Most people I know put email as lower urgency then IM. IM is typically real-time, but not real-time enough to completely halt whatever you were doing. Email and VM is usually "respond when you get a chance"
Check out YouMail (http://youmail.com/). Universal visual voicemail, each VM shows up as SMS or e-mail, automated voice-to-text, and has a website that works in most smartphone browsers. The personalized greetings are a nice bonus.
Storage capacity was the only thing holding back the Wii version. The Wii version of Guitar Hero III had online play, customizable players, and even (gasp) the ability to choose a stage. The only reason that Rock Band did not feature any of these, not to mention the gimped Band World Tour, was raw laziness. I can guarantee you Harmonix will not get any of my money, on any platform, until they show some effort.
Just read any review of Rock Band for the Wii. Pretty much every reviewer says it is a crippled, inferior version of the game due to the fact that the developers chose to do a lazy port of the PS2 version instead of even trying to port the PS360 version
Change your DNS servers. 4.2.2.1 through 4.2.2.6 are known clean DNS servers. Most routers will let you change your DNS servers for your entire network.
I can tell you from experience that routers running DD-WRT run very well. I've had Linksys, Buffalo, and Asus routers with varying degrees of suck, and they all improved tenfold when I installed DD-WRT on them. Tomato's pretty popular as well.
There is no way you will get people to pay to recieve an email message unless you have some plan for 100% perfect spam control.
Every cell phone user in the USA without a messaging plan gets dinged.20 every time they receive a text message. That includes spam, ads, and wrong numbers.
My biggest problem with SMS is that there is no way to reject incoming messages, thus dodging the charge.
By default, Blackberries never bleep when you get an email. It either vibrates and blinks the notifier light if holstered, or simply blinks the light if it's out of the holster. Anyone who turns on sound notifiers for their email WANTS to deal with them then and there.
*sigh* Thanks to the confusing naming, a lot of people thought Windows 2000 was an upgrade path from Win98. It was not. Win2k was the successor to Windows NT 4, their business-grade OS built from their share of the ashes of OS/2. Win98 was the consumer Windows at the time, still on it's DOS roots. WinXP was the Win2k derivative meant to replace both Win98* and Win2k, killing the DOS-based branch. Anyone jumping from 98 to 2k or XP would be annoyed at first, since it eats more resources than 98 and has quite a bit of incompatibility with 98. However, WinXP also was much more stable and secure than the Win98 it replaced, and meant Microsoft only had one codebase to work with for both the consumer and business side.
IMHO, there wasn't really a reason to jump to XP if you were running 2k, but it was important so Microsoft could merge their Windows lines in the marketplace as well as in code.
On my BlackBerry, I can hit Alt+Back to tab through open apps, or hit "Switch Application" from the menu key for the same effect. All the apps keep running.
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Voicemail.
E-mail.
IM.
Most people I know put email as lower urgency then IM. IM is typically real-time, but not real-time enough to completely halt whatever you were doing. Email and VM is usually "respond when you get a chance"
The only two places I ever dial numbers from are:
1) My head
2) Google Maps for Mobile, and those are typically one-time-only
Check out YouMail (http://youmail.com/). Universal visual voicemail, each VM shows up as SMS or e-mail, automated voice-to-text, and has a website that works in most smartphone browsers. The personalized greetings are a nice bonus.
Storage capacity was the only thing holding back the Wii version. The Wii version of Guitar Hero III had online play, customizable players, and even (gasp) the ability to choose a stage. The only reason that Rock Band did not feature any of these, not to mention the gimped Band World Tour, was raw laziness. I can guarantee you Harmonix will not get any of my money, on any platform, until they show some effort.
Just read any review of Rock Band for the Wii. Pretty much every reviewer says it is a crippled, inferior version of the game due to the fact that the developers chose to do a lazy port of the PS2 version instead of even trying to port the PS360 version
There, fixed that for you.
Change your DNS servers. 4.2.2.1 through 4.2.2.6 are known clean DNS servers. Most routers will let you change your DNS servers for your entire network.
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Overnight startups like Psystar are not Apple's worry. Dell, HP, Asus, et. al., being able to run OSX on their hardware is Apple's greatest nightmare.
I can tell you from experience that routers running DD-WRT run very well. I've had Linksys, Buffalo, and Asus routers with varying degrees of suck, and they all improved tenfold when I installed DD-WRT on them. Tomato's pretty popular as well.
BlackBerry:
1) Pull from holster/sleeve
2) Begin typing name of contact
3) Press SEND to dial.
There is no way you will get people to pay to recieve an email message unless you have some plan for 100% perfect spam control.
Every cell phone user in the USA without a messaging plan gets dinged .20 every time they receive a text message. That includes spam, ads, and wrong numbers.
My biggest problem with SMS is that there is no way to reject incoming messages, thus dodging the charge.
It's probably so you can't use the freebie version to crack the paid version.
If meetings where more interesting and actually valuable, people would not be so inclined to >i>playing brickbreaker during them.
T, FTFY.
By default, Blackberries never bleep when you get an email. It either vibrates and blinks the notifier light if holstered, or simply blinks the light if it's out of the holster. Anyone who turns on sound notifiers for their email WANTS to deal with them then and there.
With the 901 at least, the Linux model has 20GB of flash, while the WinXP model has 12GB.
Nope. From TFA:
Users get download speeds of 600 megabits to 800 megabits per second. Holy shit. I'd love to know how they're getting that over a 3G connection.Out of curiosity, which bank, and where?
Once again, if Nokia stops releasing Qt open source, the Free Qt agreement kicks in, and it's forced open (under BSD, IIRC) and given to KDE.
Windows Mobile handsets*?
"Modern" Palm OS phones?
Most dumbphones on CDMA carriers that aren't Sprint?
*Without a good bit of hacking
*sigh*
Thanks to the confusing naming, a lot of people thought Windows 2000 was an upgrade path from Win98. It was not. Win2k was the successor to Windows NT 4, their business-grade OS built from their share of the ashes of OS/2. Win98 was the consumer Windows at the time, still on it's DOS roots. WinXP was the Win2k derivative meant to replace both Win98* and Win2k, killing the DOS-based branch. Anyone jumping from 98 to 2k or XP would be annoyed at first, since it eats more resources than 98 and has quite a bit of incompatibility with 98. However, WinXP also was much more stable and secure than the Win98 it replaced, and meant Microsoft only had one codebase to work with for both the consumer and business side.
IMHO, there wasn't really a reason to jump to XP if you were running 2k, but it was important so Microsoft could merge their Windows lines in the marketplace as well as in code.
*Yes, we all know about WinME.
I find it's BREW lacking.
On my BlackBerry, I can hit Alt+Back to tab through open apps, or hit "Switch Application" from the menu key for the same effect. All the apps keep running.
It's not much different from Totem, last I saw of it. Looked very lean, ad-free and very unReal. It also has no incentive to use over Totem.