Will I ever Browse a Book Store again?

I like browsing in books stores. I can spend hours wandering around looking to see what books are there.  Picking up a book,  looking at the cover,  reading the back cover, and  reading about the author gives me a great feel for a book.  Browsing in the book store is also a good way to find out what is [...]

iPhone, User Expectations and Info Systems

I am always amazed at all the apps available for my iPhone. Seems like I find a useful new app every week and could find more if I took time to look. I think the experiences that business users are having with their iPhones will impact what they expect from information systems in their business.
The [...]

There is an app for that – iPhone to the rescue

I was heading east on I-40 on a two day drive to meet up with my mother’s  family for a big reunion in North Carolina. Something we do every three years at Thanksgiving.
We had just crossed in to Tennessee and I noticed the speedometer was stuck at 65. It was broken. Just what I needed on [...]

Finding a place to plug-in

I was on the road again this week and I noticed my new past-time:  finding a place to plug-in my iPhone.  I had to find a place to plug-in in the office I was visiting, in the hotel where I stayed the night, in the airport where I had a layover and in my car on the way home.   As [...]

Problem: Track Travel Itinerary Solution: Tripit

I have started traveling a bit more, and keeping up with my itinerary information is always a problem.  I have the itinerary in an email on my laptop, but it is never very accessible when I am standing at the counter and they are asking for my confirmation number.  I also usually have the itinerary printed out in [...]

Can you really read a book on your iPhone? Yes!

I was sitting in the departure lounge in DFW airport waiting to get on my flight and I was reading a a book on my iPhone.
The guy sitting next to me ask, “Are you reading a book on your iPhone?”
I said, “Yes, I am.”
He said, ” That is awesome! Can you really do that?”
We had a [...]

Problem: Lots of Pictures – Solution: Flickr

Digital photography is great.  It make it practical to take hundreds or thousands of pictures without the cost of developing and printing.  I have had the chance to travel quite a bit.  In the old days for a two or three week trip I would take about 30 roles of 36 exposure film, about 1000 [...]

TweetDeck for iPhone – Just Awsome

If you you use Twitter, then you must already use TweetDeck. (My review and Mashable’s reivew)  It is a great tool to help you view and keep track of tweets on different topics.  I was at a WordCamp meeting in Dallas and one of the presenters was showing off TweetDeck.  I was amazed at the [...]

Entertaining a Crowd with a Billboard

We got to the 4th of July concert early to get a good seat.  I wandered around saying hi to friends, got water for my wife and grandson, and sat down to wait for the concert to start.  Then I saw it – a big electronic billboard to the right of the stage.  It was [...]

Seven Observations on using an iPhone Overseas

I recently had the chance to use my iPhone on a two week trip in the Middle East.  The short, it worked great.  Here are some of my observations.

Plan ahead. Make sure you get the international calling plan (cheap) and data plan (not so cheap, but get a bigger plan than you think you might use).  If [...]