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iPhone as Internet proxy for your notebook
Well, it took me three days to do this, but finally figured out how to get an iPhone to use its internet connection over EDGE to be used with your laptop. Its convoluted because most phones allow what is called Bluetooth sharing and you are in. In the iPhone’s case, it is more complicated as…
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Audio Conferencing
We don’t use web conferencing that much. Don’t do many sales calls and so forth, but we do have lots and lots of audio conference calls. We use “Intercall Reservationless Plus”:http://www.intercall.com/services/audio-conferencing/ and the sound quality is good, but interesting to see how expensive things are and what the quality is. Here are some alternatives as…
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Fax Services
Most people like me don’t have anything fancy. A fax machine at home (well really an all-in-one attached to a phone line where you unplug it most of the time for sending or receiving) and then at work a fax machine tied at the front desk. So if you were in the 21st century and…
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Office Printers
If you are outfitting an office of say 8-10 people, what’s the best way to make printing. Well, with all these multifunction printers (a.k.a. all-in-one or mopiers), its been amazingly easy to get a nice color printer, scanning, fax and duplexing for not very much money. Here are some to consider for the small printer…
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Airport Express reset
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Office Printers
If you are outfitting an office of say 8-10 people, what’s the best way to make printing. Well, with all these multifunction printers (a.k.a. all-in-one or mopiers), its been amazingly easy to get a nice color printer, scanning, fax and duplexing for not very much money. Here are some to consider for the small printer…
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PC Sales and Mac Sales
I finally found the statistics on the 25 year growth. Fascinating data: MS-DOS and Windows PC Sales | USA Million Units | WW Million Units | USA Value $B | WW Value $B | | 1981-1985 | 3.8 | 5.7 | 10.5 | 16.9 | | 1986-1990 | 28.1 | 60.3 | 76.4 | 181…
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Sony HDR-SR12 and HDR-TG1
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Rebuilding Entourage
Entourage 2004 has just a massive file. Mine’s is currently 2.5GB and has ballooned to 5GB, you can compact it by holding down the “option” key and clicking on Entourage. This starts the database utility “which”:http://www.entourage.mvps.org/database/rebuild.html copies and creates a new one.
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Kerio Hosting
Chris mentioned to me and Rennie that Kerio was an old time Mac solution that does just about everything. They support Outlook directly with their own MAPI provider, they support Entourage as well directly. They also do Blackberry sync and iPhone as well without needing anything else in the middle. He said that “Big Mountain”:http://www.bigmountaindesign.com/…
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Copying Entourage calendars, contacts and mail to a new Exchange Server
Amazingly there is nothing really on the web that is concise about how you copy Entourage calendars from one identity to another. For instance, if you are like me migrating from one Exchange installation to another that is, in my case hosted, then how do you do it. Here’s a quick guide: # Start Entourage…
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Apptix Exchange hosting
My buddy “Pascal”:http://center.spoke.com/info/pI2Q8X/PascalMartin told me that there are lots of Exchange hosters. Said I might try Apptix as one company. So off to “asp-one.com”:http://asp-one.com for a trial. Some quick notes: * They don’t support Mac users in the admin console. They actually require Internet Explorer to run their administrative UI. * The actual site is…
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Microsoft #1 to #12 to #59
What a fall from “grace”:http://www.macrumors.com/2008/04/01/apple-brand-on-the-rise-microsoft-on-the-decline/ as a recent survey as Apple as #1 brand. The most amazing fact is that a poll of businesses shows a really steep for Microsoft in business reputation. From #1 in 1996, #12 in 2004 and then #59 in 2007.
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iChat IM
We’ve been experimenting with this at our office. IM has not been a big thing before, but with a small new office, its a good way to learn. “iChat”:http://mactips.info/tips/2007/02/set-up-ichat is the builtin IM system in Mac OS X. It is a little confusing, because the default is to use mac.com addresses and connect into an…
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Anagram Games
Found lots of anagram exercises on the web from Stanford and Duke in particular, but found one that is a simple game that is pretty easy to understand: * “Devdaily”:http://www.devdaily.com/java/jwarehouse/netbeans-src/usersguide/j2seexamples/anagrams/src/com/toy/. This one is a little complicated, but basically it shows you a scrambled word and you have to figure out how to unscramble and turn…
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ASUS M3p
Dad gave me an old laptop to use. It is from 2004! So it needs lots of updating. First up is to get: # “Java”:http://java.com. So that I can write programs # “Dr. Java”:http://drjava.com. Which is a simple editor and program # “Intel 2200 BG”:http://support.intel.com/support/wireless/wlan/pro2200bg/. I couldn’t connect to Apple’s latest Time Capsule and my…
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Wifi Hotspots in Wedgewood, Laurelhurst and Ravenna
OK, I get stuck waiting for meetings around the Childrens Hospital quite a bit. If you don’t want to brave the traffic at U-Village, what are the options. As an aside if you are in UVillage, “World Wraps”: http://seattle.wifimug.org/index.cgi?WorldWraps does have free Wifi and is less crowded than Starbucks by alot. Well, there are some…
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Puzzles and Computers
Calvin wanted to work with someone to combine a love of puzzles and a love of computers. Here are some ways to do that: “Cryptogram.java”:http://www.cs.utsa.edu/~wagner/laws/Acryptogram.html are a really fun kind of puzzle. The simplest is the substitution cypher. One letter in English is translated directly into another. Writing a program to do this isn’t too…
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FutureWeapon
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AppleTV’s many uses
I haven’t paid much attention to the AppleTV. After all, I watch lots of movies off the internet. Not just the stuff that Apple wants to sell me. However, “iClarified.com”:http://iclarified.com in addition to doing great work on the iPhone also knows how to hack the AppleTV. It is a subsidized device, so for $300, you…
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Data Update Kerio, Exchange and Asterisk
Well, spent some time getting Kerio running on my MacBook. It is amazing how small a mail application is. Just 50MB. * Loading Kerio is pretty easy and then you have to figure the firewall issue. * I used Dyndns.com to let me direct a DNS name to my laptop behind a comcast router. This…
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Cool Math Testing Website
FreeRice Cool Site for donating rice to hungry people by answering vocabulary word questions.
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Data in the 21st Century
Well, how about handling data traffic in a modern small business. In our shop eight years ago, we ended up quite conventional. We have: * a 100Mbps Ethernet and a 802.11b/g 2.4GHz Wifi access point outside the firewall. * In house, we an bunch of rack mounted servers. We’ve got an Exchange Server, a Blackberry…
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Business Phones in the 21st Century
Now that we are trying to setup our Seattle suboffice, we have a chance to do things a bit different. In our original office setup 8 years ago, we went safe. We have: * An inhouse PBX called Intersat or something like that and have T-1s that connect to it and another T-1 for data.…
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All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men to nothing
A wonderful quote from “Edmund Burke”:http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Evil
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Downtown Seattle Restaurants
Ok with the new sub office, getting to restaurants is way more fun than a chicken wrap at the Bellevue Club. Here are some restaurants we’ve been to and some others to try: # Place Pigalle, it seems a long way, but it is just a few blocks to Pioneer Square. The meal there is…
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Comparing Apple AirPort Express and Apple Time Capsule
“CNet”:http://reviews.cnet.com/wireless-access-points/apple-airport-express-base/4505-3265_7-32902549.html did a good comparison of the AirPort Express and the Apple Time Capsule. Net, net, the AirPort Express is a good travel router and is lower capacity than the Time Capsule. It is really for smaller networks (10 clients maximum), slower (no gigabit ethernet and no wide channel 802.11n) but it is very small,…
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Airport and Time Capsule remote logging
I don’t completely understand how logging works, but it is very Unix-like, every application can create its own text-based .log file. Unlike Windows which has a complicated event viewer system and a separate application to look at records. There is /Applications/Utility/Console which gives you one place to look at everything. But what about event logs…
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USB 2.0 vs. ExpressCard
The MacBook Pro’s have this strange slot called the ExpressCard 34. This is a narrow card than the PC Card or PCIMCIA card and I’ve never really had a use for it since “USB 2.0”:http://www.everythingusb.com/usb2/faq.htm is 480Mbps so plenty fast considering most IDE hard disks only run at about that speed in real world throughput.…
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Rich’s Top 10 Songs This Week
So what am I listening to these days…sometimes it is just a few songs over and over. So check them out…Thanks to “Nutsie”:http://nutsie.com, you can easily hook into the music videos of the songs you like. And with YouTube, folks are making “music videos” out of almost everything…So here is Rich’s top 10 and most…