While Dennis and Hugo are out shopping for new belts, Rob Bushway, who has been absent from our GBM Podcasts for far too long, joins Warner Crocker for GBM Podcast #22, and we have a blast talking about a ton of topics in the Tablescape. (Note, neither Rob nor Warner was wearing a belt of any kind during this podcast.) Rob has spent some of his time away from podcasting boning up on art criticism and philosophy and spreads his wisdom as we chat about HP’s decision to replace the TC4400 with the 2710p, Chad Essley, the Tablet PC Cartoonist, Rob’s experience with the Flybook V5i, shipping delays in the Tabletscape, and cover some forum news. We also spend some time talking about the OQO Model 02. (And we only hit below the belt a few times.) Check out GBM Podcast #22 and give it a listen.

Here’s the notes for show #22:

News Items:

• HP's 2710p Tablet PC is Replacing the TC4400 Tablet PC
• Chad Essley - the Tablet PC Cartoonist
• Handwriting Demo on a Flybook V5i Tablet PC
• Gateway is Experiencing Shipping Delays

Hot Topics in the GBM Forums:

• L0GiX and Tweaking the Q1 Ultra UMPC
• Michael Venini wonders where Tablet PCs would be today without the community.
• SegalSegal points up some issues that Tablet PC users experience with browsers. (That Firefox bug is certainly interesting.)
• Shipping Woes with Gateway? Join bpjen in this thread in the GBM Forums.

And we tighten down the belt on the recent OQO discussion here on GottaBeMobile.com. We point out why this device works well for some, and may not for others.

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I’m not sure when Dennis Rice coined the phrase, Flight Through Coolness, if he was thinking about all the cool stuff we talked about in this week’s GBM Podcast, or if he was just talking about his very cool reaction to some of the news and gadgets we talked about. Maybe he was just entranced with his new Samsung Q1 Ultra. No matter. The show is a flight through coolness with lots of talk (and arguments) about new devices and announcements, including which GBM Team member is trying out which new device. We cover a range of topics and have quite a bit of fun, so pull up your favorite podcatcher and give GBM Podcast #21 a listen.

Here’s the notes for GBM Podcast #21:

News Items:

• Raon Digital Everun UMPC Launched
• Lenovo Debuts Thinkpad X61 Tablet PCs
• Popular Mechanics Video on Surface Technology
• LiveScribe Pen: Paper Based Computing

Hot Topics in the GBM Forums:

• How Much Would You Be Willing To Pay For A SSD? (Thread started by Steve S)
• SCREENS: HP2710p vs. Lenovo X60/X61 from an expert (Thread started by Austin)
• Ribbon in Outlook 2007, feedback needed (Thread started by Josh Einstein)
• MindManager 7 (Thread started by Areyes)

And we spend some time talking about Hugo’s method for deciding which Tablet PC or Ultra-Mobile PC you might wish to purchase. Have you tried out the Hugometer?  (And can you pronounce it?) If you haven’t you should give it a look-see.

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Here we go with another GBM podcast. At least here two of us go. Dennis is missing in action (for good reasons) but Hugo and Warner carry on gallantly in Hey dude, what happened to my battery? Show. Yep, we spend a lot of time talking about Battery life and how to best optimize its effectiveness; and we also cover off burning topics like the sale of "The Buzz" and more.

This show, like every show, is packed full of laughs and GBM goodness. If you pay close attention Hugo drops a bombshell - new device in his house for over 4 days and nobody knew - and Warner shares some real life Tablet usage scenarios from the Theatre. Sit back and enjoy as we cover News, Forum Topics and delve into the Topic of the Day. For your enjoyment here's Podcast #20.

Notes for show #20:

• News Items

  • Loren Heiny’s Wish List for UMPCs
  • Tablet PC Buzz Sold
  • Linda Epstein: Via Processor Gives UMPC Longer Battery Life
  • Win A Samsung Q1 Ultra and Support For Your School
  • 2GB Memory In Asus (and other UMPCS)
• This Weeks Hot Topics In The GBM Forum
  • User: i440's Release Date...?  - (SteveS)
  • User: What's Your Preferred Screen Size? - (Warner Crocker)
  • User: Software for writing on PDFs - (SegalSegal)
  • User: Anyone find an exact fitting case for the P1610? - (j0r0b0)
• Main Topic
  •  Battery Life and what are our optimization techniques

Direct download or listen to the podcast here. (55mb | 47.33 minutes | mp3 format)

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Here we go with another GBM podcast. At least here two of us go. Hugo is missing in action (for good reasons) but Dennis and Warner carry on gallantly in The Bozzo TC1000 Show. Yep, we spend a lot of time talking about Albert Bozzo’s wacky statement about Tablet PCs last week, and somehow we manage to talk about the beloved HP TC1000 line of Tablet PCs in just about every conversation.

We have some fun, but of course that’s to be expected from the only mobile site that features one of our wives taking a shower with a Tablet PC in a video, and dangerous obsessions with little blue creatures.  And quite a few GBM Forum members get a shoutout for their great conversations in the forums. Fire up your podcatcher and join us for the fun.

Here’s the notes for show #18:

• News Items

  • HP's Albert Bozzo Misses the Point
  • Tablet Enhancements for Outlook (TEO) to continue on
  • One Prospective Tablet PC Users Search
  • News On HP's New 2710p Tablet PC
• This Weeks Hot Topics In The GBM Forum
  • User: csterns: Tablet life boring now or what?
  • User: Bob Atkinson, Topic: Convertible user... ever want a slate?
  • User: Mechanism, Topic: fresh out of the box, where's my tablet programs?

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We live on the bleeding edge of technology here at GottaBeMobile.com and sometimes we trip and fall over that edge and land on our faces. That’s what happened with getting this podcast recorded, edited, and mixed, which is why it is a few days delayed getting into your hands. (The stories will make for a couple of great discussions at some point in the future once all of our hair has grown back from all the follicle pulling that has been going on.)

Suffice it to say though, that we’re back with another GBM Audio Inkshow with lots of Tablet PC and UMPC goodness to talk about. Not only that, Hugo’s back from CeBit Australia, and Dennis and Warner grill him on what mobile gadgets he saw and didn’t see and much more. And yes, we are still flirting with getting in trouble with PETA.

Here’s the notes for show #17:

• News Items
• Samsung Q1 Ultra UMPC Announced
• A New HP Tablet PC the Compaq 2710P Coming in July
• Other Links on this topic
• The Big Announcement
• More Specs
• 24hrs of UMPC Battery Life in the future?
• Rob Wants to start a conversation
• Did The UMPC Die and Nobody Notice?
• Matt’s going to be attending the WIPTE Conference. Are you?
• This Weeks Hot Topics In The GBM Forums
• What’s Your Essential Software Kit For Tablet PCs and UMPCs?MindManager 7 To Be Released the end of May: (Forum thread started by Areyes)
• Mobile PC Partner News: Take the survey to help plan the future of Tablet PCs and What Would You Say to the Mobile PC Team?

And we spend some time picking Hugo’s brain about what he saw and didn’t see at CeBit Australia. Do you know about the PocketSurfer? Hugo’s got his hands on one.

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 Well, the Three GBM Podcasting Tableteers are not together on this show, but you still have the Dynamic Tablet Duo!  Our buddy Poogie Ortega (otherwise known as Hugo -- I gotta hear the story on that name) is out and about this week running around doing his techie mobile device thing and having breakfast with bloggers at Cebit Australia, so instead of talking TO him, we talked ABOUT him (And Rob also  )!

Warner and I had a great conversation this week, and there is a lot going on in GBM news and forums, but we especially hit it pretty hard on Rob's recent "Wow" posts and subsequent activities.  I also went on a bit of a rant on the Vista Tablet features that lots of folks seem to be missing out on, so tune it for all that great conversation between Dennis and "Pookie-Smoochie Pumpkin Pie Face", otherwise known as Warner Crocker.  We told a few lies, had some fun, and ragged on Rob a bit.  How much more fun can we have? 

News items this week:

• Hugo unboxes the OQO Model 02
• GottaBeMobile InkShow by Warner Crocker - The Gateway E-155c
• Eddie’s How-To, Training handwriting in Vista - SIDEBAR - “Why Vista on a Tablet PC”
• The WOW post – A teaser here, more in Main Topic

 Forums Discussion:

• Ubuntu with Tablet (Eve N.)
• X60 Goes Core 2 Duo (GiuX) [does it or doesn’t it?)
• What do to while waiting?( Stefan Mueller)
• Excessive disk activity on startup (stevent)
  

Main Topic this week:

• "The Wow Post", rebuttals and conversation

Download or listen to the Audio Inkshow Here (45mb, 48:36, mp3 format) or you can subscribe to our Audio Inkshows in iTunes.

We missed you this week Hugo! (but he'll be back next week I am sure!).

We'll see you again next week with show #17!

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Yeah, yeah, I know, it's not really show #1, but it feels that way since we have made a new committment!  This is actually #14 for our team.  We have done a few sporadic Podcasts in the past, but now we really mean it.  Dennis Rice and Warner (what is that guy's last name?  Oh yeah, not I got it) Crocker have made a committment to do around 4 of these shows a month, so get your subscription while it is hot!

 In this show, we have a special guest, none other than our new teamie, Hugo (aka Poogie!) Ortega from Australia.  We hope that Hugo will be joining us for more of these shows, as will the other members of the GottaBeMobile team.  In addition, in the future, we are working on a list of special guests that we hope to get some commentary on as well, so you wanna be keeping an eye out on this little podcast folks!

Join us as now we just have a great chat about a few Tablet PC and UMPC related topics!  Here  are the show notes and a few links for you to follow along on as we share our thoughts:

News items this week:

• Intro to our new GottaBeMobile team member Hugo Ortega!
• InkShows:
  • Nokia 800
  • Mobile Bags
  • Toshiba R400
• Eddie VanDerbeck’s How-To articles
• Questions of the day:
  • "What's missing in Windows Vista?"
  • "What's on your Mind in the Tablet / UMPC World?"
• “The Weak Link – Batteries.

Forum topics of the week:

• Josh Einstein’s OneNote Calendar
• Asus and Vista: Stress that my order works for some, not for others
• Comparison of active and passive digitizers
• Forum reorganization to highlight GBM Premium Content
• Need Prayer for a GottaBeMobile reader

Download or listen to the Audio Inkshow Here (35mb, 34:28, mp3 format) or you can subscribe to our Audio Inkshows in iTunes.

Our thanks to Hugo for joining us (both on the team and on the call!).

We'll see you again next week with show #2!

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It is Audio Inkshow time again and the GBM Team is truly mobile. (Although we still don’t know where Matt is.) Rob’s in Las Vegas and Dennis Rice and Warner Crocker actually get together in person for a rendezevous prior to a super top secret GottaBeMobile mission. We can’t tell you what the secret mission is, because, well, then we’d have to kill you. But before these intrepid sleuths donned their super secret gear they sat down for this week’s Audio Inkshow. Note that this week’s show was recorded using the dual array microphones on a Toshiba M200 Tablet PC, so you may notice a hit on the audio quality.

Dennis and Warner cover a number of recent news items as well as highlights from all of the activity in the GBM Forum. Download the Audio Inkshow Here (32mb, 34:58, mp3 format) or you can subscribe to our Audio Inkshows in iTunes. 

Here are some links to items and forum threads referenced in the show.

• The Spybot and Tablet PC Incompatibility Issue
• Josh Bancroft (Tiny Screenfuls) is podcasting again and having some Naked Conversations about Intel
• The iGo Stowaway Blue Tooth Keyboard Inkshow (Check out Pookie Shmookie) 
• Hitachi’s New 2.5 inch 200Gig HDs at 7200rpm
• Fujitsu’s P1610 mini-Tablet PC

GBM Forum threads of note

• 101 Ways To You Use Your Tablet PC
• Spyware de Jour: What Protection Do You Use?
• Check out the Asus Forum for talk on the hottest UMPC.
• Check out the ISV Forum where some very interesting talk about developing and marketing software for Tablet PCs is happening. Thanks Lora Heiny!

Let us know your comments and remember the mission is a secret! (But if you play the Audio Inkshow backwards you might be able to figure it out. )

 Thanks to Aubergine for the rocking intro music, Pursuit.

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Here’s a trick and a treat for you on Halloween. Dennis Rice and I get together once again for another Audio InkShow (and this time he wasn’t wearing that Bill Clinton costume) and talk about what’s happening in the Tabletscape and what’s going on in the GottaBeMobile.com forums. We also wax rhapsodic about Vista and some things to look forward to and some things to be aware of. Here’s a list of the news items we hit, followed by a list of the forum threads we highlight.

Download the Audio Inkshow Here (58.0mb, 50:45, mp3 format) or you can subscribe to our Audio Inkshows in iTunes.

• Ghost in the machine! Matt Faulkner has a new Asus R2F Ultra-Mobile PC and we’re waiting for video any second now!
• Vista’s User Account Control: Is the cure as bad as the disease?
• No trick here: Firefox 2.0 is released and we highlight some Tablet PC/UMPC treats.
• Sign the Save the HP TC1100 Petition
• Ghoulish rumor or ghostly speculation: Will Dell debut a Tablet PC this spring?

GBM Forum threads of note

• Ink and Professionalism.
• Naked Asus R2H photos. Is this a scary theme started by Kevin Tofel?
• How to Talk Tablet to Users 
• Make Me Mobile With Motion Contest Winner Announced (Congrats KathieEM22!)

Leave us comments and let us know what you think!

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It is Audio Inkshow time again. Dennis Rice and I get together virtually, (which is a good thing given how steamed Dennis is about Josh Einsten’s pointing out his uncanny resemblance to a former US president,) and talk Tablet PCs and what’s going on in the GottaBeMobile.com forums. We’re trying out a new format and a new audio recording solution as well. We highlight a number of recent news items as well as highlights from all of the activity in the GBM Forum from the members. We point out some great threads that are generating a lot of discussion.

Download the Audio Inkshow Here (39.6mb, 34:41, mp3 format) or you can subscribe to our Audio Inkshows in iTunes.

News Items of Note:

• Help Me With My Pain!
• TabletKiosk Roadshow, Anaheim Pictures
• Kevin Tofel’s Vista RC2 on a Samsung Q1 UMPC
• TechSmith Releases Camtasia Studio 4.0 Released
• Rob Bushway’s MiniScroller Software Inkshow
• TEO 3.0 Going, Going…When a Home Run Might Not Be Enough To Win The Game

GBM Forum threads of note:

• Sync Two Tablet PCS
• So What Do You Guys Think About OneNote 2007
• 5744 (RC2) Install Results
• And don’t forget to check out the new features we’ve added to the forums!

And don’t forget, as of this posting you have one more day left in the Make Me Mobile With Motion Contest. You could win a Motion LS800. The deadline for entry is Sunday 10/22. So, come on, make our jobs harder and get those entries in.

And just for fun, here’s a link to Josh Einstein’s post. Do you agree with Josh, that Dennis looks like Bill Clinton?

Again, we’re trying out a new format and new audio recording, so let us know your comments!

 Thanks to Aubergine for the rocking intro music, Pursuit.

And special thanks to James Kendrick, the All Father of Tablet PCs, for giving us some pointers and tips on recording and audio.

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I think this is a first. All four GBM Team members get together on this special Audio InkShow to discuss the Lenovo X60s Tablet PC, the forum launch, contests, and how quickly we think WNewquay will hit 5,000 posts. Talk about having some fun!

So, come on in and relax, and celebrate this forum launch with us.

• Listen to the Audio Inkshow (direct download: 18:48, 21 MB - MP3 format)

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Earlier this week, we let everyone know that forums were coming to GottaBeMobile.com on Friday, October 6. In this Audio InkShow, Warner and I sit down to talk about the decision to do forums, the Tablet PC community, Vista, and Tablet PCs in general. During the recording, Warner accidentally used the “podcast” word and the police sirens started going off at his house – hilarious! Apple must have been listening in….

• Listen to the Audio Inkshow (direct download: 31:03, 35.5MB-MP3 format)

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Before you head out for the weekend load up your favorite podcatcher with this GottaBeMobile.com podcast for some great conversation about Tablet PCs and UMPCs. I sit down with the big GBM guy himself,  Dennis Rice, and we discuss Dennis’ recent adventures with the new TabletKiosk eo i7210 and his installation of Vista on his Toshiba M200. Dennis provides some great insight on both topics and much more. We probably both say a few things we shouldn’t that will upset our respective wives, and we take advantage of the fact that Rob is out of town to rib him a bit.

• Listen to the Audio Inkshow (direct download: 26:02, 29.8MB-MP3 format)
• Check out Dennis’ InkShow look at Ilium Software’s Inscribe data entry software.
• Check out Dennis’ Real Time walk through Inkshow of the TabletKiosk i7210
• Check out Dennis’ first looks at the TabletKiosk i7210 in this Inkshow.

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