Seriously trivial thoughts
About a year ago I posted how to make gMail your default email client using Affixa. While that still remains a great way to do it system-wide, if you only want gMail to come up when you click a mailto: link in Firefox, I got this tip from the MaximumPC Feb 2010 issue. In Firefox, …
For some unknown reason, in the past few weeks our ViaTalk VOIP phone started hanging up after *exactly* 10 minutes. After a little bit of searching I found this page which under the promising heading of “VoIP call disconnects after 10 minutes” had a link to this document. I already had the VOIP unit set …
While I *love* my MotionComputing LE1700 slate-type tablet PC, I have come to the realization that it basically sux if you have to input a lot of text. It has basically two ways to input: 1) handwriting recognition; and 2) virtual keyboard. For browsing web pages, reading digital magazines, watching videos, and even composing short …
I’ve been playing with my new Nokia N97 and am so happy I stayed with Nokia and didn’t venture off to iPhone or Palm Pre land, or even N900. It’s an awesome device. I LOVE THIS PHONE! I just upgraded to the v20 firmware. The phone came with v12. The only major visible improvement is …
Readers of my blog will remember that I had pre-ordered the Nokia N97 way back in May. However, due to a fckup by Nokia, I canceled the order and have been limping by with my N95-1. Since then a lot of new contenders have been released and I’ve had time to compare and analyze. In …
Mapping an FTP site to a drive letter is very handy. It saves you the lengthy process of saving a copy of the file somewhere, booting an FTP client, logging into a ftp site, navigating to the source file, navigating to the target folder, uploading the file, closing the client, and deleting the original file. …
It’s ironic. The promise of running full browser-based desktop-like applications has nearly been fulfilled using web technologies like AJAX, CSS, .NET, etc. However, it has led to some unintended consequences. Browsers were just not really designed to display and run all of the dynamic pages that are so common today. I would argue that much …
For whatever reason, none of the multi-protocol services, like Astra/Trillian, Seesmic, HelloTxt, etc., allow you to simultaneously post to multiple Facebook accounts. (I am, of course, ignoring the fact that FB doesn’t even want you to have multiple accounts.) I did a little research and people have come up with a variety of different solutions, …
I guess I wasn’t paying close enough attention when ordering my new Samsung monitor. I wanted the T260HD which has lots of TV-type inputs like component, but got the T260. I was thinking about sending back and getting the HD, but I found that the non-HD version has twice the contrast ratio and is apparently …
I have sent many emails to cellphones as text messages, but never the other way around. My daughter has sent me emails this way before, so I knew it was possible. She said all you have to do is enter the email instead of the phone number. I tried this on my N95, but the …