July, 2005 — Tech News and Analysis

Archive for July 2005

Folks a few days ago I had asked for help on a GigaOm widget for Mac Dashboard. Anders just in a most generous gesture created one for me. So all my readers who have Tiger, hopefully this is worth downloading and installing on your dashboard. Read More »

The Tablet PC Show #18 (MP3 – 19.0MB – 55min)LISTEN HERE Join Marc and I for Tablet PC Show #18 where you’ll find some fun and hopefully interesting talk about all things Tablet PC. We examine the social factors that sometimes become a barrier to… Read More »

 
 

Best paper airplane in the world

Building cool and functional paper airplanes was never my forte but this site makes it easy for anyone to make a great one.  Labelled the “DC3″ of paper airplanes the site offers step by step instructions for turning a sheet of ordinary paper into a… Read More »

Technorati goes mobile, why?

Given that their browser based search is still a bit of hit and a miss, it is tough to figure out how they improve the Technorati experience on the mobile phone. As I said in my previous post, Technorati optimized for Palm Treo (how of… Read More »

David Beisel is quite impressed by Trip Hawkins’ portrayal of the mobile phone as a social computer. Hawkins’ who is the founder of Digital Chocolate, a mobile gaming company is of the Silicon Valley set that came of age in the PC era. He was… Read More »

Akihabara News is pointing to a new all-in-one phone by Fujitsu. The Linux-based phone running on a 400 MHz chip has 128 megs of RAM, 64 megs of ROM, and 802.11b built right into it. The phone also has CF and SD card slots so… Read More »

The Economist has a sort of ‘lay-of-the-land’ piece on incumbent phone companies and their IPTV strategy. It is a lot of what we all know, except packaged nicely for those who don’t follow the arcane happenings in the world of telecom. What I find amusing is… Read More »

GMail Lockdown?

Srijith says Google has locked down his GMail account for 24 hours. “Our system has detected abnormal usage of your Gmail account. As a result, we have temporarily disabled access to this account,” says Google’s email. Other folks have experienced this problem, but not me.… Read More »

Skype now allows users to make calls to toll-free numbers in several countries free of charge, even if you don’t have SkypeOut.  You can now call the following countries using toll-free numbers: France: +33 800, +33 805, +33 809 Poland: +48 800 UK: +44 500, +44 800, +44… Read More »

Unless you are as old as some of us around you may not remember that IBM introduced a pen-enabled ThinkPad in 1993.  The ThinkPad 750P was ahead of its time with no real OS support to take good advantage of the pen capability, and since the… Read More »

Happy Birthday Marc!

Join me today in wishing Tablet PC Show co-host Marc Orchant a very happy birthday!  It is a very special day for Marc as he can now get that big discount at Denny’s!    :) Read More »

Rob Bushway’s thoughts on the LE1600 keyboard

There is little doubt the Motion LE1600 Tablet PC is one of the most capable slate Tablets available today and anyone who has followed Tablet MVP Rob Bushway’s journey with his LE1600 can see how great the device is.  Rob has chronicled his experience with the… Read More »

More Must Reads

I am testing the BlogJet program for creating blog posts offline for upload at a later time. BlogJet looks really nice since it works with just about every blogging service out there (TypePad included) and most importantly lets me include graphic smileys!    I have… Read More »

Windows world is all tipsy topsy over the release of new Internet Explorer 7 Beta which has amazing ground breaking features as tabbed browsing. Apparently, it is/was breaking the Google toolbar and some of the Yahoo’s older toolbars. There is word of the Beta… Read More »

We all know and love the XTen Softphone. Well, we all might have to call it with some other name, because the company has been in a bit of legal tussle over the name with Xtend Communications Corp, a New York-based company. Xtend had filed a… Read More »

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that HP will stop reselling iPod. It was a bad idea to begin with, and now its over. HP accounted for about 5% of total iPod sales. HP will still distribute the iTunes software on its computers. It was a… Read More »

iTunes 4.9 has changed my life. (Okay, not my ENTIRE life, but a large part of it). I’m totally digging these podcast things, and iTunes makes it easy and simple to download new episodes and sync them with my iPod. However, there are a few issues… Read More »

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