Resistive to Capacitive

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September 7, 2009


Episode 9, September 7 – Resistive to Capacitive?

Why do we need capacitive touchscreens? Phil! You traitor!

Thanks to Phil Nickinson from WMExperts for the nice chat

Which was first, ICQ? AOL instant messenger?
What do you use, or do you?
How do you use it?
What about these people using yahoo for work related messages?
Texting / PTT
Pros and cons of integrated messengers?
Trillian on the desktop, Fring/Beejive/IM+ on the handheld
What do you want in an IM client? video? audio?
How many buddy lists do we need, and is this where “Synergy” is going to finally make everything alright?

Skype for podcasting. AIM for my kids. MSN (now Windows Live Messenger) for some and Yahoo for others. How many times changing id’s to whittle down those buddy lists?

Blocking contacts and Spam on Skype

Jerry’s worsening case addiction.

Remember WordStar?
MS Office vs. Open Office vs Google Docs vs. Windows Live whatever (My mother still uses Word Perfect!)

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  • http://badzed.wordpress.com BaDZeD

    The tech for combo resistive/capacitive screens is coming, although again from RIM:
    http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/rim-patent-filing-reveals-hybrid-capacitive-resistive-touchscr/

  • http://badzed.wordpress.com BaDZeD

    Great podcast, Alli!
    My question is: you mentioned that you abandoned ICQ for AIM, but in my understaning they use the same protocol and are essentially the same (I did however HATE the fact that in the ICQ iteration of the client you had to press CTRL+Enter to send a message, which was inconvenient imho). Typing your ICQ number into the AIM client makes it work with ICQ.

    Myself, I like integrated messaging solutions. I used to use trillian for quite some time (I needed the chat logging feature) but did eventually abandon it for Pidgin just because of its small memory footprint and a myriad of plug-ins (like IRC and Twitter)