Author: kathleen

I have been using mail2web forever, mostly to pull email when I haven't been at my home machine.  Several years ago when I started using smart phones, I started to look for a solution that would give me the perfect email experience.

I define that as having all my email available, always in one place.  When they make Exchange accounts available, I jumped for it.  In fact, kweaver.org is listed with them, and I have a redirection to get to the TypePad Blogs.

By using Exchange, I have about a weeks worth of mail on my smart phone at any one time.  I have the last six months or so mail on the exchange service and I automatically archive to my Windows Home Server — have the archive on a file on the server itself.

It's rare that I need the over six months old mail but it's nice it is there.  I archived all the messages I got from my friends when Marcie, my Excellent Agility beagle died, and when I need to remember how special she was, I go read a few messages, which I couldn't do at the time.

My husband and I coorespond via email when he is on trips — he has his home account set up on his blackberry in addition to his office mail, and it's nice to go back to the archived messages and see where either one of us was — I usually move all that mail to it's own folder.

Outlook 2010 is looking REAL good, and it will be nice to go to Exchange 2010 when it is available, and I'm sure Mail2Web will be right up there with it.

But if you just need to check your pop mail at someone's computer, mail2web is good for that too.

So I've had my Tilt2 for over a week.  Well, I did a swap on Friday, was very unhappy because the screen scratches like you wouldn't believe.  Swapped out phones and bought a case which makes a HUGE difference.

Other that I love it. 

One of my favorite applications is My Mobiler.   See it at http://mymobiler.com/.  My Mobiler allows me to have my phone hooked up to my computer and be able to manipulate it.  Better yet,I can make a movie with it though some frames are missing.

My biggest problem is adding voice.

However, I'm finding using the Camtasia recorder works best.

I wasn't feeling really well when I got up, and as soon as I ate some breakfast, it came back up to visit.  Having gastro-intestinal issues isn't good for a diabetic, and I don't want to spread whatever I have.   So in the interest of public health, I left.

So far, it's going better than last year.  I made it.

I've had a very long day though.  Had to fight with my 8th period class, and I never win with them.  Well, I do, because they are the ones that told me who took the MP3 Player.

Anyway, I'm working with three very nice people, and our charity is the Fine Arts Chamber players.

So far, we've been able to build a local DotNetNuke site, connect to the SQL server and I am attempting to the create the initial site.

I scored by having and bring an air card.  I'm making a list of essentials for tomorrow.

New phone time and i am trying a Tilt2 and even making this blog post with it.

i got a Fuze this summer because my orginal Tilt broke. it sucked it was too small. one thing i already dislike is that the software isnt automatically capping.

I looked and I have to remeber to do that. Someone – was it Palm – used to cap automatically based on what you typed.

The fuze was okay but overall too small. I like the size of the Tilt and Tilt 2. i like a big screen and i like the the solid feel. I also like the larger keyboard.

the tilt 2 seems slow. it does graphics on the web pages – hopefully a way to turn that off so it seems to run slow. i also type ahead a lot when i am blogging – like right now so maybe the processor is a tad slow for what it is trying to do.

i also like the pure but really like a full qwerty keyboard so i will probably keep this.

I love Microsoft Live Mesh.  It works.

Sharepoint is okay.  You can get to your files everywhere, but you have to put in your userid and password each time you want to access them.  That got old.

It was also a bit awkward to use.  It was also VERY expensive.  So I discontinued my sharepoint account.  With my credit from the Sharepoint, I probably don't have to pay for my exchange accounts or my websites for at least two years.

I love Microsoft Live Mesh.  It's free, and the interface is intuitive.  Better yet, it lets you remotely access your workstations even if they are behind a firewall.

You can find it and download the software that runs it at www.mesh.com — and access your files or through the software.

We're apparently using new blocking software for the internet.  We've been seeing changes in that, and right now, I'm REALLY happy with it.

Somedays we've been able to get to Facebook or MySpace, but today we can't.  That's fine, it gives me less classroom management to do.

I can get to Twitter, which is nice, but not 100% necessary since I have my phone and air card but the best thing is that I can get to Microsoft Live Mesh.

Snarl.

Got a 500 gig external drive from Seagate (XTERM version) on their 12 days of Christmas sale, pretty cheap, EXCEPT, it failed two weeks later.  Isn't that always the way.

So now it isn't that cheap, because I have to return it, which means getting a box, packing it and shipping and then waiting.  Or paying $20.00 (my solution, as it seems easier) and not that much more expensive.

But now it ends up being about the regular price.  <SNARL>

And more on this — Seagate's tech support was so irritating.  Didn't want to use the phone, so used their web service for the RMA.  I get an email telling me to call support, and as I am on hold, the hold recording tells me to use their web service.

INFINITE LOOP FAIL!

This is awesome — though REAL programmers code by flipping switches.

Quoted from http://www.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/mel.html:

The Story of Mel

The Story of Mel, a Real Programmer

This was posted to USENET by its author, Ed Nather (utastro!nather), on May 21, 1983.