Twikini: THE Twitter Client for Windows Mobile

Jun 18

JeffTech , No Comments

For the past six months or so I had been using Pock­eTwit as my main Twit­ter client on my Win­dows Mobile Pro­fes­sional (touch screen) phone. The graph­ics looked really good, the func­tion­al­ity was robust…but the app was just so tem­pera­men­tal! It lagged when scrolling through tweets, it gave me random “Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Error” mes­sages even while on a clean wi-​fi or Edge con­nec­tion and the app com­pletely froze my phone on more than one occa­sion. More

Poached Egg Rant

Apr 04

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I’ve worked on and off at a kitchen supply retailer since 2000, and one thing con­tin­ues to sur­prise and frus­trate me: people think­ing they need a spe­cial $70 pan made specif­i­cally for poach­ing eggs. You don’t need a spe­cial egg poach­ing pan to suc­cess­fully poach eggs. Hon­estly, you don’t. I promise. Here’s what you do need: More

Google Contacts in Outlook

Feb 10

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As I’m sure you’ve heard by now, Google has licensed Microsoft’s ActiveSync, allow­ing us to sync Google Cal­en­dar and Con­tacts directly with an iPhone or Win­dows Mobile device. HOORAY! If you’re an Out­look user for what­ever reason (mine is because I have years of archived Out­look emails that I need to keep search­able), and you use Google Cal­en­dar and Con­tacts, you’re also most likely aware that there are few if any good, free util­i­ties for bi-​directional sync­ing of con­tacts between Google and Out­look. Why Google doesn’t include con­tact sync in their otherwise-​useful Google Cal­en­dar Sync I have no idea. More

RSS Feed Management

Jan 30

JeffTech , , , 1 Comment

I’m an RSS junkie. Ever since I learned about them on an episode of NPR’s Future Tense back in 2004, RSS feeds have been my pri­mary method for con­sum­ing news and blog con­tent. Over time, I built up a sub­stan­tial list of feeds across a vari­ety of topics that I wanted to access no matter what device I was using, be it my home PC, my work laptop, my smart­phone, etc. Of course the frus­tra­tion came when I had no way to easily syn­chro­nize my feeds across the devices. More

Keeping My Devices in Sync

Jan 22

JeffTech , , , , 2 Comments

REVISED: I am now using Google Sync for Win­dows Mobile in place of Nueva Sync to syn­chro­nize my Google Cal­en­dar and Google Con­tacts with my Win­dows Mobile phone. I’ve edited this post to show those changes.

I recently picked up a net­book - the Sam­sung NC10. As much as I love it, it threw a giant wrench in how I keep my cal­en­dars and con­tacts syn­chro­nized (the nerve!). In the pre-​netbook days, I had my PC and my Win­dows Mobile device. Since I don’t use an Exchange server, I just teth­ered my phone to my PC and had cabled sync­ing. Easy. But now I have three devices to syn­chro­nize, and on top of that, I decided I don’t like cables. What’s a geek to do? More

Back to Twitter Basics

Jan 21

JeffTech No Comments

I was inspired to write this post after read­ing a recent entry on Fan​boy.com titled, “Social Media ‘Experts’ are the Cancer of Twit­ter (and Must Be Stopped).”

I started using Twit­ter in Octo­ber 2008. I’m a geek who fol­lows the tech scene pretty closely, so I’ve been aware of Twit­ter for a long time; how­ever, since none of my friends were using it, I saw no reason to par­tic­i­pate (I didn’t think “taking a crap,” or “watch­ing a hockey game” would be remotely inter­est­ing tweets for anyone, even my clos­est friends). But now that I’ve been using it for a few months, I love it! I’ve had a lot of fun fol­low­ing tech blog­gers and pod­cast­ers whom I’ve been read­ing and listen to for the past few years. Even though I’ve never met them, I feel like we could grab a beer and have a lot to talk about. More