I don’t have much to contribute to the iPad conversation that hasn’t been said elsewhere. I’m in the process of buying a home in a location that will add three hours of train travel per day to my commute. Imagine how nice an iPad would be in such a situation.
I haven’t decided if I’ll [...]
Following yesterday’s Mailplane post, I received the following comment from Mark Munz, the developer of TextSoap (an app I purchased at full price in 2008 and greatly value):
Mailplane’s price for a year’s usage = $0.07/day. I bought it 2+ years ago, so the cost for me has been less than $0.03/day. We’re all [...]
Last week, the tech world was abuzz with the launch of Google’s new public Domain Name System (DNS) resolution service.
Since I posted a while back about OpenDNS, I thought I’d share my thoughts on this subject. The main question I set out to answer is whether or not I should switch from OpenDNS to [...]
Here is an example of a confusing, muddled online purchasing experience.
It began well enough. I decided to upgrade to the latest version of VMWare Fusion 3 prior to installing Windows 7 on my Mac. I had heard that VMWare’s virtualization offered faster boot times, better integration with the Mac OS, and best-in-class support for [...]
Last week, we discovered that my wife had not updated her Google Maps home location on her iPod Touch since our move to Maryland last year. As far as the little device was concerned, we still lived in Ewa Beach, Hawaii. We found this out because we had to travel to a Costco in Virginia [...]
We’re about to head North to my home state of Maine for a couple of weeks, a place I haven’t lived for 20 years. Over the past two decades, I’ve moved from Colorado, to Boston, to Guam, to Germany, back to Boston, to Germany again, to Hawaii, and (most recently) to Washington, DC. For work [...]
