I have made it clear how important I feel that TEO 3.0 is for Tablet owners who use Outlook so I won’t rehash that here. I think that TEO is worth every penny of the normal $49.99 price but Josh Einstein has stepped up and offered … Read More »
Archive for July 2006
Portable Firefox 1.5.0.5 has been released by developer John Haller. Firefox Portable (the official name) can be installed on a USB flash drive and run on any computer without leaving any traces behind when you leave. This new release can be run from a CD … Read More »
If you grew up working on a Unix machine like I did, working in Terminal.app isn’t just a walk down memory lane, it’s more productive. While of my everyday computing happens within Terminal, be it server maintenance, MySQL, or file manipulation, using Alt-Tab or Expose … Read More »
Mouse Gestures is an add-on for Firefox that lets you perform common functions like page forward/back using a mouse. The add-on is a natural for use on Tablet PCs and UMPCs … Read More »
“The whole world is drunk and we’re just the cocktail of the moment. Someday soon, the world will wake up, down two aspirin with a glass of tomato juice, and wonder what the hell all the fuss was about.” — Dean Martin, in The Rat Pack. That’s … Read More »
Gateway has announced a back-to-school special that is starting today at 3200 Wal-Mart stores in the US. Wal-Mart will be selling the eMachines N-10 Notebook Bundle consisting of the following: eMachines N-10 Notebook with 14.1-inch Widescreen Ultrabright™ Display backed by a two-year parts- and labor-warranty Microsoft® … Read More »
Dianah Neff, the technology czar and champion of Wireless Philadelphia is going to leave her job, and return to the private sector, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer. The Philadelphia daily quotes four unnamed city government sources. Neff’s deputy, Terry Phillis is being wooed to take … Read More »
The FCC just released a list of 168 qualified bidders for the AWS spectrum auction coming up on August 9th, and also announced that the process will not involve the controversial blind bidding. We’ve been following the companies interested in bidding pretty closely, and there were … Read More »
The New York Times takes a look at the emerging trend of mobile phones with built in Wi-Fi connectivity and concludes that the barbarians are at the gates. Their conclusion is that WiFi could pose challenges to the traditional cell phone carriers. Maybe, maybe not! Instead … Read More »
Former Second Life staffer Rueben Steiger crunches the numbers on Second Life’s growth, and figures that if the current rate of 22% monthly growth continues, there will be 3.6 million Second Lifers by July 2007. Slower growth, say 10% every month, will still bring the … Read More »
Those great folks at Thoughts Media, producers of top web sites like Pocket PC Thoughts, Smartphone Thoughts, and Digital Media Thoughts, have announced a new addition to the family that is coming soon. Zune Thoughts will obviously cover the new Zune Media … Read More »