Archive for September, 2005
Any recommendations for a Bluetooth headset for Treo 650?
The choices for Bluetooth hands-free headsets are dizzying — anyone got any recommendations?
I’m not looking for “style,” because I don’t believe it exists when it comes to a Bluetooth headset, and any claims to the contrary by vendors are patently false. I’m not planning to wear it everywhere I go — just in [...]
The Chad, Vlad, and Marco club at Yahoo!
Little did I know that when I joined Yahoo! , I would be joining a “Chads, Vlads, and Marcos” club. On Friday, I got an e-mail from one of my fellow Chads noting that I am Chad #6 in the Search & Marketplace group (“I am Number Six“) and pointing me to an [...]
Hard lessons learned with Feedburner and Bloglines
For about a week, updates to the blog using my Feedburner feed were not available for reasons I feel compelled to explain in full, if only so similarly afflicted users don’t make the same dumb mistakes I did. In a nutshell, I unwittingly blew away my Bloglines readership for about a week through [...]
I sorta wish I was using a Mac again
While Russ just laid out his reasons for a possible reverse switch (Mac to PC), I’ve been missing my PowerBook just a bit lately after voluntarily deciding to switch to the PC when I started the new job (I still use a Mac at home, though). Working with the PC is going ok, but [...]
Adium rocks!
Tim wasn’t kidding – Adium for OS X (based on Gaim) is awesome. I had been using iChat on my OS X box at home until I picked up a bunch of Yahoo! Instant Messenger pals in my new job. I tried Fire for a few weeks, but it left me cold. [...]
Making built-in Contacts app the default on a Treo 650 with GoodLink
(if you don’t have a Treo 650 with GoodLink software installed, you probably want to skip this post entirely)
When I left InfoWorld recently, I got a very nice send-off and an utterly amazing cake, but as much as I wish the company-issued Treo 650 I had grown to love (after some serious hate) could have [...]
Bill Gates: The Udell Interview
Dan Farber offers high praise for Jon Udell’s recent podcast interview with Bill Gates, saying that “it really shows the geeky Gates, and is one of the better interviews I have read/heard in covering Gates for more than two decades.” I agree (though I haven’t been following Gates for two decades yet myself). [...]
The imminent arrival of the six-blade shaver: a sloppy unscientific analysis
(Dear Readers: I promise to get back to insightful technology punditry very soon — but this was too good to pass up.)
A lot of people have written about the new five-blade razors from Gillette (including one of my new Yahoo! co-workers, Jeffrey), but I haven’t seen anyone ask the obvious question: when will [...]
The soul-crushing agony of number portability
Cell number portability is a beautiful thing, right? (Not really, according to the truly Kafkaesque experience I’m going through right now, which I’ll go into in a moment.) This chirpy page at the FCC lays the number porting process out in a checklist with lots of Pollyanna-ish assurances:
Contact Your New Carrier — Do [...]
Microsoft, Salesforce.com, and Web 2.0
David Berlind wrote recently about Marc Benioff’s (CEO of Salesforce.com) response to Steve Ballmer’s recent proclamation that Microsoft is going to give Salesforce.com “a run for its money.” In in an e-mail to the press, Marc wrote:
Microsoft’s failed enterprise software strategy has let the industry down. We have competed against them in the CRM [...]