Dell offering XP on consumer desktops and notebooks again
April 22, 2007
The Sydney Morning Herald is reporting that Dell had stopped providing Windows XP for consumer desktops and notebooks,only providing Vista, but have found it necessary to keep on supplying XP as an option.
Michael Gartenberg, vice president and research director of JupiterResearch, said many consumers continue to buy XP because it is familiar, it works with their existing hardware and programs, and is overall "good enough," even though Vista boasts a prettier user interface and stronger security.
IMified: a clever way to update numerous sites, including Twitter / Jaiku
April 21, 2007
I’ve been playing with IMified, a clever tool allowing you to use any of a number of IM tools to update a variety of web sites.
First, you add their contact email address to your IM tool (MSN / Yahoo / AIM / Gtalk / Jabber), and send them a message. That automatically creates an account. Then, when you type M, it responds with a menu, from which you can do things like configure your account, or send messages. You can configure your account to update numerous web sites, including Twitter, Jaiku, Basecamp, del.icio.us, Wordpress, Live Journal, Backpack, and so on! Very clever.
It’s great having options for interacting with those tools: sometimes email is easiest, sometimes SMS is bext, sometimes via the web is best, and IMified provides one more option.
Jaiku so much better than Twitter
April 9, 2007
I have no idea why Twitter is so popular! Jaiku is so much easier to use and provides so many more options. Here’s a comparison of the two, from what I’ve seen with them both:
- Sending an update via SMS works with Jaiku, but not Twitter (it doesn’t seem to recognized mobiles from Australia)
- The option to update Twitter via IM doesn’t work with Live Journal.
- Jaiku provides the ability to also include updates from a variety of sources, including your blogs, and Flickr
- With every feature / setting in Jaiku it worked every time, whereas with Twitter I’ve gone around and around in loops trying to make things work, and still had no success.
- The only thing that Jaiku doesn’t yet have is the ability to email a posting. Posting is done via the web interface is via SMS.
Jaiku just works! And it works well!
Update: I did get Twitter working with IM and SMS eventually, but I still prefer Jaiku, because of the way that it can combine multiple sources.
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