Response to Bluebeam’s $50 discount on PDF Revu has been great. GBM Reader Poppino wanted in on the special pricing, too, but unfortunately found a roadblock since he was an international customer and couldn’t get that discount. After sending an email to Bluebeam acknowledging his disappointment, Bluebeam and online reseller Cadopolis.com got to work to [...]
When CTitanic gets a hold of a machine, you know it won’t be your typical review. His review of the T2010 Tablet PC is no different. His overall conclusion mirrors ours: a fantastic Tablet PC choice for just about anyone: speed, screen, weight, etc. His battery findings also mirror what we found on the standard [...]
Well, maybe the headline of this post is slightly inaccurate. Read on and you’ll see why. At home, my office is in my easy chair. Which means at various times I’ll have multiple adapters for multiple devices growing out of a surge protector that is adjacent to another surge protector that has our TV, DVR, [...]
Yesterday we posted about Intel getting ready to roll out the MID platform, aiming for 2008. Today, jkkmobile posts up a link to a quick video from the Intel Developer’s Forum (IDF) showing off BenQ’s version of the MID. If you want to follow the IDF news more closely, Steve “Chippy” Paine has set up [...]
No matter what you call it (I still prefer the Storm Trooper, even with the choice of multiple colors) Fujitsu’s U1010/U810 UMPC is an intriguing little device. Some interesting news and pictures are popping out about the device. First up, Steve “Chippy” Paine reports that the U810 will be shipping (the U810 is the US [...]
We’ve known this has been coming for awhile and now it is here. Google took the wraps off of its PowerPoint-like presentation tool for the cloud, Presently. Presently fills out Google’s suite of office apps (along with Google Docs and Spreadsheets) and has re-christened the entire suite to simply Google Docs. So, if you’re interested [...]
Chippy over at UMPC Portal put up a poll on his site to see how all of the news concerning the HTC Shift and the shifting specs are having on demand for the upcoming device. The results don’t look good… Are you surprised? Have you done any of them as well?? Technorati Tags: HTC [...]
This story over at Engadget is showing one of the more expensive Tablet PC’s I’ve seen in a really long time… Though it looks really cool, the conversion price of about $4,800.00 US is a little steep for the specs. Core Duo U2500 Intel 945GM Chipset 2 GIG of RAM 80 GB Hard drive 802.11 [...]
Place-shifting media is becoming quite popular these days with Orb, SlingMedia, and WebGuide. Well, Microsoft just acquired the rights to WebGuide and is integrating it into Windows Vista Media Center, making it available for free. WebGuide lets Media Center owners watch live TV using a mobile device like a Tablet PC, UMPC, or Windows Mobile [...]
Looks like Intel is gettng ready for the push into MID Land. The Mobile Internet Devices (big clue in that name as to the target) run on the teeny-tiny Silverthorne chipset. Steve “Chippy” Paine has been scouring the Internet and notices that Intel is posting up some content on Channel Intel. Tags: UMPC, Intel, [...]
jkkmobile has picked up on some of the same things users are reporting in our forums – Samsung Q1 Ultra UMPCs, in particular the NP-Q1UAY01, are being shipped out without Bluetooth even though the ad specs and Samsung’s official PDF indicate otherwise. With a vast array of models and specs among UMPCs, it is getting very [...]
I’ve been following Jenneth at Gear Diary and her romance with a new Asus R2H UMPC. She’s running the later model, which operates on a Pentium-M and comes with Vista pre-installed. At first she was completely smitten, but now she’s contemplating a break up. Seems she’s run into that Touchscreen issue that has plagued the [...]
Loren Heiny> seems to have his hands in ton of stuff these days. He just posted an update on an education focused, ink-enabled application he is working on. Like a book, the content is organized into pages yet unlike some eBook readers, the content is both “live” and is “fixed.” It’s live in that you [...]
Several weeks ago, a huge hail storm made its way through Colorado Springs. My wife was on her way to an appointment when her van got pummeled, only to get hit again after she arrived at the appointment. Meanwhile, my car sustained some pretty rough damage while sitting in a parking lot. It became pretty [...]
Bjorn Stromberg at UltraMobileLife.com has posted a link to a new UMPC site, UMPC Dubai, that at the moment is featuring coverage of UMPC news from the recent GITEX conference. Of course there is lots of HTC Shift news, but other models are covered there as well. Also of note is this brief video of the Samsung [...]
Reader Jayson Berger sent us a link to this Engadget post about HP getting ready to role out a slew of new laptops in the Presario and Pavilion line. Among the many devices listed by NoteBook Italia is what looks like a refresh of the tx1000, ramping the number designation up to the tx1300 series. [...]
I spent the weekend rebuilding a Lenovo X61 Thinkpad Tablet PC with Vista Ultimate and at one point noticed that the time being displayed was a few minutes off from my other computers. When I tried to sync the time up I kept getting a error with the default Network that the system pings. Busy, I put [...]
Tablet PCs are continuing to make some strong headway in the education space. Take a look at this story from Palm Beach Atlantic University as a good example: Imagine sketching a diagram on your computer or recording a professor’s lecture in synchrony with his lecture slides. Starting this year, first-year students in Palm Beach Atlantic [...]
If you’re in the market for a Tablet, versus a Tablet PC, or perhaps in addition to one, you might want to check out Wacom’s Bamboo Tablets. The small design comes in three models and price ranges, according to Engadget. The $79 model is targeted at the casual photo retoucher, the $99 model is a [...]
Somehow you just knew this story wasn’t over. Several weeks ago, Acer agreed to acquire Gateway to the tune of $710 million. Quite a few folks thought that was a low price. Now it seems that Gateway stockholders are also questioning the valuation and the acquisiton and two different lawsuits have been filed by stockholders, claiming that [...]
You Tube always has a ton of content, and there are always the few that relate to us in the world of Tablet PC and UMPC’s. Yesterday there was one uploaded on the Fujitsu LifeBook U1010. Nice video showing some of the features and use case scenarios. One think I find interesting is how they [...]
OQO’s Model 02 announcement was held at Obscura Digital’s office. From the outside, it looks like a run-down building. However, what they have inside is a touch enthusiasts dream. Check-out this video from my recent visit to their San Francisco office. This application was built using Windows Presentation Foundation. Click To Play Obscura Digital [...]
Congratulations to fellow Tablet PC MVP Stephane Torres (aka HPClean) for the 5th Anniversary of his website, Tablet PC’ Corner. The site is completely in French, but even for those of us not up on our parlez-vous francais, it continues to be a great resource for the community. Hmmm? This might be the time to [...]
Whenever a user blogs, publishes, or shares a comparison of two different devices it is always a bonus and a great resource for those trying to make a decision. (Witness the feedback to our recent InkShow comparison to the Fujitsu T2010 and the HP 2710p.) I’ve been following Jenneth’s journey with the Asus R2Hv (that v [...]
I really enjoy reading about how others weave technology into their work and life. Carnaman has a blog about Indirect Lending. The latest post is titled, Technology is Wonderful, and chronicles the hardware and software that he uses to get through his day and workflow. Notably, he’s using the HPTC1100 Tablet PC with a Cingular [...]
Josh Einstein, of Tablet Enhancements for Outlook fame, recently became a 2710p Tablet PC owner. Frustrated by the fact that the screen only rotates in “Primary Landcsape” and “Primary Portrait” modes, he set out to fix it – and fix it he did. In addition, he was able to hack the Q Menu to apply [...]
In Part 1 of this series about mobile security, I described the dangers of having your web connection intercepted through a technique known as wireless ““sniffing.†Although I only discussed the problem of web browsing being intercepted, the problem really applies to any network traffic that isn’t encrypted. So, other common applications like email, file [...]
You knew it would happen. Verizon has sued the FCC over the rules laid down for the auction of the 700MHz spectrum that begins in January 2008. If you haven’t been following along, the 700MHz spectrum contains the airwaves that are being returned for use by television broadcasters as they begin to shut down analog signals [...]
What we’ve come to affectionately call the Darth Vader, Fujitsu’s U1010/U810, (it sure beats the numbering naming convention) has sprouted wings. Well, actually it has sprouted a couple of wing-like panels to house and antenna of HSDPA. Look for this in Japan, (not sure if we’ll see it here in the US) later this fall. Via [...]
If you use a Tablet PC, chances are you need to annotate PDFs. Based on feedback from within our forums , users really like the powerful capabilities of Bluebeam PDF Revu. Well, there is good news for GBM readers: from now until November 30th, GBM readers can purchase the popular PDF annotating software for only [...]
TheUltimateSteal.com kicked off live this morning and the biggest question of all has been: who is eligible for the $59.95 Office Ultimate 2007? Here are the details from http://theultimatesteal.com/eligibility.asp You must hold a valid email address at a U.S. educational institution ending in .edu (for example, leina@contoso.university.edu) AND Be actively enrolled with at least 0.5 [...]
I go through a lot of Tablet PCs and UMPCs. Sometimes I use an evaluation Tablet PC for an extended period of time. Other times, I’ll like a device so much, I’ll put my money where my mouth is and fork the dough over. Although a choice of tablet pcs is a very personal one, [...]
I always love to see a little hacking… This guy has done just that! Meet the Jumbotron. The Jumbotron is a Nintendo DS that has the output of the 2 screens on the DS hacked into 2 Tablet PC screens. Very cool when you see that the input from the Tablet screens actually work as [...]
The new Microsoft Mobile Memory Mouse 8000 is going to combine two of the items you carry around into one device. The mobile mouse, that runs off of 2 AA batteries, is also going to include 1GB of flash memory in the transceiver. Another feature of this mouse is that it is also rechargeable using [...]
We all know the student budget is a tight one. So, for students, this deal from Microsoft cannot be beat: students will be able to purchase Office Ultimate 2007 for just $60, that is a $620 savings over retail – check it out at Microsoft’s TheUltimateSteal.com . The offer is valid through April 30, 2008, [...]
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