July 1, 2008
FriendFeed has pretty well replaced Twitter as my primary platform for microblogging. It offers so much more than Twitter - postings greater than 140 characters in length, comments to postings that support true conversations, ability to selectively hide what you aren’t interested in seeing, automatic aggregation of information from other social networking sites (including Twitter!), rooms for discussing specific topics (there’s an iPhone room!), and more. I don’t even need to mention reliability, do I?
Well it’s got even better for iPhone/Touch owners. FeedFriend now auto-recognizes our devices and presents us with a very nice optimized interface. If you haven’t tried it yet, check out my feed at http://friendfeed.com/mconnick and see how it looks on your iPhone/Touch. You may very well end up joining yourself!
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June 30, 2008
I just ordered an ASUS Eee PC 12G (8.9″ Screen, 900 MHz Intel Mobile CPU, 1 GB RAM, 12 GB Solid State Drive, XP Home) in Pearl White from Amazon. They were out of black, and not really caring all that much about color I went with the available alternative. I also ordered a 16GB SDHC card to give the unit a total of 28GB solid state disk space.
I’ve been very interested in the Eee line for quite some time, but definitely decided not to go with the original Linux devices. Now that Asus is offering multiple XP models I though it might be interesting to compare one to my Kohjinsha SH6. With the faster processor and XP instead of Vista, it’s even possible that the Eee might replace my SH6 UMPC, especially when teamed with either of my portable USB hard drives (I have 80 GB and 120GB models). In any case, it will be a fun new toy to play with for not too much money!
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June 28, 2008
I’ve been looking for quite a while for a good grocery shopping list program for my iPod Touch. Since I don’t have an iPhone, my Internet connectivity is limited to WiFi and none of my local grocery stores has WiFi. So until I buy an iPhone (and I will be buying an iPhone 3G next month), I have some rather special needs. The shopping list program needs to be accessible from both a Touch and a cell phone.
Well, I finally found such a program: Listingly. If works great on the iPhone/Touch as well as on my Treo cell phone and my PC. So I can access it from my Touch or my Treo. It works great, allowing items to be checked off when they are purchased and only requiring Internet access to initially build the page and to remove checked entries. So, if I’m able to access my shopping list page prior to hitting the supermarket I can use my Touch for shopping, otherwise I use my Treo. Great little Web application!
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June 23, 2008
It’s been quite a while since I’ve posted about my Kindle, so here’s a summary of over 7 months experience with it.
Likes:
- Love the NY Times appearing on it automatically every morning
- Love being able to buy Kindle books from Amazon so quickly and easily
- Love all of the free eBooks now available in Kindle format. Between MobileRead and Feedbooks it’s hard not to find what you want in the way of pubic domain books for the device.
- Love having the entire 51 volume set of Harvard Classics on my Kindle - and yes I’m actually reading them!
- Did I mention the NY Times….oh yeah, still loving that
Dislikes:
- Not every Amazon book is available yet in Kindle format. I recently had to buy four “dead tree” books from Amazon since they weren’t available in Kindle format.
- The Web browser on it is excruciatingly sloooooooooow! But, what the heck, it does give you absolutely free access to the Internet from wherever the Sprint cellular network exist - so I guess that’s something of a quibble
Yes, I love the Kindle, even in it’s first generation form. Of course, I’d love to see improvements to the device, but even as it stands now it is one terrific eBook reader!
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