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Review: KB LightsOff!

One of the biggest annoyances I had on my Treo 700p was that the backlight for the keyboard was ALWAYS on…. this is A. noneffective and B. not good for battery life. In my searching for a reliable solution i found KB LightsOff! from LilApps who was willing to provide me with a review copy.

When you first launch the app you are greeted with a nice easy to use set of options. You can choose to enable/disable auto mode (turns on light when you need it then turns it off). Configure how to trigger auto mode/keyboard lights and there is a toggle right in app to turn the keyboard lights off/on.

Now back to auto mode… there is a set of preferences just for auto mode in the menu. In this screen you can choose how long of delay until the app turns the lights back off, additionally you can choose what other keys trigger the lights in auto mode (typing on keyboard auto does), and you can choose to have tone when you turn auto mode on/off.

Simply put this app is a great app for those who feel they want more battery life out of their treo or centro. The app normally costs $6.50 USD but if you buy now you can get it for $5.85 USD (10% off!) and requires a Treo 650, 680, 700p, 755p or Centro .

Screenshots

KB LightsOff! KB LightsOff!
KB LightsOff! KB LightsOff!

Grab your copy @ http://www.lilapps.com/

When is small TOO small?

Over the years the media card formats have shrunk. I can remember when compact flash and smart media were once big (I had a FujiFilm cam that used smart media) and the new formats were expensive/non existent.

With devices shrinking in size there was a need for smaller cards…. but this brings up the question “When is small too small?

When i went to my Palm Treo 700p I had found that my old 512mb sd card was dying… it was cheaper for me to get 2gb MicroSD cards with their included adapters than to get the older SD format. The new cards i got inspired me to to do this photo set that places MicroSD next to many common objects.

Here are the pics :)

iPod USB Connector

When is small TOO small? - iPod USB Connector

On Finger

When is small TOO small? - On Finger

Apple Remote

When is small TOO small? - Apple Remote

AA Battery

When is small TOO small? - AA Battery

iPod Dock connector

When is small TOO small? - iPod Dock connector

Dime

When is small TOO small? - Dime

1gb flash drive

When is small TOO small? - 1gb flash drive

Thumb screw

When is small TOO small? - Thumb screw

Card Case

When is small TOO small? - Card Case

Card Reader

When is small TOO small? - Card Reader

Card range

When is small TOO small? - Card range

Headphone mic adapter for Treo

When is small TOO small? - Headphone mic adapter for Treo

RSS Digest Combo – #66,#67,#68

Another late set of posts..

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Saturday, March 7th 2009

New StreamDesk Update
Solving the TinyUrl centralization problem
Schmidt: Google ‘unlikely’ to buy Twitter soon
What the Heck Is Twitter?It’s not a Google killer, and it’s not a Facebook killer.
Why TV Lost
Cydia Opens iPhone App Store for the Jailbroken Community [Jailbreak!]
Has ‘cloud-computing’ lost its VC luster?
Smartstrip surge protector and money saver
All Circuit City stores set to close tomorrow
Did Apple OK price cut on latest MacBook Air?
New Snow Leopard test build has more Cocoa goodness
New CableCARD diagnostic tool for Windows Media Center makes installation slightly less frustrating
Onkyo rolls out Sotec-branded E702A9 media PC
OWC Releases 4GB RAM Upgrades for New Mac Mini

Friday, March 6th 2009

Palm’s Sugar Daddy Serves Up Another Load of iPhone Trash Talk [Palm Vs Apple]
ASUS shows off Wireless LCD prototype, “Green” monitors
Digg CEO Jay Adelson on FoxBusiness.com
Apple’s Time Capsule, Airport Extreme Update Adds Drive Sharing For Older Units [Apple]
Apple denies second round of layoff rumors
The 100 oldest registered .com domains
Hallelujah: Microsoft confirms IE8, WMP, others can be removed from Windows 7
Unlike PCs, Apple’s Mac prices not collapsing yet
White Chocolate Keyboard Most Definitely Melts In Your Hands [Art]
Cydia developer planning independent iPhone App Store, others planning jailbreak service, adult app store
Circuit City RIP, 03-08-09
Twitter power-users, monitor calibration, and Geneva Conventions
Hulu content returns to Boxee in a different form
How To Install a Second Hard Drive in the New Mac Mini [Mods]

Safari 4 Buddy 1.0 changes hidden prefs | Utilities | Macworld
‘Toys “R” Us’ Buys Toys.com Domain Name For $5.1M

Thursday, March 5th 2009

Sapphire launching Radeon HD 4870 with 2GB of memory
firefox 3 in second place
Watchmen Steve Jobs Alter Ego’s Old School Macintosh SE/30 [Apple]
OCZ jumps into the netbook game with the Neutrino
9 Browsers Compared For Speed and Features
NVIDIA’s GeForce 9600M causing issues in 17-inch MacBook Pro?
Lars Ulrich ‘pirated’ his own CD
Core i7 laptop weighs 12 pounds, has a one-hour battery
Clearwire stays the course despite losses
HDMI-equipped ASUS Eee Box 206 eyes-on
Georgetown Finally Greenlights Apple Store
Ustream Launches Mobile Video Broadcasting Apps
New Samsung Q1 UMPC, the Q1EX
FireWire target disk mode to the rescue
Windows 7 test build ‘turns off’ Internet Explorer 8
Google Chrome now bundled with Real Player
Safari 4 Buddy 1.0 changes hidden prefs
GameTap to receive major update, lose Mac support
Mac Mini 2009 Review [Review]
Vista SP2 release candidate gets public airing
MSI WindBOX dismounts LCD, acts all proper at CeBIT
Apple Gets Nehalem Early, h264 and VMWare Performance Boosts
YouTube, Universal near new video deal
Joost Continues Fight For Relevancy, Teams Up With Social Network Netlog
Apple developers mark a year of iPhone apps
First look: Qt 4.5 rocks for rapid cross-platform development
ASUS: Our Eee PC 1000He is better than Acer’s Aspire One D150, fashion elegant too
HDTV Pinball Machine is Almost as Good as the Real Thing [Pinball]
7 Cool Research Projects From Yahoo

RSS Digest Combo – #61,#62

Another late set of posts..

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Sunday, March 1st 2009

GeeksRadio is now on iTunes!
Apple’s Safari hits 10% browser market share
Apple event rumored for March 24 with iMacs, maybe more
Apple overhauls MobileMe
Eurocom grabs for attention with Core i7-packin’ D901C PHANTOM-i7
The History Of The Internet
Boxee wants to hear from the Afterdawn community
Apple: Cosmetic Damage Keeps Us From Replacing Your Battery!
Solar Panels Reach $1 a Watt
RIAA Sued For Fraud, Abuse, & “Sham Litigation”
The Idiot’s Guide to Building Your Own Computer
Repackaging the news is not journalism
13 Most Desirable Collection Of Free Resources For Designers

Saturday, February 28th 2009

MIT team develops solar car, bodly calls it Eleanor
“Kijiji” Isn’t Kutting It. How about eBay Classifieds?
Nokia flagship store pulls XpressMusic 5800
TuneBoard: Speaker Keyboard for Mac Reviewed
Amazon Retreats on Kindle’s Text-to-Speech Issue
NIMH AA Batteries
Cooler Master’s 5-CPU monstrosity has your craptop cowering in a corner
How Broke Would You Have to Be to Revert Back to Dial-Up? [Recessionomics]
Investigative journalism: First casualty of the Net?
Plug Mug ends office thievery (or leaves a trail to the culprit)
10 Things Windows 7 Must Do To Succeed

RSS Digest Combo – #58,#59,#60

Another late set of posts..

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Friday, February 27th 2009

Microsoft’s Child ‘I’m a PC’ Ads Only Works With Little Girls Apparently [I'm A PC]
Microsoft Office Labs vision 2019 (montage + video)
Psion responds to “netbook” challengers, says it does so still sell the NetBook Pro
Preview: Boxee social media center for Windows
Google: ‘New Code’ Crashed Gmail, Sorry, Won’t Happen Again
Acer “Hornet”: Wii-like PC game platform
Camino 2.0 beta 2 for Mac now available
Run BASIC
LG denies plasma TV withdraw claims
Inside the Recompute Cardboard PC [Greener Gadgets]
World of Warcraft: ‘the crack cocaine of the computer world’
Sega Dreamcast + iMac = iCast
10 ways to make Chrome as good as Firefox
Google Street View integrates user images
Apple cracks down on emoji apps
Microsoft to remove need for QuickTime in Windows 7
Microsoft’s Business Model
USB cable with inline card reader
Australian Censorship Scheme Gets Blocked By Opposition Leaders [Australia]
A Little Peak at Changes Coming with the Windows 7 RC

Thursday, February 26th 2009

Safari 4: Eye Candy or Seriously Useful?
Microsoft talks open-source love amid TomTom Linux ‘war’
New Adobe AIR Marketplace
Apple Removes Old Non-Customer Reviews from App Store
IE8 for Windows 7 beta in ‘reliability update’
Apple and Psystar finally agree—to keep trade secrets secret
My Safari 1.0 Review From January 2003 (Not Mine but the author of the blogs review)
Windows 7 to get 2,000 bug fixes pointed out by testers
LEGO employees hand out tiny versions of themselves as business cards
Apple laptop ignites marketing department
Quebec ISP To Terminate Subscribers Over Copyright
Acer’s Ion-based Hornet nettop leaked in presentation slides?
Acclaim developer claims PSP 2 will be without UMD
There’s the Grammatic Way and the SEO Way
New Yahoo CEO ushers out CFO in executive shake-up
Practicality of Multi-Touch and an Early PowerBook Multi-Touch Keyboard Design
Apple Prepping OS X 10.5.7 Update
Amazon Kindle 2 review
Video: Windows CE and Android running simultaneously on a Nokia N800
Android Gathers Steam Among Open Source Developers
Get the Vista Service Pack 2 Release Candidate Next Week [Vista Sp2]
New Google dashboard provides downtime information
The Future of Google Chrome
Anyone Using Yahoo Briefcase?
Windows 7 – How WGA Will Work
Safari’s new tabs: Good or bad?
PSP 2 is ready and UMD-less, claims Earthworm Jim developer
More hidden preferences for Safari 4 Beta
Purported Specs Surface for Slimline 10″ Acer Aspire One [NetBooks]
Jobs Coming Back to Apple in June

Wednesday, February 25th 2009

Nokia’s Brave New Strategy: Laptops
Windows 7 shipping this Fall… according to Compal, anyway
Google Me Business Cards: Best or Worst Idea Ever? [Design]
New slimline Acer Aspire One slimline pics, alleged specs leak
Google blocking paid Market apps from Dev Phone 1 users
Quake Live May Spark Gaming Industry Shake-up
Microsoft files patent lawsuit against TomTom over Linux-based GPS systems
Leaked Snow Leopard screenshots and video show new Stacks, install options
I Love Downloadable Media, But It Makes For a Crappy Gift [Editorial]
Warning: Google Talk Phishing Scam On the Loose
id pushing hard for Quake Live on the Mac
Kindle 2: Disassemble? No disassemble!
Announcing the Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 RC
Ballmer Confirms Skinny Version of Windows 7 for Netbooks [Windows 7]
Apple’s App Store success hasn’t stopped prices tumbling
Panasonic’s latest Toughbook 30 unboxing and hands-on
Will You Be Moving to Safari?
New, Stealthy Conficker B++ Worm Discovered
Safari 4 Tips, Tricks and Special Effects
Real worm breaks man’s computer, sick of software worms getting all the glory
Adobe patches Flash vulnerabilities for three platforms
Google explains cause of latest Gmail outage
ZumoDrive Launches Public Beta
Apple TV 2.3.1 updated totally borks the Boxee add-on
Intel launches shapely new CPUs for slim new laptops
Sony shows off its latest fuel cells and cola-powered batteries
Syba debuts RCG RC-VIS62002 pocket projector
OmniWeb Mac Browser Finally Released For Free [Browsers]
Intel also sues Psion over ‘netbook’ trademark, general stupidity
Happy Birthday Steve Jobs

RSS Digest Combo – #50,#51,#52

Due to being majorly behind I did this as a combo.

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Monday, February 16th 2009
Neuros Link: Netflix Bounty Claimed!
What are people saying about Internet Explorer 8 RC1?
Lenovo said to be prepping 12-inch IdeaPad S20 netbook
Motorola Demonstrates Android on E-Ink Display
iTunes goes DRM Free
Asus Eee Top PC runs it some touchscreen Opera
Nokia also joins Adobe initiative, Flash 10 for (almost) all
Lego Mindstorms NXT 2.0 ‘Bots Can Spot Their Favorite Color [Toy Fair 2009]
Nokia starts App Store rival
Nvidia Plans To Power $99 Mobile Internet Devices
Google’s Android Market accepts price tags
Windows Mobile 6.5 is finger friendly and packs a new browser
Adobe preps full Flash player for smartphones
VHS Toaster Eats Breakfast, Not Tapes [Kitchentech]
Windows Mobile 6.5 walkthrough with Engadget (now with video!)
Palm joins Adobe’s Open Screen Project, Pre to support Flash
News: Vegas casinos warned of card-counting iPhone app
Should Apple License Mac OS X?
‘Usability Is the Only Reason Mac Survived’
Windows Mobile 6.5 announced, Marketplace included
First Multi-Core Mobile Platform Demonstrated
Landmark copyright trial against Pirate Bay gets underway
S3 crams DisplayPort, HDMI and DVI onto $70 Chrome 540 GTX

Tuesday, February 17th 2009
Liberty Media rescues Sirius from bankruptcy
Sirius XM gets 11th-hour $530m loan
The World’s Oldest Emoticons (From 1881)
103-Inch Panasonic TV Morphs Into a Giant, Multitouch Table Hockey Game [Giant TVs]
Microsoft team hacks Silverlight for Chrome
17-inch unibody MacBook Pro gets disassembled, examined
Fujitsu transfers its HDD business to Toshiba
Microsoft says “we’ve put the worst behind us” on Red Ring of Death
Partners to Support Native Windows 7 Mobile Broadband
MS To Slip IE8 Into Vista and XP Through OEMs
Apple settles San Francisco store disability lawsuit
Palm Developer Network: Overview of WebOS
User data ownership on Facebook and why it doesn’t matter
News: Apple rejects ‘South Park’ iPhone application
Android Not Dead

Wednesday, February 18th 2009
Windows 7 Beta Brings New Functionality to Games Explorer
Video: Offline Gmail Web App for Webkit browser phones demoed
Mozilla, Skype support EFF’s case for iPhone jailbreaking
Microsoft interested in ‘virtual reality’ technology company
The case of the App Store ripoff
Boxee Loses Hulu Later This Week [Boxee]
MacBook’s “Unremovable” Battery Easy To Remove
Retro Cassette MP3 Player Runs on Finger Power [Mp3]
Google wins the Street View privacy suit.
CES: No Replacement for Macworld Expo
The Oregon Trail fording river onto iPhone
Regarding Microsoft’s Foray Into Retail
Latest Apple Security Update causes issues with tweaked Perl
Intel takes NVIDIA to court over chipset licensing
New exploit targets IE 7 hole patched last week
MacBook SMC 1.3 Update fixes slow battery startup times
News: Apple posts new iPod touch ad
Western Digital My Book World Edition 1TB NAS box
Samsung Promises ‘More Than Three’ Android Handsets By End Of Year [Android]