http://webdevmatt.com/blog Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 20 Jul 2010 10:52:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Last night I was having the most difficult time sleeping. It wasn't because I wasn't tired, or was having bad dreams; it was because of the title of a collection of posts I found, "Internet of Things." While what woke me was the "Connection of Things" there is at least ... http://webdevmatt.com/blog/?p=148 In the United States, we had a long weekend which, in the business world means some time off. But with our ever need for connection both socially and otherwise, our phones are the ultimate portal to our "existence?" Ok, so that might be a little over the top, but, at some ... http://webdevmatt.com/blog/?p=147 LISTAS was a Microsoft Labs project that really didn't have many legs. The short of it was a list of stuff, private or shared in the cloud. I had talked about this project a couple times before eventually finding a mild use for it.Now that I have a "new" tablet, ... http://webdevmatt.com/blog/?p=146 Being a bit of a rogue or maybe just a little different, I have been redirecting "My Documents" to a little bit of a different (shhh, secret) place for on the network for one reason or another. So when the network admin notified the company, "I'm retiring server A and ... http://webdevmatt.com/blog/?p=145 I know it's been a while since I've posted about the DROID but here's a quick praise of the droids Elegant Simplicity. Once again, heading out to a new location and running a little behind in time. We type the address into the in car's GPS, "no location found," we're flying ... http://webdevmatt.com/blog/?p=144 I'm actually surprised we have not seen this before, but there appears to be an issue with viewing / opening JPG attachments from Entourage 2004 (Microsoft Mail Client for the Mac). The image will be viewable in the body of the email, but when you open the image, it is ... http://webdevmatt.com/blog/?p=143 So, I'm walking out of the office, perfect timing to drive to my next appointment. I get to the parking garage, dammit, I have no clue how to get where I am going.Droid to the rescue. I open up the meeting request on my phone and sure enough the address ... http://webdevmatt.com/blog/?p=142 This is far from a definitive power management post, but I'm sharing with you what I do at a minimum to get a full day of battery life. Put the power widget on one of you home screens. The power widget gives you easy access to your hardware power consumer's; sync, ... http://webdevmatt.com/blog/?p=141 In my first few weeks of using the Droid, I took a couple ~5hr trips along the east coast. As mentioned in this second droid post the streaming of music and podcasts was great, and my girlfriend had downloaded some game apps for some extra shotgun entertainment. While I'm not ... http://webdevmatt.com/blog/?p=140 Anyone who knows me knows my sense of direction needs a little work. When I got the GPS in my car everything was great, as long as I knew where I was going when I started my journey, but what happens when a call comes in for a home visit ... http://webdevmatt.com/blog/?p=139