June 29 set as wireless auction date for FCC
Well, the FCC has set June 29th, 2006 as the wireless auction date to sell advanced wireless service licenses. Check out the article at RCR Wireless.
More on Clipmarks
Been using Clipmarks now for about a week or so – clipped a lot of information, and I believe it to be a fantastic new tool to keep me organized! I’ve been able to go back to a number of articles that normally I would not be able to find after reading them. I’ll recommend the service at this point with the knowledge that it really does work as advertised.
I’ve used the plugins for both Internet Explorer and FireFox with great success. I’ve been able to search the my clips from both browsers along with Opera as well. Go try it out and let me know if it works for you as it well as it does for me!
Windows Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2
Now is your chance to see what all the fuss is and will be about. Microsoft released Beta 2 of Internet Explorer 7 on the world last night. While its not a final release product, I can tell you it is FAST, feature rich and has good support for RSS.
I’m not too delighted at the feed support as I could be – MS is only supporting RSS at this time, and if you notice on Blogger we have ATOM feeds. Doesn’t work right now. Eventually, I may be able to uninstall Pluck which I have used for over a year as my main RSS/ATOM reader. That won’t happen yet, but it could when the IE7 ships later this year – we’ll see how much better the RSS support gets. That its built in and works rather well already is very promising.
Another irritating thing I’ve noticed since installing on XP (I’ve used IE7 on antoher OS…), when trying to create this post here at Blogger using IE7, the “Compose” mode when creating a post does not display text correctly – its white on white! Using the “Edit HTML” mode DOES show the text so you can see it.
Well, its a beta release and it is impressive in the changes and features MS has brought along so far. Also impressive is MS’s interest in listening to the user community for feature and usability improvements in IE7. The laundry list from IE6 is long, and MS has worked very hard to build a modern browser.
Is it better than FireFox – probably not, especially in beta, but its a BIG step in the right direction and will continue to improve. Also, I have to admit here that I’m a dedicated IE user, so while I use FireFox (and Opera too!), IE is my main browser and will probably continue to be.
Well, more to come on this as the days roll on!
802.11g on HTC Wizard/Universal?
Found this bit over at Pocket PC Addict:
Are you dying to get every last drop of speed from your device? Are you always looking for ways to unlock the full potential of your device? Well, if you have an HTC Wizard (Qtek 9100/i-mate K-JAM/T-Mobile MDA) or HTC Universal (Orange SPV M5000, i-mate JASJAR) then you are in luck.
Bleezer
Trying out Bleezer – a open-source blogging client written in Java. This post was written using it – pretty neat, but I can’t seem to get it to work with WordPress.
More Excellent Web 2.0 Examples!
These services below are a great example of how the Web 2.0 world will look and work. Fully online, no local client needed, multiple browser support, AJAX interfaces, innovative, and FAST. These are a great example of what the future of not just computing, consuming news, but an indication of what all services and interfaces will work.
I’ve been testing out the Clipmarks web service for the past week, and have found it very easy to clip & save web snippets of information. I’ve even had a chance to go back and look something up – it only took a few seconds, instead of looking for some incorrectly named Bookmark/Favorite, or re-searching Google trying to find the same informaton. Can’t wait to see how it helps me find those technical articles for work as well!
Another service I just found today was launched a little over a month ago, called News Alloy. This service is an online, AJAX News Agregator for RSS & ATOM feeds. So far, it is quite interesting – and fast! I’ll keep tabs on these to see how well they work out over time. Thanks to TechMemeorandum for the NewsAlloy link!
I’m focused on LASTING relief, not just TEMPORARY gimmicks.
A one-time $300 check is chicken feed compared to years of rising property taxes and utility bills.
Until we end the 400-year property tax hike and stop Madison’s overtaxation, they’ll keep taking more from you.
They will keep lying & subverting you until someone is held accountable for ‘treason & sedition’.
Obama spent $34 million tax dollars in 2012 to renovate the Reflecting Pool.
But we're supposed to believe that Trump spending $13 million to do the same is the end of the world?
John Thune is a giant wiener. He just said that he doesn’t have the votes to end the filibuster.
WHOSE FAULT IS THAT, JOHN???
80% of Americans - Republicans and Democrats - want voter ID. And Thune is just standing there, bragging about getting the Democrats "on record" without
And this is why the left is burning down our cities and assassinating our leaders. Free speech is more powerful than a bullet. Truth lives forever, while assassins decay in the dirt.
Elon Musk has changed the world.