A Caveat of ADD

I am using this nice little program called ‘NetLimiter’.  Currently it is v3 beta 9 and expires tomorrow. 

I decided to go update it.  I opened Firefox and saw there are also updates for my current browser plugins.

I auto updated the plugins.  On the ‘Featured Plugins’ that pops up after the Firefox restart I see a plugin called ‘Yoono’ that allows me to connect to IM sessions in my browser.

I installed Yoono and restarted Firefox again.

I now was able setup my connections for Yahoo IM, AOL IM, MSN IM, Flickr, Facebook, Twitter and MySpace (and had a little trouble with Linked-In).

After all this is done I viewed my recent Tweet list and followed a few links; also did a search for anything new on the Nexus.

There are also custom notifications and global updates for each connection.  Lots of customizable options for this program!

I went back to Firefox and logged into my profile page to add Yoono as a favorite extension (and see if there is anything else I need to add to Firefox).

There are a lot of updates in Facebook, Twitter and MySpace I need to review.

Aw crap- I still need to update NetLimiter…

Clear Upgrades?

Wow; tonight at about 3:00am the speed of my Clear WiMax connection jumped up to about 12.5Mbps…

A response in another post mentioned that they were upgrading their connections to microwave; I guess the upgrade occurred?

Apple Predictions 2010

the January Apple event is today; I am predicting an Apple tablet will be released- on Verizon. the $350 EFT hike was not in response to the Droid nut in preperation for the iTablet.

we will see at 1pm EST...

Healthy Post

My FitBit came in today! Used it a bit today and looking forward to monitoring my sleep patterns tonight…

While listening to TWiT I heard about the Withings WiFi enabled scale- with an associated iPhone app that will tell me how much weight I have lost/gained.  In addition, it can also Tweet every time I weigh in, or upload to Google Health.  There is also a Windows desktop gadget.

Reviews of the Withings are on Gadget Review, Engadget and there is a youtube (sales) video:

 

Sadly, I am actually considering buying one of these scales (but with the money I have from a returned xMas gift; you would think for the price that the Harmony 1100 remote would have RF support!)

Another interesting site is Daily Burn; lots of foods that can be looked up for calorie usage (with an iPhone app similar to Lose It!), but also appears to have an iPhone barcode scanner for scanning non-prepared foods.

Clear WiMax- getting progressively slower…

My affair with Clear WiMax is going downhill quickly.

Initially I was getting terrific speeds- ranging from 8Mbps to 10Mbps.

Over the past few weeks I have been seeing bandwidth limits and slower speeds during peak hours.  These peak hours are now stretching into continuous slowness.

Below is a graph of a transfer that started at about 11:45pm:

On the left side of the graph you will notice a lot of variance in through-put; this is my clear CPEi 25150 modem with a solid 5 bar signal (with WiMAX RSSI of -63 dBm and WiMAX CINR of 22 dB).

For the right side of the graph I disconnected the Clear modem and re-routed the same traffic through my BellSouth 6Mbps DSL.

Clear hasn’t been close to 6Mbps for the past few days; Bellsouth has a constant 6Mbps 24x7.

If AT&T ever gets around to offering U-Verse at my house (with the 24Mbps down/2MBps up option for $75/month!) I will be quickly putting these Clear modems up on eBay!

'Wireless' Charging Systems

The new charging systems are neat, but too expensive to be practical. The $80 Duracell MyGrid is now down to $40 at Target- buy still to explensive and clunky to be usefull...

I and sure PowerMat will soon follow (which cost $100 + $30-$40 per device to be charged).