Abbreviations, you gotta love ’em if you’re in this business. And yet we all fall behind. Txt msgs, IMs, heck, they’ve even crept into email and F2F conversations. Here’s a handy list of abbreviations from Instant Messaging Planet.

Everybody else is talking about it so I might as well, too. Skyfire has a new, free mobile browser in beta. It’s server-based, meaning that all your requests go through their servers but the experience is supposed to be very much like desktop browsing including Youtube and Glash support. Engadget has a blurb here which includes links to a video demo, which is good for me because I still haven’t received my beta invitation.

Was chatting by email with one of my friends and I was reminded of one of my most satisfying “converged”, “connected” experiences. A friend and I were driving to her parents’ house a few hours away. On the way, we lost our favorite radio station. So, I pulled out my trusty Windows Mobile phone with 3G access, connected it to her car’s radio/CD player and I streamed radio via my phone. We listened to the Internet broadcast of the terrestrial station for a while and, when we got bored with that, switched over to one of the Internet-only stations and flopped between them and one or two others. Eventually, we found nothing we were interested in so I fired up Radio365 Mobile and listened to some Live365 stations, all with nary a hiccup or dropout. Coming back, we didn’t even bother with the car’s radio but started right off with my phone. I was in geek heaven!

I have Vista on one of my new laptops and, whatever you may think about Vista, it’s an interesting experience – there’s a lot of good in the new system (Bluetooth and wireless that “just work”, for instance). I’ve got a Windows Mobile phone that I regularly connect to my laptops to transfer and archive data and, I have to admit, it’s easier to manage with Vista than with my XP systems. Information Week has a good article entitled Going Mobile With Windows Vista that talks about mobile computing on Vista; things like power saving settings, the Mobility Center and like that. Apparently the article is an excerpt from a Que book

While not strictly a mobile topic, I’m filing this under Mobile because it helps you BE mobile!

Saint Louis University has published a super-small 2008 calendar but not in a form you’d expect. It shows what day the first of each month falls and the date of the first Sunday in each month. With some very rudimentary arithmetic, you can easily compute other days/dates

Instructions and a downloadable PDF are here.

(From Lifehacker.)