My new phone, the MyTouch 3G Slide, was delivered last week. I have to say it’s awesome! It has some weight to it. Probably the same as the G1. But it’s a smaller device so when you pick out up the first time it’s surprising. One of the neatest things is the swype keyboard. It [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Tech’
Flock Test
This post is being made using the built in blog editor in Flock. Flock is a social media enhanced browser based on mozilla. Blogged with the Flock Browser —– OK, this post WAS made using Flock but it dorked up the link. I’ll see if I can figure out why. – Figured it out. I [...]
Free graphics
This link is to the mobile page but that’s ok. This is a mini-review of some free graphics programs. http://m.sitepoint.com/blogs/2010/04/16/eight-3d-modeling-graphics-applications-available-for-free/
Image post
The only reason for this post is to put the palm tree pic online. The Gravitar site can’t upload from my G1 phone. This will get me a url to use.
Upgrade
One of the requirements for WordPress 2.9.2 is MySQL 5. I was running MySQL 4.something. I like running the latest versions for security and features reasons. I know they will eventually stop supporting older versions of WordPress. My host doesn’t have a way to migrate from MySQL 4 to 5 so I created this site. [...]
My new phone
That is, it will be my new phone if we have the money. It’s the MyTouch 3G Slide. Rumor has it it’ll be available May 17th. I’d prefer to have a 5 row keyboard but I don’t think that’s going to happen again. The MyTouch 3G Slide will run Android 2.1 with a new Sense [...]
Windows Live Writer
This post is being written using Windows Live Writer, part of the Windows Live Essentials software package. We’ll see how this article looks once it gets posted. The plug-in for OpenOffice.org that does WordPress blog posting doesn’t work very well. UPDATE: Hate to say it but it looks like Microsoft may be getting back to [...]
How to manage an IT group
As someone on the Atlanta Linux Enthusiast mailing list said, “This guy gets it.” Managing geeks really isn’t that hard. It’s all about respect. Respect that goes both ways and within the group. That respect is earned through competence in the work place. I’m not saying management needs to be IT gurus. Even the head [...]
Blackberry post
This post is being made using the newly public beta WordPress for Blackberry plug-in. Cool!!! The link I just made; I entered the “
Macformer
Going to have to look again at getting a Macbook.
