Optimality!

While there are multiple software solutions that cost money, I prefer the free alternatives. In this case it comes in the form of Mozilla Thunderbird, and to be more precise, the Windows version. Thunderbird’s import function imports your current Microsoft Outlook folders including attachments and all. It also has options for Outlook Express and other [...]

Tags: E-Mail, Outlook, Thunderbird

At first glance, Apple’s MobileMe, as previewed at the 2008 WWDC keynote presentation, sounds like an excellent way to stay in sync across multiple platforms. What concerns me is the $99/year fee. It is a much better deal than the .Mac of the past. You get calendar and contact syncing, IMAP e-mail and photo [...]

Tags: Apple, Google, Mac, MobileMe

AT&T will increase the dataplan from $20 to $30 (reference). As pointed out in comment #22, with a two year contract, that’s $240 extra. Minus the $200 the new iPhone is cheaper, you pay $40 extra over the course of the contract, and then an additional $120/year more afterwards.

I don’t know about you, but I am less than thrilled by the recent re-emergence of voice activated phone selections. Call any airline, insurance, credit card, or online store these days, and more likely than not (in the authors experience) you will be presented with a menu that requests you “SAY” the option, rather than [...]

A mobile phone that I like every bit of is among the things I am always looking for. I have not found it yet; with every iteration I am getting a bit closer to the ideal. Each one was better than the previous in some aspects, while of course being worse in others. I was [...]