a multi-tasked stream of consciousness or perhaps just emails to myself
It has a 2-inch LCD screen. Will it be good enough for “Six Feet Under” fans?
When docked in its cradle and connected by cable to my TV, the gizmo easily records a full episode on a 128-megabyte memory card.
Check this Business 2.0 article for more details.
A last word on pricing: Panasonic e-wear SV-AV30 is available for $300 to $400, depending on the models.
For the past 30 minutes I have been listening to a ridiculously loud employment interview directly behind me. It’s hard to appreciate the lack of privacy my common area (literally) office provides without seeing it, but it is killing me. I just put headphones on, just to block sound. Soon…
Recent internal research by Procter & Gamble Co. indicates that consumers who fast-forward through ads with digital personal video recorders such as TiVo still recall those ads at roughly the same rates as people who see them at normal speed in real time.
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“That’s probably not an unusual finding based on the way people recall things,” Mr. Schar said. “People hardly recall anything. So you’re dealing with low numbers anyway, and differences with low numbers take a lot to be significant. So I could see how statistically you could make that case.”
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John C Dvorak certainly does not think so….
Here is the problem, from the beginning. This kind of online information business has never made money. The Source (1980s) went out of business and was absorbed by CompuServe. CompuServe was always sketchy and was eventually absorbed by AOL. Ziff-Davis developed an online service that lost money and was sold to AT&T, which folded it. Prodigy always struggled. Apple tried an online service and folded it fast. Microsoft, thinking it should be in the business because AOL is so big, has lost money year after year with MSN. Hello? Earth to the business press, come in! This business is a loser. It has never made money, and only the dot-com house-of-mirrors anomaly made things appear otherwise. And this became truer for AOL once the company switched from metered rates to a flat fee.
Let’s compare AOL or MSN or any other closed system to the standard ISP model. An ISP connects the user to the Internet, period. There may be an informational Web site and some storage for users’ small Web sites, but an ISP doesn’t have server farms redistributing and repackaging what is already free on the Internet. That’s wheel-spinning. An ISP does not have massive chat rooms and large public forums that tie up the basic service, either. Pure ISPs make some money, but they are hardly setting the world on fire. How can an information utility such as AOL make money with all the additional overhead? It can’t and probably never could.
Nextel Communications by next year will offer a mobile phone with Motorola based on Microsoft’s Windows Powered Smartphone platform, and in the second quarter of this year the carrier will begin trials with a phone that can be used on Wi-Fi wireless LANs, a Nextel executive said here Sunday.
The Smartphone device will support tri-band GSM/GPRS (Global System for Mobile Communications/General Packet Radio Service) as well as Nextel’s iDEN (Integrated Digital Enhanced Network) infrastructure, according to Barry West, executive vice president and chief technology officer of Nextel, in an interview following a Nextel briefing.
AppleLinks writer John Martellaro has posted a Q&A interview with AquaMinds founder and NoteTaker braintrust Scott Love…
[Applelinks via Mac Net Journal]
John: Can you share with us some ideas about where you think NT is going?
Scott: We have announced several product features that will become available this year including more outline processing features (naturally), Palm/PDA synchronization, more XML output support, (we do OPML right now), Keynote integration, more Web notebook features, and a new application approach code-named SilverStar which I think will make NoteTaker even more useful for OS X users.
I would also suggest reading the following reviews on Applelinks and OS X FAQ.
I’ve been using it for most of the day, easily (without first exporting) importing my OmniOutliner files and maintaining my notes for client and daily business. This is clearly the Mac OneNote you have probably heard about that MS is developing and currently in Beta for XP and Office 2003. I would strongly suggest you give it a whirl. The first trial copy I used limited the number of items in an outline, which killed it for me. Now you can get a 30-Day trial which has all the functions.
I’m hooked…
A new supercharged digital audio technology has taken a broad step closer to becoming part of the evolving MPEG-4 digital multimedia standard. The Moving Pictures Experts Group (MPEG) body voted last week to finalize the specification for “aacPlus,” a digital music standard based on work from a company called Coding Technologies. The recommendation still must be voted on by various national standards-setting organizations, but is now close to becoming part of the MPEG-4 audio specification.
AAC is a high-quality digital audio standard that has existed through several revisions of the MPEG group’s work. The addition of the “Plus” technology allows audio files to be compressed to roughly half the size of the previously compressed file, without substantial loss in sound quality. MP3Pro, an update of traditional MP3 technology, uses this Coding Technologies technique, as do the audio signals transmitted by the XM Satellite Radio service.
In Safari V62 or V64 and later….
Instead of Control+Click or dropping the menu down and selecting open in tabs, you can simply Command(Apple)+Click and get a tab set to open. Simple. elegant and wonderful…
I love how the tabs work the way you want when you want them. It’s your choice, single bookmarks or a window full of tabs…
According to this article from Unstrung, the Push to Talk (PTT) software from Sonim that Erricsson is using has a ways to go. In fact, at times it does not work at all.
The idea is to create an inter-carrier digital two way radio/walkie-talkie that works between CDMA and GPRS. Working across carrier would be an achievement, if it worked…
“The new strategy,” according to IDC, “marks the eventual end of Microsoft’s most visible foray into telecommunications.” The report added that MSN was “increasingly likely to exit the market” for supplying Internet access, though it added that would be “a year or years away,” probably in a sale of its subscribers to another service provider.
“VeriSign (Nasdaq: VRSN), the leading provider of digital trust
services, today unveiled its NetDiscovery(TM) service bureau solution for accomplishing lawful intercepts of packet data on GPRS and CDMA 1x wireless network technologies. VeriSign introduced NetDiscovery services for voice networks last year, offering a cost-efficient, turnkey solution for landline, wireless, and packet cable operators to meet federally-mandated obligations to provide lawfully authorized electronic surveillance of call content and call data to law enforcement agencies.”
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Good thing PGP makes a mobile version (Palm and PPC), but unfortunately no phone version yet. 8.0 was released yesterday.
Still deciding which site to choose to manage your March Madness picks? Holovaty offers some help in understanding the differences each site has to offer…
It’s college basketball tournament time in America, and millions of sports fans are taking their best shot at predicting the winners.
I took some time to look at a few online bracket contests. Not that I’m a sports fan in any way; I was mostly interested in how various sports news sites presented a means for user-submitted brackets.
Different roads and times but our minds clearly crossed…
Mine is the left shot – driving East on I80 from Portland last Winter. I used my Sony Handicam and did a video still capture. Dave just completed a cross country drive though I think we used a still digital camera for his capture.
How can I rip albums from my CD collection with two sources? I’d like to use both the internal drive and the FireWire CDR drive I have. Seems impossible in iTunes for now anyway.
It is a truly beautiful one here in NYC today but I have spent the whole day working and (mostly) waiting… We have a major pitch happening and coordinating between shops has been taking over all that I might have been doing. Too bad since it is just over 50 degrees today and would have been perfect to be out and about.
hopefully tomorrow will hold out for me!
Update – I guess I could mention that the only advantage to all this waiting time has been a serious amount of MP3 ripping. Some old (160 and less) and some new – all set to 192! Love that SliMP3! Though my 5GB iPod sure holds a heck of a lot less since I became 192 obsessed!
I guess time will tell…
A report of Safari v65:
– Autofill toolbar button (looks like a pencil writing)
– Autofill form option under edit menu now (works!)
– Open links from apps in existing window
– Always show tab bar
– Tab mouse over now the text turns white
In the past weeks I have experimented with a few ways to do email. What I realize from speaking with others both in person and via email discussions lists, is how differently everyone sees things. Not that surprising actually, but the ways in which people handle the deluge of messages is pretty interesting.
In my case I have blogged about ZOE and POPfile and integration with Mail.app. What I have not mentioned is that I no longer use Mail or ZOE. Mail had become slow for me given the amount of email I get in a day and the speed with which I try to manage it all. Since I am basically a remote worker in my company I need to be very consistent on mail to manage what is going on.
In case you care, I work in NYC in the office of the umbrella company (we used to have a NY office ourselves) but the main office for my company is outside Philadelphia.
While Mail was a wonderful tool it was not cutting it for me anymore. I did a pretty comprehensive review of tools I thought would work for me. I considered GyazMail, Eudora, and even going back to Entourage. I knew I needed to be able to work with POPfile which has become an unbelievable helper in the fight against spam as well as a wonderful pre-filter for my email. POPfile offers two ways of tagging messages either by modifying the subject or by adding an x-text classifier header to messages.
For some reason Entourage is not able to swing that, so I immediately nuked it as an option.
Gyaz was interesting and the closest to Mail, but wanted to use a separate folder of folders for each account. This is not the way I view my mail (unified inbox….) and just could not get used to working like that.
Eudora was the first GUI email I app I ever used. It was handed to me on a 3.5″ diskette in college and I remember it well. I also remember bailing on it when I discovered Claris Emailer after college… While it is nice now and I know many people like it, it was not for me.
Then I discovered PowerMail. This is definitely the dark horse of email applications on Mac. As soon as I started using it, I knew I was hooked… It offers very robust filters/rules, AppleScript support, excellent attachment handling (local folder), OS X address book sync, V-Twin search (ie Sherlock) and of course POPfile compatibility. There are many more features under the hood as well. It is not free, but the $50 is well worth the admission. The demo copy which runs for 30 days can handle 200 messages in the database. As soon as I reached that limit I purchased. I should also note that it did a flawless import from Mail – all 1.7GB of it.
As I mentioned at the start of this blog, people use the tools very differently. One thing I discovered about PowerMail, which you might appreciate as well I had never seen in other apps. There is a window called “Recent Mail Window” which can open as new messages come in and can come to the front if you choose. What this does is give you a single pane view of messages regardless of where you have filtered them on receipt. I leave it floating on top of the main window so I can easily drag and file messages as the come in. I can also see messages I have filtered automatically by client (domain based), lists, newsletters etc all in one place. It is essentially a live view of mail so as you move things you can see right away that they are where you would expect. You can leave a floating window of folders and work with two windows also if you like eliminating the main view, though I found this to be a bit beyond where I am comfortable. Since classified as spam comes in and drops to the trash, I just do a quick check before killing it and I am on my way.
While this is not exactly a comprehensive review of PowerMail or any of the tools, I thought it would be interesting to share regardless. As the title of the app suggests it is a powerful way to do mail. The best in my opinion, though I am sure as new apps come out or things update I will try them to make sure.
Amazon.com now has an early adopter picks section. [Werblog]
