Category Archives: Mobility
Mobile Tech in Action
This weekend, I’m attending my second Dallas WordCamp, a local event that showcases not just the amazing WordPress blogging system, but things you can do to make you a better blogger, designer, and community builder. I attended my first WordCamp last year and I had an absolute blast. I felt very at home in an auditorium full of mostly techy geeks–many of them even geekier than me in some ways! I sat in a sea of mostly MacBooks and MacBook …
Pocket Informant 1.0 hits the App Store!
Staying up past my bedtime occasionally has its benefits…I was about to go to sleep when I received an email from WebIS that my long-awaited holy grail calendar and to-do app, Pocket Informant, had finally been accepted by Apple and released to the App Store. Thank you, three hour nap! I am so happy that I was awake. I have been waiting for this app since I got my iPhone 3G at the end of August. Needless to say, I …
My Daily Tech: Jessica
One of my favorite tech memes is “What’s In Your (Gear) Bag?”, where geeks empty their messenger bags, backpacks, and purses to show off the things they carry with them on a daily basis. I also really enjoy reading about the gear that fellow techies use to enrich their lives–their main computer, their travel items, their phone, their mp3 player, etc. I’ve shared my own stuff in various formats before (I am an avid member of the “What’s In Your …
Daily Driver Review: T-Mobile Wing
My beloved (but sometimes also hated) i-mate JAQ3 must have heard through the grapevine that it’s getting replaced with an iPhone, because last week it decided to give up the ghost completely. The poor thing has given me a good year and a half of hard use, so I really can’t blame it for wanting to go toe up. I was bemoaning its loss and trying to figure out what to do in the meantime, since my husband is using …
My Calendar Solutions: Windows Mobile
My Windows Mobile Pocket PC phone is practically attached to my hand. I was lucky enough to win the i-mate JAQ3 in a contest over at Gear Diary last year, and ever since then the JAQ3 has been my go-to mobile device. It has some clear shortcomings, most obvious being poorer call quality than I’m used to, and although I do plan on replacing it later this summer when my tax stimulus check comes through, I have gotten totally spoiled …
Introduction: searching for the perfect digital calendar solution
I always aspire to lead an organized life. Whether I actually am or not at any given point in time is really another story. (I am lucky enough to have a photographic memory and be able to put my hands on things that I need in my office or my apartment pretty easily!) I can be pretty anal retentive about digital things like the way my Google Reader feeds are organized in their folders, the things on my Firefox toolbar, …
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Asus eeePC 900 to hit US on May 12
The newest model of Asus’ popular eeePC sub-notebook computer is set to drop in the United States on May 12 for $549. The eeePC 900 features a larger 8.9 inch screen, a 1.3 megapixel webcam, and 1 GB of RAM stock. It will come in two flavors–a Linux version with a 20GB SSD, and a Windows XP version with a 12GB SSD. The eeePC 900 will be slightly bigger and heavier than the eeePC 700, but will not feature a …
Schedule DVR recordings online with DIRECTV
After acquiring a hand-me-down, 600 pound HDTV (thanks in-laws!), my husband and I recently made the switch to an HD satellite install at our apartment. We moved our old DVR into the office and now have a nice, shiny HD DVR in our living room. One of the things I’ve been waiting for was the DIRECTV On Demand Beta on our receiver, which finally happened after a recent service call. But even better than that, the DIRECTV DVR Scheduler was …
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Amazon TextBuyIt – Shopping for the Truly Lazy
Amazon has debuted its new SMS purchasing service, TextBuyIt, allowing users to find and buy items from Amazon.com using their mobile phones. Say you’re in the local bookstore, and you think that the art book you’re paging through would look fabulous in the middle of your new IKEA coffee table. But, it’s fifty bucks, and you really don’t want to pay that much just to impress your mom, your hipster friends, and prospective girlfriends. Just whip out your trusty cell …
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