Archive for: July 2006

I saw another reader question on Ken Camp’s blog about the Linksys WBP54G Wireless Bridge and configuring it on a Mac. I’ve had one of these WBP54Gs around for a while. This gave me motivation to take a …

Someone asked Ken Camp about why VoIP Providers Don’t Take Checks. Here’s my answer to that question, and it’s real simple: credit cards are cheaper–much cheaper.

You may not realize it, but most companies that provide Voice …

One thing I follow is my Technorati Feed, which comes in my RSS reader. It seems to do a good job of picking up mentions of my name in the blogosphere. While I’m not mentioned often, I do get …

Various VoIP bloggers have gotten their hands on the Nokia E61. I’ve played with the Nokia E61 and I generally like it, except for the form factor in my pocket. That and the Record button is very easily to accidently …

Om Malik describes his experience with using WiFi to make a VoIP call. While he describes the experience with a mobile phone (specifically three different Nokia handsets), the experience is likely to be the same for any WiFi-enabled phone, …

I think it’s a given that fast food isn’t so great for your body. This article on Treehugger (which I found on Digg) suggests the act of cooking this fast food is also not great for the air …

Right now there are three ways to access some portion of Skype over your mobile handset: iSkoot, EQO, and Soonr. At least with the phones I want to use, all Nokia Series 60 3rd Edition (i.e. Nokia …

Andy Abramson and I called each other simultanously from within two different VoIP clients on the same computer. We both were using a Mac. We started our call on SightSpeed. While the SightSpeed call was in progress, Andy called me …

My last attempt at “testing” Skype Video on a PC didn’t work so well. I probably shouldn’t use my wife’s computer for these tests, so instead I went with a WinXP laptop I had up in my office and repeated …

I had a look at SightSpeed TV with the new version 5 code. Since I don’t have a TV Tuner in any of my computers, I connected to a demo that SightSpeed has set up. Let me just say, this …