This is a test

[annathepiper]

This is a test of PocketLJ, which I have now installed to my frob. Let's see if this post comes through nicely, shall we?

Comments

[firni.livejournal.com]

What's a frob, precious?

[annathepiper]

My PocketPC! Frob == "small, cool device".

[kriski.livejournal.com]

is frob the name of the manufacturer or of the model?

i have a handspring visor, something no longer manufactured. it doesn't have a modem though. but i do have an extendable keyboard. something which i have found out works perfectly as passive come on in a cafe. i simply set up my toys and look busy, and soon people walk over and ask me what THAT is. mostly men, though.

[brightbeak.livejournal.com]

i see thine post :)

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[annathepiper]

"Frob" is a slang term, actually. :) I got it from lyonesse, a former housemate of mine; she and her crowd coined the term to mean "small, cool device", essentially. They often referred to themselves as the "frob mob".

So I tend to use the word to refer to my own small electronic devices, like my handheld. :) I have an HP iPaq, and I'm grooving on it. :)

I have heard of the Visor! And indeed, I find that these things are often good conversation starters; people want to know what sort of devices they are and what you're running on them and suchlike.

[solarbird]

Any small, cool device is a frob. (It doesn't have to be electronic, tho' they almost always are.) Small electronic devices which are too common or of a wrong age to be interesting are not generally frobs now, but may have been at one time. (E.g., a hand-sized transistor radio would have been a frob in 1962, but not in 1992; however, it might be again in 2062, if it still works, because of its antique value.)

[annathepiper]

Yay!

[kriski.livejournal.com]

i see. thank you for the explanation. you realize that, if you keep inventing your own words, foreigners don't stand a chance of making sense out of what to them sounds as gibberis? ;-) and here i was, thinking i knew english! ;-)

and i am sure a 1962 transistor radio WILL still work 2062, whereas i'm also fairly sure the 1992 model will not. these days, unless you invest an arm an a leg, you're lucky if these things work for five years. so that we all keep buying more thinghs! you gotta love capitalism.

[kriski.livejournal.com]

ta for the explanation. i think i'll start using the term, if and when it appears in the hacker's dictionary. ;-)

I have heard of the Visor!
you know, that makes me feel kinda old. like i was owning a legend or something. it used to be the better palm. back then when there only were palms and visors, before everybody and their next door neighbour put a handheld on the market. visor's had a MUCH better price/performance rate. and were more flexible as to what other tiny gadgets to combine it with. like modem, webcam and such. though those extensions always were ridiculously expensive.

i love my visor and i wish there would be another model out if and when mine gives up the ghost one day. i'm one of those brand-loyal customers. but alas, handspring dropped the visor line and focusses now on smart phones. because that's just what i'll need one day. right. *grumbles*

[apel.livejournal.com]

You don't need a modem to run PocketLJ. It's an AvantGo channel, so the LJ entries get posted when you synch. I like to write entries on the train from the office and post them when I get home.

[apel.livejournal.com]

I had a Visor de luxe, mostly because it came with more memory and colour choices. Mine was orange. Still is but I had to retire it because it was very obviously dying. They were never as sturdy as the Palms. Now I've got a Sony clie.

[apel.livejournal.com]

Pocket LJ is the bees knees! :-)

[gerimaple.livejournal.com]

PocketLJ rocks. and sometime in the next day or two i'm going to get all *my* offline entries from my camping trip uploaded.

[annathepiper]

I'm grooving on being able to coherently write LJ entries on my handheld, yeah. :) Now if only I could read my own LJ and my Friends list comfortably on that teeny a screen... ;D

[annathepiper]

Hee--that's a particularly apt phrase for things on handheld PCs! Tiny and cute! ;)

[annathepiper]

I'm vexed to have discovered that I must have typoed my AvantGo user ID--I'm annathpiper (without the e in the). Grumph. :) I have asked them if I can get my ID changed or whether I'll have to set up a new account. I didn't see any options for changing it on the site!

That said, I found one of our local papers is also an AvantGo channel. I'll have to see if I find any other interesting content at all.

[kriski.livejournal.com]

i'm on my second visor. i trashed the first one, literally, it fell on the ground and the display cracked. otherwise i'm not having any problems with it. how was yours dying?
my current one shows resilience against dust, sweat and even rain. so i'm not complaining. i try not to drop this one.

is there a foldable keyboard available for the sony one? i hate that they all come with different connections. when my visor dies and i get something else, i'll have to get a new keyboard as well. that's just extra expense i could live without *pouts*

[kriski.livejournal.com]

nifty. i didn't know there was such an application! were can i download the programme?

i, too, use my visor to type updates while on the road. i save them as word files so far and later cut and paste into LJ.

[annathepiper]

Re: the term, you are most welcome. :)

Re: the Visor... *grin* Oh, if you want to talk feeling old, I can talk about my having owned a Velo 500, another ancient and defunct handheld device. ;) I liked my Velo, though as with the Visor, the folks who were making them quit doing it--and in fact aren't doing any kind of PDA now whatsoever, to the best of my knowledge.

[annathepiper]

What, and the German language swiping words from French isn't confusing? ;) (This HAS actually happened a lot, right? My last German teacher wasn't completely mistaken?)

I took a year of French in college right after two and a half years of German in high school, and that was not a good linguistic pairing in my brain!

[kriski.livejournal.com]

i think we might have taken in more from greek and latin than from french, but don't quote me on that. french was en vogue during the period of absolutism. can you imagine they spoke french at german courts? these days we adodpt lots of words and whole phrases from english, i'm afraid. without regard to grammar and such. unfortunately. high german goes downhill and many people don't even know anmore that genitiv does NOT put an apostrophe in front of the S. that is how seriously english is invading german.

die höhe des baums
die höhe des baum's

the second is, OF COURSE, completely wrong. but give those two sentences to a bunch of people on the street, and an alarming number will tell you the second is right. it'smy petpeeve in modern german. even newspapers get is wrong sometimes. ARGH!!!!!

[annathepiper]

What you need to do to get PocketLJ to work:

1) Go to AvantGo.com and sign up for an account there.

2) Then you go to the PocketLJ Installation Wizard Page and click on the "Start the Wizard" button to get AvantGo set up to talk to the PocketLJ channel.

Once that's done, then you should be able to use PocketLJ on your PDA. :)

[annathepiper]

I have awful luck with dropping my small things, too--my old mp3 player, my former PDA. I haven't dropped my iPod as much just because it's small enough to fit into a pocket, so it's less likely to fall anywhere!

My iPaq fits into my pocket, too, so so far I've managed to avoid dropping it.