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May 24th, 2011

I remember that when I lamented about Google’s 10,000 contact limit I predicted Google would want to be taken seriously in the business world.  Today I did some cursory research on whether there was a workaround to the limit (which is not on the devices, but in Googlemail itself).  Apparently, earlier this month, as I had predicted when I got my Android phone, they increased the limit from 10,000 contacts to 25,000.  Yes, I have more than 10,000.  I actually have much more than 25,000, but I don’t have more than 25,000 working emails from people who I need to have access to data for at any given time.  I have subfolders where I’ve put the vast majority of my lesser common and distant contacts to be able to do a synchronization at all.  I’m a list and organization freak, according to some people, and I take that as a compliment.  I can’t tell you how many times keeping track of everyone I meet and talk to, to the best of my ability, has helped me to understand interpersonal relationships and help me to also make more prudent business decisions.

So I’m still using the first Droid from Motorola that had the Android 2.x software on it with Verizon and I am happier with that than I ever was with an Iphone.  Truly the Google-based software has only gotten more powerful and faster with the various firmware upgrades.  I do not have any issues with stuttering and I am near the 10,000 contact limit at the moment.  I will be transferring nearly 20,000 more contacts after I finish writing this blog.

January 16th, 2010

Internet Explorer 8

  • Still takes an unacceptably long time to open up extra tabs.

Chrome

  • Installs very quickly. ?Opens up new pages and seems to accommodate
  • Popup control is not detailed enough.

Firefox

  • Scrambling to keep it’s secondary lead over Chrome, I found that it did not work with memory management as well, so it was always subject to crashes.
January 16th, 2010

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