Even as I awaited (and still await) the arrival of my back-ordered Droid Incredible (I am such geek; I can’t wait), the battery began to fail on my two-year-old LG Dare.  One minute, full charge, the next minute, one bar. Then three. Then one. Then shutdown.  Very annoying.  Max call time shrank to about 10 [...]

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Smashing Magazine has a great collection of free wallpapers designed for the iPhone designed by some amazing creative artists.  But even though Smashing Mag’s inspiration was the iPhone, which they refer to as an, ahem, “magical masterpiece”, these 320×480 pixel pieces of art work very well on the LG Dare (the phone I use) as [...]

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Ernesto on November 1st, 2008

Testing Dare video message to flickr blog etc. Originally uploaded by Ernesto and Kristen Burden Looks like at 176×144 you can get a more than 30 seconds…  but sadly, no audio…the audio works at higher file sizes and aspect ratios but I can only get about 14 seconds of video or less to send through [...]

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The LG Dare takes great video, but I had to poke around quite a bit and try a bunch of different offerings to find a good tool for encoding it to work with any of the simple video editing programs I have.  Found this program, SUPER © by eRightSoft referenced on the Dare forums here.  Works well for batch conversion, [...]

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