Firefox tip

Have you seen this Firefox speed-up tip?

Cool software for the week

Here's some software (and an ebook platform) that I'm currently exploring.

StyleTap - a software for the Windows Mobile Pocket PC that allows you to run applications created for the Palm OS!!! This is very good news indeed - there's hundreds of thousands of free software available for the Palm OS and StyleTap opens the flood gates for me to use them on the Axim. Check out this software at www.styletap.com

EReader - this website and accompanying reader software provides hundreds of ebooks for download. All of them are priced ofcourse, but the selections look good and very current. Check out EReader at www.ereader.com

SkypeHeadset - and here's yet another killer app that makes Skype easier to use. This allows you to use your bluetooth headset with Skype. So you could, for example, use the mute or answer button on your bluetooth headset to control the appropriate function on Skype. Its not clear if this would work with Skype for the Pocket PC that I have loaded on the Axim, lets see how this work out. Check out the software at www.skypeheadset.co.uk

Thats it for this week. See you around. :-)

Editing ID3 tags of downloaded podcasts

Here's a program I used today to set the genre on all the podcasts (over 30) I downloaded today. I find that each podcast classifies itself differently but its more convenient to view them on my Zen Xtra if I can have them all grouped into the "Podcast" genre. This program called MP3tag seems to do that pretty quickly and easily.

LogMeIn

I discovered logmein.com today and found it to be pretty good for remote access to my Windows PC. I could even use my Axim to connect remotely to the Windows desktop. All this without having a static IP address assigned at either end. This is sort of like GoToMyPC except that they have a completely free version available that allows remote access. The "Pro" version comes with lots of other goodies such as remote transfer of files, sync'ing between PCs etc. Check it out at www.logmein.com

Skype on the Dell Axim

It just works.

Heavenly thoughts

Just a thought - the new Pope looks cute and when I look at him on TV or his photo in the paper it seems to instill a sense of security and calmness. I guess thats why they chose him.

The whole process of choosing the new Pope is very ceremonious and interesting. The Cardinals gathering for a secret meeting, the concept of black smoke / white smoke, the bells ringing, and so forth.

Books, tons of them

The "Rapid Development" book finally landed in Chennai yesterday along with the Axim (and yes I got the Post-It notes as well). The book looks pretty good (and pretty heavy) based on an initial read. I think its an essential reference for every project manager that works on software development or IT projects.

Other than this I also paid a visit to the friendly neighborhood bookstore (Landmark) and bought these books:

1) Lateral Thinking - Creativity Step by Step (Edward de Bono)
2) Capitalising on Customers (Patricia B Seybold, Mitchel I Kramer, Dr Muhamed Muneer)
3) Business beyond the box (John O'Keeffe)
4) Delegating (Julie-Ann Amos)

All of them look interesting and I'll be reading them during the course of the next century.