Gizmodo has an article about a new laptop steering wheel mount. Safety first!!
Treo 600 – Works for me
I’ve had the Treo 600 (AT&T Wireless) for almost a week and I’m extremely happy with it. I’m a Palm IIIx > 500 > 515 > Tungsten2 user and carrying the Palm and cell phone was getting old. I almost jumped at Verizon’s Kyocera 7135 earlier this summer and Samsung’s I500 looks good – but they are both using an older Palm OS. Moving from the high resolution Tungsten2 to the lower resolution Treo 600 wasn’t that hard. I’ve been following the articles and discussion board over at Treo Central and was wavering about whether the 600 was THE convergence device for me. Discussion boards are valuable but they really should have to post a warning like:
“People with problems, real or perceived, tend to post more than people who are satisfied.”
Keep that in mind next time you’re reading a discussion board.
Lost a Post…
TypePad is a hosted web application. You write and work in your web browser. That has certain advantages – like being available to you wherever you can reach the internet, home, work, the Sony Store at the Metreon.
It also has disadvantages if you’re not used to it. Both Radio Userland and City Desk are local applications – you write and store information on your computer and it is uploaded (streamed in Radio’s case and ftp’d in City Desk’s case) to your website. If something “goes wrong” you re-open the application and pick up where you left off – try again. Earlier today I was working in TypePad while going back and forth between other websites in what I thought was another browser window. At some point I did something wrong – because I lost the browser window with the post I was working on. Couldn’t find it. It wasn’t a particularly prize-winning post – but losing it was frustrating.
Trying out TypePad…
Based on the number of “weblog” tools I’ve tried and occasionally used you’d think I would actually write more. I like to write. But the grass is greener – better tool mentality prevents me from staying with it.
I have a Radio Userland blog known as Guy Bjerke’s Radio Weblog. I have found the news aggregator in Radio very handy. It’s a great tool, but its development seems stalled. (I know – new team at Userland – big things in 2004.)
I have also played around with Fogcreek’s City Desk. It is a great “content management” tool for all kinds of websites. It’s also very reasonably priced. My experiment, which also includes trying to learn a little .asp scripting can be found at www.gbjerke.com.
Trying out TypePad…no spell checker…the entry box is not wysiwyg, so you can’t be afraid of a little html showing up in your text if you insert a link or bold something. Or should that be strong something?
Oh. Why am I trying out TypePad? Well, several weblogs that I read have migrated from Radio Userland to TypePad. Others, like Seth Godin of Permission Marketing fame also use it. I’m just an early adopter. It’s the sticking with it that’s tough.