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After unexpectedly being offline for most of yesterday to handle some estate affairs, I’m just starting to get caught up on mobile tech news of the day. But first thing this morning, I tweeted a picture of something I found last night. It’s not … Read More »

Can You “Pay It Forward” In Memory of My Dad?

 
 

My good friend and your co-host here needs your prayers.  Kevin Tofel unexpectedly lost his father yesterday and he needs our help. He’s in my thoughts in this difficult time and will you please join me in wishing Kevin and his family the strength to help … Read More »

Free Tools and Best Practices for Site Translation

For many of us who produce and oversee content on the web, the job of accurately translating it into other languages is an extremely difficult one. There are quite a few tools available to help, though, including many free ones that can automate … Read More »

What's Your Favorite Web App, Guy Kawasaki?

I’ve been at SXSW attending sessions, seeing product demos and interviewing tech company founders. I’ve also been asking anyone who identifies themselves as a web worker about their favorite web app and how it helps them with their work. Here is the first of a series of … Read More »

Clearing The Cache

Like many of us, I spend quite a lot of time on the web and come across a staggering number of interesting things. In Clearing The Cache, I pull out some of my favorites and share them with you. Record and search voice notes on your Windows … Read More »

Get More Out of Facebook With My Web Portfolio

Facebook is a great tool for web working. It makes networking simple, offers loads of opportunities for promotion, and it boasts a massive user base. Still, it’s not designed to foreground your work, and sometimes it can be a little difficult to draw attention to the … Read More »

This is a totally selfish post but I want to welcome to the world my new granddaughter, Serenity Lyn.  Serenity came into the world on 12/04 and mother Morgan and baby are doing fine. Read More »

Demand for iPhone Developers Up 500%

The SDK and the success of the App Store have combined to create an emerging professional category, that of iPhone application developer. According to oDesk, a technology outsourcer billing itself as the “leading marketplace and global IT platform for outsourcing technology jobs to certified, freelance, … Read More »

AppLoop iPhone App Generator (Now Anyone Can Be A Developer!)

I’ve wanted really badly to develop an iPhone application since the SDK was announced. What kind of application? It doesn’t matter. Something not too ugly that does something of limited utility, and does it well. I ran into two problems: First, I have no development or … Read More »

The Internet’s “copyright cop,” BayTSP is looking to take what it has learned from its policing the Internet and apply it to marketing research and advertising. Hired by copyright holders to find illegal copies of content on the web, BayTSP gathers and generates an … Read More »

More Must Reads

“Easy to Assemble” created by Illeana Douglas, will feature appearances by Jeff Goldblum, Ed Begley Jr. and Justine Bateman. Read More »

Folks might have seen Barb’s comment yesterday, but I wanted to take a minute to let everyone know that we’re home from the hospital. Actually, we got home on Tuesday afternoon, but we’re just now easing back into a normal schedule. I had hoped to … Read More »

Just a brief, personal note to pass along. I’ll likely be a little scarce around these parts for at least the next day or two. Barb, my fiancée, woke up early Thursday morning with a headache that brought her to tears. After a few days … Read More »

No promises on how long it’ll stay up, but for all you Joss Whedon fans who are done memorizing Dr. Horrible, a teaser of the stalled Buffy the Vampire Slayer animated series has been leaked online. In the works for several years, this … Read More »

Sorry for the lame "Jerry Maguire" reference (the "Flipper" speech), but the weekend is near and I tend to get goofy as we … Read More »

This is a heads up as there will soon be big changes coming to Mobile Tech Manor!  You might say it’s the biggest change of all as Mobile Tech Manor is … Read More »

With this tweet a year ago today, I left behind my 15-year, corporate Information Technology career. I also left a chunky paycheck, hence the pithy post title, but I seriously wouldn’t change a thing. This year has been one of the most enjoyable in my … Read More »

I spent my morning working in Starbucks, but have been off the clock all day after that. Unfortunately, my father was let go from his state employment position and I’ve attempted some damage control with him at his home. Luckily, he’s just nine miles away. I … Read More »

One thing is sure in this life, running a web site like jkOnTheRun takes an inordinate amount of time.  This is time that is often taken … Read More »

As promised here’s a pic of my brand new grandson, Beau Douglas!  What a head of hair on that boy.  :) Read More »

I am very happy to report that a special delivery arrived this evening!  Welcome to the world my second grandson, Bo Douglas Hemmingson, born this evening in South Dakota.  Mother Misty and father Kurt are doing well as is young Bo who weighed in at 7 … Read More »

I’ve been offline this morning to support a friend and reader of the site. Doug follows our mobile tech adventures here and has sadly lost his father unexpectedly. Barb and I are waiting for the procession to the cemetery but I thought to ask you, our … Read More »

OK, he might not be getting his present on time… c’mon Fujitsu, don’t you have his birthday in Plaxo, Outlook or something?!? Just because there’s no gift from … Read More »

I love technology, particularly mobile technology and the impact it can make on someone’s work and lifestyle.  The productivity gains that can be garnered by fielding the proper mobile tech kit are huge and I love to write about that.  I also enjoy writing about industry … Read More »

We don’t write about purely personal things very often on jkOnTheRun because that’s not what you come here for.  Some things are important enough to break that rule, and since family is very important to me I am doing so here.  Today would have been my … Read More »

I hadn’t looked at Google Trends in a while, so I just hopped over to see what time of day I actually read feeds so I can share good news with you. There’s data … Read More »

I’ve been mostly offline today due to my migration from Outlook 2003 to 2007; more on that later. While I had downtime in between .OST and .PST file movement, I realized I’m not getting any younger. Dare I say it: am I reaching that mid-life point … Read More »

Just a quick off-topic post to pay respects to a peer in the blogosphere: Adam Finley. Although I didn’t meet him personally, I knew Adam through blogging at AOL / Weblogs; he blogged over at TV Squad. He was hit by a bus while riding … Read More »

Long-time readers of jkOnTheRun probably get tired of seeing posts like this one today marking my sixth anniversary of open-heart surgery.  It seems like yesterday that I went through that life-changing ordeal and … Read More »

On this Fathers Day we wish all of you Dads out there a very happy day!  May you spend it with family and friends.  My father is no longer with us and I will spend this day reflecting on what he meant to me and the … Read More »

Now they don’t call it Crackberry for nothing! Apparently pop-singer Nelly Furtado is ready to give up everything – her passport, her bag, her watch – except one thing, her Blackberry. Apparently she was ‘punked’ on MTV and the way the joke went was that her … Read More »

Yahoo announced that is opening up its Panama advertising platform (via APIs) to third parties and agencies in an attempt to stop the Google advertising juggernaut in its tracks. The idea is that by opening up their platform, Yahoo can create more end-points in their … Read More »

Nicely timed to compete with Google’s Street Views, a Massachusetts-based company working in stealth mode just launched a demo of their technology. Right now, going to EveryScape offers you an immersive, 3D exploration of San Francisco’s Union Square, though a spokeswoman tells me … Read More »

Avaya, the stock (AV), has been range bound, trading between $10-and-$15 a share, for nearly two years, indicating a general apathy investors have for the enterprise telephony company, that as part of AT&T, was at the pinnacle of telecom mountain. It is hardly a … Read More »

Maybe the title should be "Will blog for coffee" since I’ve got the mobile office visiting a brand new Starbucks today; I’m at the Lansdale, PA coffeehouse testing the WiFi. Unlike James’ … Read More »

Updated: Alltel, one of the smaller mobile carriers has decided to go private in a deal that values the company at $27.5 billion ($71.50 a share in cash), a 23% premium over Alltel’s closing price on December 29, 2006, when the rumors of the likely … Read More »

Last year, after visiting British Telecom (BT) and meeting with their executives, I left London with one key take away: BT was one telco that completely understood that it was facing uncertain times, and had no choice but to reinvent itself to survive. The senior BT … Read More »

Broadband can finally declare victory over dial-up in the U.S. AT&T and Comcast are #1 and #2 when it comes to how Americans connect to the Internet. AOL dial-up, which for nearly a decade dominated the Internet landscape is dying a slow lingering death. AT&T, Read More »

As a kid my after-school sitter was the outlandish and catty plotlines of daytime soaps — Days of Our Lives, As the World Turns, and the like (latchkey kids unite). Now after reading the latest on Motorola’s fall from grace and recent anti-Zander comments … Read More »

Lifelock, an online identity management and identity theft prevention company based in Phoenix has raised $6 million in Series B funding from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, according to sources familiar with the company. Lifelock is currently being valued in excess of $40 million. The company, … Read More »

Microsoft’s Windows Live Messenger for Xbox 360, announced earlier today, might sound cool to some, but to us it seems like a ploy to sell more high-margin peripherals, like keyboards, thereby boosting company’s game division revenues. After all, that tactic has worked well for Apple … Read More »

Markus Gobel, our good friend from Germany lays the smack down on callback service, Jajah, for basically issuing a press release everytime they get mobile.jajah.com to work on some new mobile browser. This over aggressive PR is giving us a reason to pause as … Read More »

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