Monthly Archives: June 2008

June 21, 2008

Walking Away From Bluetooth Again (or…Laptop + USB BT + BT Cell Phone == !@#$)

I guess that enough years had passed since my last painful Bluetooth experience that I’d regained my optimism. I was foolish enough to think that I could just buy an adapter (Trendnet TBW-105UB) for my Windows XP laptop (HP NC6400) and use my Samsung cell phone (SGH-T719) as a modem on my T-Mobile plan. Easy, [...]

June 17, 2008

Back to the future…of 2003. Outlook?? Outlook.

I tried to be level-headed. I tried to be analytical. I had to admit that my personal information management was at a low point, with a mishmosh of Thunderbird for Mail, Outlook for Contacts, Google for Calendar, and Remember the Milk for Tasks. I figured my options were to get a MacBook Pro and go [...]