Camino Browser version 1.0b2, the latest edition, is up for grabs and has some security fixes. It uses the same code-base as Firefox 1.5, so you are getting Mac Style Mozilla goodness. Read More »
Archive for December 2005
Rupert Murdoch says voice will soon be free, and so does eBay’s Meg Whitman. And even if you laugh of these non-telecom types procrastinations prognostications as wisdom of the novice, there are signs that they may not be that off the mark. Especially if… Read More »
Tablet PC owners who come from the world of PDAs often lament the ability to hit a button and reference the PIM data immediately. While Standby and Hibernation speed up the process of firing up the Tablet and getting to Outlook it is still far… Read More »
From scraper sites, to click fraud to trojan horses, looks like the most profitable money making mechanism, aka AdSense might be facing some tough times. Paul Kedrosky predicts that the situation will come to a head in 2006 sometime. With some estimating that in certain categories… Read More »
A Penn State researcher has shown a prototype glucose sensor that is very tiny and is inserted under the skin. The device registers the patient’s glucose level when an external unit passes a magnetic field over the spot of the inserted sensor. The external… Read More »
Use Skype but don’t want to spring for paid extras just to get voicemail? Those media streaming folks at Orb have launched V4S (voicemail for Skype, get it?) that allows you to send voice messages to any email or Skype contact, and retrieve your… Read More »
ThinkPad manufacturer Lenovo is reportedly developing a Windows Mobile smarphone. PhoneDaily (Chinese site) reports that the Lenovo ET980 will support GPRS, play MP3 files and be equipped with a MiniSD slot. They also report the Lenovo smartphone will sport a 4 megapixel camera.… Read More »
Eric Mack has been on his paperless challenge for weeks now and he has posed an interesting question on his blog- Is it legal to scan your books to read on a Tablet PC?. This seems a simple question on the surface but he points… Read More »
Mike Rundle, the dude who designed Gigaom.com is Best Designer of the Year! I knew I had good taste, but this good… Oy! Read More »
I had a little outage this morning, because of database corruption issues. It took a little while to fix, but I want to thank each one of you who sent in suggestions, and thoughts. Gregg, Mike Stickel, Ari, Vinny, and scores of others… Read More »
Fujitsu Stylistic 1000- 8 inch pen computer circa 1996 Ultra-portable computers and mini-Tablet PCs are big right now with many prospective users clamoring for a little computer that can be carried almost anywhere for “on the run” use. Not many people remember the very first computer that… Read More »
IBM officially retired OS/2 Warp from their product line last week which closes the book on what was the most advanced operating system when it was released in the early 1990′s. I was a long-time OS/2 user and its object-oriented desktop was incredibly powerful and… Read More »