Want to know 2009′s best tips, tricks, and hacks? Look no further than Lifehacker’s popular Best of 2009 series. Lifehacker, the popular site that helps you make life better in nearly every conceivable area, has published their best of 2009 tips and tricks. Spend a few hours (literally) researching the year’s best DIY projects, most [...]
Apple just bumped Christmas into January. Word is they’ve reserved a venue for an event on January 26, and of course the speculation is that this will be the announcement of the mythical Apple Tablet, which is growing more mythical by the moment. The New York Times Bits Blog has now proclaimed 2010 to be [...]
Steve “Chippy” Paine has put up a review of the Archos 9 Internet Tablet. I wish I could say I was surprised by his findings but I’m not. He notes that the size diminishes its usefulness when mobile, the battery life is not what we’d like to see, and the out of the box install [...]
Today is ripe with Apple Tablet rumors, almost over-ripe. Analysts are as busy as elves saying that we’ll see multiple tablets (7 inches and 10 inches), that developers are being asked by Apple to make sure their apps work on the new screen sizes, and predicting how many Apple will sell and at what price. [...]
Watch for the invite begging to quickly begin. Engadget is reporting that the Google phone, known officially as the Nexus One now has some specs available. They are also reporting that it will be available on Jan 5 but as it looks, you have to receive an invitation to get one. That is most likely [...]
HP Home is offering the HP Pavilion dm3 for $569 which includes $40 in instant savings and an additional $20 coupon code and free shipping. The dm3 has an AMD Athlon Neo X2 Dual-core processor, 4 GB RAM and a 320 GB hard drive. Visit LogicBuy for more information and coupon code.
Call this a companion post to this one from last night. The difference is I have a sister. Two of them as a matter of fact, and contrary to the headline of this post, they both know what a Tablet is. Unlike the situation with everybody else who is rushing to beat Apple with a [...]
We’re giving away a Powermat Portable Mat to one lucky GBM reader today. You’ve probably seen Power Mat displays at your favorite retailers this holiday season as the company seems to be marketing its wireless charging stations pretty heavily these days. Powermat makes custom battery doors and cases for several Blackerry models so, the Nintendo [...]
At the moment e-Ink screens are out of the picture because they don’t have color, but the iPhone and iPod Touch is another story when it comes to Sesame Workshop and its unique take on eBooks. Essentially kids can “read” the books while listening to a recording of the story being read by their parents. [...]
There are still not many solid details on this yet, but I’d keep my eye on the Asus Eee Pad, a much rumored Tablet due to break out here at CES 2010 that Sumocat mentioned last night. Latest word is that it will be using the NVidia Tegra platform and have multi-touch. Netbooknews.com picked up [...]
Viliv keeps trying to pump life into the UMPC form factor and it looks like one of its next big moves is to launch a clamshell device. Good friends Chippy and jkkmobile point to a CES2010 release of the Viliv N5, a 4.8 inch UMPC with a keyboard. That keyboard thing to my mind is [...]
Word out of NetbookNews is the whispered ASUS slate tablet, the so-called Eee Pad, will feature multi-touch input. Yay! However, they’re also claiming it will run the NVIDIA Tegra system-on-a-chip. Boo! Hiss! Sorry, nothing against Tegra, which I’m rather excited to see hit the market (as are others), but it’s an ARM-based system, so unlike [...]
Well, not really. I don’t have a brother. But just about every manufacturer who has already been in the Netbook market is coming out with guess what? A new Netbook. So, if I had a brother I’m sure he’d be making one too. Yes, they are all scheduled to be announced at CES, and many [...]
Say what you will about the realization of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, but the concepts to come out of it have made their impact on the computing world. Their first laptop, the XO, gave rise to the netbook market. The follow-up, the XO-2, is a beautiful, folding tablet that unfortunately never passed [...]
The goal of the original One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) was to create a $100 computer that could be given to impoverished school children. Around the same time as the OLPC, Asus was working on their own budget-friendly consumer laptop, the Eee PC 701 Netbook. Two years have passed since the netbook craze began. Netbooks [...]
Don’t get all excited on this, because I’m sure a settlement will come down the road. That said, an a U.S. Court of Appeals found against Microsoft in a patent dispute with i4i Limited over the use of technology involving XML that Microsoft is using in its word processor, Microsoft Word. The Court of Appeals [...]
Want to charge your USB-powered device and two AA batteries at the same time and look cool doing it? Well, the Juice charger looks like the right gadget for the job. It’s going on sale in Japan and Taiwan soon from Nobil, but should be coming to the States later. Yanko Design has the scoop [...]
Want to switch your multi-touch PC to Linux? Well, it’s not quite a simple install yet, but it is possible thanks to the Interactive Computing Lab at ENAC. They’re showing the goods in a YouTube video, and it looks fairly effective. The current system appears limited to multiple cursors, i.e., no gestures, but they’ve overcome [...]
HP Home is offering the HP Pavilion dm3-1040us 13.3-in 1.3GHz Dual-core notebook with an instant $60 savings and an additional web coupon for $20 in savings and includes free 2-day shipping. The HP Pavilion dm3 has a Pentium Dual-core SU4100 1.3GHz processor; 4GB RAM, 13.3″ LED BrightView, 320 GB Hard rive, GMA 4500MHD processor and [...]
Recently Kevin Tofel of jkOnTheRun posted that he was looking for a data only plan from T-Mobile an he was disappointed that the options he was discovering all came with a 2 year contract. Other options do exist (if you read the comments to Kevin’s post you can see some suggestions.) But that’s not the [...]
Microsoft Office 2010 isn’t scheduled for release until next year (that’s the 2010 part) but if you’re wanting to know some of what’s inside you can pick up a free book from MSDN called First Look Office 2010. This won’t be a fully fleshed out read as it is only a fresh look. It’s an [...]
We’re seeing Tablets everywhere and for some time now it has been obvious that the move to Tablets (of all sizes) has been about consuming media. Those behind these devices are hoping you are ready to consume your TV, movies, magazines, books, and the Internet, while sitting on your couch (or in your bathroom) with [...]
If you’re a cloud person, you might want to check this out. The cloud backup service, Backupify has announced that it will offer free accounts with unlimited storage until January 31, 2010. When the company launched last summer their was a tiered payment system, but the president, Robert May, says that it is less expensive [...]
Ford’s next generation of vehicles with SYNC can be turned into a mobile hotspot by plugging in a 3G modem. This feature allows passengers to get online with their laptops and other WiFi enabled devices. It’s not clear whether or not the SYNC system itself will take advantage of the wireless Internet connection. It’d be [...]
Engadget’s Joshua Topolsky was on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon showing off a bunch of gadgets, including the ICD Ultra, a tablet device with a 7″ screen powered by NVIDIA Tegra and running Android. It’s finally making an appearance after being mentioned in passing some months ago. Spec-wise, it’s darn near the same as the [...]
Amit Agarwal of Digital Inspiration lived through a cloud computing nightmare and survived to blog about it. Last week someone hacked into his GMail and Google Apps account, which meant they had access to just about everything in his personal and business digital life. Luckily, he had some contacts at Google that helped him regain [...]
This weekend was nuts here in the Northern Shenandoah Valley. Like most of the Mid-Atlantic and New England we were socked with snowfall. We got between 18 inches and 2 feet locally and of course that threw us into a tailspin at Wayside Theatre where I work. We had to cancel all four weekend performances [...]
Fujitsu sure isn’t wasting any time jumping on the Pine Trail bandwagon. The company just announced the LifeBook MH380, one of the first netbooks with the new Intel Atom N450 processor. The LifeBook MH380 weighs in at 2.97 pounds and has a battery rating of ‘up to’ seven hours with a six-cell battery. This netbook’s [...]
Get ready for Pine Trail, the next generation of processors to run Netbooks and mobile devices. Intel unveiled details late last week and is touting improvements in performance and battery life. For those who like to keep score with alpha-numeric designations this will be the N450 chip. The key development here is combining the GPU [...]
HP Home is offering a quickship HP TouchSmart tx2-1370us tablet for $849 plus free shipping after coupon code. The TouchSmart Tx2 includes; an AMD Turion X2 Ultra ZM-85 2.3GHz Dual-core Mobile CPU, 4GB RAM, 320GB 7200RPM hard drive, 12.1″ WXGA LED with integrated touchscreen incl. Multi-touch, Radeon HD 3200 and DVD+/-RW with LightScribe. Visit LogicBuy [...]
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Poor AT&T. They successfully fended off Operation Chokehold and scared Fake Steve Jobs into backtracking. They’ve recently seen statistics on their capital expenditures for their network development released that doesn’t jive with their PR and they can’t control their own execs who are giving foot and mouth disease a new twist, now this. When Saturday [...]
According to TechCrunch, Google is close to acquiring DocVerse, a company that helps people group-edit Microsoft Office documents. This isn’t a done deal, but I’m crossing my fingers since my friend Shan Sinha runs the company and I’d love to have DocVerse integrated into Google Docs. As much as I like Google Docs for collaborating [...]
The recent news of Google’s own smartphone, the Nexus One, has generated a lot of discussion and blurry screenshots. Despite the quality of these low light glimpses into Google’s phone, there are many clear gems coming to us in the future Android 2.1 OS. The Google News and Weather application presents top headlines and forecasts [...]
To each his/her own when it comes to what being mobile means, but I’m not sure lugging your iMac to the local Panera to play WOW qualifies. But that’s just me. Via Gizmodo
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