The Mac Experience in Business & Home: Help, Tips, Discussion & Radio Show Notes

Here’s a product I discussed on the air tonight. Having sold our so-yesterday physical phones and moved entirely to soft-phones from Counterpath (more on this in an upcoming post), we have been experimenting with various headsets.

Most of our team has settled on Logitech headsets, link here (no, I don’t own stock in the company). I am using the (Premium) Notebook Headset, and am very pleased with its sound quality. I’ve had no complaints about being able to hear me from callers, not even when I have background noise such as air conditioning, other people talking, pandemonium… well, most background noise is filtered quite nicely.

You can now take a 20 minute guided tour of the iPhone here on Apple’s website. This device is mind-bogglingly cool. Watching this makes me want one more than ever.

iPhone arrives on June 29. iPhone features an amazing mobile phone, is the best iPod ever created, and puts the Internet in your pocket with desktop–class email, web browsing, searching, and maps. And iPhone makes it all easy to use with its revolutionary multi-touch user interface. iPhone syncs with your PC or Mac just like an iPod, so organizing your content now will help you start calling, texting, emailing, surfing, listening, and watching even faster when you get your iPhone. Here are a few suggestions to help you get ready:

Thanksgiving for the mobile set: why pay for mobile email, contacts and calendaring when you can now get it for free from Google ?

While the current, major limitations on the number of supported devices and carriers , as well as the functionality (it’s POP only, for one example, making synchronization challenging), make it the choice for few this holiday season, it’s certainly promising at least for spurring competition and development in mobile data communications. Note one doesn’t need the new app to view Gmail: browse it from most mobile devices using Google’s improved mobile browser .

I bought the Missing Sync (www.missingsync.com ) and I have to tell you, for anyone using Palm products and the Palm desktop HotSync software I must tell you it is a GODSEND. I know a client that is using the Sony Clie and I myself am using the Palm Treo 650. Syncing it via usb cable or wireless thru Bluetooth is incredibly simple. Bluetooth takes a few minutes longer, but is still flawless in data transfer. The interface plays nicely with Palm conduits as well as the .Mac sync suite (iCal, Address Book) and even will sync up your tunes from iTunes. I was amazed at the ease of use with it. I have in the past spent many a long workday futzing with Palm HotSync and the conduit setting for my clients. Palm doesn’t seem to proactive as of yet to change the interface of their software, and until then I will gladly recommend this software title to our clients that struggle with the integrated Palm suite.