Monthly Archives: January, 2009
Touch screen delights
If the Asus T91/T101 series touch screen netbooks show even half the promise shown in this video, you are looking at my next Netbook. As long, of course, as it has at least 5 hours of battery life as well
Online Backup – Jungledisk
One part of your roaming backup strategy should include offsite/Internet based backup services. The one I use is Jungledisk which has recently updated its software to version 2.5b. Jungledisk makes use of the Amazon S3 storage service as a destination (and soon to be Rackspace after its acquisition by them). When I upgraded I found [...]
Evernote – Your External Brain
Evernote is a feature packed note taking application that synchronises it’s data into the cloud, allowing access from a variety of devices and software clients, such as iPhone, Windows Mobile, Windows XP and Vista, Mac OS X, Sandisk U3 USB Flash Drives and a web interface. Evernote allows for a variety of different types of [...]
New author on The Long Distance Worker Tech
I would like to welcome Ross Bale to this blog. Ross will be making his first post today and making many other contributions from this point onwards, covering more of a corporate vein. Ross and I worked together back when we were much younger, although some younger than others, back when Tech knew no downturns [...]
Brief Intro to Netbooks
CNET does some very nice podcasts and other info about technology and gadgets. The latest Real Deal (144) podcast covers Netbooks and discusses the relative merits/use of different features of netbooks. Have a listen. Obviously their are country specifics particularly about wireless internet (3G), as you can get 3G embedded versions in the UK without [...]
Netbook Screen Optimisation
One of the annoyances for me about many netbooks is the choice of the 1024×600 pixel screen. When you are around the office you can make use external monitors as I have already discussed, but when you are actually mobile there is simply not enough pixels. There are a couple of things you can do [...]
Password Management – Epilogue
It has been a little over a week now since the Twitter password hack, which we now know to have been hack allowed by a system design flaw in the authentication system used by them, combined with human factors. A standard dictionary attack was used with a list of known words (combined with single or [...]
Dual Screen Mobile PCs/Netbooks
I have seen small screens like this starting to appear but they do not fully answer what I want… Take a netbook and then have an attached second screen of the same or higher resolution giving a portable dual (or more) monitor setup for those people who are mobile workers but set up offices where [...]
Ok.. I had to post about this – LG Watchphone
Now, I am not live blogging CES but I did see one thing that overloaded my geek… The LG Watchphone. CNET gives a great video view here. A little big maybe, but then that is today’s watch fashion. The question I have is more about real world battery life.
Palm Pre and HTC Touch Dual – Separated at Birth
With regard to the software and specifics of the specification like OS, Software, UI, screen resolution and camera, the Palm Pre and the HTC Touch Dual are so related to each other that they would not be allowed to get married. See what you think? Palm Pre with keyboard extended Palm Pre with closed keyboard [...]