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Links for Saturday, November 15

Links for Friday, November 14

Water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink

Rain comes down in buckets, but we have no water service until the dishwasher is installed.

Links for Sunday, November 09

Links for Friday, November 07

Net Radio: New Net Radio Royalty Compromise Sorta Finished, Sorta Sucks

Net Radio: New Net Radio Royalty Compromise Sorta Finished, Sorta Sucks

After being saved by a near-miraculous act of Congress net radio operators are busy negotiating new rates with royalty-collection mobsters

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Apple Iphone™ Replacement Battery

Apple Iphone™ Replacement Battery

MCM carries a complete line of replacement Ipod® batteries. All batteries include a 1 year warranty for peace of mind. We include instructions and tools for replacing your batteries and our technicians are ready to help if you have any questions.

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Links for Thursday, November 06

PerfSpot preps member marketing scheme, but will it work?

PerfSpot preps member marketing scheme, but will it work?

PerfSpot is a MySpace-line social network which has rarely merited much mention, other than by TechCrunch UK last year when it was ranked ...

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19% of mobile consumers in U.S. now using smartphones, according to study

19% of mobile consumers in U.S. now using smartphones, according to study

As the entry fee for smartphones drops lower and lower, the wallet friendly price point found with most feature phones (or, as some ...

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Links for Wednesday, November 05

Belkin FlyThru, a Checkpoint-Friendly Laptop Case, Saves You Time in Airport Security Lines

Belkin FlyThru, a Checkpoint-Friendly Laptop Case, Saves You Time in Airport Security Lines

"With the new Belkin FlyThru laptop case, you no longer need to remove your laptop from the bag in the airport security line, making it a painless, stress-free experience. FlyThru isolates your laptop on one side, allowing TSA agents to easily identify it through a clear window. Accessories are kept organized and secure on the other side of the bag, sending you through security faster."

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The Gadget List [Updated]

People constantly ask me what gadgets I have my eye on, so I thought I'd share what's currently on my wish list:

I'll update the list as I a) buy them or b) change my mind. ;)

Into the Cloud

Cloud from the Inkscape Tutorials blogToday is the day I moved completely into the Cloud.

After having my netbook (an Acer Aspire One) for a few weeks, I've been trying to determine my optimal workflow. Today, I realized I had a couple of holes that needed to be filled.

Here was my original setup, BN (Before Netbook):

  • Productivity: Office 2008; iWork (Keynote, Pages, Numbers)
  • Corporate Email: Microsoft Exchange (Entourage on the Mac with occasional use of Outlook Web Access)
  • Calendar: Microsoft Exchange (Entourage on the Mac with occasional use of Outlook Web Access)
  • Contact Database: OS X Address Book
  • GTD: Remember the Milk Pro Account
  • Personal email: Google Apps (as spam filter and mail archive) forwarded to Mobile Me, then using this effective workaround to send email from my domain.

I used over-the-air (OTA) sync for everything (calendar, contacts) and had push email for both my personal and corporate email. I like the OS X Address Book for contacts instead of Entourage/Exchange because I enjoy having people's photos appear in their contact entry and when they call on my iPhone. ;)

Over the past few weeks, I've begun using ThinkFree Office for reasons you can learn about here. It's been a pretty seamless transition and has really helped me use the netbook effectively.

Today however, while in a meeting, I realized that I needed to send personal email from my netbook. That's when the fun began.

The first problem with Mobile Me is that you can't set the "FROM" address to use your own domain. (Hence the above workaround.)

The second problem is that the Mobile Me online Address Book just plain sucks. I needed to get an email address from my contact database and it was such a painfully slow experience. Even on a fast Mac using Safari, it takes an inordinate amount of time to load.

That's when I realized that I needed to go into the Cloud a bit more deeply in order to get my workflow right. So, here's my setup as of this evening:

  • Productivity: ThinkFree Office Netbook Edition + ThinkFree Office for Mac
  • Corporate Email: Exchange (Outlook Web Access for the netbook + Entourage on the Mac)
  • Calendar: Exchange (Outlook Web Access for the netbook + Entourage on the Mac)
  • Personal Email: Google Apps
  • Contact Database: OS X Address Book syncing with Google Contacts
  • GTD: Remember the Milk Pro Account syncing with Todo from Appigo on my iPhone (thanks to Brad Feld for the tip)

What I lost:

  • OTA syncing of my contacts. I now have to sync my contacts with a cable between my iPhone and my Mac. Any additions to my contact database while on-the-go with the netbook will have to be done on my iPhone (if I want to use them while away from my Mac) then sync'd up when I get back to my desk.
  • Push email for my personal mail account. 

What I gained:

  • The ability to send and receive email from my own domain from any modern browser.
  • Access to my contacts in from any modern browser and natively on my Mac.

Those simple changes should allow me to get the most out of this little experiment. I'm sure more of my computing will move into the cloud, at some point.