Google added native SIP calling to it’s latest release of Android 2.3.x, also known as Gingerbread.  The SIP calling works fine and is easy to set up.  However, it appears to be poorly thought out and implimented when it comes to contact management. They have added a new field they call “Internet Call” to the… Read More »

I was away from home this week, and needed to look up an upcoming appointment on my Nexus One Google phone.  Well would you believe that simply isn’t possible?  I was able to search anything on my Palm Treo phones for the past decade since day one of the Palm devices and get almost instant… Read More »

Great news from Google this week!  They have finally given in to allowing Gmail users to turn off the feature known as “Conversations”.  Some people know this as email threads.  It’s now an option in the Gmail Settings under the General tab, and called “Conversation view”.  It’s being rolled out this week, and I was… Read More »

I’ve been searching for the ideal way to do secure (encrypted) backups to my Amazon S3 buckets. I’ve heard good things about Jungle Disk, but this is a subscription service.  I have no problem paying for good software (it doesn’t have to be free) but I do have a problem with subscription software.  I want… Read More »

This week I’ve been evaluating Chromium, and considering using it as my main browser.  Lately I have been using Google Chrome, and have enjoyed the speed and excellent compatibility with Google Gmail and Calendar.  But I was curious about Chromium (the Open Source version of Chrome) and it’s claims to be more privacy conscience than Chrome.… Read More »

If you are a technical person, it’s hard not to read about “The Cloud” these days.  Storing your personal data, be that contacts, notes, spread sheets, word processing documents, music, or whatever type of data file you can think of.  Someone seems to offer a service for storing your data. But who will do this… Read More »

I can’t recommend ordering from High Point Scientific. I recently placed an order with them online for the first time.  It turns out they do not accept Visa transactions from any country other than the US.  After 2 days I called them and asked why my order was still pending, to be told it’s due… Read More »

Yesterday I ranted about how I disliked the new version of Hotmail, and said I would switch to Gmail.  Well it was far easier than I thought. You can easily import all your Hotmail messages into a Gmail account using Google’s own built in import feature.  And it will continue to poll your Hotmail account… Read More »

I’ve been using the new version of Hotmail for the past couple of weeks.  And it sucks.  That’s not a very professional sounding review comment, but that just sums it up. It’s many times slower than it was before.  It gives me scripting errors on slower systems.  It’s so script intensive that on slower systems… Read More »

It’s been close to a year since Google acquired Gizmo5, back in November of 2009.  I was a Gizmo5 paying customer then and I still am now.  We use the Gizmo5 SIP trunks for some of our Asterisk VoIP phone lines.  I was never a fan or big user of the Gizmo5 Windows app. When Google took… Read More »