So You Want to Kick the Google Habit? [Editorial]

31 August 2011 #

A list of popular Google products and alternatives to each one. Also, a list of Google products which do not have a good replacement today.

nsquared demo of integrated WP7, Win7, Kinect, Surface apps. #awesome

30 August 2011 #

[youtube [www.youtube.com/watch](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oALIuVb0NJ4?wmode=transparent])

Video response to Molly Wood re: #wp7 challenge conclusion

29 August 2011 #

Freaking hilarious. Snarks aside, he has absolutely nailed the double standards Molly showed during the 2-week trial. She would rather have a broken Android than a Windows Phone. She did not like that there was no turn-by-turn navigation in Windows Phone, but has no reason not to let her friends choose the iPhone over Windows Phone, while iPhone does not have turn-by-turn navigation either. Nor does it have her other wanted feature, compose email by voice.

Can someone please let me know what she is trying to conclude? I didn't get it. Oh no, I did. She concludes, "I like Android". Sigh.

[youtube [www.youtube.com/watch](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAq-zes9ri0?wmode=transparent])

KDDI Windows Phone ad - i like it a lot. #wp7 #windowsphone

29 July 2011 #

[youtube [www.youtube.com/watch](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4fJK9m6XJM?wmode=transparent])

Results for "translate" on @bing - MSFT accepting who's better? #google

29 July 2011 #

Windows Phone Mango RTM: What is still missing?

28 July 2011 #

Windows Phone Mango has achieved RTM. This post looks at what are the key features missing from Mango, but are already available or announced for iOS/Android.

Windows Phone Mango RTM: What is still missing?

Oh. My. Gawd. "This is how we roll in India" [video]

25 July 2011 #

[youtube [www.youtube.com/watch](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klteYv1Uv9A?wmode=transparent])

Contact history - one of the cool new features of #Mango #WP7

20 July 2011 #

[youtube [www.youtube.com/watch](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCqXh3QEVyE?wmode=transparent])

Who can compete with the iPad?

15 July 2011 #

The iPad has been the king of tablets. Windows 8 and Amazon tablets, rather than Android, RIM Playbook and HP TouchPad tablets are viable competitors

Who can compete with the iPad?

How Mango Has Fixed Some of the Annoyances of Windows Phone 7

11 July 2011 #

Windows Phone “Mango” has fixed several shortcomings in the initial release of Windows Phone 7. Here are some of my top annoyances with Windows Phone “NoDo” which have been addressed in Mango. Videos, Podcasts, Contacts History are some of these annoyances with fixes and enhancements made in what is referred to as Windows Phone 7.5

How Mango Has Fixed Some of the Annoyances of Windows Phone 7

Conan @conanobrien Dartmouth College commencement address

13 June 2011 #

I was dying laughing ...

[youtube [www.youtube.com/watch](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmDYXaaT9sA?wmode=transparent])

Throw away email addresses with Office 365 #Office365 (cc @office365)

7 June 2011 #

This may be a well-known fact, but I just realized it, so I thought I'd write about it. I was used to a catch-all email address for my domain both from my domain registrar (when I was purely forwarding my domain email) and from Google Apps (when I started using them for managing my email directly).

So it was a bummer when I realized Office 365 actually discouraged the use of catch-all email address. My main purpose of using a catch-all email address was to allow for throwaway email addresses which hotmail (and maybe others) introduced in the past few months. I could sign up for some service with a random email address belonging to my domain and let all unsolicited email from those companies go to this catch-all email address.

So I happened to stumble upon my solution for Office 365. Each mailbox ("license") allows you to specify additional email addresses for which you can receive email at that mailbox. So I could set up abc@mydomain.com, xyz@mydomain.com as additional addresses on my main email mailbox of romit@mydomain.com. That way I can receive emails to those addresses at my primary email address and yet, I don't end up giving out my primary email address to the sites.

The way I did it was by going to Details under Mailbox when you go to "Manage My Organization". Select the E-Mail Options section and enter as many (?) alternate email addresses as you want. That's it!

What I don't know yet: a) Can I reply from those email addresses? I cannot, but I understand there is a way but I don't know it yet. b) Can I set up a rule so that I can automatically move emails addressed to those temporary email addresses to different folders?

Once these are resolved, I will be all set with (virtually?) unlimited throw away addresses on my domain account on Exchange!