SpellCheck

You know what sucks.  Spellcheck.

My first attempt at spelling 'prestigious' came out 'prestituious'.  Even with the context of the rest of the sentence Word 2010 had "No Spelling Suggestions" for me.


Now I have to switch to a web browser, copy paste 'prestituious' into a search engine (Bing), then copy and paste its correction back into my document.  In doing that I wasted a few seconds, and lost my train of thought.




Microsoft - You can do better.

Facebook

Here are a couple of ideas for Facebook

Problem: My inbox in flooded with messages from events.  These messages aren't quiet spam, but they are less important to me than messages from my friends.

Solution: Separate messages between friends and everything else. 

Windows Phone 7

I just picked up my HTC surround, and I have to say I'm impressed.  Here are some things that I'd like to see in Windows Phone 7.1

Differienatiors (things to make WP better than competition)

• Socialize My Calendar - Let me share my calendar with other people, and let me see my contacts calendars.  This could all be done within the Calendar Hub.

• Tasks Integration - Give me a nice way to manage all of my tasks.  I think tasks could work nicely into the email app.  Let me pull in tasks from OneNote, Outlook, and Gmail.  (Related - Let me add tasks in OneNote mobile)

• Twitter Integration - I'd love deep integration with Twitter the same way Facebook is deeply integrated.

• Skydrive - Let me see my documents from Skydrive in the Office Hub, the same way you let me access SharePoint documents.  

Qualifiers (things needed to catch the competition)

• Multitasking

• Marketplace - When I launch marketplace, I see these three different places for apps.  This is confusing and cumbersome.  This is one of the few things Microsoft screwed up.

1. AT&T Appcenter
2. HTC Apps
3. Apps

• Adobe Reader - To open up a PDF you need to install the Adobe Reader app from the marketplace.  There is absolutely no reason I should have to do this.  Now when I look at my apps the top one I consistently see is Adobe Reader.  What a waste.

• Cut / Paste

first post

"Hello World"

I haven't decided on a theme for this blog yet, but right now I'm thinking about having it chronolog of my summer.