Archive for: May 2007

23 May 2007

Got an Email Address? We Got A Number For You!

Filed under: voip - 23 May 2007

The folks at Jangl announced their new service today, which essentially lets you assign a telephone number to an email address!  You have to sign up for their service, of course, but what’s cool is that you get a …

21 May 2007

Use PhoneGnome From Your Nokia N95

Filed under: voip - 21 May 2007

I imagine you could use this from the other Nokia Nseries and Eseries phones that actually have a functioning SIP stack as well, but the PhoneGnome folks explain how to make PhoneGnome work with the Nokia N95. It’d be …

Always Have A Backup

Filed under: phoneboy - 21 May 2007

Today, I ended up taking my son to his trampoline class and had left my Nokia N95 charging at home. I had worn the battery down to 2 bars today, which means I probably would have drained it had I …

A .bank Domain To End Phishing? Get Real!

Filed under: security - 21 May 2007

This is one of the most crackpot ideas I’ve seen: create a .bank top-level domain and restrict it only to banks. Will that make phishing for bank information less possible? I don’t think so. The problem is very simple: …

20 May 2007

www.phoneboy.com Going Mobile

Filed under: blogging,gadgets - 20 May 2007

I’ve enabled Mobile WordPress on my blog, which means my website is a heck of a lot more mobile-friendly. If you hit my blog with a mobile web browser, you should get an “almost” XHTML compliant experience, and it …

I Took My CISSP Exam Today

Filed under: education,security - 20 May 2007

I never thought in my life I would spend almost the entire allowed 6 hour time on the CISSP exam, but I did. And I was oddly zen about the whole experience. Sure, I was a little nervous when I …

19 May 2007

Gizmo Project on Nokia N80 and Nokia N95–A Proper Version

Filed under: gadgets,nokia,voip - 19 May 2007

My employer has released via the beta labs a proper Gizmo Project client for the Nokia N80 and Nokia N95. This means in addition to VoIP, you also get IM capability. Seems to work pretty well, considering the lack …

18 May 2007

Now A Member of the iPod Generation

Filed under: itunes - 18 May 2007

Today, my iPod Shuffle that I won in a contest arrived. It’s a second generation Shuffle, so it’s tiny, particularly when you compare it to, say, a Nokia phone. When I finally got to a point in my day where …

17 May 2007

Is Convergence a Single Point of Failure?

Filed under: gadgets,nokia - 17 May 2007

Everything on a single device represents a huge single point of failure: what happens when you lose your device? I attempt to answer this and other questions in this post I made over at the S60 blogs: Convergence a

16 May 2007

My First Experience with Covad Support

Filed under: connectivity - 16 May 2007

I was hoping I wouldn’t have to deal with Covad support this soon, but stuff happens.

Earlier this evening, I had switched my MacBook over to the Covad T1. I hadn’t noticed any problems with it earlier in the evening, though …

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