Google mobile phone

http://community.winsupersite.com/blogs/paul/archive/2007/10/29/wsj-expect-google-phone-announcement-within-in-two-weeks.aspx

The Google mobile phone headed our way.

Apple Leopard blue-screens

http://community.winsupersite.com/blogs/paul/archive/2007/10/29/sometimes-hubris-comes-back-to-bite-you.aspx

Paul comments on some ironic behavior of the new Mac OS update.

Meebo opens up - adds applications and APIs

http://blog.meebo.com/?p=370

Meebo continues to amaze and delight. They had me at hello, which was web-based IM for multiple services, no downloads, no Java. Then they let me talk across multiple services. They added group chat. Logging. Millions of other enhancements like the sound alerts and visual cues (via the browser!) for new messages. A chat widget I can add to web pages for people to talk to me. Meebo rooms, which can include multimedia you can share with a group. They are super-responsive and sensitive to their customers, for instance speeding up shutdown times recently.

Now they have kicked it up another notch by opening up their platform ala Facebook for applications. For instance rather than writing video and audio chat, they just wrote an application for some of the other great services out there. And other developers can use it too! Awesome. These guys rock!

SyncToy

http://www.google.com/reader/view/#stream/feed%2Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fcommunity.winsupersite.com%2Fblogs%2Fpaul%2Frss.aspx

Paul reports about a Windows PowerToy for sychronizing folders, especially in regards to digital photography.

Video of Joel demoing Fogbugz

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/10/24austindemo.html

Always wanted to see Joel speak. Always wanted to learn more about FogBugz. Now I can in the comfort of my own home. Oh yeah.

Microsoft invests in Facebook

http://www.windowsitpro.com/Articles/ArticleID/97425/97425.html?Ad=1

Microsoft is investing in Facebook. It will be interesting to see where this leads.

Tasklist /SVC

Ever have XP go to 100% CPU? When you try to find the offending process in Task Manager it shows up as "svchost"? Svchost is a tool that gives non-executable dlls and services a way to run. It is generic, and there can be mutiple copies of it in Task Manager. To figure out which application is really causing the problem, grab the PID (Process ID, non-default column in Task Manager), and look for it in the list generated by typing "tasklist /svc" at the command line.

Gmail adding support for IMAP

http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/10/24/gmail-goes-imap-finally-your-mobile-email-client-and-gmail-fall-i/

Get Google mobile apps the iPhone way

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/10/google-on-iphone.html

This is simple and smart. Change your browser user-agent string to the iPhone one, and get the *special* iPhone-optimized versions of Google mobile apps. This might be useful for other sites too. Be nice to be able to change this with a script.

Dave Winer - New York Times - River of News

http://nytimesriver.com/
http://nytimesriver.com/outline/

Scraping the NY Times to create a nice mobile news view..

Google calendar synching roundup

http://www.goosync.com/

http://rareedge.com/gmobilesync/

https://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=697660

http://www.scheduleworld.com/tg/cal/day.jsp

http://www.snoopsoft.com/webcal/default.asp

http://www.calgoo.com/

http://syncmycal.blogspot.com/
http://www.syncmycal.com/

http://www.companionlink.com/products/companionlinkforgoogle.html

http://code.google.com/p/pocketgcal/?

http://oggsync.com/

http://www.daveswebsite.com/software/gsync/

http://www.plaxo.com/info

Ugh, this is some list! As best as I can tell none of them is perfect at this point..

Ultra-mobile PC roundup

http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/10/03/who-needs-a-notebook-three-slick-mobile-alternatives/

They've gathered the meagre pickings together in one place. I expect that this category will explode in the years to come. I find the current offerings disappointing. Why put it out there if it is slow and buggy, underpowered, hot, with poor battery life and no graphics? I wouldn't buy one because I'm sure it would annoy me more than help me. But something this size is exactly what I want.

DIY PocketPC

Oh this is tempting... Build your own windows CE device kit.

http://www.compulab.co.il/x270em/html/x270-em-datasheet.htm

http://www.redferret.net/?p=9436

http://www.smartphonethoughts.com/news/show/23301/compulab-s-em-x270-brings-diy-to-smartphones.html

Threaded email in Outlook

http://lifehacker.com/software/email-apps/make-outlook-thread-conversations-like-gmail-157042.php

This seems like a revolutionary idea to me, especially given how important Outlook and email is to my day-to-day routine (work and non).

I have changed my view to include the conversation header, and enabled grouping. I have set up the rule to copy sent items to the inbox. It's not clear here, but new mail does end up at the top with sorting by conversation, even though the threading is "kinda" by subject.

This is a huge change but I am going to give it a serious trial, as it makes so much sense. Further I plan to leave the sent items unread until I get a reply - that gives me the ability to track emails I am waiting for a response to, something I have always wanted.

Remote Desktop better yet missing from Windows Mobile 6

Turns out Remote Desktop (Terminal Services) has been highly improved in Windows Mobile 6, however it has been made an optional part of the OS.
http://www.theunwired.net/?itemid=4029

Verizon elected not to include it on the i760...
http://pdaphonehome.com/forums/samsung-sch-i760/92728-terminal-services-where.html

However the great folks at pdaphonehome as usual have managed to hack around this to bring us satisfaction!
http://pdaphonehome.com/forums/ppc-6700-xv6700/84897-wm6_rdp-mobile-remote-desktop-client.html

Windows Mobile 9 postponed to 2009

http://msmobiles.com/news.php/6805.html

Makes me feel more confident about the Windows Mobile 6 phone I just ordered, that has been withering on the vine for a year waiting for Verizon to release it. At least the OS won't be immediately left in the rearview mirror... Wonder if the delay has anything to do with the success of the iPhone and the threat of the gPhone...

Google Docs Mobile

http://docs.google.com/m

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071017-mobile-google-docs-off-to-a-nice-start-but-not-there-yet.html

Exactly! Google gets this, at least half-way. Some of the mobile apps seem a little half-hearted, less than completely thought-through in terms of usefulness and focus, but at least they are light-years ahead of so many companies in "mobil-izing"!

Verizon releases Samsung i760

What can one say but, "FINALLY"...

http://news.vzw.com/news/2007/10/pr2007-10-18b.html

Programming for kids

http://scratch.mit.edu/

This is sooo genius. I'd like to do a class somewhere with a bunch of kids - teach 'em to use it, and see what they could come up with.. Hats off!

Audio recorder for PocketPC

http://www.axyzmobile.com/products/keep-recordin

Now unless I am totally confused here, the bonus of this program is that you can get the audio in a format you can actually get off of your PocketPC (Windows Mobile device) and do something with..

The problem with the native audio recording on PocketPC is that the "wav" ends up in a "Note", and there is no way to get the audio into a file, or get the audio out of the note that ends up in Outlook (or even listen to it there)..

Barcamp

http://www.barcamp.org/

I believe these are basically ad-hoc tech conferences. Sounds very cool..

Codeplex

http://www.codeplex.com/

Codeplex is Microsoft's version of Sourceforge as best as I can tell... Here are some projects I am interested in checking out:

http://www.codeplex.com/Terminals
http://www.codeplex.com/iTunes2
http://www.codeplex.com/Balder
http://www.codeplex.com/elephant

Internet Job Boards

I created this list awhile back for a friend:

http://jobs.joelonsoftware.com/
http://jobs.37signals.com/
http://www.dice.com.gif
http://www.monster.com/
http://www.edgeio.com/jobsf
http://www.crunchboard.com/
http://jobs.originalsignal.com/
http://iitjobs.com/
http://www.indeed.com/jobs
http://www.gojobby.com/
http://jobs.gizmodo.com/
http://jobs.lifehacker.com/
http://www.hotjobs.com

(10/20/2007 update)
http://jobs.arstechnica.com/

Ubuntu - Gutsy Gibbon - The Composite Extension is not available (Part 2)

Sooo the error I got was:

"Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/glitz/libglitz1_0.5.6-1_i386.deb
Could not connect to us.archive.ubuntu.com:80 (91.189.88.31), connection timed out [IP: 91.189.88.31 80]"

I was able to download that via Firefox to the desktop, then I ran it by double-clicking it. Then I went back and installed the two packages again in Synaptic, and everything was hunky-dorey! (Still haven't gotten the cube to run but thaz a story for 'nother day!)

New version of Resco Explorer out

http://www.resco.net/pocketpc/explorer/default.asp

This is a very popular file manager for Windows Mobile.

Xobni

http://www.xobni.com

Very cool web-based Outlook add-in that is in beta..

Recycle your old cell phones

http://www.eco-cell.org/

Recycle your old cell phones and benefit the environment at the same time..

Ubuntu - Gutsy Gibbon - The Composite Extension is not available

Weeeell I'll put what I know out there, but so far this I still don't have this working..

What you want to do is get "Compiz" working - in order to use all that eye-candy you see on You-Tube :)

install xserver-xgl using the Synaptic Package Manager

My status is 5 files are failing to download - which is holding up progress for the moment...

Blackberry Application Site

http://na.blackberry.com/eng/builtforblackberry/

Note this is actually from RIM...

Jott

http://jott.com/

Web-based pim with voice-reco and voice commands? I have to look into this further...

Information wants to be free

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_wants_to_be_free

Now that's a sound bite!

Paul's digital media series

http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/#dm
(look for the ones that say "core")

Video:
http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/dm_core_video.asp
Music :
http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/dm_core_music.asp
Music Ripping:
http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/dm_core_music_rip.asp
Music Mgt:
http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/dm_core_music_mgmt.asp

Good stuff!

What a powerful point

Powerpoint is making us dumb. There are some good points in here however he notes he can't link to the guy who is making the accusations because of formatting problems on his site, yet calls him the "...the famous theorist of information presentation"...

http://bytecoder.com/2004/09/27/powerpoint-makes-you-dumb/

Cell coverage extenders

Looks like there is a new more consumer-friendly cell coverage extender available now. Wonder if it works...

http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/cellphone/9823/

http://www.smarthome.com/9625c.html
http://www.smarthome.com/9625cy.html
http://www.smarthome.com/9625g.html

http://review.zdnet.com/cell-phone-and-smart/wi-ex-zboost-xy500/4505-6448_16-32128564.html