July, 2006 — Tech News and Analysis

Archive for July 2006

Students get discounted price on TEO 3.0

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 »

Portable Firefox 1.5.0.5 released

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 »

 
 

A Look at Visor

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 »

Add-on allows using gestures in Firefox

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 »

How Big Is Online Karaoke?

“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 »

eMachines notebook bundle only $798 at Wal-Mart

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 »

Philly WiFi Chief To Quit

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 »

This week on jkOnTheRun

Wireless Spectrum Bidders Put Down Billions

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 »

WiFi On Mobiles: Fact or Fiction?

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 »

Second Life, Bigger Than WoW?

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 »

Zune Thoughts coming soon

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 »

More Must Reads

BPL, the technology that could work, or not is getting another test, this time in Austin, Texas. The Austin City Council is planning to spend around $317,500 just to test the technology, though there are no plans at present to bring this to the city dwellers. … Read More »

CLICK HERE to download the file and listen directly.MoTR 59 is 33:14 minutes long and is a 30.4 MB file in MP3 format.INTRO: Based on “Time v2.1″ by Meta … Read More »

Ok, I’m sure that U2 has nothing to do with the Mighty Mouse. But I blame them for my need for black Apple products. I mean, after all they are the ones who got the people excited to see a black iPod. I bet they are … Read More »

It’s a safe bet that almost everyone reading this has received an email with some sort of phishing scam trying to get you to supply the scam artist with personal information that can be used to not only make fraudulent purchases but also to steal your … Read More »

For writing I’m using Writeroom and SubEthaEdit (although at some point I’ll get Pages as NeoOffice seems a bit flaky for me)…. Most importantly I’ve found a game of Solitaire and have managed to get World of Warcraft working (although Second Life is terribly slow). Read More »

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