Archive for: July 2006

Tom Keating makes note of an article that appeared in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution saying that U.S. children start using gadgets like video games, mobile phones, and portable music players by age 7–six months earlier than a year ago.
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So I got a spam press release this morning from AOL informing me their new AIM Pro is available for download. The email proceeded to describe the various cool features this application has and so on. I clicked on …

I know I am guilty of checking my email first thing on a daily basis. And as I read this article from LifeHacker (thanks to the referral from 43folders), I realize that Gina is right. In the …

I want to say upfront this is essentially “second hand news.” I would love to receive some confirmation or clarification of this practice by a Google employee.

I was chatting with someone in the office today about various things. …

What I have discovered about writing over the years is that, at least for me, writing is pathetically easy when I have passion. When I have passion, I find no shortage of things to write about, the quality of my …

While I do not travel as often as some people, I do occasionally have to get on a plane and visit my employer to see people in meatspace. Lately when I’ve been traveling, I haven’t been pulling out my laptop …

David Beckemeyer and crew does it again by making it possible to record a call on your PhoneGnome. Dial **732 + the usual number and then you’ll have a WAV file ready and waiting for you on your MyPhoneGnome …

Fellow VoIP Blogger Jon Arnold was tickled to see his nice words about SightSpeed sighted on the SightSpeed website under the Blog Highlights section in the Press section. I recognize many of the blog entries here, including …

Alec Saunders took the idea I had about IM a little farther and wrote this piece on the IM Cold War, which of course precipiated with the report that Skype had been broken. I had forgotten, or perhaps didn’t …

Alec Saunders brought this story to my attention. If this report from Asia is accurate, then Skype's "walled garden" may be crumbling. Good.

Despite not having published specifications (though AIM has published specs recently), all of the …