As full time technomads we’re often dependent upon cellular data signals and occasional open WiFi hotspots for our bandwidth. With variable speeds (our Sprint datacard can range in speeds reminscent of 2400 baud dial-up modems all the way up to DSL), shaky connections and monthly bandwidth caps, we likely experience the internet in a slightly different way […]
Technology
Tales from Technomadia: Email Edition
The newest feature in this blog has been lurking at the bottom of the sidebar for a week now – a box that lets you subscribe to “Tales from Technomadia” via email…
Tech Review: Mikegyver 12v MacBook Power Supplies
One particular frustration that has vexed me for over three years now is that there is no “official” way to power any MagSafe-equipped Apple laptops directly off of 12v power.
But there is an alternative…
Mike Lee of MikeGyver.com has made a business of taking genuine Apple MagSafe tips, and splicing them onto 12v compatible power supplies…
Sprint SmartView “Upgrade” Downgrades Sharing
The newly released Sprint SmartView 2.22 driver upgrade came with no release notes and no apparant new features, but once you install it Sprint has the gall to actively prevents you from using the built in connection sharing feature in Mac OS X.
(Post updated with a fix…)
Blog Upgrade: Subscribe To Comments
One of the things that I have always loved about blogging on LiveJournal is that it lets you know via email when someone has replied to any comments or blog posts that you make. This email notification encourages blog postings to turn into actual two-way (or three-way, or more-way) conversations in a way that other blogging platforms have never equalled.
In an attempt to bring some of this sort of interactivity to Tales from Technomadia, I have just installed and configured the Subscribe to Comments WordPress plugin.
Late Night GeoWanking in Lompoc, CA
One of the thing that we’ve been most wanting to incorporate into our blog posting has been maps.
After a lot of late night experimentation with a lot of Word Press plugins of (ahem) varying quality, I think I am at last happy with the results I am getting from the Wordpress Geo Mashup plugin. See what the maps look like…
ETech Overview
Back in September and October while we were in the midst of working on the Obama campaign,we were encouraged to apply to speak on Technomadism at the O’Reilly ETech Emerging Technology Conference. The awesome folks at O’Reilly accepted our proposal, and were excited about us being on the agenda. They even featured us in an […]
Snow! And now.. ETech
We had a fabulous weekend in Truckee in the snow.. and now we are attending the O’Reilly ETech conference in San Jose this week, where we are presenting on Technomadism on Thursday. We’re both actively twittering our experience this week, if you care to follow along. The main feeds will be http://twitter.com/technomadia and http://twitter.com/radven. The […]
Power Efficiency
When we landed in South San Francisco a while back, we had the option at the RV Park we’re staying at to do a monthly rate which was inclusive, or a monthly contract which was $150 less but you paid your own electricity. We took the contract, figuring we had to be using way less […]
ETech Preview: Tales from Technomadia
James Turner, a corespondent for O’Reilly Media, did an interview with us over the weekend about our technomadic lifestyle and our upcoming presentation, Tales from Technomadia at the ETech conference. You can listen to the interview and/or read the transcript at: http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/02/living-the-technomadic-life.html Pretty good interview that gives a glimpse into our life. Enjoy!
