know the answers from the wishful thinking???

I’d love your input!!!

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An hour or so later…

Anyone who reads much of my writing knows what’s to come. An little while after finishing up the posting on my cell phone conundrum, I came to the following passage in my New Testament reading. I won’t commentate further, the Word speaks for itself!

Then someone out of the crowd said to him, “Master, tell my brother to share his legacy with me.”
But Jesus replied, “My dear man, who appointed me a judge or arbitrator in your affairs?”
And then, turning to the disciples, he said to them, “Notice that, and be on your guard against covetousness in any shape or form. For this man’s real life in no way depends on the number of his possessions.”
(Luke 12:13-15, Modern English Translation)

and then further down…

“You must not set your heart on what you eat or drink, nor must you live in a state of anxiety.”
(Luke 12:29, Modern English Translation)

I’m so glad to have so many new Bronze members on my new members area section of my official blog. The past few weeks have been all work for me. It seems I’ve been stretching myself pretty thin between my tattoo studio Adrenalynn INKorperated, building the new members area, and fitting in some time for cam shows. I’m working on rearranging my schedule to make more room and start doing more regular cam shows. Not only will I be having more cam shows, but they will also be earlier in the day for those of you who need live dirtiness in the middle of the day. So be on the look out for schedules and notices of me being LIVE on my cam. I’ll throw up a quick clickable link on my sidebar again so its super easy to get to even if you are just trying to get a a recorded cam session.

The mini monster truck show was fun. I didn’t get super white trashy, just jeans and a tee. I had some pretty funny suggestions for wardrobe on twitter. Sorry to let down everyone who thought I should totally Daisy Duke it up. But not to worry I totally went with blue eyeshadow to seal the deal. I also ate my weight in cotton candy :] Not sure if its because its the holiday season and they have started pumping Christmas music EVERYWHERE, or if I have to spend some time at my Mom’s this week, but today has kind of been one of those days :/ I’m really glad I have all of you to share myself with and keep me busy and my mind occupied. Emails should be out to everyone who has a Bronze membership today. [Some members are having log in confusion or have purchased a Bronze membership, but have not yet signed up for a FREE membership. Emails have detailed useful info] While everything on the site is functioning, please keep in mind I’m the only one building and maintaining the site. So please be patient as I work on making things a little more user friendly and pretty.

Did you see the new pre tattoo hot tub photos I posted this morning??

It turns out that the Palm Pixi is falling even more in price just like the Palm pre. Currently on amazon you can buy it for 24.99 with a new service plan. Also there is a free activation but that doesn’t really matter.The Palm Pixi may not be worth it because of the falling price of the Pre and other competitors on the horizon but $25 is not that bad of a price.I would still recommend getting the pre for the extra money it is definitely worth it. If one of you readers is interested hit the link.

It’s time for another podcast (25 min) with Matthew Bennett:
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This week was all about Android – the T-Mobile G1, the HTC Magic, the HTC Hero, the Motorola CLIQ, and of course the Motorola Droid.

We also discussed the Nokia N900, the Nokia N86, the Samsung Memoir, the Palm Pre, BlackBerry 9630 (Tour), the Sony Ericsson C905a and a few other things.

As a bonus, enjoy the lovely view from Bernal Heights

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