My Own Personal Browser War

Monday, August 20th, 2007

My name is Tom and I have a problem.
No, this isn’t an AA meeting. My problem is deciding what browser to use on my PowerBook. My choices:

Safari
Firefox
Camino
Flock

Each have their advantages and disadvantages. Here are my opinions/observations:

Firefox is slow compared to Safari and Camino. Additionally, it’s painfully slow compared to the Windows version of Firefox.
Camino has [...]

iPhone Wish List

Sunday, August 12th, 2007

Every iPhone owner has one; here’s mine.

BCC ability. I don’t understand why this isn’t an option already. This is fairly standard on every email program I’ve ever used.
Distribution List ability. Mail/Address Book on OS X supports distribution lists, but not the iPhone. This one baffles me as to why it was omitted.
Mulit-client chat (YIM, AIM, [...]

My Phone? An iPhone.

Monday, July 23rd, 2007

I know I said that I’d wait a week to write a review of my iPhone, but I can’t wait that long! I will attempt to write this review with my “fanboy-ism” aside, but that may prove to be difficult. In any event, here we go.
Initial Thoughts
In pure Apple fashion, the packaging is brilliant. It [...]

A Nice Surprise

Sunday, July 22nd, 2007

I went to San Antonio on business for a few days. Every summer, my company attends the Texas Bandmasters, Texas Choral Directors, and Texas Orchestra Directors conventions. For the past five years, I’ve simply gone down for our booth setup and flown back on the first day of the convention. It works out fairly well; [...]

A Cell Phone Freak’s History

Friday, July 13th, 2007

I was daydreaming about my upcoming iPhone purchase the other day and it really got me thinking about my cell phone history. Unsurprisingly, I’ve had quite a few cell phones.
My first cell phone was a Sony CM-H888 on the old AT&T Wireless I believe. I got that phone my junior year in high [...]

Adios Sidekick 3

Monday, July 9th, 2007

After roughly a year, I just sold my Sidekick 3. While I loved that device, there were good reasons behind my selling it.

I’m getting an iPhone; therefore, I have no more use for the Sidekick.
Danger is currently working on new Sidekick devices: the Zante (Motorola) and the Shuriken (Sharp). So once those are released, demand [...]