A reader (thanks John!) was kind enough to send me a link to an article proclaiming that T-Mobile is going to stop selling the @Home service.
The article reads like it’s a done deal, and sure enough it is. Further research confirms that T-Mobile is stopping sales of the @Home service once the inventory of equipment [...]
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T-Mobile To Stop Selling @Home Service
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My Comparison of Verizon FIOS and Comcast Internet and TV Services
I moved this past July to a new house that previously had FIOS installed. I was pretty thrilled with the prospect of getting off of Comcast and moving to Verizon FIOS.
It’s been almost 4 months now since first switching to FIOS for my internet and TV, and as much as it pains me to [...]
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T-Mobile@Home Call Forwarding Options
Wish I had known about the excellent call forwarding options that came with the @Home service. If you do nothing else, at least look at the CALL FORWARDING IF NOT REACHABLE option. Can’t imagine why would NOT set that one up at least. In fact, after looking these over and knowing the issues we’ve had [...]
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Interesting Captivate Links
Came across some good stuff over the past week. Usually I’m too lazy to blog about this stuff, but I gotta hand it to Microsoft – they suck at a lot of things, but Windows Live Writer kicks ass. Nothing else out there touches it.
So, without further adieu….
Resize the Slide Notes Window
Anyone who has recorded [...]
One Year Review of Tmobile@Home Phone Service
Hard to believe but it was just over one year ago that I heard about the Tmobile@Home service and, unprepared, I walked into the Tmobile store and purchased my setup.
But alas, it’s been a full year of using the service and although I haven’t blogged enough on this site I know a lot of folks [...]
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Using the Adobe Elearning Suite Workflow – Can Substitue Fireworks for Photoshop
As I sometimes am too quick to do, I’ve been stewing for a while now, since the Adobe Elearning Developer Suite was released, about why they included Photoshop instead of Fireworks. I totally understand why they might do this – more Photoshop users than Fireworks.
So last week I went out and bought a tutorial [...]
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Tracking User Progress in Captivate 4 Using Variables and Actions
Wanted to take a shot at exercising Captivate 4’s new (and very useful) new features: actions and variables.
To try them, I decided to create something useful (for once!) by putting together a sort of ‘user progress’ slide. The premise is that there is one central slide that is a ‘jump-off’ or starting point for users [...]
Capivate 4 Text-to-Speech Feature Review
I’ve been using Captivate 4 extensively for a week now and I think it’s just a completely different product from previous versions. It’s awesome, while previous versions were just marginally useful to me. Heck, this blog gets hundreds of readers per day and you know why? Because of the Captivate posts. But as I’ve told [...]
Don’t use width or height properties of Loader with AVM Captivate SWFs
Found a bug? Or just a limitation? Either way, if you try loading Captivate-generated movies into a Loader instance, like this:
var myLoader:Loader = new Loader();
myLoader.load(new URLRequest(”myCaptivate.swf”);
myLoader.width = 400;
myLoader.height = 300;
addChild(myLoader);
The result will be that the Captivate gets loaded but you won’t see it. You can hear it so long as you have sound in it. [...]