I recently needed to do some interviews on the phone. I found out that using Skype-out with a skype recording software was a great solution for that. I used the free tool Free MX Skype Recorder – it works absolutely great on windows. All I needed to do was install the software, and run before Skype, and then all my calls where automaticly recorded and converted to mp3. Very nice indeed.
Add comment November 21st, 2006
My experience with using Google docs with Wordpress – read and make up your mind
This post is written in Google Docs – which means that it is both a test and a review of how it is to use Google Docs for wordpress.
Setup
Setting up Google docs to publish to my blog is pretty easy (here is a nice guide with screen shots).
Name
I’ve named document “Using Google Docs to publish to wordpress” in the hope that this will be the name of the post.
Categories
I’ve tagged the document with the tags “Blogging” and “Google Docs”.
Pics
Here I’ve put in a picture in order to test if that works (I could probably read this somewhere but I’m lazy)
General usage
Pros
-The editor has a bigger window, this makes it more comfortable especially with long posts
- A nice intuitive editor. I find it much better than the one in Wordpress
- Spell check (also possible in Wordpress admin)
- Integrated in Google Dics which I use for many other things.
- Fast editor (I use it any way for drafts)
Cons
- No access to the more advanced features in Wordpress like tags and time.
———Update af publishing——————
- I’ve had to ad title and categories manually
2 comments November 14th, 2006
Google and movamail both launches new cell phone applications for emailing.
Competition seems to be increasing within the field of email application for java compatible cell phones. A few weeks ago Google launched their a java application for accessing gmail. Almost at the same time Movamail has launched their paid service movamail 2.0.
Both of the application boasts a lot of features, Google’s client offers the possibility to read attachments from the phone, and movamail makes it possible to attach pictures from the phones camera to the email.
I tried installing both on my aging Nokia 6610i, but none of them would install when accessing the website from the phone. Google stated clearly that the java client did not support, and with movamail I got an error on the phone when trying.
Luckily for people like me the also both support web access. I have not tried Movamails, but I’ve used Googles for a couple of month now with the Opera browser installed on the cell phone.
From my point view, Google entering the market makes it tough for Movamail. I will continue to forward my regular to my gmail account and use Gmails mobile browser access m.gmail.com to access the email because it works very well and it is free.
Add comment November 14th, 2006
It looks like the anonymity of comment section has been misused.
Some time ago Tech Tag received two very critical comments on two posts about Scheduleworld (post 1, post2). Then a few weeks later the pattern repeated it self. Two identical comments where posted on the same two post, but from a different IP.
Comment 1
Claims to be from a someone whose Scheduleworld account has been compromised, and that his comments asking about it in the Scheduleworld support forum has been deleted.
Comment 2
Claims that critical questions in the Scheduleworld forum has been deleted, and has led to the account being deleted.
To get an idea of what is going on I wrote a a mail to Scheduleworlds support, and confronted them with the the allegations from the comment section. Within 30 minutes I received an email answering all my questions.
The answer from Scheduleworld.
I got the answer from Scheduleworld that messages had been deleted from the forum.
“I have only deleted comments from one person – the same user that posted these comments to your site (I believe they are the same person).”
The email stated.
On the other hand Scheduleworld denies deleting any accounts.
“I have never deleted an account unless the person asks me to. I haven’t even deleted the accounts this poster used to fabricate complaints with.Scheduleworld finds it a very theoretical that someone should have compromised accounts.
There are a number of things that could explain this complaint besides the poster being a competitor. I don’t believe it, but perhaps the poster actually is a victim and someone else sniffed his HTTP traffic. Perhaps someone else retrieved his information by tapping his keyboard, or a virus snooped his keystrokes or network traffic.”
No answer from the other side
I then sent an email to the addresses used for the different comments. One of them bounced, and I’ve received no answer to the other message. Adding to that both email addresses used for commenting, where supplied by spam services which offer free use-and-dispose email addresses.
The comments are mutually excluding, meaning that that if they are true it must be two different persons, and they are from different IP addresses. But they share some similarities. They are are almost identical two and two, made at the same time and made in the same tone.
Comments based on a lie?
Based on the lacking answer and the extra means taken to stay anonymous. I see no other conclusion, than to conclude that these comments were most likely based on a lies. But if someone think something else, please let me know.
Whether this is a lie or not, the fact that there is an insecurity about commets is a problem to the whole blogosphere. It reduces the value of actual comments and risks making the blogossphere seem amateurish to outsiders.
1 comment November 13th, 2006
