sxa's Technical Musings

[Short link to this article if you need it:http://goo.gl/sWOd] Everyone's using social networks these days. Well ok not everyone, the people that don't usually give one of two reasons. Either they don't have time or they think it's all about posting what you had for breakfast. If it replaces other information sources in your life (e.g. using social networking instead of reading news feeds) then it doesn't have to take any extra time. The second reason, well, possibly valid, so here are my tips on how to make your social networking activities worthwhile I often see updates that are of no interest to me whatsoever, or I see things that just don't make sense. So here are my top tips to avoid for 'status updates' on social networking services to avoid me disconnecting from you. Don't be an antisocial networker: Status updates that don't stand alone - If I need a whole bunch of background information that only exists in your head instead of o...

Having now used the N900 in variouos situations to perform voice and video calls over the net I can say that it's a great choice for VOIP. The current version of Maemo supports Video calling using Skype or GoogleTalk out of the box, and VOIP using various providers. in fact it works with the no-extra-charge VOIP account that my broadband ADSL provider gives me, which makes it an excellent replacement for the landline since it looks like a normal landline number (for CLID and inbound calls) The N900 is such a great device, and it was nice to see this stuff come to the N900 before other devices, and others are now catching up with some of their software features ...