Jan 23

Grrrr   Posted by sharps, tagged with firefox gadgets iphone performancing roller treo650

Two things to be pissed-off about this morning. First Performancing (which produce the spiffy Firefox blog editor plugin I use) looks like they''ve gone belly-up. According to TechCrunch the demise may not be as swift and as clean as you might hope for. I hope the blog editor lives on - I rather like it (though support for the Roller's tags would be nice).

Second blogrant - I'll be on the road for some of this week and next so was just setting everything up for working on the road when I noticed my Treo wasn't able to collect mail from Sun's edge mail service. I tried a bunch of stuff (that mere mortals shouldn't have to know about) but couldn't make it work. The Treo just kept insisting it was out of memory shortly after connecting to the IMAP server. I'm not one to give up easily (especially when fighting electronic stuff) but don't really have time to debug right now. So instead, I installed ChatterMail and was up and running in no time. In hindsight - I probably should have switched from VersaMail a long time ago - ChatterMail is a fine piece of software and I'll probably buy it when my 30-days are up. This is a pretty common complaint I hear about Palm's products - the included apps are generally OK - but you probably want to replace them with much better commercial apps. of which there is an abundance. Kudos to Palm for creating the business ecosystem to allow that - I wonder if that's the path that Apple will take with the iPhone.