Blogger Paul English has compiled a great little “cheat sheet” to bypass the automated answering machines for many of the larger companies and many of the ones I use on a daily basis… http://www.paulenglish.com/ivr/ (update 4/2011 link is gone)
Thanks, Paul! You rock!
I’ve had a few agents contact me lately about the Treo VS the Tablet PC products.
Tablets may be a bit off the Treo topic, but they are dead-on the mobility issue…and, it’s something I’ve been looking at myself lately… trying to decide if a tablet makes sense for me, and if it’s a “now” item or a “soon” item on my wish list.
What I’m dying to see, what I’ve been scouring the reviews, the “upcoming products” and the other geeky sites and pubs to find is a truly great tablet PC.
Not just any old tablet — I want one that will work for me and that I can recommend to my clients. For me, it would have to have…An extraordinary battery life.
One of the things I love about my Treo is the number of hours I can work on it and the ease with which I can plop in a new battery. Now, on a Tablet, I’d like to have the battery last all day and be hot-swappable. I don’t like to “power down” and reboot. I hate it. And most PCs (unlike the Treo, again) take so blasted long to boot, that it makes me crazy. I’m not a patient woman. ‘Nuff said.
It would have to run decent graphics. Continue reading
Yesterday, we went to my sister-in-laws for the holiday meal. We took a broccoli and beef dish, zucchini with pepper jack cheese, a vegetable muffin with cashews and Wayne’s famous pasta salad (a regular recipe and an organic one he made for us).
Alex and I ate only the organic versions, as usual. Wayne (also as usual) sampled some of the typical fare. He usually eats organic with us, but occasionally eats regular food when he’s out. He doesn’t go nuts, though. Since we have started eating organic, he says he only really misses two things — bread and ham. I bake bread occasionally, but he’s SOL on the ham (simply out of luck, that is). So he ate ham at dinner.
He and Alex hated missing out on ice cream, so we got a machine and I make vanilla from organic cream and milk with organic vanilla and local honey.
We pack Alex’s lunch so she doesn’t eat the crap at school — have you SEEN the lunch menus lately?!?! And my seven-year-old reads the labels on her food herself and if she can’t pronounce it, or if she doesn’t know what it is, she doesn’t eat it. It’s pretty amazing.
Anyway, there’s the background and after Thanksgiving dinner, we went to visit my friend, Daphne. Continue reading
An independent research group recently conducted a comparative use study on the Treo 650, the Samsung i730, the UTStarcom PPC6600 and Blackberry 7100.
And the size, design and useability of the Treo device came out ahead of the pack, with the Samsung i730 being second…
It makes me wonder how long the Treo can keep the edge. I love my own little device, but unless Palm continues to keep stride, I’m sure they can’t keep the lead in a market as competitive as this one is becoming.
I had a reader write me this week to ask my why I wrote about the Treo 650, why I didn’t pick the HP device instead, since it had a larger screen, etc. Continue reading
Mobility is attractive. Miniaturization and nanotechnology are now the rage. We want our technology tools to fit on keyring or inside our pockets or purse and they must bring the whole world to us.
We don’t want much, do we?
The problem is that the choices for mobility are so broad that it’s sometimes overwhelming. How does a person begin to sort it all out?
Consider the following questions to help narrow your choices to a more manageable scope:
Statistics some time ago proved that “labor saving devices” did not reduce the amount of labor on the home front — make sure your technology and mobility choices do reduce the labor on the office — and out of the office — before making that purchase.