Seriously trivial thoughts
I haven’t read this anywhere, so perhaps I’m among the first to say it, but the effectiveness of the traditional seasonal sales is officially over or dying quickly. What I’m talking about are time-of-year sales like Black Friday, President’s Day Sale, Back-to-School, even Christmas Sales. They are no longer significantly meaningful to consumers. We now …
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 blogged a few days about about how I was moving back to Slimserver (aka SqueezeCenter). Today I started wondering how to listen to the stream on my iPod Touch. A quick search came up with an app called CastCatcher from Return7. It took me a while to figure it out, but if your Slimserver …
I was a long-time user of the open-source app Slimserver for streaming music over the Internet, but updates were slow and the interface was getting a little dated and clunky. After Logitech acquired it, I didn’t hold out much hope for positive change. I switched to Orb a few years ago. However, for whatever reason …
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 …
After using my 22″ widescreen PC monitor at work for a couple weeks, the puny 12.1″ on my Motion LE1700 tablet was starting to look like my iPod Touch. Heck, even the 19″ on the family PC was lookin’ a bit small. I was happy to find that LCD monitors were quite cheap these days …
Just got an official email from Nokia. It states: the Nokia Nseries flagship (i.e., the N97) will start shipping to stores worldwide from this week!…Those members who have pre-ordered their new handsets will be one of the first in their country to receive the new Nokia N97. Expect an email from the online store shortly …
When I pre-ordered my N97 a little over a week ago, the expected ship date was in July. However, according to this post, Nokia notified North American distributors that June 2 is the estimated shipping date of the N97. Moreover, according to the official Nokia blog: Pre-ordering will guarantee you are one of the first …
Found a nice coupon that saved me $175 so I’m taking a chance and pre-ordering a N97. The two primary reasons for picking this over the iPhone and Palm Pre are 1) the 5MP camera; and , 2) the WiFi Hotspot ability via JoikuSpot app. I’ll live with the more clunky interface and resistive touch …