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jkOnTheRun Audio Edition

In recent years, free, open-source content management systems (CMS) have become very powerful tools for building, deploying and managing web sites, blogs and more. You may be familiar with some of the top-notch names in this arena, including Drupal and Joomla.  WebWorkerDaily’s sister blogRead More »

Mark the End of the Day and Finish on Time

One of the things that I struggle with most when I’m working from home is wrapping up and finishing for the day. Quite often, I’ll mean to finish at, say, 6:30 pm, but then another email drops into the old inbox, or I’ll move onto “just … Read More »

 
 

Maintaining Your Flexibility as a Freelancer

One of the things I love about online freelancing is the flexibility.  I can choose the projects I want to work on and have a customized schedule.  It’s this kind of freedom that entice many traditional employees to become freelancers, or at least to work from … Read More »

Top Resources for Finding Web Work

With the Thanksgiving holiday upon us and an economic mania going on, it’s a good time for all of us who have gainful employment to be thankful. For those who don’t,  there are some good resources to tap in order to rectify the situation. In this … Read More »

Adobe CS4 Shipping, Welome to Obsolescence CS3

According to John Nack, Principal Product Manager for Adobe Photoshop, the entire Creative Suite 4 is now shipping. Announced in September, the release date itself was not initially specified.  Those looking to test out the new programs before deciding whether or not … Read More »

VGA iTunes compatible version (MP4 format, 640 x 480, 87.4 MB,13 minutes) VGA Windows Media Player version (WMV format, 640 x 480, 71 MB, 13 minutes) The Microsoft Origami Project team was generous enough to provide us the forthcoming Origami Expereience software and we give … Read More »

VGA iTunes compatible version (MP4 format, 640 x 480, 299 MB, 44 minutes) VGA Windows Media Player version (WMV format, 640 x 480, 242 MB, 44 minutes) What a powerhouse! The Fujitsu Stylistic ST5112 is all power and all slate. The 12.1-inch Tablet PC … Read More »

jkOnTheRun Audio Edition gets a home makeover

You asked for it and you’ve got it.  All of our video reviews going forward will now be available in two formats.  The full (VGA) version will now be produced in MP4 format, meaning those of you (like me) who use iTunes as your podcatcher will … Read More »

jkOnTheRun Audio Edition #28- Fujitsu P1610 video review

Watch jkOnTheRun Audio Edition #28 here (WMV format, 320 x 240, 192MB, 52 minutes) For the bandwidth-conscious, there’s a low-res version too. (WMV format, 320 x 240, 94 MB). Hold … Read More »

QVGA video of the FlyBook review now available

Sorry for the delay, but if you passed on our 216 MB video review of the FlyBook, we do have a 95 MB QVGA version available for you now. Think of it as one quarter of the screen size and storage space but with … Read More »

Get all your fave podcasts over the phone

Kevin mentioned Podlinez and the cool way you can listen to the latest episode of the MobileTechRoundup podcast on your cell phone and I tried it out and aside from the long distance call it’s really cool.  I visited Podlinez a few minutes ago and … Read More »

Watch jkOnTheRun Audio Edition #26 here (WMV format, 640 x 480, 216 MB, 39:00 minutes) For our QVGA little-friends, we have a 320 x 240 version coming soon. After spending two weeks with the Dialogue FlyBook V33i on loan from iCube, we figured it as … Read More »

More Must Reads

Yahoo just demoed its integration of chat and email at the Web 2.0 Summit. This follows on Gmail-GTalk integration, but it adds a few neat features. First, while Gmail lets you respond to an email via chat, Yahoo also lets you do the reverse: respond to … Read More »

Web Worker Daily has an indepth look at the new Skype 3.0 client. Read More »

The New York Times reports that Microsoft has cut a deal with Universal Music Group which will allow the music giant to get a percentage of the sale of its upcoming digital music player, Zune. The report says that the amount being paid to UMG … Read More »

Watch jkOnTheRun Audio Edition #25 here (WMV format, 640 x 480, 275 MB, 42:43 minutes) The Samsung Q1 SSD is the Korean model of the Q1 that has no hard drive.  It has a blazing fast 32 GB solid state disk instead and iis the … Read More »

Peter Abilla has posted an interactive timeline of Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft acquistions at his Shmula.com. You can get the same kind of data on Wikipedia, but this mashup is very nice. Read More »

U.S.-based web 2.0 companies have raised $455.5 million in 79 deals so far this year, according to Dow Jones VentureOne figures posted today (can’t find the press release online yet). That’s out of $1.63 billion total invested in 198 consumer technology companies so far this … Read More »

Just today at Widgets Live, attendees were complaining about the proprietary nature of Flash. Well, Adobe is announcing it is taking some steps to rectify that, opening up source code for its ActionScript Virtual Machine and putting it in care of the Mozilla Foundation for … Read More »

Mark Jung, who came to Fox Interactive via its IGN acquisition has left the company for pastures unknown. Ross Levinsohn has assumed the COO duties for now. Fox had acquired IGN for $650 million (and change) last September. Rafat Ali says that there have … Read More »

Web Worker Daily takes a first look at Scrybe, the  much talked about planner/calendar application. Read More »

Pixsy, a startup that licenses its photo and video search tools to other websites in exchange for revenue sharing, has been saying for a while it will launch a customizable search widget for bloggers and MySpace pages. Below the jump, Pixsy CEO Chase Norlin gives … Read More »

VentureBeat has started a job board for Valley jobs paying $100,000 and up. TheLadders has had a lot of success with this demographic. Yes, everybody has a job board these days, but the newcomer has more than 100 listings already. Read More »

Facebook is infiltrating sites across the web, decorating everyone from the Washington Post to the Onion to IMDB with its new little “f” logo. The social networking site over the last week has been introducing features allowing members to collect content from all over the … Read More »

The DSL ecosystem might be in for a rocky ride, at least in the near term. A few days ago we had pointed out the slowdown at AT&T and BellSouth when it came to net new adds. Embarq did not meet analyst expectations, and many … Read More »

Watch jkOnTheRun Audio Edition #24 here (WMV format, 640 x 480, 227 MB, 40:44 minutes) UPDATE: For our QVGA little-friends, we have a 320 x 240 version video as well. 106 MB; great taste AND less filling! Just click the link above. Yes, I’ve been … Read More »

Mobile ESPN will officially shut its doors later this year the company said in a release, and Rafat & Staci mentioned last night. The company says December 31 is the end of the road for existing customers and sales of ESPN … Read More »

Watch jkOnTheRun Audio Edition #23 here (WMV format, 640 x 480, 60.6 MB, 11:02 minutes) With the new Apple announcements today, it became apparent to me that the new iTunes Movies would be a nice marriage of Microsoft Windows based hardware and Apple … Read More »

Somedays when he is not being a Cranky Geek, John Dvorak comes up with good stuff. Today he points to HolerSoft, a French company that has come-up with a Windows-only application that allows you to watch 1200 channels from around the world on … Read More »

Vonage has been on our minds lately. A UBS Research report reminded us that we were right in our skepticism about the future growth prospects, and there are signs of a slowdown. The company had ended the second quarter with 1.8M lines in service. Assuming the … Read More »

With all the attention devoted to the desktop version, the real reason to wait for OS X Leopard might be the “server edition” of the software. They are offering a scheduling/calendar server, Wiki Server, Podcasting production platform and a whole set of goodies such as … Read More »

Watch jkOnTheRun Audio Edition #22 here (WMV format, 320×240, 38.9 MB, 15:35 minutes) I just got a new DV camcorder so why not put it to … Read More »

In an attempt to better convince all those digruntled phone company customers to sign up with Earthlink, the company plans to open an old fashioned brick and mortar retail outlet later this week in downtown San Francisco. The store, which will likely open Thursday or Friday … Read More »

Listen to jkOnTheRun Audio Edition #21 here 7.0 MB, 20 minutes) This show it’s back to the basics with a pure audio podcast that looks at recovery strategies for mobile … Read More »

Watch jkOnTheRun Audio Edition #20 here (WMV format, 640×480, 246 MB, 44 minutes) OK, the video file is huge but I wanted to capture the size and the spirit of the moment.  There is nothing quite like opening a new gadget for the first time … Read More »

Watch jkOnTheRun Audio Edition #19 here (WMV format, 320×240, 85.8 MB, 34:28 minutes) OK, we won’t win any Academy Awards for this video. I’m still limited … Read More »

Watch jkOnTheRun Audio Edition #18 here (WMV format, 320×240, 82.8 MB, 23 minutes) I ordered it, Best Buy sent it and UPS delivered it! Yup, the … Read More »

Vonage IPO post game analysis has begun, and there is a lot of interesting opinions out there. Mathew Ingram’s take is here. Andy has his take. I have Jon Arnold’s guest column coming up here, but more than anything, I just wanted to … Read More »

Watch jkOnTheRun Audio Edition #16 here (WMV format, 320×240, 60 MB, 24 minutes) So we’re following up the SenaCase review for the XV6700 with a … Read More »

Watch jkOnTheRun Audio Edition #15 here (WMV format, 320×240, 55 MB, 15 minutes) Some folks might have already seen this 15 minute video review on mypersonal blog … Read More »

  Watch jkOnTheRun Audio Edition #14 here (WMV format, 320×240, 80.2 MB, 32 minutes) Read More »

  Watch jkOnTheRun Audio Edition #13 here (WMV format, 800×600, 47.7 MB, 30 minutes) Read More »

While the Web 2.0 world was busy chattering about the looming battle between Google Office and Microsoft Office, the world of wireless networks is playing host to its own version of WWF. The center of controversy is 802.11n, a new standard that proposes to dramatically … Read More »

  Watch jkOnTheRun Audio Edition #12 here (WMV format, 1024×768, 19.5 MB, 14 minutes) Read More »

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