Archive for September, 2005
Friday, September 23rd, 2005
Amzer have released a series of leather Nano covers, including a horizontal cover with metal fasteners, a bifold leather case, the nano jacket and, of course, the nano thong. Can’t imagine why you would want to buy the nano thong, as it seems designed to cover the clickwheel and most of the screen […]
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Friday, September 23rd, 2005
Gadgeteer has a comprehensive review of a 1GB necklace MP3 player - is it actually better to switch to a smaller player?
But if I am being honest with myself, when considering my entire music collection, then I would have to admit that I have MP3s on my Seagate that I don’t even want to listen […]
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Friday, September 23rd, 2005
PC Magazine have a review of Evernote plus that is worth reading. There are other more powerful products out there to do this type of thing. But the price is right – free atleast for the cut down version!
“Getting organized and staying that way is a major undertaking. EverNote Plus 1.0 can help. You’ll have […]
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Friday, September 23rd, 2005
Finally IBM move away from those black computers.
“For more than a decade, US computer company IBM echoed Henry Ford in its design approach toward its iconic Thinkpad laptop computers: customers could have any colour they wanted – as long as it was black. “
Lenova are starting to have an impact:
“ The move away from the […]
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Friday, September 23rd, 2005
Iambic have released version 10 of their Agendus personal information program for palm devices. For many years Agendus was the program I lived in on my palm devices. As mentioned before when I got the Treo I found that Agendus was so slow that it wasn’t worth using, so I resorted to the standard palm […]
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Friday, September 23rd, 2005
This looks interesting. A home theatre system with your ipod at the centre. It basically allows you to plug in some speakers and an amplifier and blast your neighbours from your ipod.
“ Erikson Consumer has announced four new Harman Kardon (HK) A/V receiver models: the 7.2-channel AVR 740; 7.1-channel AVR 340; and the 6.1-channel AVR […]
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Friday, September 23rd, 2005
I am looking for a program that will allow me to easily capture partial screen shots. The program must create a jpg file from the screen shot.
I have been using the screen shot tool that comes with Microsoft onenote but that requires a two step process. The first is the capture and then putting it […]
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Friday, September 23rd, 2005
A little while ago Opera had a one free download day. This meant you could download the Opera internet browser for free for just that one day. It must have been successful because Opera have now announced that they are going to be free all the time.
I have played a little with my free copy. But I […]
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Friday, September 23rd, 2005
Further to the post about meebo.
Here is another web based instant messenger web site
“e-Messenger is a web application that enables you to chat with your MSN, AOL and Yahoo buddies without having to install any program or Java applet. All you need is a JavaScript enabled browser and you’re set to go and use e-Messenger. […]
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Friday, September 23rd, 2005
If you want to log into your favorite instant messenger client and your firewall at work blocks you, or your friends computer doesn’t have the client program installed then check meebo.
Meebo allows you to sign in from their web site to the following instant messenger clients:
AIM/ICQ
Jabber
Yahoo Messenger
Msn Messenger
I am a msn user and tried it […]
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