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Nokia N86 8mp

I got the opportunity to try out the Nokia N86 8mp phone for a few days and here is some comments!

* Really nice camera!

* Using a phone with an “old-fashioned” keyboard after using first a E61i and then a Nokia E71 (my current phone) really takes a while to get used to. Really, why would you go back??

* I was unable to get Lotus Traveler running - it installs fine, but when trying to connect to the server it fails. Using the same settings as on my E71 and it works brilliant.

* The format is very slim and it fits in a pocket very easy. The build quality is also excellent and with a bright and very readable screen it’s very nice to use.

* It connects and sync nicely with my BMW bluetooth system (as seems most Nokias do).

* The performance of the phone is somewhat disappointing - it’s lagging in the menus especially in the media sections (browsing photos, etc).

All together it’s a nice phone but it fails as a business phone due to the (missing) keyboard and the fact that I’m unable to use Lotus Traveler on it.

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Writeroom - the tool for infomaniacs

If you have the bad habit of always trying to keep updated on what is happening around you (twitter, facebook, rss, web???) and getting the feeling that whenever you sit down in front of the computer you never getting any things done (NGTD, sort of related to GTD?).

Then his is THE writing tool!

Writeroom sports green text on black background - perfect for concentrating on writing. It’s really amazing what a nice feeling such a simple program can give you - the feeling of only concentrating on one thing - writing!

More information at http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/products/writeroom

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Securing your data

The lifestyle of today really produces a lot of data of all kinds; photos, documents, music and movies. As an individual you have a lot of choices to store the data and they are differing on complexity and cost.

The solution I’ve chosen is to use a home NAS server, The Netgear ReadyNAS NV+ is the one getting my vote this time! I’ve previously tried out the Synology NAS solution but after it crashed the filesystem twice (yes it hurts) I left it in the waste basket.

The setup will be;

• Netgear ReadyNAS NV+
• 4 1TB Western Digital drives
• Raid setup (have not decided to use X-raid or “plain” Raid 5 yet)
• Squeezecenter - for playing music on my Squeezebox
• Subversion - version history is nice!
• Remote backup, possibly Time Machine

I’ll post more information when I get the hands on it!

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