Is it Freakin’ Hot Out There or What?
OK. Maybe I am beginning to believe in global warming.
Or it could just be that I
The New Gizmo Ranch is Launched
After a lot of false starts, I finally had the time to sit down and get the new Gizmo Ranch up and running. It didn
Big Changes Coming Soon
In the very near future this site is going to change drastically. As soon as I can move the advertisements to the new format, The Gizmo Ranch will undergo a major change to a much more personal and opinionated site. My goal is to post more often and bring back more frequent podcasts, and the new format is going to facilitate reaching that goal. The existing posts may disappear, so if there is a review or article you feel particularly attached to, you may want to print it out!
Press Release: VITO QuickContact WM 5.0 Updated
Look up contacts like on a Smartphone
July 21, 2006 – VITO Technology announces update for its popular contact manager – VITO QuickContact WM 5.0. Designed specially for Windows Mobile 5.0 powered Pocket PC VITO QuickContact WM 5.0 makes contacts searching really quick and easy even in huge contact lists.
VITO QuickContact is all about searching contacts. If you have a long list of contacts – this program is exactly what you need. With VITO QuickContact on your Pocket PC (Phone Edition) you can find a contact with a few button presses. There is no need to pull out a stylus to make a phone call! It comes especially helpful when you’re busy doing something and have only one free hand: you can look up contacts and call them – all with one hand!
There are several ways of looking up contacts in VITO QuickContact WM 5.0. It offers you additional search modes besides standard keyboard to find necessary contacts way too quicker and easier. You can input and dial phone numbers or filter list of contacts by choosing a string of letters. Other useful features include sorting contacts list by first or last name and adjustable font size.
The updated version of VITO QuickContact WM 5.0 also features a new touch panel: large onscreen buttons like on WM Smartphones to look up a contact or dial a number. Just tap buttons on the screen – you can’t miss them! VITO QuickContact WM 5.0 is the right choice when you need to quickly find a contact using only one hand.
Useful links:
Company web-site: http://www.vitotechnology.com
Program page: http://vitotechnology.com/en/products/quickcontact_wm5.html
Download link: http://vitotechnology.com/en/products/download.php?ID=1545&BID=23
Buy link: http://vitotechnology.com/en/products/list.php?BID=23&ID=1545
Nude Computing
Geeeeeeze, it’s hot here in Denver! We always get a few really hot (95 - 105 degrees Fahrenheit) days in the summer, but this has been nasty lately!. And of course, Mrs. Gizmo and I don’t have air conditioning so we’re sweltering. At least I get to travel to Boston and enjoy an air conditioned hotel room and classroom this week. The weather outside might be in the high 90s in both temperature and humidity in Boston, but at least I’ll have A/C to cool me off.
Trying to get cooled off made me think of nude computing (no, I didn’t actually do this) which got me laughing about an article in the Sunday Denver Post. They’re going to have a series this week about the popularity of pR0n (misspelled so that the REAL word won’t get picked up by Google and other search engines) and the first installments were listed today. Alongside an article about the growing popularity of stripping as a middle-class female avocation, there was a piece about New Frontiers Media of Boulder, Colorado. These folks are the providers for much of the skin flicks that are delivered to cable, hotel rooms and satellite systems. There was a picture of a couple of guys in their control room - talk about an interesting job… “What did you do at work today, honey?” “Nothing much, just watched another 8 hours of people boffing each other…” I’m sure that they get a lot of resum
Back from the wilds of Alaska
In case you’re wondering about the gap in uploads, we were up in Alaska on a cruise ship for the last week and in Seattle at a baseball convention for a few days prior to that. During the time on the cruise ship I was using an expensive ($250 for 500 minutes) and slow internet connection via satellite - I tried to make a few posts but quickly realized it would take more time than I had left on the cruise! I’m beginning to think that global WiFi would be a great idea. Pay one bill for very fast wireless service that you could reach anywhere. Use it in your house or business for day to day work, take your VoIP phone with you everywhere, use your laptop on planes, trains, automobiles and cruise ships at full-bore speed. Is anyone working on this?
While sitting on the deck of the ship one day, Barb asked me if I knew of any Science Fiction books that anticipated the Internet. I could only think of one - Imperial Earth by Arthur C. Clarke, in which all of the characters carry a tiny device that gives them Google-like access to all of the accumulated knowledge of mankind as well as the ability to communicate. Do any of you readers know of earlier references to something like the Internet?
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