atmaspheric | endeavors

I’ve mentioned iPodder previously and things have been getting very active in the development of tools to make life easier for the subscriber. iSpider (though it’s now been renamed back to iPodder) is now the current cross-platform app of choice, but there’s a new kid on the block for Mac OS X users…iPodderX. [...]

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It really pisses me off to get a communication from a company as a customer when they clearly don’t know that. Here’s an example from an email I received a few minutes ago from T-Mobile:
Upgrade to an Annual or Month-to-Month rate plan and get 30 days of free T-Mobile HotSpot Wi-Fi Internet service.
You’ve experienced [...]

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The VoIP Weblog has some details from a keynote at the VON Canada which listed Skype Plus as the pending release to include both voicemail and two-way connectivity with POTS.

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So nice to see keep as new… I am often cruising through a bunch of stuff and want to recall one for later - this makes it quite easy to do without having to leave a bunch of tabs open in Firefox.
We pushed out a couple of cool new features last night on Bloglines. First [...]

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I’ve been playing with Nightlies from the Wordpress dev team for a while and have activated a new one tonight which enabled me to switch to the Kubrick theme which seems to work quite well.
I’ll let it stick for a bit and see how it goes. I’ve got my older template which while it [...]

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I actually got to see this beauty last night at the Apple Store in San Fran. It’s gorgeous… definitely something we’ll have to upgrade to at home in the near future.
The iMac G5 is another winner from Apple. It’s a computer that’s a real pleasure, not a hassle, to use. [WSJ.com]

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Brent finally goes public!
NetNewsWire 2.0 as well as the new weblog editor MarsEdit are now finally ready for public review… I’ve been using them both for sometime now as a beta tester and they work great. Highly recommended for all Mac users.

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AT&T secures it’s place in VOIP… not that I was concerned or anything. This puts them in the driver’s seat for taking things to the next level - mainly enabling mass adoption.
Consumer electronics, chip and software makers will use specifications developed by AT&T to create telephone adapters, Wi-Fi phones, game consoles, set-top boxes and [...]

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I’ve learned that TMO is having some service issues due to equipment in the East, they say from the weather… Calls from the east are having trouble making it through to the west where I am currently located. I received 50 extra minutes for my call to customer service… you might want to [...]

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I’ve got 6Gmail invites to share… I’ve been sitting on them just out of laziness. If you want one, lemme know.

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Brighthand mentions Palm now has official support for Bluetooth 1.2 which is great news for devices with BOTH Bluetooth and WIFI, though also good for ones with just Bluetooth as well.
In June, PalmSource announced it had licensed from Extended Systems the software necessary to allow future handhelds running the Palm OS to support Bluetooth [...]

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Andy cites a Kinetic Research report on Cable VOIP and notes:
What’s interesting is they also report that the home grown VoIP from Charter and Comcast is over a year away. Seems amongst the giants that only Cablevision saw the future of VoIP and moved quickly to roll out their own service. [VoIP Watch]
Cablevision has [...]

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The WSJ has a good piece on how SBC just sold a huge “internet telephony” contract to Ford to go live within the next 3 years. Not sure why they did not reference VOIP at all, but surely seems to be the topic.
SBC Communications Inc. is rolling out Internet phone service to 50,000 Ford [...]

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Kermit Woodall at PDABuzz does a very comprehensive review of the available browsers for Palm OS though neglects to review Blazer since he used a Zodiac and Blazer is really only used by the Treo these days.

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Skype has now corrected the earlier reports that a Palm OS version was coming next month… It’s not looking too good for anytime soon either.
Last week, several Skype developers posted comments in their company’s forums saying that the ABC News report was in error.
At this point, Skype Technologies doesn’t seem to be developing a Palm [...]

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Not a good way to start a flight to San Fran…

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I guess it might seem like I’ve neglected you recently dear reader… I apologize. I’ve been pretty caught up lately and have fallen behind in my reading of things let alone in my time to blog.
Should be back on track with the usual good stuff in the next day or so.

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This makes a lot of sense and certainly allows existing subscribers greater access (though additional cost) to their subscription. I am not personally sold on whether people will pay a monthly fee yet for radio online. I guess I’ll reserve judgement until it launches and we can see how it actually works. [...]

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I love this email exchange just forwarded my way from my Uncle, a self-proclaimed anal retentive word-wonk, perhaps even the most anal retentive word-wonk.
—– Original Message —–
From: Brian Greene
Date: Saturday, September 11, 2004 11:33 am
Subject: terminology
After wondering about this for years, I just read your page on weather terminology and am still somewhat confused. [...]

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No one can escape it, we’re all slaves to it.
Covad has created a fake movie site that looks kind of like what you might expect from CSI The Movie. It’s definitely high quality and well executed (but slow loading) in my opinion. I’d love to see the rest of this campaign to [...]

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