I was browsing through my local circles and saw this article form TechCrunch and it gave me pause, sending me in a different direction altogether.

Because while I read it and I understand the concept of having a video conversation with someone over a portable phone device is new and exotic at this point in time; it’s completely and holistically impractical with the way the ISP’s are modeling their service plans for the future.

With carriers going to tiered service for wireless data services, who can really afford to do this? It’s ludicrous.

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I’ve already posted that I think ISP’ are going to change to to ‘media company’, but the more interesting thing is the communication lines like telephone.

It’s not enough to have a phone line anymore; full well, Verizon isn’t interested in land line phone connections anymore. Just about every Internet connection is going to offer VOIP service. The old days of the land line are going away.

Instant Message services have been offering VOIP for years with their services, but now the major carriers are finding out they can have VOIP and just about anyone with an Internet connection can have phone service.

Facebook Instant Message is going to have VOIP capabilities here soon.

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Have you really stopped to look at your cable bill lately?

It’s hard enough when money is tight, but have the cable companies constantly raising their rates faster than inflation is just something that isn’t right.

It’s been reported in study after study after study; NO ONE watches 900 channels of anything. They watch a max of around 25 different channels and with just about every person and their brother offering VOD [video on demand] I’ve yet to understand why if I want to watch a show from the discovery channel I’ve to buy a package with 15 more channel of crap I don’t want.

Honestly, who wants to watch Spanish underwater basket weaving in French as an info-mercial? Not me.

So here’s a few things I found.

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With every technology there’s a point where a particular function or feature is hot topic and it’s the peak of everyone’s interest, and at this point email has past it’s prime.

Email has served it’s purpose and has put a hurt’n on package/postal couriers and just about put all fax machines in the junk yard. Email is now just about as common as the postal service. Basically, if a company or person has a scanner, they’re going to email it to you. It’s faster and the received images are better/clearer.

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If you like to share your photos with others and you have a never camera, you know [or should] the images they create are fairly large. And with Internet Service Provider’s treating bandwidth like a natural treasure, you need to think economy sized.

Shrink Pic is Freeware tool which automatically detects when you send photos by email, Instant Messenger or web browser and compresses them for you. There is no need to make duplicates and resize – it all happens instantly, when you send photos.

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When I think of Microsoft Outlook, I think of a PIM, Email, tasks and calendar, but at the same time I think it’s bloated, not flexible enough a memory hog and the search functions are sorely lacking.

When you’re working with lots of information in one place you need to be able to get to that information fast. Having information at your finger tips is so valuable in a business relationship.

While Outlook does a good job, it’s not my choice. But recently XOBNI makes Outlook searches and information right where you need it.

But it’s not without sacrifice; the program/plug-in works in conjunction with Outlook typically drags down 200+mb [for me] and XOBNI is going to tack on and extra 20mb of memory as a separate ‘service’.

Examples:

XOBNI is really good plug-in for Outlook, but it’s a loner right now. Only focusing on Microsoft Outlook. The group doesn’t have any plans to move beyond Microsoft Outlook. Other packages were left to flounder about. So Eudora, Lotus Notes, Thunderbird, Entourage, or Outlook Express may never get this plug-in.

I personally use Thunderbird and if a alternate to XOBNI comes to Thunderbird… I’m there.

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When you’re in the business of issuing a blog post one of the nicest things you can have is a tool that will facilitate and make possible the task of entering your information easily, and eloquently, being able to format the information without having to go to a lot of gyrations to present it to the public.

While I don’t like admitting it, Microsoft has produced a very nice blog posting program called Windows Live Writer. It’s a free blogging tool provided by Microsoft and again one of the most surprising things that offered by the program is its extensibility, offering extensions to increase the functionality of the program.

Windows Live Writer can be downloaded from this location, but in typical Microsoft form they make you download an installer.

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As the race for the new HD model develops, the cool part is that it’s storage space. And as long as the developers can stick with the common file formats the different Operating System’s use then it should be fine.

The SSD’s are going to be the future, but the end model/standards going to be the question; I don’t think there’s going to be. The platform is too fluid.

The opening of Pandora’s box for HD replacement has occurred.  Finally hardware manufactures are going at the angle of anything goes; just stick with the file format.

SSD’s are just memory anyway, but who’s going to get the best performance and storage out of these devices… time will tell.

Stay tuned.

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