My New Start Page

I used My Yahoo primarily for setting up RSS feeds of my daily dose of news and blogs. Now I'm hooked on www.netvibes.com. The font size is just right and it fits more news items. The flickr window is a nice plus! I came across it from one of the del.icio.us feeds. This Web 2.0 thing is really neat. Response time really makes a difference in the user experience.

Google Talk and Video

I used Jabber clients before (Gush, Tipic, Exodus) to talk to friends who were in Yahoo and MSN. It worked well for chat purposes. Since Google Talk is using XMPP, it should be a no brainer for them to open up gateways to the major IM networks. The question is why not?


Voice and video were the killer features of Yahoo that led me to use it regularly. People will still have contacts in different IM networks and switching is rather difficult. If Google opened up the gateways, then you would have a reason to switch.

I just found out there is an add-in for both Google Talk and Skype that adds video conferencing to your IM experience: http://www.festooninc.com/





I haven't tried it yet but we'll see how good it is.

Odometer

A 2 digit odometer reading happens only for so long.

Caitlin's New Car

Caitlin is sitting on the trunk of her new car that gives her room to store her stroller when travelling.

Playtime

Remember the gift I got for Christmas? Well, this is how to play with it. Yum yum.

Mozart

Caitlin playing Mozart with gusto! She's working hard on the timing and melody.

Standing Up

Caitlin likes to stand nowadays. Her record time standing up is 15 seconds. She just waves her arms up and down until she falls down and giggles.

Christmas Gift

Caitlin just got a gift from Ninang Jing. But she's more interested in the wrapper than the gift itself.

Opening of Gifts

Everyone busy opening their gifts on Christmas Eve 2004. This was taken in Butuan.

Treo Photo

Photo taken using the Treo at Wan Chai during a late night snack.

My Treo 600

I just got a Treo 600 from my wife last Saturday. I've been using a Sony P800 before that. My only complaint about the Treo is the screen and its camera. It doesn't show pictures as good as the P800. The unit however makes up for functionality and looks. The P800's case is blue plastic and doesn't look as cool as the Treo.

Being on a Palm platform, I loaded Plucker for offsite Website viewing. This was something I missed in the Ericsson / Symbian days. The Treo doesn't come with an MP3 player, but I got a free one after registering the unit at the palmone website. It also doesn't have an alarm clock, which I really need. Bob's Alarm came to the rescue. I didn't bother buying it, as the unregistered version works fine.

Syncing is where Palm shines. You could actually close the Hotsync completely in your PC, taking up no memory. The Sony sync software, in contrast, stays in memory from startup and refuses to be closed manually. You have to use the Task Manager to hunt down the 3 processes that are running.