Truth be told, I am not much of a blogger. I have always had trouble making the time commitment. I do, however, stumble across things from time to time that I am happy to share.
Summer Comes to a Close
It’s occurred to me this morning that I haven’t posted an update to the site in awhile. While I wish this delinquency had something to do with days spent at the lake, or general laziness, the fact is that I am stuck inside the same hectic schedule I seem to have every year at the time.
Your Constitutional Right as a Canadian to Have an iPhone
This post won’t the first, last, or best take on the iPhone craziness that’s sweeping across my country but I had to write something on the issue, if for nothing else than to try and maintain some form of my own sanity …
Imitation … Sincerity … Flattery
A colleague recently spun me an email to let me know that someone on Scriptlance was looking for a clone of my website …
Small Business Communication
Those who have had to work with me over the last 5 or 6 years know that I have used every communication method under the sun. Not satisfied with the traditional phone system, I was an early adopter of Voip. I have toyed with every email client available to me, for both Mac and PC. I have tinkered with with just about every chat and IRC client available, all with their own pros and cons, but I was never 100% satisfied with any of them.
The voice solution I have arrived at, after a decade of experimentation, is a phone system that allows me to make and receive calls through a landline, or through Skype, using the same handset. It has the added bonus of being wireless which allows me to have it anywhere in the house. This is especially cool on the Skype side of things where before I would have been tethered to my computer via headset. Think of it as a cordless phone system with Skype built into it.
There are a number of phone systems that offer this technology but the one I chose was the Netgear SPH200D dual-mode cordless phone system with Skype. This system operates as a traditional phone, allowing me to receive calls through my regular land line but combined with Skype Pro at $3/month it also lets me make all my long distance calls anywhere in North America, through Skype. The call quality through Skype is excellent with just a hint of the lag you generally expect when using a bandwidth based phone system. The added benefit to using Skype for me is that I receive half my calls through Skype anyway, and have voicemail attached to my Skype account so the people who are used to communicating with me this way can continue to do so.
Now, I just need to tackle my email …
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