Monthly Archives: July, 2010
Today’s Echo July 29, 2010
10 Tips to Help Keep Your Desk Clean | Ian’s Messy Desk How much stuff do you have sitting on your desk or in your work area? A while back, Coopers & Lybrand (now Price Waterhouse Coopers) released data from a poll on personal organization. One statistic found that, “The average desk worker has 36 [...]
Today’s Echo July 28, 2010
O2 To Investigate iPhone Roaming Charge Glitch – ITProPortal.com O2 is investigating why customers who claim to have turned off data roaming have still been charged for internet access whilst abroad, tech news site Web User reported on Monday. Brits love smartphones | PDA-247 Clove has pointed to a survey from GfK which highlights a [...]
Today’s Echo July 27, 2010
3 UK Presents £5 SIM-Only Data Plan – ITProPortal.com 3 UK may have landed the best value data plan package, one which would be an ideal complement for the Dell Streak or, with a little DIY, the Apple iPad. First look at the Dell Inpsiron M101z 11.6 inch notebook Dell plans to launch a new [...]
Today’s Echo July 26, 2010
Dealing with Security Threats to Your Startup A story in Thursday's Computerworld describes how the security expert Thomas Ryan invented the character "Robin Sage" to demonstrate some of the risks of social networking. Ryan "used a few photos to portray the fictional Sage on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter as an attractive, somewhat flirty cybergeek, with [...]
Today’s Echo July 25, 2010
8.9 inch “Sony Style” mini laptop available for $299 We’ve seen a lot of cheap Sony Vaio P clones over the last 18 months or so. But one thing most have in common is that they tend to only be available in Asia. You know, unless someone goes through the trouble of shipping them internationally [...]
Today’s Echo July 24, 2010
Personal Time Management | Ian’s Messy Desk Personal time management is about focus. The Pareto Principle—also known as the ‘80:20 Rule’—states that 80% of effort generates 20% of outcomes. The other side of the principle is, 80% of the desired outcome can be generated by 20% of effort. While the 80/20 ratio is somewhat arbitrary, [...]
Never caught short of power
One of the most useful features of the modern laptop is the always powered USB port – a port (or all ports) that have their 5V, 500mA supply always available regardless of whether the laptop is on or off. How is this useful? Well if you are like me and have pretty much all of [...]
Today’s Echo July 23, 2010
Netbook Optimization Kit makes Firefox a bit more netbook-friendly I’ve never exactly had a problem running the Firefox web browser on a netbook. But I do tend to disable a few toolbars so that the browser UI doesn’t take up too much screen real estate. When you’re using a 1024 x 600 pixel display, every [...]
Today’s Echo July 22, 2010
Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini Pro • reghardware Review Sony Ericsson reckoned it was on to a winner with its impressive Xperia X10 handset, which in one swoop helped us to forget the pain of flawed Xperias past. Then it squeezed the formula into the tiny palm-sized X10 Mini – reviewed here – which offered [...]
Today’s Echo July 21, 2010
Asus drops Windows CE tablet dreams, enter the Asus Android tablet When Asus officially announced plans for its upcoming Eee Pad tablets, the company said there would be a 12 inch tablet running Windows 7 called the Eee Pad EP121, and 10 inch model called the Eee PC EP101 which would run Windows Embedded Compact [...]