April, 2005 — Tech News and Analysis

Archive for April 2005

Program lets you run Palm apps on your Pocket PC

If you are a former Palm owner and have been wanting to run your favorite Palm programs on your new Windows Mobile Pocket PC then StyleTap may be just the utility you were looking for.  StyleTap is an innovative program that converts Palm OS API … Read More »

Sony Librie- ePaper done well

You can’t easily get a Sony Librie in the US so any mention you can get from someone who’s actually seen one of the ebook readers is worth passing on.  Jason Kottke got … Read More »

 
 

TAB Review: SpamSieve 2.3

Unless you just got an e-mail address recently, you’ve had to deal with what we in the industry refer to as a “metric crapload” of spam. By some accounts, spam now accounts for some 80 percent of all e-mail traffic. How can you stop the flood … Read More »

Quicktime 7 Released

Apple have released Quicktime 7 for Panther users. It weighs in at a 26.6mb download, and can be accessed through Software Update. Although Apple’s new operating system ‘Tiger‘ is not released until later today, it seems Apple have provided the download slightly … Read More »

Sony Ericsson Releases Bluetooth Remote Control

Sony Ericsson releases a free Salling Clicker-like application for Bluetooth phones. Read More »

Chris Pirillo grills Marc Orchant (just kidding)

Tablet PC Show co-host and good buddy Marc Orchant is everywhere.  He recently had a chance to sit down with my Lockergnome boss Chris Pirillo and get himself interviewed.  It’s a great show as you would expect when Chris and Marc get together so head … Read More »

Apple sued over Tiger name

Via Slashdot comes the news from AppleInsider that Apple is being sued by crappy mail order company, TigerDirect for infringing its trademarks because of the naming of Apple’s new OS, which is to go on sale tomorrow. The report gloomily conjectures … Read More »

LivePad- a unique note taking application

Note taking programs are always interesting to try out because note taking is such a personal thing and every user is a little bit different in how they approach the task of writing notes.  My program of choice is OneNote but there are several other options … Read More »

Texas Style Broadband

Texas, where oil and President Bush normally hog the headlines is becoming a new broadband battle ground. First there is a cat fight between the big monopolies over who is the baddest. And then there is all that blocking and tackling of municipal efforts. … Read More »

Yahoo, Online News Sites and Blogs

One of the main reasons people started turning away from network/broadcast television to niche cable networks is because of the homogenous, brain dead presentation and uniformity of content. I see exactly the same thing happen today. Look at Yahoo News site today – it has gone … Read More »

On my monoglot Macintosh…

The Mac has always done a pretty good job of dealing with different languages, ever since the advent of WorldScript in System 7.1, way back in 1992, which, to look at it now, was groundbreaking, especially when you consider that in the PC world, … Read More »

Consumer, Not God is a DJ

My column from Business 2.0 has generated a ton of debate, and emails. Rags Gupta over at Digital Music News, is taking me to task. In my defense I present this data from comScore, which helps make my point. Ten years, streaming radio … Read More »

More Must Reads

VoIP bloggers are more prone to wearing blinder or at-least pink tinted glasses. Backing out a few of them, like Aswath/Andy, I think many are not willing to look at some of the issues with VoIP, and how consumers interact with the VoIP services. … Read More »

Comcast, the cable godzilla had only 7000 VoIP/Phone service subscribers at the end of the first quarter, but the company expects to end 2005 with nearly 250,000 subscribers. Clearly cable guys are taking a lead in the VoIP space, leaving behind the independents. In addition, the … Read More »

If you love OS-X, then there is more good news coming your way, thanks to yeoman’s effort by Benjamin Kowarsch, the genius who developed an OS-X installer for Asterisk, the open source PBX system. (You can download it from here!) VoIP Weblog … Read More »

If you watched the video of Bill Gates demonstrating the Ultra Mobile PC (UMPC) at the WinHEC keynote address like me you probably oohed and ahhed at the thought of such a mobile Tablet PC.  What is not clear from the demonstration (since his UMPC … Read More »

Back in January I told the story of how my dog Oreo ate my laptop.  Well, not really ate it but screwed it up royally.  It still needs repair but it’s out of warranty and I haven’t had the time nor spare change … Read More »

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