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Saturday, August 26, 2006
The Bellsouth Wizard
For grins I put the BellSouth "wizard" CD in my laptop and scanned it. My antivirus/anti-spyware tools tagged the included utility [westellmodemtest.exe] as a 'Trojan Horse - Generic.FFJ'.This doesn't necessarily mean anything - a google search on the term turned up nothing. I suspect the tool allows someone at BellSouth a way to access the modem or computer for diagnostics. But I sure didn't see any warnings or notices that BellSouth was going to put remote access software on my computer. Hmm.
BTW no, I don't install any software from any ISP on any of my computers. When an ISP does their job correctly they don't need to put software on my machines.
Wednesday, December 28, 2005
scanR - Mobile Scan, Copy, Fax
More on the paperless office. scanR let's you capture documents and/or whiteboard shots with your camera phone, and then returns them to you as PDF files via e-mail or as a fax image. The company's before/after photos are impressive. You need a 1 megapixel camera to play. [via Rob May]scanR - Mobile Scan, Copy, Fax
scanR helps you capture and share documents and whiteboards. scanR uses advanced imaging technologies to convert pictures into readable PDF files and faxes. Good camera phones can take decent photos of babies, pets and sunsets, but are not designed for scanning. scanR is an innovative service that turns your camera phone into a scanner, copier and fax.
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Sunday, December 11, 2005
Skype 1.4 Much Improved
Just completed a 50-minute Skype conversation with Matt Mower that went flawlessly. Not one drop-out, hang-up, freeze or crash. CPU usage on my machine stayed at 6%-12% - a great improvement over the 50%+ that was common on earlier versions. And the sound quality through my Telex headset was excellent. This was a consumer-grade mainstream experience, not the early-adopter experience I've always had with Skype. Nice.
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RocketPost vs. BlogJet
I downloaded RocketPost today, to close an open item from October regarding a complaint from BlogJet author Dmitry Chestnykh and response from Manesh Vij of Anconcia, authors of RocketPost. While downloading and installing I revisited this issue - checked the ads, the Anconia site, etc. The disputed Google AdWords ad still appears at the top of a search for BlogJet claiming "Faster than BlogJet." The Anconia web page still says, "The only blog editor with WYSIWYG editing, full local editing and full blog import." - which appears to be valid from the description provided. The result - Chestnykh does seem to overstate his complaint - RocketPost does not claim to be the first WYSIWYG editor - but Vij does have a misleading "comparison chart" on the RocketPost site.Anconia claims some interesting features for RocketPost, including local management of posts (by downloading local copies from the server) and cross-posting. I was unable to test or validate most of them because I couldn't configure RocketPost to work correctly. My experience is that the published blog APIs are still pretty loose - lots of things are unspecificed and prone to breakage - but RocketPost offers the lowest level of API support among the editors I've tried. The only API seems to be MetaWeblog, and while I did get a server connection and sent messages to the server, I wasn't able to successfully make or retrieve blog posts. I'll have to wait for broader or better API support to see if the speed claims are accurate.
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