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December 2005

Windows Mobile, Palm and Symbian = Windows, Mac and Amiga

by Mike Levin on December 23, 2005

Last week, I switched to the Sony Ericsson P910a, running Symbian UIQ. There’s a crop of phones on the horizon I would have liked to have checked out, including the Trio 700 and the Motorola Q, which would have kept me on the Windows Mobile platform. But a broken phone predicated the switch, so I [...]

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Macromedia Site has Adobe Look

by Mike Levin on December 8, 2005

Well, the Macromedia site has been switched over to an Adobe look. This marks the official beginning of a significant change in creative software. The two most major creative software camps have consolidated. PDF and Flash now come from the same company, and the significance of that can’t be over-stated. Studio 8 and Creative Studio [...]

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Word Blogger buttons disappearing

by Mike Levin on December 8, 2005

Are your Word Blogger buttons disappearing? In the Blogger Word Help FAQ, they mention a known issue where an Outlook security fix prevents Word plug-ins from working if you have Word set as your email editor. I un-set Word as my email editor early on, and still had strange problems with disappearing blogger buttons. Sometimes [...]

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Keychain PC Linux

by Mike Levin on December 6, 2005

OK, I actually bought my 1GB USB keychain drive. I chose the SanDisk Cruzer Micro mostly because it’s tiny, and it’s what BestBuy had in stock when I stopped in the store. I shelled out just over $100 for this, but it’s very tiny. But unfortunately, it’s just a little too tiny for the Browser [...]

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Keychain PCs: VMWare vs. FingerGear vs. BlackDog

by Mike Levin on December 5, 2005

I’m investigating my PC on a keychain options again. I’m a scripting-oriented Microsoft developer who tried to move to .NET on an ambitious project a few years ago. I tried building what I have come to know via Ruby on Rails hype as a joyful and agile framework. But doing this on ASP.NET was not [...]

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