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Thoughts and things I care to shareIts Official… New Blog is Online
Come on over to my new home on the net: rickmahn.com. I’ll be keeping this blog open for awhile, but no new content will be added. So, come on over to the new site and check it out.
Welcome to RickMahn.com!
Welcome to the culmination of my blogging efforts for the past year. RickMahn.com is the place where I will talk about daily events in the technology space and blogosphere. About work, a little about life, and sprinkled with a few rants on occasion.
The reason for starting a new blog is both simple and complex. I’ve been using a number of blogging tools (Blogger, WordPress.com, MSN Spaces) with differing results. I’ve come to the conclusion that Blogger.com currently was the most flexible, WordPress.com the most powerful, and MSN Spaces – well… oh my, look at the time.
So after a lot of research, learning new technologies, blogging, thinking, and figuring costs and such, I’ve set up shop here at www.rickmahn.com. I’ll be here mostly every day posting on things that I find interesting, interacting in the blogosphere, commenting on others’ posts and so on.
So, come on back from time to time and check out what I’m doing – drop a line and let me know what’s good and what’s bad. See ya round the ‘net!
Spb Provides New PPC Backup!
Today Spb Software House released Spb Backup, a new Pocket PC backup utility. A utility category for the Pocket PC that, until recently, has been a little light on products.
Spb Software House Releases Spb Backup – the Ultimate Tool for Saving Your Data
February 14, 2006 – Spb Software House, a leading Pocket PC software developer, releases Spb Backup – a new Pocket PC utility for backing up all of your Pocket PC content to a storage card.Spb Backup is based on the proven technology used in Spb Clone. Thousands of enterprise users rely upon Spb Clone to create exact copies of their “master” PDA devices. This tested technology was used to create a backup program that would benefit Pocket PC consumers at all levels.
Spb Backup creates a self-restoring image file that can be restored with or without installing the main Spb Backup application. The backup file can be compressed and password protected with strong 128-bit AES algorithm. The scheduled backup features will help users to have regular, mistake-free backups.
Spb Backup features include:
- Scheduled backups
- Self restoring backup files
- Options to separately backup PIM data, emails, “My Documents” folder, and system data
- Backup file compression and encryption
- Today plug-in with previous and next backup date notification
- Desktop PC utility for extracting information from backup files
Pricing and Availability
Spb Backup is currently available in Czech, English, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Thai, and Traditional Chinese. A free 5-backups limited trial can be downloaded, or Spb Backup can be purchased for $19.95 USD, from www.spbsoftwarehouse.com.
Spb Software House has produced many other great software products including Pocket Plus, GPRS Monitor, Full Screen Keyboard, Diary, Weather, and Finance.
brrreeeport buries web search!!
Ok, so maybe it doesn’t but Scoble’s little experiment is quite interesting – don’t you think?
Via:Scobleizer
HP iPaq hw6900 Announced…
Another data-centric Windows Mobile 5 device is going to make its way into consumer’s hands. The HP iPaq hw6900! Fun times.
I’ve seriously got to investigate what will be the best device to purchase. Since I’m a T-Mobile customer, the upcoming MDA will probably be my choice – of course that’ll be dependent on pricing. Sometime soon!
Via: Geekzone
I’m almost happy… seriously
Check out this post at Smartphone Thoughts, I’ll wait…
Ok, are you back? The SDA is one-half of the pair of new Windows Mobile 5 devices that T-Mobile is launching this month. The MDA will be launched in a week or two and should be around $350 after rebate if all the rumors are to be believed. When the MDA is released, I’ll be happy.
via: Smartphone Thoughts
Microsoft’s Mobile Email – Moving Ahead
CNET News.com is reporting that Microsoft is “pushing ahead” with its mobile email technology offereing. While brought to market later than RIM’s powerful BlackBerry platform, it still see’s a large viable market for their product offering.
Via: CNET News.com
International Data Plans comming online
Cingular is planning on launching new data plans next month that will include different levels of roaming data coverage. Check out Phone Scoop’s article for more details.
via: PhoneScoop.com
Looking for blogging nirvana
Ok, so I think I’m turning into a blog nut… I’ve been looking at tools, utilities, plugins, etc… for a number of reasons, mostly ’cause its fun. I’ve finally come to the conclusion that I need to go “pro” at this – what I mean by that is to sign up with a hosting service, manage my own site with a professional blogging tool that I can customize to my needs and personal preferences.
So what I’ve found to date is that I’ll be building this site over the next two weeks (and last two weeks – I’ve already started) and getting it off the ground. This weekend has been one of learning some neglected (by me) web language technologies (XHTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, WordPress layouts, etc…) that are crucial to getting the site I really, really want to publish to the world.
My page layout and site design is mostly complete, I’ve got a site & domain name picked (I’ll post about that later), a hosting service identified, at least a temporary theme picked out that I have customized somewhat (check out my WordPress blog for a taste). One thing that I would really like is to be able to design a theme that really fits what I want to display for “style”. I’m not a graphic designer, or an artist – at least not skill-wise, I DO have opinions as most of us do.
One goal will be combine my two existing blogs (here at blogger, and my WordPress.com blog) into one. Though I will keep the two blogs I have, they will likely play a different roll which I can’t think of at the moment. What I have learned from both these blogs are some interesting things, for one – they both are drop-dead simple to get started, which is excellent because that means more people can start a blog without needing to understand the underlying technologies. They are both also very powerful. Blogger at the moment is more customizable right away, WordPress.com has only been available to the public since I think Oct 2005 and is a bit more controlled at the moment making customization unavailable right away – though Matt Mullenweg is working on this for future options (Go Matt!).
Well, there is much to do even though its a good start. I’ll post more information soon – maybe a few screen shots of things here and there as well.
Review of T-Mobile USA’s new MDA
There is a review of the new T-Mobile MDA over at infoSync World by Jørgen Sundgot. The new MDA is based on the HTC Wizard platform that is amazingly compact for how much functionality is built into the product.
Windows Mobile 5.0, a slide-out thumbboard, quad-band GSM, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and a 1.3 Megapixel camera, oh my: Jørgen Sundgot takes T-Mobile’s MDA communicator for a spin.
via: infoSync World
I hope the leadership of the Republican Party will take his word seriously. Because this is exactly right.
This is very simple: only Americans citizens should be allowed to vote in American elections.
The SAVE America Act is common sense, and we need to pass it now!
I don’t recall you complaining when gas was $5.00 under Biden.
Hypocrisy much?
Please RT!
This Middle Ages bullshit is a cancer on the planet👇👇🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸