Late to the Party

Awesome…  I love Tom and Jerry.  It’s my favorite cartoon.  I just bought a DVD box set of Tom and Jerry cartoons (the older, original ones, not the redone ones from the 80s or whenever).  This time waster website du jour sounds fun:

I watched a ton of Tom and Jerry when I was a kid. Maybe that’s why I find today’s time-waster so very addictive. The object of Tom and Jerry is to build the infamous better mouse-trap. A Rube Goldberg machine of animated proportions, to catch the elusive Jerry while he noshes on the cheese left just outside his hole.

(via Download Squad)

Over my lunch break I decided to stop over at a local Borders to try to sign up for the free T-Mobile HotSpot access that comes with upgrading my PSP to firmware 3.30 (I’m not a homebrew diva).  After a while of finagling with the T-Mobile hotspot website that automatically pops up when you sign on to the network, I figured that there must be some specific way to do this that is not the same as the normal sign-up process.  So I busted out my MDA and logged on to jkOnTheRun, which was a slow affair in and of itself over my Lame-O GPRS (TM) connection.  I thought perhaps there would be a link there to the procedure for signing up for the limited free access, or maybe there’d be a comment from someone who tried it.  Close…  Someone had mentioned the US Playstation website, so I surfed over there (more slowness) and found a vague set of instructions.  Basically I had to use the new "Use Wireless Hotspot" option for network connections, but it wasn’t working correctly.  After a while of wrestling with it, I gave up and decided that it might not be working as detailed on the Playstation website because I was using a Japanese imported PSP.

Side story: I bought this import PSP for my brother one year at Christmas because it is white, and he is kind of an Apple fanboy who prefers the clean look of their white electronics.   He was psyched to get it, but later on we found out that since it is an import, it would not play UMD movies bought here in the States (don’t even get me started; I know my bro would’ve done better to avoid all UMD movies and just rip and convert existing DVDs for the PSP).  So I agreed to switch my US PSP for his.  At that time, I was not really using my PSP that much, so I didn’t care a whole lot what color or region it was.  But after a while, new PSP firmwares came out that extended the functionality of the PSP as a media player (such as basically supporting podcasts in AAC or H.264 format for iPods without conversion) that I started to use the PSP more, off and on.  Up until now, using the Japanese import was fine.  But I think I will switch back with him (he doesn’t really use his PSP a whole lot right now) to check whether or not I can get this free T-Mobile HotSpot access going.

In reality I don’t really need the access; I can use my MDA’s Lame-O GPRS (TM) for checking e-mail and Twitter and stuff.  But I am curious just to get it working.  I already bookmarked my Google Bookmarks page and my Twitter page in anticipation of getting the PSP online for free at Borders.

Check back later for the next part to this saga.

Saw a link to this from C|Net’s Crave blog.  What really caught my attention was that Deepfish supposedly works like Safari on the iPhone, where it renders the whole web page as you’d see it on a PC.  Then you can zoom in on certain parts of the web page to actually read the content.  On the iPhone you could do this with your fingers on the touchscreen, but with Deepfish, you are dependent on the Smartphone’s joystick.

Check out the demo here.  According to the Deepfish site, it’s an invite-only download (ah, isn’t that the Web 2.0 way? *smirk*).  If anyone has an invite, I’d like one, since I just found out this will run on Windows Mobile devices also (supposedly). 

Has anyone tried this out?

P.S. The Crave blog post also mentions ZenZui, which I saw pop up in Twitter recently but sort of glossed over.  Will have to revisit this.

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I =love= Google Reader.  Ever since they improved their format for the feeds, I’ve been using it exclusively. (Yeah, I dabbled again with Pulp Fiction Lite for about 2 seconds after I set up my iMac, but ran back to Google Reader.)  I even like the mobile version of Google Reader for viewing on my phone, even though it’s missing some of the features of the full version.

My one wishlist item for the moment: that I could see my starred items organized by feed.  Right now, if I click on the link for starred items, they’re all mashed together.  Hard to search for an article you think you starred to keep around for reference. 

There are many other wishlist items I have, but I wanted to quickly write about this one, since I had to deal with this limitation recently.

More wishlist items later.

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Well, I don’t know if I would have the patience to do this, but the results are really stunning:

See the rest of the pictures of the artist’s work here.

(link found on Twitter )

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