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Jay Goldman : How to tether a Telus BlackBerry with a Mac

Thu, 1 Dec 2011 04:29:12 +0000

Did you install the BlackBerry modem files in part 5 of Step 1? That's my first guess as to why you're not seeing it. Let me know if that fixes your problem.

Jay Goldman : iPhone 4S Siri in Canada Review

Tue, 8 Nov 2011 03:35:17 +0000

There has recently been some success at getting Siri to run on an iPhone 4 and iPod touch, but they aren't releasing the hack to the public right now: http://www.tuaw.com/2011/10/29/siri-working-on-ip...

Jay Goldman : iPhone 4S Siri in Canada Review

Wed, 2 Nov 2011 20:26:04 +0000

Siri is available in Canada, as I explained above. It's just turned off by default, also for reasons explained above.

Jay Goldman : How to tether a Telus BlackBerry with a Mac

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 02:27:21 +0000

I'm pretty sure you can just create one if it isn't there. Make sure you are looking in your all user library and not in the one in your user directory (/Library/Modem Files vs. ~/Library/Modem Files).

Jay Goldman : 8 SEO Tips and Tricks

Sun, 3 Jul 2011 03:39:55 +0000

Thanks for the comment! I'd say that's a pretty misguided position. The benefits of meta tags far outweigh the risk that someone is going to steal your keywords and then outrank you for them. If your competitors are savvy enough to do that, there's a good chance they can figure out your keywords all by themselves.

Jay Goldman : How to get the Firefox AwesomeBar in Google Chrome's OmniBar

Sat, 19 Feb 2011 02:18:03 +0000

Agreed! It's better than nothing, but I'd love to see someone tackle making a real version of it.

Jay Goldman : 8 SEO Tips and Tricks

Thu, 6 Jan 2011 06:48:28 +0000

They are definitely deprecated for their straight SEO value, but you shouldn\\\'t leave them blank. The description, for example, can often appear with your site on SERPs. It has also found a new purpose thanks to all of the social share widgets, which often use it as the default content they include when sharing (especially Facebook).

Jay Goldman : 8 SEO Tips and Tricks

Thu, 6 Jan 2011 06:43:26 +0000

Matt — there\\\'s a difference between a sitemap for your site\\\'s visitors (human readable) and a sitemap.xml file for search engines (machine readable). Both will help with SEO in different ways. In the case of the human sitemap, you can call it anything you\\\'d like and put it anywhere so long as it\\\'s linked to from other pages. The goal is to provide an overview of your site\\\'s major sections and pages to people and to help crawlers discover all the links to crawl. The machine readable sitemap.xml needs to be called that and should go in the root level of your site (e.g.: http://jaygoldman.com/sitemap.xml). It has to be in XML format and should be submitted to the search engines through their webmaster tools. Google for \\\'sitemap.xml\\\' for more info. Hope that helps!

Jay Goldman : Travelling to the US with Rogers

Thu, 6 Jan 2011 06:36:22 +0000

Geoff — that\\\'s probably not true. Your device has already received the text and incurred the network access before you\\\'ve read it. Likewise, it had used some amount of data to download the email\\\'s \\\'envelope\\\' even if you haven\\\'t downloaded all of the content. On the flipside — and this may be what that info was based on — you shouldn\\\'t be charged for a phone call if you don\\\'t answer it.

Jay Goldman : How to get the Firefox AwesomeBar in Google Chrome's OmniBar

Fri, 31 Dec 2010 13:53:04 +0000

I completely agree - even with this 'fix' it's definitely not as good. It's only an extension away from bring as good though, so I challenge any devs reading this to build a better Omnibar for Chrome. Lots of people will love you for it! #lazyweb

Jay Goldman : Travelling to the US with Rogers

Mon, 13 Dec 2010 17:33:32 +0000

You should definitely contact Rogers if you haven't already done so. Wireless signals don't respect international borders (unfortunately!), so there will always be some leaking from both sides. Your phone is probably joining a network coming across from the US, which puts you on roaming. Depending on the phone, you might be able to switch off roaming or tell it to prefer one network over another.

Jay Goldman : 8 SEO Tips and Tricks

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 11:21:13 +0000

Sure! The webmaster tools from Google and Bing give you the capability to submit a sitemap URL, which they'll regularly pull to check. It's an XML file with entries for each page on your site and some info about its last update and change frequency. More info a thttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitemaps.

LeadingSmart : Get Rid of the Performance Review?

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:59:51 +0000

Great conversation! We're big fans of Sam Culbert's approach. Performance reviews have their place (in Churches and in business), but top managers know to coach their people rather than giving them a hit-and-run smack upside the head once a year (great imagery Jim!). There's some more great conversation happening on this topic at Make Work Meaningful, a collaborative conversation on the future of work. Check out the Performance Management section for some posts on the topic:http://makeworkmeaningful.com/section/performance... Very much on topic pitch: you guys should check out Rypple too. We provided a web-based tool for fast feedback and quick coaching that helps managers motivate, align, and develop their teams. Our Coach tool is all about making 1:1 coaching conversations happen regularly and capturing actions, notes, and kudos all in one place. More info athttp://rypple.com.

TechStars Blog : The Founders Launches

Tue, 2 Jun 2009 21:58:34 +0000

Production quality is excellent — can't wait for the rest of the series! Great job capturing the feeling of throwing everything else to the wind and diving into a startup. Hope you keep capturing that emotional ride over the rest of the summer.

DemoCamp : DemoCampGuelph9

Mon, 11 May 2009 21:27:43 +0000

I'll be there talking about TransitCamp, so come on out if you're interested in things other than pure tech!

Jay Goldman : Travelling to the US with Rogers

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:25:58 +0000

Good catch! I was just passing along what the Rogers rep told me, but she obviously was wrong. The footnote says:

U.S. roaming is $0.006 per KB and international roaming is $0.03 per KB when you subscribe to a Data plan. If you subscribe to a Flex rate data plan, the U. S. roaming is $3 per MB and international roaming is $0.03 per KB". If you subscribe to unlimited on-device browsing rate, both the U. S. roaming and international roaming is $0.03 per KB

Jay Goldman : Speaking at MaRS: New Models of Web Application Development

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 02:33:45 +0000

Bryce is absolutely right. What makes BarCamp work is that everyone is a founder and member of the community. Didn't mean to leave anyone out above, but rather to call attention to some of the folks who have gone above and beyond in continuing to make it an awesome community.

Jay Goldman : Follow Back: How I Choose Who to Follow on Twitter

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:30:21 +0000

Absolutely! Post a link when it's up.

Jay Goldman : Follow Back: How I Choose Who to Follow on Twitter

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:30:07 +0000

That's a great idea Jeff! Wish I'd thought of it :)

Jay Goldman : Follow Back: How I Choose Who to Follow on Twitter

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:37:02 +0000

Jesse — That's really interesting! I use the columns in TweetDeck for tracking mentions of "Facebook Cookbook" or tracking hashtags I want to follow. How do you use groups to decide who you want to follow?