One good thing about Blackberries is that the movies play very well on it and often do not require any conversion from AVI.
On a SD card, you can stick some of them and enjoy a trip. The screen resolution is decent and the sound really great.
Adding to that that you can skip fast through the file and you have a clear winner.
Like I said in the previous post, they look great!
Replying to Is Apple a Pioneer or a Laggard? I do think that Apple is a company that follows its own drummer.
They do not care about what the others are doing. They do look at what the next big thing is and embark on it.
I just posted a video of Steve Jobs addressing graduates at Stanford. At the end he says “Stay hungry, stay foolish.”
So Apple is hungry for more, and foolish enough to attempt new things.
A pioneer has a high risk of failure. People speak about the “Jobsian Reality Distortion Field.” This is precisely what happens when you are foolish enough to decide that things are going to be your way since you believe that your way is the best way according to your values. Sticking to your guns viciously if needed. Steve Jobs is not a kind guy. He is a die hard perfectionist. He pushes his teams to the maximum. He makes people go the extra mile.
He makes real what others may have prototyped. Look at the following new elements surfacing during the previous days with the announcements:
The Apple Stores are working, generate revenue and are the biggest in the market. They put the carriers to bit movers and commodities. Apple owns the glitz factor. Android and WinPhone7 do suck there. BlackBerry AppWorld is also sucking here.
iPad, iPod, iPhone, Macs work well together. Looking at the internals of iOS and MacOSX, we get what was there @ Next (APIs classes are beginning with NS (NextStep). Objective-C has a big future.
So, nor pioneer nor laggard. But winner, for sure. Just looking at the capitalization (and even if the dollar is going to drown in the coming months) Apple is bigger than Belgium.
And by the way, who cares about being a pioneer or a laggard. These concepts do mean that you compare yourself to others. Apple works its way. The market decides. The market is always right and wipes out all rethoric. Excellence in execution is what makes the difference as ideas are basically free. Who cares about ideas? You can have all ideas for free. What is key is to execute brilliantly. That’s what Apple does. That’s why they win. No crap will win anything. Vista is proof of that.
No more need to drag a laptop behind when it comes to presenting.
This littlz gizmo will just do the job. It is compatible with my Bold, happy me! I am just curious if the application for running the show is not swallowing too much of the oh-so-tiny memory space on the device. I can’t figure out why the hell RIM didn’t managed to cram 1GB of RAM in there. I don’t care about price, I care about ease of use. And that little RAM is driving me mad. An iPhone has 32GB damn it!
Blackberry Presenter
Here are more views of the beast:
Connectors
More to see on the Blackberry site.
Last June, I offered a prize at the FPMs (Faculté Polytechnique de Mons) to Aurélie, the best student getting her Civil Engineering Master in IT and Management.
Obviously, I googled around to find out more about Aurélie.
It proved fruitful since I found a very interesting brain teaser: Kuboku. This is Sudoku in 3D.
Kuboku : Sudoku in 3D
My wife is really a Godess when it comes to solving such puzzles, she does them so fast that I cannot even understand how she manages to do it. I am eager to see how she will play this 3D version.
I am not going to dig into more details on how she beats me flat a the Dr Kawashima’s games on the Nintendo DS as I’ve long understood that she sports a much better CPU than I do for mental calculations. She still calls upon me to open locked jars though.
Back to Aurélie, it appears that she runs another site named Make Your Contest. This may be interesting to use in the future.
So, I am going to improve my brain a bit with Kuboku 
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