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Daily Archives: November 27th, 2004

Battle of the Network Browsers

Now that I have a connected device, I’ve been looking for the best way to surf on my Zodiac. It’s not a big secret that the browser that comes with the Zodiac is subpar (it’s based on a very old version of NetFront, not the slick xHTML/CSS compliant NetFront that came with the last of [...]

Wow! This would rock for teaching…

iGo - Pitch Duo - PS6B1V “Give presentations from your handheld device or smartphone�wirelessly. No notebook, no wires, no hassle, just a powerful presentation direct from your handheld or smartphone. Pitch Duo not only lets you get rid of the cables and weighty notebook, it also enables you to view your presentation notes on your [...]

Home Alone? How Content Aggregators Change Navigation and Control of Content

Digital Web Magazine - Home Alone? How Content Aggregators Change Navigation and Control of Content
Jason Kottke is fantastic at aggregating content. Every time I read his latest list of links on Kottke.org, I find some tidbit of information that interests me, one I probably wouldn�t have read otherwise. How does he choose content, I wonder? [...]

Spam, spam, spam, spam…

I wrote a while back about how I rarely get spammed, even though I put my email address out there pretty much everywhere. I really didn’t see it as a problem. A lot of readers wrote back on that one, very angry that would dare belittle their spam hell.
Well, good news for those readers: I [...]

My Next Cell Phone

I love my cell phone. I really do. Bluetooth and 1xRTT, what could be
better?
Well, let me tell you. As l’ve mentioned before, l see the phone as the
communications module in a Bluetooth PAN. My current phone does an
admirable job with this, but I’d love to see a phone with:
WiFi. Some cell phones already support this, [...]

Stepping out of shadows of WiFi

Yahoo! News - Stepping out of shadows of WiFi: “Bluetooth — a short-range wireless technology — is finally coming of age.
After years of standing in the shadows of WiFi, its much broader reaching wireless counterpart, Bluetooth has found its niche: a burgeoning market for wireless phones and headsets.”
Nice story, but it misses the point. A [...]