Moms Gone Geek

July 1st, 2010

hello

By DigitalFanGirl

Posted via SMS from Naomi + Digital Life Activity = Posterous

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June 8th, 2010

So Long G1 - Hello MyTouch 3G Slide

By DigitalFanGirl

It’s been so long since I’ve blogged and I really missed it, but I feel refreshed and ready to get back on the blogging train. Today is a great day for one main reason………..I just upgraded from my G1 to the new MyTouch 3G Slide!!! I left the Blackberry world for Android June of 2009 and I haven’t looked it. The G1 and I spent some wonderful times together, but I have given it a run for its money. I could not go another day with the G1. I have killed it, overworked it, put it on the slave train – I had to bury it so it can finally rest in peace.

So now I have the MyTouch 3G Slide and I’m hoping this device can keep up with me. I waited a while to see what was coming on the T-Mobile line and I was hoping and praying it would be an Android with an actual keyboard and then came the MyTouch 3G Slide. I was honestly eyeballing the Droid Incredible and was almost prepared to buy it unlocked, but I am not ready to go exclusive with a screen based keyboard. I email and text way too much. I’m just not ready nor prepared to give up the speed and accuracy of typing on an actual keyboard. I know, call me an old foggie, but hey, a sista likes keys (hehe).

Out the box the MyTouch 3G Slide is shorter than my G1, but has a slightly bigger screen which is really nice. The phone also appears to be slimmer, but I think it’s actually the same width as my G1, but for some reason the way the MyTouch 3G Slide is designed makes it feel thinner (bazaar)… The phone came in some really nice packaging. I think all phones should come in a case like this one. The box is padded on the inside and securely holds the phone, charger and other components. It’s a nice touch.

Setting up the phone was easy as usual, but there are a few new things I noticed in the set up that pleased me. On set up it of course asked for your Gmail account, but it also asked for your Flickr (you know I love Flickr – check out my photostream), Facebook (can’t stay off of it) and Twitter. I use Flickr for ALL of my photos, so I was pleased to see this automatic integration.

Being as though I just set up the phone thirty minutes ago, I will give this phone a 7 day test run and blog about my experience with this MyTouch 3G Slide.I can wait to give it a good spin. I am already impressed with what I’ve seen thus far….

Stay tuned for Hello MyTouch 3G Slide Part Deux!

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May 10th, 2010

An Unofficial Mother's Day Tradition

By TheMacMommy

Standard Podcast: Play Now | Download (8)

Perhaps it’s a holiday tradition that only a Mac Mommy can love, but it’s a tradition of mine — and now it can be yours too! For the third year in a row, it has been an honor and a privilege to participate as a guest on the Mother’s Day edition of The Unofficial Apple Weblog’s weekly Talkcast.

I didn’t make it until the last half of the show because we were out celebrating at dinner, but when I was able to make it on “air” for the last half of the show, I was greeted warmly by TUAW hosts and fellow comrades. Spending time geeking out with my friends on TUAW really completed my Mother’s Day.

Click here to listen to what was discussed on the TUAW Talkcast.
iTunes Link

Join TUAW each week for the live Talkcast over on Talkshoe.

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May 1st, 2010

App Crush On Mac Journal

By TheMacMommy

In March, I purchased the MacHeist Nano Bundle. The application that piqued my interest the most? Mac Journal. I’m using it right to compose this blog entry.

(This is a test to see if I can use this to write posts for Moms Gone Geek and publish them to the WordPress blog. It would be so awesome if I could do this. Let’s see what happens. If it works, I think I’ll be too darn excited to sleep!)

Result:

Oh wow!

I am absolutely giddy right now. I can not believe how incredible this application is. I could just kick myself for not using it sooner. I don’t think I’m going to get much sleep this weekend because I’m going to be playing with this application!

It’s hard to believe Keagan will be six months old tomorrow! I also can not believe it has been over six months since I’ve produced a podcast for Moms Gone Geek. I’m really looking forward to getting back into recording. I’m currently reviewing some hardware and software and soon I’ll be posting the results of these reviews. I also have some product to give away as well.

My goal is to get this show back in motion for Mother’s Day. We’ll see what happens. If I can implement this Mac Journal application into my workflow, I might just be able to blog more often because it seems like a much more efficient blogging method than the built-in wordpress editor I have been struggling with.

I am so excited to start using this software to blog in this space as well as my other blog, TheMacMommy.

There is also a Mac Journal app for the iPhone and I’m planning on checking it out soon. The reviews that came out when it launched were less than stellar, but updates have been released since then.

This is the first blog post I’m composing using Mac Journal and I am really impressed so far. It’s very intuitive. The only thing I can’t seem to figure out is how to work with inserting images. There seems to be a lack of formatting for being able to have text flow around the image. I suppose that comes from my graphic and publishing background. Ideally, I’d love to have blogging software look and feel like page layout software. Mac Journal so far is coming pretty close!

I’m excited to see what happens when I try to import the previous blog entries from the wordpress site. Since we moved our blog back to being hosted and using wordpress, many of the image links are still broken. I can see when people visit the blog, or when spiders do their crawling, that there are a lot of “page not found” results. I’m trying to see where they are coming from, but with the amount of networking I’ve done for this blog, who knows where the source is right now since different sites pull from the RSS feed. There are probably feed readers out there that have yet to be updated.

Growing pains, I suppose.

I try to take it all in stride because I look at it as a learning experience. I’m having a lot of fun experiencing new technologies — which is really what Moms Gone Geek is all about!

Well, I’m going to post this entry and see how it looks on the blog. I posted a quick intro earlier, so I’ll also be looking to see how the RSS feed updates and where. Tomorrow perhaps I’ll try out the voice recording portion of this app and see how that could be integrated into the site.

Until then, thanks for geeking out with me!