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Category Archives: Web

Weighing Affordable CRM Alternatives for Mobile

Lately, I’ve been in the “market” for an affordable CRM that I can use with my mobile phone. I find my choices to be Zoho CRM and Highrise. If you are not familiar, a Customer Relationship Manager is a software solution that lets you keep all your client information in one place so you can [...]

Jott is Out of Beta

One of my favorite web services is finally out of Beta. Jott recently announced that they will go into full gear. For some of us moochers, this is a bit of a bummer; who wouldn’t like such an awesome free service. Now, I’m going to evaluate the free version and try out the subscriptions to [...]

New Smartsheet BETA Improves on Something Good

Smartsheet has gone and improved on something that was already good; they have opened up a new Beta version. Though it is still in development, it promises to be better than the original. Earlier this year, I started using SmartSheet as a way to keep track of projects on which I was working. I found [...]

Microsoft OneCare Interferes With VPN

Yesterday, I was messing around trying to get my VPN connection to work going. I’ve had trouble doing it and figured maybe I had the settings wrong. It turns out that Microsoft OneCare has a built-in firewall that blocks outgoing traffic as well. I had turned off the Windows Firewall, so had no reason to [...]

Twitter on the T-Mobile Sidekick

There are any number of clients available for download that allow you to keep up with Twitter through iPhones, Windows Mobile phones, or even Blackberries. When it comes to the T-Mobile Sidekick, however, you only have the web and text message options. The web option is a bit time consuming while the phone refreshes the [...]

I’m Back Online With Cricket

We finally have broadband at home again. Yesterday, I purchased a Cricket Broadband modem on the way home, yesterday. It works on CDMA. I don’t know if it’s EVDO, but it got a high download speed over 900 kbps. That’s enough for me.
Just to recap my broadband situation, my family and I moved to [...]