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The web is full of testimonials about ActiveSync like:
If I sound bitter, then its because I feel that I have a right to feel this way. I effectively wasted $700 on a WM5 PDA that has caused me to waste DAYS of time and constantly lose data.
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Palm Treo owners are a loyal [...]
. No hint at what is wrong at all, not even a 32 bit hexadecimal COM error code. Is it the PDA? Is it ActiveSync? Who knows.
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I found with the Preview program on Mac OSX, I can select the entire text and paste into TextEdit and then save as RTF or HTML. This is find for most of the material I read (no images of significance in the PDFs).
Unfortunately, plucker documents seem garbeled in VadeMecum even though inspection of the [...]
I have been using pdftohtml to convert pdf documents to html, and sometimes then to plucker, so I can use them on my PDA. I have been finding some PDFs just do not convert - most of the text is missing. Same result with pdftotext.
Acrobat doesn’t present documents in a useful manner. [...]
I spent a fair bit of time trying to convert some documents I have to PDA format in Power Point, Word, and PDF. Some Word documents wouldn’t convert to reader (.lit) format due to nested tables, so I had to save them as HTML, then use plucker to convert them. PDFs had to [...]
A new interesting company is called Wibiki. Their service looks interesting, but I wish they had a Wiki for their users to discuss their service and branding strategy.
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Paul Kedrosky Google and 3M’s 30% Rule.
30% seems arbitrary but the concept seems sound.
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I broke down and finally tried the Vade Mecum Plucker reader on my Pocket PC despite the fact its in alpha release. I installed the latest “experimental” alpha release rather than the more stable plain-vanilla alpha release. I think the author just never plans to release it as beta or release software. [...]
The NDP have an RSS feed for their web site .
The Liberals have one too.
The Conservatives have 10.
The Green party have a blog but nothing for press releases, position papers etc.
The bloc do not appear to have an RSS or Atom feed.
All the sites use html tables for a lot of their layout. [...]
Murray Dobbin writes in Be an ‘Intentional Citizen’ :
That is why such an overwhelming majority of citizens consider Medicare — a powerful example of equality in action — as the defining characteristic of our nation.
That’s sadly reinforced by all the partys’ platforms in their current campaigns. There have to be more important [...]
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