Petar Smilajkov - Peconi

Gucci bag, originally priced as a very nice brand new car, now on a super sale in the amount of a brand new small car… Makes me wonder…

Sincerely, there’s no excuse for not getting this right now:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001NWULS0

Isn’t it amazing? 25 years ago (1983) on this very day, Microsoft Announced Windows 1.0. What an amazing advance in both software, hardware and technology as a whole in just a quarter of a century. It wasn’t yet available for sale (not until 1985), but as you can see -not many things change. We’re still waiting for Windows 7 .

What’s even more amazing is the amount of accumulated wealth for Bill Gates (and anyone who was smart to invest into this “new thing” 25 years ago).

Windows, here’s to you and to 25 more. Hopefully, Windows 7.0 comes out glorious next year, and Windows 14 on your 50th birthday .

Last week while listening to TWIT, Jason Calacanis (of Mahalo.com) mentioned a really interesting service which I think everyone should use.

I sincerely HATE voicemail. The reason is that it takes longer time to dial and listen to it than to read the same text in an email. Visual VoiceMail on my iPhone helped out a bit - but again, I have to open up a VoiceMail app, click on the thing, and still - listen (sometimes for longer than I’d like). Then you do not hear the number so you replay the damn thing over and over.

The Solution: PHONETAG.COM… I kid you not, this is one of the best services I ever used. I do not mind paying for things that make my life fun again. Here’s the winning scenario:

It comes down to price in the end. If you receive a bunch of voicemail I think even $29.95/month is worth it (for the unlimited plan).

• You get a phone call which goes to a voice mail.
• 20 seconds later your voicemail comes via email (or via SMS) transcribed into text - together with an MP3 file attached (in case you want to save it or listen to it).

For $9.99 you get 40 transcribed messages a month.

If all that is still too much, for $.35 cents a message (up to 40 messages a month) you can get the service on pay-per-message basis. This plan is working for me at the moment very well.

There’s a free trial too. If you hate voicemail as much as I do - you will thank me in less than a week for writing this post! Everyone reads text faster than listening to voicemail. 

Hope you have fun (and save some time and money).

TiVo is one of my favorite “gadgets” of all times. Sincerely, it’s been getting better and better with ever iteration and is something I definitely cannot live without. I do not remember last time I watched live TV.

There are just couple of things missing. The title sums it up, the only things I really need in my TiVo (besides the NetFlix playing capabilities coming up soon), are the ability to add custom folders and store the shows there, and ability to set the TiVo’s Suggestions not to record Standard Def programs, but rather only things that come up on HD channels. SD = what a heck is that?

Sincerely - this would be like couple of lines of code for them to make it work - that’s how simple it is (assuming they do not even have to even give us ability to name the folders, but just make one special folder, call it “Saved shows” and let us “move” any of the items right in there.

Too much to ask? I’ll email them and let you know what they say .