Over the weekend, due to compelling reasons I’ll get to later, I took a deep-dive into the two most popular online “Banking 2.0″ products: Yodlee and Mint. My overall impression: These guys really have a long way to go.
This isn’t really a review of either. Instead, it’s more of a wish-list… for what I wish either Yodlee or Mint were, but alas, they are not. Read More
I saw today that Twitter is releasing a new service/app that provides another level of integration with competing-yet-complimentary social networks. Read More
Years ago, in a conversation about ERP systems with the president of a Tier 1 automotive supplier, he said something that will forever stay with me. We were talking about whether we (the company) should retire our legacy system in favor of SAP. He said that if he really had his choice, we should develop our own solution in-house. Puzzled, I pushed further and asked him what would drive him to reach such a conclusion with SAP, Oracle, our legacy product and a number of other industry-specific solutions available. He responded that he doesn’t want to change the way he manages the business to make it fit with some off-the-shelf application according to how some software developer or any other company thinks his business should be managed. Read More
You know, several years ago… back when the Palm Pilot first came out, I was all over it. I was an early gadget junky and had to have everything techie. Back then, I was the typical IT guy walking around with a cell phone (a big, bulky one), two pagers and my PDA hanging from my “utility belt”. I was an IT super hero. Read More
I’ll post more details after I get a chance to use it more, but basically, I got a new tablet PC for work. It’s a Toshiba Portege M700. This model was just released a few months ago. I ordered mine custom-built at the end of December and it finally arrived this week.
Why I’m writing now, though, is that when building your laptop online, you have several memory options. 1 GB is standard. 2GB will cost you an extra $100. 4GB will cost you an extra $550. Rather than pay Toshiba for the RAM, I ordered the machine with the standard 1 GB and then ordered 2x2GB sticks (4GB total) from NewEgg for $88. What a bargain! Read More
In 2006, I bought a new Nissan Frontier crew-cab pick-up truck and shortly thereafter I migrated the guts of the Mazda MX-5 ‘Miata’ Carputer. Basically, everything is the same except that when I installed in the truck, rather than using the factory audio, I replaced it with an Infinity Reference Series 560 watt, 6-channel amplifier, Infinity Kappa component speakers and a JBL GTO1002D 10″ Dual Voice-Coil Subwoofer.
Rather than repost every detail and every challenge, I’ll just give a shout-out once again to the guys over at MP3Car.com and post some pictures. Read More
In 2005, I undertook an interesting project. I bought a 2003 Mazda MX-5 Miata and in it installed a custom-made “carputer”. At the time, OEM’s in the U.S. had just started thinking about in-car MP3 players, built-in navigation systems, touch-screens and hands-free voice control. I know because, at the time, I worked for Harman International‘s automotive OEM group, Harman/Becker.
At the time, I blogged and documented the entire process, and got a lot of help and ideas from the guys over at the MP3Car.com forum. Rather than repost everything, the following is just a brief summary and pictures. Read More
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