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Article Archive for January 2010

Hotspotter Must Have: Jott Voice Mail
January 27, 2010 – 11:20 am | Comments
Hotspotter Must Have: Jott Voice Mail

Ever call someone, leave an explicitly detailed message, and they call you back immediately saying, “I didn’t get your voice mail. What’s up?” Annoying right? Unfortunately, we’re all guilty of it. Well Jott has worked …

3rd World Earthquake Survival Advice
January 26, 2010 – 5:18 pm | Comments
3rd World Earthquake Survival Advice

I was forwarded this viral email today. While I don’t generally trust “fw: emails” particularly ones with absolute statements like “100 percent survivability”, this one make some sense on the surface. So, I did my obligatory Snopes …

Hotspotting v Work-Life
January 25, 2010 – 10:02 pm | Comments
Hotspotting v Work-Life

When your PC has more face time with you than your wife, you know that things aren’t what they used to be. We owe this rearrangement of our lives to Hotspotting – all communication empowered …

TripIt for Blackberry
January 20, 2010 – 10:41 am | Comments
TripIt for Blackberry

Anyone who knows me knows I am a huge TripIt advocate, which had a great iPhone app but nothing for Blackberry. Well today my calls have been answered:
We’re pleased to announce that TripIt’s free BlackBerry app …

Horizontal Hotspotting
January 16, 2010 – 5:52 pm | Comments
Horizontal Hotspotting

This is great thinking. To quote Emmy’s recent article, Why sit up, when you can lay down? Which I have since learned, the title refers to a Churchill quote where he was asked, “to what do you attribute …

Twist – and out
January 15, 2010 – 5:16 pm | Comments
Twist – and out

One of the dangers of working from home is not making time to change out of your bathrobe, until the overnight delivery person knocks on your front door. DKNY’s new “cosy” sweater is a very …