Archive for September, 2007

Another example of why prorietary is a bad thing, the iPhone

Everyone was so excited about the iPhone. But it was locked. If you wanted to get one, you had to use it on the ATT network. The system is not open, so some clever people figured out to hack it to let it run applications not approved by Apple and work on networks other than [...]

Connecting to SIP services with Nokia N770

I tried a feature on the Gizmo Project client tonight I had never paid much attention to before. This is the option at the main login that lets you log in to another service. I knew it let you dial into a corporate PBX, but I didn’t know it would let me connect to another [...]

OpenOffice 2.3

Open Office has a new update to version 2.3 available. Mepis Linux released yet another Beta of Mepis 7 today to include OpenOffice 2.3. This is the fifth Beta. I am still running the third Beta and it works great, so I will probably skip this one too and just wait for the final release.

GrandCentral without broadband

When I set up Grand Central for a relative several months ago, they were connecting to the Internet using dialup and this prevented them from being able to initiate calls with Grand Central because they had to use their phone line to connect to the Internet to initiate the call. Grand Central then calls your [...]

Another example of the benefits of Open Standards

What timing. Just yesterday, I got up on my little soapbox talking about the benefits of Gizmo Project because it uses Sipphone because it uses open standards and allows any SIP based phone to connect. Open standards allowing the connection of other applications completely unrelated to Gizmo to connect and allow you to use their [...]