Category: Posts from Radio

Next up for Pocket PC, wireless telephony [PDABuzz.com]: “Microsoft is quickly advancing the Pocket PC platform with the next goal to create a Wireless Pocket PC specification including CDMA and GSM support. ”

Of course, the Newton has had this for years with the Nokia Phone Card. Unfortunately, like so many things GSM it works great in Europe and not at all in America.

Calif gov. Davis’ election year ploy: Tap Internet and telephones [Politech]

In the first debate when Davis was running for Governor, he held up Singapore as an example of what he wanted for California. It’s no suprise that he’s trying to reach that goal now that he’s in power.

One flaw I’ve noticed in the news aggregator idea is that many of the sites I’m interested in don’t publish RSS files. Actually, this isn’t a flaw in the idea, but rather a lack of acceptance or maybe knowledge. For example, Packing.org probably could have an RSS file, but they don’t.

Anthrax Mail Cleaning Zaps flash cards. CES 2002: An interesting article out of CES today from the Compact Flash Assocation has confirmed that the irradiation process the U.S. Postal Service is using to sanitize mail against anthrax can not only… [Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)]

Of course, there is an obvious solution to this problem. Compact Flash cards have value, and nothing of value should be sent using the US Postal (Dis-)Service. Send your CF cards via FedEx, and let the hysterical government workers have fun irradiating junk mail and bills.

Jim Roepcke has a list of “old school” Frontier users who have set up Radio sites. I guess I fit in this category too–I still have Frontier 4.2.3a running on all my Macs at home and at work. Radio’s reasonable price tag has made me think seriously about buying a Userland product, something I never thought I’d do when Frontier was being sold for $900!

It looks like the cliché about “third time’s a charm” applies here. I tried a third posting this morning, thinking that I would send a bug report if it didn’t work–and it worked! All three postings I’d made so far now appeared, so I guess that whatever was wrong was fixed overnight.

It appears the initial post didn’t appear on the public page, so I’m trying again to see if I have more luck. It may have been a problem caused by my router with its annoying built-in firewall, so I checked the “behind a firewall” preference.

I’m trying Radio 8 on an experimental basis. I’m not really the sort of person who has a weblog, normally, but it’s an interesting technology to play with. I’m particularly interested in whether it would work with a Newton acting as the controller. I’ve done some experiments like that before with other weblog tools, but in the past it didn’t really work.