Bye bye Treo... Hello Centro..

Well, it's been about a month now, but I finally traded in my Treo 700p and grabbed the Palm Centro as soon as Verizon started carrying it. I had been holding out for any of the new phones coming out at the end of the year with Google's Android OS, but got to thinking, "I KNOW Palm OS. I KNOW how to tweak it. I KNOW my 8 years' worth of software." And since I had heard nothing but praise for the Centro (as opposed to all the trashing of the 700p, myself included, after the first few months of release until they FINALLY came out with a firmware update), I decided to consider it even though it was the same old tried and true Palm OS. Then I figured out with my upgrade discounts and data discounts and a mail-in rebate, I would get it for free. SOLD!

And I tell you, I couldn't be more pleased with it!

So I will be updating my links to the right to include some of my new "most favoritist websites" dedicated to the Centro...

Testing out CellSpin

I am testing out different mobile blogging alternatives... This is CellSpin.

New phone skin for Treo/Centro... Aurora

Just got into skinning a bit recently as I tweak my new blue VZW Centro... this is a skin for the phone app using the Skinner program:



It's my first, so be gentle...LOL... but it matches my blue Centro well and the background bitmap matches my wallpaper used elsewhere throughout apps on my Centro... If you like it, you can find it at treocentral.com...

Everything feels flat now...

Two hour drive to the airport in Birminghan. Didn't even turn the radio on.
Just stared at the road and drove.

The airport used to be one of my favorite places. The ultimate people
watcher place. Today I just kind of stared blankly at the floor.
Eavesdropping on the myriad conversations around me used to be a favorite
pasttime in the airport. Today I'm just kind of in my own world, oblivious
to the conversations that now seem so inane. So trivial. So UNIMPORTANT.

Everything just seems drab and gray. I guess this is what it feels like
when you're awoken in the middle of the night to be informed your
father-in-law has passed away suddenly, and barely 10 hours later you'rein
an airport waiting to fly and see him. To try to be that rock for my wife
and sons who were already there for vacation. To try and make sense of
this. I'm jealous of him. Right now he's dancing with Jesus, and we're all
stuck here.

Carl, we're gonna miss you. Put a good word in with Our Father to take care
of your girls...I'll do my best, but life without you is going to be hard
on them all.

Great little tweak for Gmail/Firefox 3 users...

I'm still not sold on Firefox 3 yet, as it seems to be an even BIGGER resource hog after a while than FF2 was (I thought FF3 was supposed to fix this... idiots.)... however, for those that have upgraded to FF3 and are primarily Gmail users, mailto: links have always sucked. It always tried to take you to your "default" email program (even if you didn't use one). But now with this tweak you can identify Gmail as your default email handler in FF3 so you can now just click on those email links and go straight into Gmail rather than having to go through the pain of coopying and pasting the email address into Gmail yourself. Small price to pay, but still inconvenient... I haven't got all MINUTE, ya know...

Anyway, here's the link to the explanation and tweak...

Firefox 3: Set Firefox 3 to Launch Gmail for mailto Links