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One of the reasons I bought a Nokia N95 was the ability to tether it as a Bluetooth modem on my MacBook Pro. I wanted to access the internet via my mobile phone if I’m away from home or from a WiFi spot. While Nokia’s PC Suite of applications includes an option to tether the [...]
» Go to this postIt’s easy: sign up before 11/1/2008. Why? Because the price will apparently go up to $35/month on or around that date, according to T-Mobile Customer Service.
Updated 10/27/08: Please see this comment below for an up-to-date clarification of the planned price increases. It’s not as bad as I originally thought, but a price increase [...]
I mentioned in yesterday’s iPhone 3G announcement that Apple had secretly purchased the domain me.com for an undisclosed sum of money (in the neighborhood of 11 million). It came as no surprise to Apple fans when we found out that MobileMe was the replacement for .Mac. Users had griped for years about .Mac’s lackluster performance [...]
» Go to this postWhen it launched a few weeks ago, Google Health received fairly lackluster reviews. Privacy issues and lack of features were the main complaints. Well, I’m here to tell you those initial views are wrong.
Even if you’re a long-time reader of my site, you may not know what qualifies me to make that statement, so let [...]
Please accept my apologies for the several recent outages on this and my other sites. During the past week, my sites have had 5 extended outages, each lasting anywhere from 1 to 10 hours, and all due to the unbelievable incompetence of 1and1’s web admins. Somehow they’ve managed to screw things up so badly that [...]
» Go to this postFedEx has apparently forgotten how to deliver packages, because two recent packages I sent out came back to me, marked “3 att”, which I suppose means three delivery attempts were made. The punchline is they never made it out of my home state. What’s worse, they’re marked as “Delivered” on the FedEx website. See below. [...]
» Go to this postI’ve been experiencing first-hand the following products and services lately, and I thought you might want to be spared the headaches they’ve given me and my family.
Macy’s furniture delivery service
If you like getting used/opened furniture that might have sat in someone else’s house and then got returned, or if you like waiting entire months to [...]
Three weeks ago, I wrote a post describing my thoughts on the web development industry, and things looked pretty bleak. I did promise a brighter outlook in a short while, and this post is the fulfillment of that promise.
So, what can we do to ensure that we’ll continue to have jobs? Well, we can do [...]
In what I think is an astonishing twist, Google has turned their “private label” Gmail service offered about 6 months ago to companies and schools interested in the idea into Google Apps for Your Domain, an all-in-one solution that offers Gmail, Google Talk, Google Calendar and Google Pages for whatever domain you’d like. In typical [...]
» Go to this postI recently read an article entitled “Letting Go of Difficult Clients“, written by Amy Berger and featured in the August 2006 issue of The Costco Connection. I do not agree with the views she expresses there.
While there are times when a relationship with a client has to be severed, none of the conditions presented by [...]
Michael Arrington from TechCrunch posted a review of BackupMyBlog, a new service that backs up blogs on a daily basis. He said something that really piqued my interest at the end of his review. He suggested FeedBurner ought to be offering this sort of service. Now that’s an idea!
Incidentally, I posted the latest podcasting figures [...]
From TechCrunch:
“Microsoft is building an online storage service, code named Live Drive, says Ray Ozzie in an interview with Fortune.
Microsoft is planning to use its server farms to offer anyone huge amounts of online storage of digital data. It even has a name for that future service: Live Drive. With Live Drive, all your information [...]
