Posted in business, computers on Jan 18th, 2007
You can probably tell from my previous post that my own windows mobile device (DASH) is loaded up with 3rd party applications and I can’t imagine using my DASH without them. With the launch of the iPhone however, Apple has declared that there will be no 3rd party application support. Charlie O’Donnell argues that apple’s [...]
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Posted in computers, life on Jan 15th, 2007
Since I don’t have a secretary, I use a whole host of computer applications to help me increase my productivity. I’ve decided to list them all here for others to peruse. If you have a favorite efficiency application that I don’t actually use, tell me about it! File Management Amarok (Linux) – A full featured [...]
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Posted in computers, life on Dec 9th, 2006
Referenced from Guy Kawasaki’s blog. I personally spend significant amount of time on my Ipod and my E3C headphones. Naturally, it’s been quite disconcerting to see increasing anecdotal evidence of earbuds induced hearing loss. Fortunately, it seems that an industrious graduate student has come up with some concrete numbers we can use: “Sound Output Levels [...]
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Posted in computers on Nov 16th, 2006
Most of you are probably quite familiar with e-mail spam by now, and might even have noticed that it has increased in intensity in the recent months. Rests assured, this phenomenon is by no means isolated to your mailbox. Network World recently published an article on this exact phenomenon titled: What’s with all this spam?. [...]
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Posted in business, computers on May 15th, 2006
Founded in 2001, Vonage is currently the biggest VoIP company in the world. More interestingly, on May 5th 2006, Vonage issued its’ IPO prospectus. For those that not familiar with VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol), it is a new technology that uses the internet as the backbone infrastructure for traditional telephone calls. It allows its’ [...]
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