Verizon is pushing out the update for Motorola Droid phones and I just couldn’t wait. I‘ve only received one firmware update on my phone since I’ve had it and while I was not displeased with anything, I was really looking forward to the update.

I was on the web the other day and found instructions to download the Froyo update early and how to apply it, so I took a chance, downloaded it and installed it on Android.

Here’s what I found… Thought…

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A little over a year ago I did a review on very promising new e-mail client/Personal Information Manager called eM Client. I’ve been so impressed with the software that I’ve kept the application loaded upon my machine so that I could connect easily, later and do another review of the software.

It was time to revisit eM Client and do another in-depth review of the application to see what’s changed and to find out what improvements have been made.

When I do a review of an application, I’m reviewing the application based upon its usability, its practicality, and the raw function that brings to the users. I like to look at the applications as though if I’m going to be the one making the purchasing decisions and if the application offers everything the average users would be looking for [...]

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It’s no secret, Windows Live Writer is a great program, but as with every program, it has a few missing spots. And with the Wave 4 beta being just released and seeing what little improvements have actually been made to the program, it can always use a few more.

One of my issues was the ‘autolinking’ in Windows Live Writer and importing links.

To define what that is, Windows Live Writer has a function to allow you to assign a word a hyperlink, and every time you enter/type that word it gets an active link. But there’s no option to import links, so importing/creating a link one at a time via Windows Live Writer is going to be really cumbersome.

I didn’t like that idea… I came up with my own solution.

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There’s never been a product from Microsoft that I would use to manage my photos or documents. Microsoft has always been too rigged on how they want to do stuff, it never flowed well enough to use on a regular basis.

There’s a funny thing about Microsoft; when they’re considered the underdog, they really start putting effort back in to their products to bring them back up, and you can this in Windows Live Photo Gallery.

Microsoft has apparently been paying attention [recently] to the new Internet and how social and how digital media is important; viewing it, editing, posting…

There’s some good improvements in the Windows Live Photo Gallery…

Here’s what I found…

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The Windows Live team recently released the beta version of the Windows Live Essentials. I’m trying to go through and mine out/examine as much as I can on the best parts of the application and show the improvements in the latest version.

And as much as some people will hate to hear this, this release of Windows Live Movie Maker [WLMM] is outstanding.

They’ve improved a few things and changed things around with the GUI interface. My opinion of the ribbon interface is beyond distain, but with this application, it’s bearable. And my over all experience with the beta is really optimistic.

I plan on using it a lot more now.

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In January 2009, I wrote a review of what was going on with Windows 7 and their voice recognition.

At the time, Windows 7 was still in beta and was going to be released for some time [October 2009] actually. I was testing the functions and the recognition of the voice recognition in Windows 7 and I was leaving a lot of doors open for Microsoft to make some improvements; that’s where I messed up…

I was incorrect to think Microsoft was going to make any changes to their voice recognition in just a few months, because in 8 months, from January to October- nothing happened.

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GIMP is a powerful image editing package for Ubuntu/Linux, but the problem is that GIMP is also an image edit package that’s really meant for a higher edge user. Ubuntu is a distribution that likes to say that it’s easy to use. And in a group of simple programs, GIMP stands out like a sore thumb.

So effective the next version of Ubuntu, GIMP is not going to be included. It’s going to be replaced with a smaller, lighter, easy to use and user friendly picture organizer.

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As your going about your daily life, there’s lots of thing you wish you had to keep track of it all and this was my problem about 4 years ago and then I found MyNotesKeeper. I posted an article about it last year, but it’s getting better, the author has been [within the last few months] actively pushing updates and new features.

One of the things I really like about MyNotesKeeper is the responses from the author; you don’t get it much with other developers, but with MyNotesKeeper he’s been listening to his users and adding the small thing they’re requesting. It really puts a polish on a great program.

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