New Nettiqute: A simple guide to communicating with your favorite geeks.

It’s been quite a while since I’ve seen an updated guide on email etiquette or netiquette in general.

This may be because there is about 300 guides written by out of work journalists whose’ exposure to technology was having played with an iPhone for about 5 minutes. I believe that they’re in the same place in [...]

January 20th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Internet | 4 comments

Big Tech Wins: Addressbooks

I find that the best and most immediate use of personal technology for most people is in personal communications.

For example, I did not have an organized and comprehensive set of contacts until this last year. I had one previously in the glory days of the Palm Desktop and Handspring, [...]

February 6th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: Business, Internet, Phones, Technology | One comment

Why I hate BlackBerries

I have been working hard to avoid Blackberries of all kinds having seen sales people (who if you ask anyone who works with technology, they will tell you that people in sales push for the worst solutions available almost all the time) fiddle with them for years.

They never quite worked right.
Their voice quality sucked.
They’re a [...]

April 27th, 2008 | Tags: , , | Category: Electronics, Phones | One comment