Windows

Orange SPV

September 8, 2003

A couple of days ago one of these appeared in the courier parcel. The SPV is a GSM phone running the Windows Smartphone software from Microsoft. Over five years in the making, in my opinion this thing is a darn good product. It synchronizes with my calendar, email, and contacts (I’ve got over 1300 contacts [...]

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FM RadioStation Quick Review

March 8, 2003

This post is being written in FM RadioStation, which is a new skin, written in .NET, that rides on top of Radio. The software takes Radio’s functionality, and blocks it up into three categories — RSS news feed management/browsing, publishing, and web browsing. It’s a very VERY eyecatching UI that gives access to much of what [...]

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Free Software, to a Point

September 23, 2002

Free Software, at Least to a Certain Point. The free software foundation holds a dinner and passes the hat, collecting $6,000 to keep the thing going. Why? "Mr. Stallman’s point, now supported by many thousands of programmers worldwide, is that software becomes better when more people can work on it. Recently, several companies, including I.B.M., [...]

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