Verizon: Cheers and Jeers!

From an infoSync World posting...

"US carrier Verizon Wireless is now offering users an online backup option for their mobile phones. The service stores all of a phone's contact information online on Verizon's servers, and then in case a phone is lost or damaged users can simply download their entire contact list directly to a new phone. Seven models are supported by the new over-the-air service. The cost will be $1.99 USD per month."

This sounds like a great idea, but it should just be a feature that the carrier provides, not tack on an extra $1.99/mo. Why stop at contact information? Go ahead and do all personal information like calendar, etc. Just don't charge for it, or at least charge less than $2/mo! Boo!!

Try Firefox

I was recently introduced to a new browser: Mozilla Firefox. If you haven't tried it, you should. If you are tired of Internet Explorer, try Firefox. It renders pages much faster than IE. Plus it has many nice features: tabbed browsing, add-in support (called extensions) and it supports plug-ins like Adobe Acrobat and Flash. One extension, in particular, that I installed is called PrefBar. It can be configured to display your prefences in a toolbar in your browser window, and the settings can be changed on the fly. Nice! I highly recommend installing both the browser and PrefBar.

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Hello World!

So this is a blog. Thought I would join the rest of the digital world and start my own blog (how trendy!).