Comments for Rob Howard

Comment on Kindle Fire … not for me by Owen Allen

Owen Allen — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 22:38:15 +0000

I am going through a similar experience. I’ve only had my Kindle Fire for a week now. Within a day or two of adding a few apps, it became clear to me that the Kindle Fire would only be a reading machine. While, on the plus side, it allows you to read in low light environments with the backlight, it will suffer from the same problems as the iPad outdoors, and your comments about the battery life are warning me away from keeping it. I also wanted it for videos while traveling, but a small amount of storage is killing that idea, also.
Too bad.

Comment on Kindle Fire … not for me by Rob

Rob — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:59:53 +0000

@tony — yes, I expected it to be at least competitive. My opinion was that it didn’t have the features of the Kindle that I loved and it didn’t have the features of the iPad that I loved. As one of my other friends put it, it felt like a big compromise.

Comment on Kindle Fire … not for me by tony

tony — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 06:08:22 +0000

“the Fire looked like it would be the perfect replacement for the iPad” seriously? after knowing how much the kindle would cost?

Comment on Kindle Fire … not for me by Jon Galloway

Jon Galloway — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 17:30:58 +0000

Good to know – we’re looking at getting some for our daughters for Christmas.

One nit on Point 1 – Kindles have always used standard micro USB connections. If you’ve got all iStuff, I’d agree that it’s another thing to hassle with, micro USB is not at all proprietary. In fact, after the EU required that all phones support micro USB, Apple started selling a dongle to comply – http://www.gizmag.com/apple-iphone-micro-usb-adapter/20094/

Comment on Kindle Fire … not for me by mikemost

mikemost — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 16:10:05 +0000

tough break, I’m pretty happy w/my ipad2 but will probably not be seeing an ipad 3 in my future since I just couldn’t wait that long. There are definitely UX improvements that could be made for the ipad. I had a similar experience to yours in giving the Galaxy tab a test drive and it drove itself right back to Best Buy and magically turned into an iPad 2.

Comment on Taming the email monster – Microsoft Outlook best practices by Scott

Scott — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:21:34 +0000

Thanks. Great advice, and quite practical. I had never used ‘conversation’ grouping, but will in the future!

Comment on Taming the email monster – Microsoft Outlook best practices by Chris H

Chris H — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:01:08 +0000

I like your ruthless approach, but potentially, the archiving bit can still result in a lot or big PST’s. These have to be on the local PC and thus generally do not get backed up (PC off at night) or on a server – get backed up, but not Microsoft recommended and slow for the client.

I’m thinking outside the box here – literally – by dragging messages completely outside of outlook. For a lot of company’s, most of their work has a job or client related folder structure on their server. Related messages can be dragged out of Outlook to their respective folders on the server. That way, you keep a small mailbox, you don’t have the worry of where to put the PST, any one who looks at the ‘job’ can also access all the related correspondence, it all gets backed up and finally when the job or client is finished with and the data is archived off the server, all the mail goes with it. How about that?

Comment on SEO & ASP.NET: Put keywords in the URL by Erik P. Ernst

Erik P. Ernst — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 05:14:13 +0000

Hi Rob,

This is great reading. Just a shame we didn't see any of this in release 5.0! Or did we?

Comment on SEO & ASP.NET: Put keywords in the URL by kumar

kumar — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 08:16:54 +0000

yes absolutely right we have to do some URL rewriting to make asp.net website more search engine friendly

Comment on Announcing Telligent Graffiti CMS, Beta 1 by free ebook

free ebook — Mon, 18 May 2009 13:36:11 +0000

Excellent post thanks for sharing