As you’ll see in this video, my wife absolutely loves Super Bowl Sunday….
GottaBeMobile.com reader Medic / Willem Evenhuis just posted a YouTube video (see below) demonstrating a possible security bug with Windows 7 and their password security setting in the TIP, which is supposed to keep the password from being displayed while it is being entered via the onscreen keyboard. It is clear from his video that [...]
GottaBeMobile.com and LogicBuy.com have formed a partnership to highlight special “Deal of the Days” on netbooks, tablet pcs, mobile computers, mobile accessories, and more. Some of these coupon codes have a limited quanity, so you’ll need to act quickly on them once we post the deals up. Our first deal of the day is a [...]
The two previous posts this morning (here and here) got me thinking a bit. And I may be off base to some degree and I may just be coming to a point others already have reached, but follow along if you care to. The preponderance of news in the tech sector lately has been examining [...]
I don’t think anyone will be surprised when this news is confirmed. A source is telling VentureBeat that Intel is working on laying the foundation for Netbooks running Google’s Android as an OS to be mass produced. 2010 looks like the likely target, but according to the source we might see this happen in 2009. [...]
If true the numbers in this article on Silicon Valley Insider are eye opening. Doing a little math they figured out that it would be cheaper for the NY Times to send each of its 830,000 subscribers an Amazon Kindle than it currently is to print and deliver the paper. Notice the words ‘to [...]
Although putting OS X on your netbook may be illegal and certainly violates the EULA, one curious individual has taken the time to benchmark the MSI Wind clone, the Advent 2411. JayPan at Apple Different has posted numerous benchmarks comparing the Advent 2411 to an older iBook G4, a MacBook Air, and a Dell [...]
In previous versions of XP Tablet PC Edition and Vista, Sticky Notes only supported ink. With the Windows 7 version of Sticky Notes, text is now supported, which also allows for inking on text. Ink and text support in Sticky Notes is a huge improvement. The note surface also auto grows while inking, providing more [...]
According to Steven Sinofsky via his post on the Engineering Windows 7 blog, the version of Windows 7 that most everyone in the world is using will be the only beta, with the next release being Release Candidate. The next milestone for the development of Windows 7 is the Release Candidate or ““RCâ€Â. Historically the [...]
Wow — check this out! Thanks to Crunchgear posting this up. Dell has some Dell Mini 9 Netbooks in the refurbished computer store, and with a coupon you can cut the cost from $209.00 down to $179.00. It is the lowest end model with Ubuntu and only a 4G solid state drive, but if you [...]
The always prolific Ian Dixon from The DigitalLifestyle.com and I got a few minutes to chat at CES 2009 about Netbooks and UMPCs (or what’s left of them) and did so for a podcast now up on The Media Center Show. The podcast also has an interview with Vidabox’s Steven Chung about the touchpad, bluray [...]
Intel has taken the covers of their Moblin OS for Netbooks and has made the alpha version available for download – head over to Moblin.org and check it out. via ArsTechnica
I was so wrapped up with things at the theatre yesterday I forgot to post this. My apologies to Rob for that. Here’s hoping everyone will join me in wishing one of the planet’s all around great guys, Rob Bushway, a belated Happy Birthday!
I was certainly one of those in a loud chorus yelling and screaming about the interruptions that the User Account Control (UAC) in Vista visited on my workflow in the early days. There were times when it just drove me nuts. I was happy to see that Microsoft made some improvements on the interruption factor [...]
I’ve been heads down these last few weeks since returning from CES 2009 trying to create a new show that we hope is going to help us keep the theatre I run open in these tough economic times, and also dealing with the effects of that shoulder sprain I experienced a couple of weeks ago. [...]
One of the biggest headaches with importing music, audio books, etc is having to mess with all the track information. I spent hours over Christmas importing audio books, getting track numbers right, etc – needless to say, it was not how I intended to spend Christmas Day. That is where TuneUp comes in. TuneUp is [...]
This Sunday is all about football, food, and commercials. Fortunately, I’ll be kicking back in my recliner taking it all in. For those blessed to have tickets, though, they’ll also have to contend with the normal security issues that come along with such a high profile event. It turns out that Microsoft’s Surface is playing [...]
Angel Garcia figured out how to enable the Spanish recognition in Windows 7 and has posted the solution in the forums of todoUMPC. Apparently Microsoft didn’t include the language packs in the latest beta of Windows 7. Via UMPCTips
How far we’ve come, and how quickly, relatively speaking. This is just fun to watch and remember when getting your morning news on your computer was a far away dream. I can’t remember the last time I bought a newspaper. Via TechCrunch
Mark Spoonauer of Laptop Mag.com sat down with NVidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang for a fairly lengthy interview regarding Netbooks and NVidia’s ION GPU. Within the context of who we are talking to here, (obviousy NVidia is pushing its own platform) there is still some very interesting information coming out of the interview. Here are some [...]
Phatware has released version 3.1 of their PenOffice software. If you are an OpenOffice.org users with a Tablet PC, then you need to check out this update. The new version of PenOffice now includes support for OpenOffice.org 3.0 or later documents. That means that programs like Writer, Calc and Draw documents can now have handwritten [...]
AT&T is trumpeting the news that they activated 1.9 million iPhones in the 4th Quarter although revenue was down year to year in the same quarter. This comes on news that Verizon also had a good 4th quarter. I’m happy to hear that activations are up, but AT&T is also saying that the revenue hit [...]
I don’t want to be, but I’m on the precipice of saying I told you so. When news of Moblin V2 popped out yesterday there was a slight but important twist in expectations. The Alpha release is ““initially targeted at Netbooks running the Intel Atom platform.†We won’t see Moblin for MIDs until 2010. This [...]
Professional photographers are necessarily picky and finicky creatures when it comes to choosing a display screen for their work. Everything from viewing angles to color-matching is important to their work and the details do matter. Rob Galbraith has put together a comparison between three very different machines and somewhat surprisingly the screen on his Dell [...]
One of the promises of Windows 7 is a better and easier solution to home networking via Homegroups. Essentially the feature allows you to set up a relationship between the various machines you might use on your home network, including that notebook you might lug home for the office. Once this is set up, you [...]
Maybe this explains while GMail has been so flaky of late. Google has finally added (although it is still experimental) and offline mode to GMail using its own Google Gears. You’ll have to flip the switch in the Google Labs section of your settings and this looks like another phased rollout as I don’t see [...]
It looks like Amazon will unveil the anticipated Kindle 2 on February 9 at a press conference in New York City. We’ve seen supposed pictures of what this might be before, but we’ll know for sure in a few weeks. Apparently the real change will be using the Broadsheet microchip from Epson and E-Ink, (currently [...]
I’m not a big Nokia fan but I know many are. The ever present and always engaging Matt Miller has opened up a new site devoted to Nokia devices. Nokia Experts looks like it will give those interested in these devices a good resource to find out what’s up and what’s upcoming. Now, I wonder [...]
After we posted up video of Notebooks.com’s Xavier Lanier packing a 6-cell battery for the HP Mini 1000, the netbook world went crazy. There was finally proof that a 6-cell battery battery was available for this popular netbook, and it was finally within grasp. Now thanks to the folks at HPMiniForums.com and PortableMonkey, there [...]
This will certainly be interesting. The US Patent Office has awarded Apple a patent on multi-touch that includes not only the mechanics of how multi-touch works, but also the gestures (such as pinch, swipe, rotate). The patent had been under review for at least two years. Here’s the abstract from the patent: A computer-implemented method [...]
If you’re looking to check out the next version of Internet Explorer, the Release Candidate of IE8 is now available. I’ve been very impressed with what I see with IE8 in the Beta for Windows 7, but I can’t say I’ve really put it through its paces that much. In the Windows 7 version it [...]
Sometimes I find a device with which I get an emotional connection that transcends technical features and specifications. The HP Vivienne Tam Mini 1000 is just such a device. I just want to have this system – Viv – with me all the time. Granted, if the features didn’t live up to the beauty, then [...]
A few days ago Warner put up a post about a ‘Netbook’ version of Windows 7 that that Microsoft was supposedly going to offer. Well, as a follow up to the original post, Mary Jo Foley reports that Microsoft responded to her question: Microsoft is now saying that this SKU is not specific to netbooks. [...]
If you haven’t done the download for Windows 7 just yet, and you are still thinking about killing your bandwidth for a while, then you only have a few more days to do it! The download has been extended for a little while longer and will end on February 10th. The following timeline is from [...]
The New York Times has published an article detailing the impact of the $200 laptop. Naming netbooks specifically, the article discusses the impact of cheaper devices and software. The article highlights the significant change that the down economy is having on technology powerhouses like Microsoft and the proliferation and mainstream awareness/acceptance of Linux [...]
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Droid RAZR MAXX First Impressions and Unboxing Video
The Droid RAZR is just months old, but Motorola has already seen fit to introduce another mmber to the RAZR family, the Droid RAZR MAXX. The Droid RAZR (review) was known for a super thin design and Kevlar back, but it lacked in the battery life department. We saw 11-12 hours of battery life in [...]
The Next Nexus: What It Needs to Stay Ahead of the Pack
Late last year, Google and Samsung released the third rendition of the Nexus smartphone. The first of course was the HTC-made Nexus One which arrived in 2010 to great fan fare. Then, in late part of 2010, the Samsung-made Nexus S launched which eventually became available in two variants, the regular Nexus S and the [...]
Nokia Responds to Alleged 3-Inch ‘Tablet’ Leaks
When Nokia took the stage in New York City with carrier partner T-Mobile USA, various news outlets were reporting that Nokia was either working on a 3-inch tablet or media player. Right now, the company says that the information that was reported earlier was all a misunderstanding by various hopeful blogs. The device that was [...]
Pad & Quill Octavo iPad Case 2 Looks Great but is Bulky
The Pad & Quill Octavo case for the iPad 2 is a leather bound case that looks great on the iPad 2. This case is crafted with care and you can tell that when you pick it up. Pad & Quill is known for producing high quality cases that protect your tablet, computer or iPhone with [...]
Pad & Quill Fire Keeper: A Beautiful Kindle Fire Case
If you have a Kindle Fire, then you owe it to yourself to take a look at the beautiful Kindle Fire Keeper, a case from Pad & Quill. Pad & Quill cases protect your iPad, eBook reader, computer or iPhone with a touch of class giving users a classic book-like experience even though they’re holding a very [...]
id America Gasket iPhone Case Review
iPhone cases are a dime a dozen, but now and then I see one that stands out. Enter the Gasket iPhone case from id America. The id America Gasket case is a brushed aluminum iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S case that looks absolutely stunning. The machined case is inspired by the head gasket you’d find inside a [...]
