Jared Stenquist - Personal Blog » Technology http://www.jaredstenquist.com Inside the life of a young entrepreneur, claiming his stake of the world Thu, 15 Apr 2010 01:35:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Simple solution to a huge problem http://www.jaredstenquist.com/2008/02/10/simple-solution-to-a-huge-problem/ http://www.jaredstenquist.com/2008/02/10/simple-solution-to-a-huge-problem/#comments Sun, 10 Feb 2008 21:15:39 +0000 Jared http://www.jaredstenquist.com/2008/02/10/simple-solution-to-a-huge-problem/ Finding adequate amounts of potable water is a huge problem, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. I stumbled on this video introducing “Play Pumps” – in my opinion one of the most creative solutions to this problem that I’ve ever seen.

What do you think?

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The Alarm / Snooze Functionality

Setting an alarm for the morning is quite easy. They even have a visual clock that you can drag the hands around on. Very nice for a visual person like me. Unfortunately when my alarm goes off in the morning and I want to hit snooze, I only have two options. 5 minutes or 1 hour. This is can’t understand. I can’t fall back asleep in 5 minutes and snoozing for an hour just ends up killing the day. Please Micro$oft – an update with 20 or 30 minute snooze would be great

Add New Contact

A very basic feature of any phone (or so you would think) is to be able to click on a call you received and add that number as a contact. The Treo gives no such option. This means for the past year i’m stuck writing down a number in my received calls and entering it into the contacts. Lame.

ActiveSync Connection

Since I used to love Outlook, I bought the Treo thinking it would be an awesome way to sync daily tasks, calendars and email. They advertise it as a simple plug in. It worked occasionally but the connection on the plug is such a crazy design that it started to fail consistently. A regular USB mini plug anyone?

Ok so there are a couple Pro’s: 

Battery life is excellent. I’m still using the original battery after a year and typically don’t have to recharge for 4 days.

Solitaire also works well anytime i have a few minutes to kill.

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