Category: administrivia

Wherein I discuss exactly how I record PhoneBoy Speaks. This is what my microphone looks like.

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How to Subscribe to PhoneBoy Speaks: iTunes | RSS feed | SoundCloud

Find PhoneBoy on: Twitter (@phoneboy) | App.Net (@phoneboy) | Facebook (phoneboy) | Google+

My holiday greetings for 2012.

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I finally got around to getting a proper RSS feed for PhoneBoy Speaks set up Stick this in your Podcast Reader: http://phoneboyspeaks.phoneboy.com

Alternatively, if you use SoundCloud, you can look me up there: http://soundcloud.com/phoneboy-1/

I actually upload the podcasts to SoundCloud first because it gets the audio out there faster. When I post them here, I put up links, properly tag the audio file, etc. It doesn’t take a lot of time, but it adds up.

I dug a little deeper into my stash and found some additional items to add to my for-sale list:

• Linksys WBP54G – Wireless Bridge for Linksys/Sipura Devices
• Linksys WIP300 (802.11g WiFi phone)
• Dock n Talk with Bluetooth Module and Cables
• A few ATAs from Zoom (standalone and with router)

I’ve also tested most of the gear to confirm it powers up, has a functional web interface, and has been reset to factory defaults. Only found one device that I couldn’t get into because it was provider-locked. It found a nice home in the round file.

The complete list is in my previous posting advertising the gear for sale. No reasonable offer refused.

For those of you who only read my blog via RSS (or via Facebook) and don’t read my Twitter feed, I’ve decided to restart my personal blog on a domain I’ve had for a while–phoneboy.info. Feel free to follow along, if you’d like.

I was originally running my personal blog on Vox, but I decided that I might actually want to use the data elsewhere. Vox does not make it easy to export the data I already put in Vox, so I’m giving up the ghost, copying over the stuff I might want to save, and shutting it down.

The personal blog is more for stuff that doesn’t generally fit with the techie stuff I write here. Not entirely sure what I’ll put there, yet, but it’s there and it’s on a server I have some control over. And I can get the data out if and when I want to.

My post on JaikuSpot for Windows Mobile caught the attention of the Carnival of the Mobilists and was featured on CoM #137, this week hosted on Mobile Jones.

I’ve heard the name mentioned in the blogosphere, but I never really knew what it was until I got mentioned and looked into it. In short, it is a summary of the previous week’s top posts on mobile-related topics. The carnival is written by different people each week and moves from site to site. There is an aggregator site set up, but it primarily points to the articles on the different host sites.

It’s an interesting concept, for sure–one I intend to follow. Next week, the carnival moves to MobHappy.

If you access joyofgadgets.com from a mobile phone, you should automatically be presented with a mobile-friendly version of the site. If for some reason, that detection fails, you can also manually get into mobile mode by entering one of the following URLs:

• http://joyofgadgets.com/m
• http://mippin.com/joyofgadgets

Both URLs provide a different experience. The one I provide natively on joyofgadgets.com is done via WordPress Mobile. The /m forces the site into mobile mode in case auto-detection does not work.

The Mippin version is a little different as it uses RSS feeds to make a mobile version of my site. It also puts out bite-sized chunks of pages making it easier to read on less capable phones.

Anyway, try both versions and let me know what you think.