I had a nice e-mail chat with reader Michael Connick this morning regarding the MSI Wind that I should be receiving next week. Michael recently upgraded from an… Read More »
Archive for August 2008
With the tech conference season upon us, Found|READ thought some tips for how to master conference marketing on the cheap would be useful. Today’s tips are courtesy of serial entrepreneur Pete Grillo, currently founder of iterasi, a one-and a-half-year-old startup in Portland, Ore., that… Read More »
Now that Internet Explorer 8 is in serious beta, web workers who develop or design web pages are faced, once again, with a knotty question: which browsers (and which versions) do you design for? The basic problem is understanding your market: browser usage statistics… Read More »
Reader Stephen Wallace just told me about a very useful web utility that will send a text message to anyone for free. "Oh, don’t forget" has a simple web interface where you enter in the phone number to send the text message, the date and… Read More »
Web video is starting to mirror traditional TV, like it or not. Case in point: the distribution strategy and release schedule of LG15: The Resistance. EQAL, the production studio behind the show, will release new episodes just once a week, starting Sat., Sept. 20. Hmm, that sure… Read More »
Since we’re getting in a huff over Comcast’s 250 GB cap, we thought it would be helpful to lay out why capping broadband is a bad idea today and a worse one for tomorrow, how it can benefit ISPs, and why it’s not really necessary on… Read More »
Presumptive Republican nominee John McCain has selected Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate, bringing to the GOP ticket a full-throated call to drill, drill, drill. What we’d like to see is a little more action on developing Alaska’s “huge supplies of renewable… Read More »
Comcast’s new 250 GB bandwidth cap is that, as Om points out, is metered without a meter — Comcast doesn’t provide you with a central tally of all your data use. The company instead suggests its customers install bandwidth metering software on their machines and… Read More »
We’d like to say thanks to this month’s GigaNET sponsors: Brightcove: “The 2008 SEO Video Playbook” (free download) Accenture: “The Innovation Dilemma: How to Achieve High Performance through Superior Research & Development” (free download) Peer 1: ValuePro Managed Hosting Plan, $299 per month Interop: Register for… Read More »
I’ve written before about TweakGuides.com, and the truly extensive guides for customizing both Windows XP and Windows Vista offered for free there. Recently, I’ve been diving into the free TweakGuide for Firefox that the site offers. It’s not as extensive as the Windows… Read More »
I have been using computers since the Apple II and the Tandy 100. I have marveled at the evolution of the operating system and the increasing capabilities that have come with that evolution. I have delved into the inner workings of each version of Windows since… Read More »
iPhone Life is a print magazine launching in early September by the former publishers of Smartphone & Pocket PC Magazine, Thaddeus Computing. Available by subscription and on newsstands nationwide iPhone Life magazine hits the newsstands on September 9, chock full of news, reviews, and tips… Read More »
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