http://www.digitalrendezvous.net everything for your digital lifestyle Sun, 04 Jan 2009 21:09:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 en hourly 1 http://www.digitalrendezvous.net/2008/08/30/dumbdumb-20/ http://www.digitalrendezvous.net/2008/08/30/dumbdumb-20/#comments Sat, 30 Aug 2008 13:06:10 +0000 Vincent http://www.digitalrendezvous.net/?p=219 At The IFA Con­sumer Elec­tronic trade show, TOMTOM and Garmin showed of their new nav­i­ga­tion sys­tems. The TOMTOM Go X40 Live series (940, 740 and 540). Al devices con­tain the HD-​Traffic (High Def­i­n­i­tion Traf­fic), which is being used for up-​to-​date traf­fic infor­ma­tion. More ser­vices like Google Maps inte­gra­tion (Finally!), fuel prices and a brand new [...]]]> http://www.digitalrendezvous.net/2008/08/30/dumbdumb-20/feed/ http://www.digitalrendezvous.net/2008/07/27/dumbdumb/ http://www.digitalrendezvous.net/2008/07/27/dumbdumb/#comments Sun, 27 Jul 2008 08:57:18 +0000 Vincent http://www.digitalrendezvous.net/?p=209 As I promised ear­lier, I would write a review about TOMTOM. I have had the device now a couple of months, although I find the device the eas­i­est to use cur­rently avail­able in the indus­try, I have some real com­plaints, actu­ally I only have two. On the hard­ware side the bat­tery life, which is really [...]]]> http://www.digitalrendezvous.net/2008/07/27/dumbdumb/feed/ http://www.digitalrendezvous.net/2008/06/09/wwdc-2008/ http://www.digitalrendezvous.net/2008/06/09/wwdc-2008/#comments Mon, 09 Jun 2008 20:10:28 +0000 Vincent http://www.digitalrendezvous.net/?p=195 The World­wide Devel­oper Con­fer­ence 2008 had an unusual high atten­dance (52.000 atten­dees). CEO Steve Jobs announced a couple of inter­est­ing items during the event: Mac OS 10.6 (Snow Leop­ard), Mobile Me and of course the iPhone 3G. The ses­sion of Mac OS X 10.6 this after­noon will be cov­ered under non-​disclosure, so don’t expect any [...]]]> http://www.digitalrendezvous.net/2008/06/09/wwdc-2008/feed/ http://www.digitalrendezvous.net/2008/06/08/urban-roaming/ http://www.digitalrendezvous.net/2008/06/08/urban-roaming/#comments Sun, 08 Jun 2008 05:48:41 +0000 Vincent http://www.digitalrendezvous.net/?p=193 When I bought my Mac­Book Pro I also bought myself a new back­pack or in this case a hard­pack. Axio’s stan­dard dual zone com­part­ments with 4-panel orga­niz­ers can fit up to a 17″ Mac­Book Pro which remains secure in a fleece-​lined cocoon. With it’s urban styl­ish badges, unique con­trast zipper stitch­ing, head­phone pocket with exter­nal exit [...]]]> http://www.digitalrendezvous.net/2008/06/08/urban-roaming/feed/ http://www.digitalrendezvous.net/2008/03/06/iphone-sdk-press-conference/ http://www.digitalrendezvous.net/2008/03/06/iphone-sdk-press-conference/#comments Thu, 06 Mar 2008 06:36:59 +0000 Vincent http://www.digitalrendezvous.net/2008/03/06/iphone-sdk-press-conference/ Apple’s iPhone SDK press con­fer­ence will be held at 10:00AM PT / 1:00PM ET 08:00AM - Hawaii 10:00AM - Pacific 11:00AM - Moun­tain 12:00PM - Cen­tral 01:00PM - East­ern 06:00PM - London 07:00PM - Ams­ter­dam 09:00PM - Moscow 03:00AM - Tokyo (March 7th) ]]> http://www.digitalrendezvous.net/2008/03/06/iphone-sdk-press-conference/feed/ http://www.digitalrendezvous.net/2008/01/20/digitalrendezvous-to-go/ http://www.digitalrendezvous.net/2008/01/20/digitalrendezvous-to-go/#comments Sun, 20 Jan 2008 12:00:56 +0000 Vincent http://www.digitalrendezvous.net/2008/01/20/digitalrendezvous-to-go/ As I men­tioned in an ear­lier post, I would be offer­ing a mobile ver­sion of this weblog. It’s been run­ning in beta form for a while now and I think it’s ready to be unleashed into dig­i­tal cyber­space. You can approach this opti­mized ver­sion with you iPod Touch or iPhone by enter­ing this URL in [...]]]> http://www.digitalrendezvous.net/2008/01/20/digitalrendezvous-to-go/feed/ http://www.digitalrendezvous.net/2007/06/16/iphone-headset/ http://www.digitalrendezvous.net/2007/06/16/iphone-headset/#comments Sat, 16 Jun 2007 10:00:00 +0000 Vincent http://www.digitalrendezvous.net/wordpress/2007/06/16/iphone-headset/ Apple has made an iPhone acces­sory, a Blue­tooth head­set. This was men­tioned ear­lier during the Keynote of Steve Jobs at Mac­world Expo. It’s cur­rently unknown when this is going to be released and how much its going to cost. ]]> http://www.digitalrendezvous.net/2007/06/16/iphone-headset/feed/ http://www.digitalrendezvous.net/2007/05/11/moblog/ http://www.digitalrendezvous.net/2007/05/11/moblog/#comments Fri, 11 May 2007 10:00:00 +0000 Vincent http://www.digitalrendezvous.net/wordpress/2007/05/11/moblog/ I am cur­rently inves­ti­gat­ing mobile offer­ings of my weblog. So mobile.​dig​i​tal​ren​dezvous.net is on its way. This will enable me to post from any loca­tion and let users post com­ments from any loca­tion. Moblog­ging is in its infancy phase, but I think the mobile device as we know it will change dra­mat­i­cally, offer­ing users far more [...]]]> http://www.digitalrendezvous.net/2007/05/11/moblog/feed/ http://www.digitalrendezvous.net/2007/03/03/go-go-gadget-phone/ http://www.digitalrendezvous.net/2007/03/03/go-go-gadget-phone/#comments Sat, 03 Mar 2007 10:00:00 +0000 Vincent http://www.digitalrendezvous.net/wordpress/2007/03/03/go-go-gadget-phone/ Mobile devices are get­ting more and more pow­er­ful by the year. In this demo NVidia shows off their vision on next-​generation mobile phones (at 3GSM). The power behind these graph­i­cal capa­bil­i­ties is their new Mobile GoForce line-​up. Engad­get has a nice arti­cle on the sub­ject. Khronos OpenKODE is used for accel­er­at­ing these vector 2D and [...]]]> http://www.digitalrendezvous.net/2007/03/03/go-go-gadget-phone/feed/ http://www.digitalrendezvous.net/2006/08/02/handover-that-phone/ http://www.digitalrendezvous.net/2006/08/02/handover-that-phone/#comments Wed, 02 Aug 2006 10:00:00 +0000 Vincent http://digitalrendezvous.net/wordpress/?p=53 UMA (Unli­censed Mobile Access) or GAN (Generic Access Net­work) makes it pos­si­ble to seam­less han­dover between GSM (Global System for Mobile Com­mu­ni­ca­tions) and WLAN (Wire­less Local Area Net­works). Wi-​Fi (Wire­less Fidelity) based on IEEE 802.11 spec­i­fi­ca­tions uses one or more Wire­less Access Point(s) (WAP) and one or more clients which can con­nect to the Inter­net [...]]]> http://www.digitalrendezvous.net/2006/08/02/handover-that-phone/feed/