So, I’ve found the Pocket SharpMT mobile blogging client for Pocket PC. I’ve been on the hunt for an offline blogging client that I could use from my PPC for some time.
I’m not sure how I’ll incorporate this into my blogging schedule, as I like to see how everything looks on a PC’s screen before publishing a post. Probably I’ll write drafts as I’m on the go, and then publish them after polishing them up a bit later on.
Of course, the ability to have a quick method for creating and posting is a great improvement over needing to write posts in Pocket IE on my WordPress admin site – it never goes well, and always skews what it looks like until I get back to a PC. It also takes way too long in PIE, mostly because PIE is a piece of … you know what.
Starting today, Cingular will start to publicly become AT&T in print, radio and television ads. Though not all existing adds will be changed immediately, you may start seeing the transformation. Also watch for signage changes at the Cingular stores, and on the billing and communications from Cingular.
So if you were a former AT&T Wireless customer, welcome back to the fold! Hehehe, once thing is for certain – the absolutely shitty service that the old AT&T Wireless service had prior to being bought by Cingular Wireless is, thankfully, only a painful memory.
So, what goes around, comes around – ‘ma bell’ is still around and is now you’re cell provider.
More great news on the SSD front. I agree with Kevin at jkOnTheRun, this is the third vendor to offer SSD products, and the competition will help drive prices down. Also, 60+GB is the size that most people are going to start at, so it could also replace
Congratulations to James Kendrick who has moved over to Google Reader from Onfolio. GR is really one of the best-done online feed readers (the best IMHO), with simple easy to remember/use keyboard shortcuts, lightweight AJAX interface that is quick to render, and the ability to mark items for future reference.
Another feature that I’ve been using for a few months is the Shared Items feature that allows you to mark posts/articles that should be shared for someone reading your Shared Items to view. Nifty little thing that you can link to from your blog so people can read the same sources that you do!
After reading how well GR works on a Tablet or UMPC, I really need to check one out. Definitely on my “short list” of to do’s!
On this topic, TechCrunch is right on the money. The music industry is not looking far enough down the road to see the big picture about DRM and its impact on their reduced sales.
Artists as well are too wrapped up in the ability of their work to be easily copied. I understand this concern, and share it as well. After all, who want’s their hard work and creativity stolen?
But that belies the deeper desires of the consumer of both the artist and the recording industry. Their customer is not their enemy, the customer does not want to steal the work, or see either entity getting shortchanged for their work. What the customer wants is to be able to enjoy the music – its that simple.
In addition, giving the consumer the ability to move the music from device to device or onto CD offering DRM-free music removes the criticism, the negativity that is created by DRM. Wouldn’t a given artist rather have their fans (customers) raving about their latest release than complaining that they can’t get it onto their Rio, Zune, iPod, or other device simply because it is offered on a different format, or that the DRM mechanism failed, or worse, that the support departments of whatever online service can’t solve the DRM issue?
DRM was a great idea – but there are too many variables that need to be accommodated for it to work. Instead, companies should sell the music tracks DRM-free. Offer cheap versions for cell-phones that are encoded at lower bitrates, so the user can store more in less space. Sell the lossless versions as a “Premium” where the user can burn to CD, or re-encode for any device they own at their preference. Moreover, offer the music in a non-proprietary format that every player in the world can work with (MP3), that way, the music is available to everyone who wants it, and the players can compete on features & usability rather than what labels or online stores it works with.
As governor, the State Capitol will stand for unity and common sense.
In addition to the POW/MIA flag that has long flown over the State Capitol, we will fly two flags when I am governor: the Wisconsin state flag and the American flag.
