Archive for: January 2008

I was over at my in-laws house this past weekend, and the discussion turned to mobile phones. My father-in-law told me that the T-Mobile prepaid plan I had set them up with several …

One thing that constantly throws me off with my Synergy setup is when I cut and paste between my Mac and my Windows box. On the Mac, copy is Command-X, paste is Command-V. On …

Leo Blanco over at The Mobile Technology Weblog (which I also blog at) points to a study that says more consumers want …

I saw a post on the CTIA Blog saying they were opposing some legislation the Consumers Union–the folks behind the Consumer Reports magazine–were proposing to “regulate” the wireless industry. …

If you’ve ever used a browser on a mobile device, you know what kinds of issues you can run into. Pages are either a watered-down “mobile” version of the full page, or if …

I never thought the question of whether to use GNOME or KDE on my Linux desktop would be considered a dogfood question, but now with the announcement that my employer …

While I’m sure my employer might disagree with this particular viewpoint, Rom Feria over at Tech Without Wires points to a UK study that suggests smartphones, such as

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I noticed an entry on the RingFree blog about how they are going to change their pricing model on Monday. The last sentence at the end got me thinking: “We think …

A writer at c’t had asked if they could use my Netscape photo from 1997, pictured left, in their magazine. I gave them permission …

Using Google as a kind of a spell checker is great–if you know how to spell the word. Even the automated spell checkers in my browser don’t exactly …