Verizon charges a monthly fee for Exchange access, which is exorbitant and ridiculous. For the first couple months I owned my Android phone, I didn’t have access to my company email or calendar, because I wasn’t willing to pay an additional monthly fee.
Later, a coworker recommended I try out Touchdown, a $20 app that integrates [...]
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As a consultant, sometimes I have to take a plane or train to work and back each week. Last year I stayed in hotels almost 50 nights—and that was a pretty light year for travel. Traveling is stressful. Trains are late. Flights get cancelled—sometimes when I’m sitting on the plane. Gates get switched three or [...]
I’ve tried all the Twitter clients in the Android Market, and always return to Twidroid Pro. Twidroid is one of the earliest and most popular Twitter apps on the Android platform. I prefer the way it works to competing apps, mostly because of its interface. is superior for quick information consumption and action.
I think Twidroid [...]
Go Ask Alice
I hate shopping, especially for stupid little things, like trash bags, facial tissues, and toilet paper. The list goes on, actually. There’s all sorts of stuff that I need, but is no fun to buy. Luckily for folks like me, there’s a service for that.
Thanks to an article on the state of online [...]
I am in the process of evaluating the relatively new online shopping site Alice.com. It promises to put your orders of consumer packaged goods (toilet paper, cleaning supplies, pantry items, you name it) on autopilot, while saving you time and money. They have an interesting business model and an ample selection of household goods for sale.
I [...]
I’ve kept a journal for about three years now. I love using it to write down my thoughts and feelings, to record the results of my latest cooking experiment, and to set and track personal and professional goals. I would be lying to say that I always look forward to writing in it (writing [...]
I don’t have anything to add that hasn’t already been said about Dropbox, but I have to say that it is great, and that I recommend it to everybody. Dropbox is the easiest way I’ve found to share files between my home computers (Mac and Linux) and my work PC (Windows XP).
Dropbox gives you a [...]
As a cooking hobbyist, saying ”I love America’s Test Kitchen” is about as controversial as saying “I love the sun.” I get it, I know. I just have to rave about one of their cookbooks, which I have recently found myself cooking recipes from every other day.
In December, my wife and I were shopping at [...]
For The Love of VLC
For years now I’ve relied on VLC Player for video playback on all my computers, whether they ran Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux (primarily Ubuntu). VLC is a fantastic program: it can play nearly any audio or video format you come across, it has tons of audio and video playback [...]
As many of my friends and Twitter followers know, I rushed out to buy the Motorola Droid—the new Android phone that works on the Verizon Wireless network—on the morning it was released. I love the phone, and planned that day to write a review of it.
This phone is so popular, and was covered so much [...]
