I wanted to share the kind of setup I have between the internet devices I own that allows me to stay so connected in a wireless world.
I have three main internet-enabled devices that I use regularly: my Motorola Q, my iPod Touch, and of course my laptop. These all have a few things in common with their online-capabilities: they can browse the web, receive email, and also allow me to manage my contacts and calendar. Combining these things with the power of a Microsoft Exchange server (courtesy of my school), all of this information is in sync with the devices that I carry around alternatively.
For example, when I’m at my computer, I’ll check my email on there as opposed to my phone or iPod. However, if I’m in my car, I’ll use my phone. And if I’m walking around campus listening to music or sitting in a coffee shop browsing the web on my iPod, I’ll use that. This also applies for, say, if I meet someone and get their phone number. I can enter it in any of my three devices and have it almost-instantly sync with the other two. I might find out the date of my exam (this occured yesterday) while taking notes on my laptop, enter it in Outlook, and later recall the date and time on my iPod’s calendar after sitting around, watching a YouTube video on it.
The point is that with simple things such as this, and the growing amount of support devices are having for all-in-one connectivity suites, it’s hard to ever be disconnected from the world and so easy to have consistent and easily-updatable information at your fingertips–all the time, anytime, anywhere.
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mobile
You can even have Firefox 3 launch FlashStuf Mail whenever you click an email link on the web. To do it, first log in to your account, and then paste this code in the address bar of that tab (and hit Enter):
javascript:window.navigator.registerProtocolHandler(”mailto”,”https://mail.google.com/a/flashstuf.com/mail/?extsrc=mailto&url=%s”,”Gmail”)
Click Add Application, and you’re all set! To keep it this way, simply click an email link and then pick Gmail, and check “Remember my choice for mailto links” (you can change this option at any time through your Firefox preferences).
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FlashStuf, Software, tricks
And this is what happens when speech recognition goes wrong.
Though my name is Matt. I am talking to a computer. Wallum! You don’t he could select the suns believe that if you take that long believed that opens the booms and that have been not giving them and then you my top of a myth. Now this came against the team that had given yes. In made in game five of the uniqueness ends. Cheese is good. My E them. But trust and Jesus. I’m playing with myself and my name is actually more than life. Go be more man who either man in a view not have the presence that’s what it said.
Only the second sentence and “cheese is good” actually came out right. That was interesting.
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Random
So I’m talking to my computer to type this whole thing out. This is just about the weirdest thing. Supposedly can control your computer entirely by using this but it’s pretty friggin weird. I mean it’s cool though, because I get to teach it to recognize words like friggin. Takes some getting used to, I suppose. But awesome, nevertheless.
Maybe I’ll use it next time to explain something besides how weird it is talking to no one. Woo Hoo!
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Random
While I was starting to set up my server, I had come across a few sites saying that MySQL wouldn’t work with Vista’s User Access Controls turned on. So I decided to skip all the trouble I went through with setting up Apache last time and just turned off the UAC. As they promised, or at least made no claims against, MySQL worked just fine. Well recently I turned UAC back on, and I started running into “permissions” problems when I was altering tables or where the data files had to be renamed.
It turns out that some permissions were removed from the folder that MySQL stores data in. Even having that folder right under the root of my drive (as opposed to the Program Files folder), these permissions were applied to this folder apparently only because of Vista’s UACs. I’ve fixed the problem now by giving USERS full permissions for the whole MySQL folder, while I keeping UAC on.
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server, Vista
So I just received my brand-new laptop yesterday. As a long-time Windows XP user, I’ve never really warmed up to the idea of an, although prettier, different “fancy” new operating system. There weren’t many improvements, in my opinion, that XP needed. Plus with claims of it being so much slower (especially with those claims), I was really hesitant about this new operating system.
Well the laptop I chose is the new Dell Inspiron 1420, and I loaded it with 4 GB of RAM and an Intel Core 2 Duo 2.00GHz processor (most allowable RAM and almost best processor I could get with it). Although I haven’t been able to edit any video or pictures or run 20 programs at once, the thing is fast. I didn’t even have to remove any appearance options or anything and I can run Apache, MySQL, iTunes, Firefox with 8 tabs open, and view my photos all without a hitch. It could just be me and what I’ve heard, but Vista is not nearly as slow as I was lead to believe it was. I’ve officially been converted.
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Vista
