tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-206985502008-03-22T10:49:21.584-04:00Alex ChapmanBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20698550.post-1159724620432579762006-10-01T13:09:00.000-04:002006-10-01T13:43:40.490-04:00

I use Microsoft Outlook at work and at home for managing contacts, tasks and memos. I've tried various approaches to keeping these in sync. When I regularly carried a Palm, I would sync to the Palm from home and work. But this was inconvenient and I would often forget. I also tried Yahoo Intellisync for a time, but found it to be buggy, reporting errors that I couldn't trace down and fix. After

Alex Chapmantag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20698550.post-1157399187973147342006-09-04T15:28:00.000-04:002006-09-04T15:47:50.233-04:00

I wish I knew the brand/model of this device, but I bought it on eBay and it has no identifying marks. It says "Made in China" and "AG13x4" on the back (indicating it takes 4 x AG13 batteries), but nothing else. I've remove the batteries, and nothing under there either. I've even taken it apart, and there's no marks inside. I've tried to find a supplier on the internet, but there's a million and

Alex Chapmantag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20698550.post-1156729994261929212006-08-27T21:23:00.000-04:002006-08-27T22:17:48.416-04:00

I've wanted a GPS/SatNav since first seeing them in luxury cars. A few years ago I bought a GPS add-on for my Palm. But it was cumbersome to use on the road, there were no spoken directions, the map had a fixed orientation, and it only could store a partial map. This combination quickly resulted in it not being used after the first few trips. A few months ago I drove with a friend who had a

Alex Chapmantag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20698550.post-1139687248185010672006-02-11T14:27:00.000-05:002006-09-04T09:58:41.646-04:00

The Kodak EasyShare picture viewer has a nice clear screen, built-in memory, as well as the ability to take memory cards, and an intuitive set of controls and menus. It's let down by the Kodak EasyShare software in my opinion. All I want to do is put photos onto the viewer, and to do that I have to use this big klunky software package, that wants me to add all my photo albums, which I already

Alex Chapmantag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20698550.post-1138161872885536192006-01-24T22:40:00.000-05:002006-09-04T16:25:47.993-04:00

Well, I'm not sure this falls under the category of products that I'm passionate about. But it is something I've just added to my network, and so far seems to work. Netgear PS121 USB Mini Print Server Now that Heather and I both use notebooks as our primary workstations, and we use a Linksys NSLU2 for network storage, the only purpose that my old Dell workstation was being put to was as a print

Alex Chapmantag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20698550.post-1136769667462164942006-01-08T19:42:00.000-05:002006-01-08T20:44:24.393-05:00

I know several people with home networks hosting gigs of movies, photos and mp3s, only a few of whom have any kind of backup strategy, and only one of whom (that I can think of) has an offsite backup strategy. I've been familiar with the concept of offsite backups since I started working in the software industry. I suppose companies developing open source software don't have the same problem,

Alex Chapmantag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20698550.post-1136746559977081242006-01-08T13:55:00.000-05:002006-01-08T15:15:18.050-05:00

My new Dell XPS M140 Laptop arrived a little under 48 hours ago, and so far I love it. I've used several Dell Laptops in the past for work, but this is the first one that I've owned. In fact, it's the first Laptop period that I've owned. Heather has had a Gateway 200-ARC Laptop for a couple of years, and I've increasingly found myself using it so that I don't have to disappear upstairs to my

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