Archive for the 'hardware' Category

Brando Treo 650 Music Dock

Tuesday, March 21st, 2006

Steve Rohde has posted about a great idea for those of us with treo 650 mania – a music dock. I particularly like the idea of being able to use the dock as a speaker phone.
Steve writes:

“In July 2005, I made the switch to an all-in-one device, and am now a true “Treo lover.” The […]

wifi hard disk enclosure

Friday, March 17th, 2006

Engadget points out a fantastic little gadget. A harddisk drive enclosure that has a wifi feature built into it. This would be very cool although I am doubting that past the cool factor whether it would actually be useful for something. But, I guess anything that gets rid of wires is good.
“Feisty Singapore startup EDS […]

transfer your old computer settings to your new computer

Friday, March 17th, 2006

Ed Bott a while ago now wrote an article that I am linking up as I think it is worth bookmarking for future use. It is an article of some of things you should consider in setting up a new PC and transfering your files and settings to the new computer.
This article is for a […]

Fujitsu LifeBook N6410

Friday, March 17th, 2006

Pcmagazinge has a review about the new Fujitsu LifeBook N6410. Looks like a nice notebook and should be blinding fast with that new intel core duo processor. If you are in the market for a new notebook computer might be worth a look. I have always felt that fujitsu make very nice machines even though […]

plucker

Friday, March 17th, 2006

A friend of mine swears by this program. I have used avantgo on and off but want to give plucker another go.
“View webpages and ebooks offline on your Palm
Plucker is an offline Web and e-book viewer for PalmOSĀ® based handheld devices and PDAs. Plucker comes with Unix, Linux Windows and Mac OSX tools, scripts, and […]

ipod dock on your keyboard

Friday, March 17th, 2006

This looks like an interesting keyboard. You can dock your ipod on this keyboard.
“Via XYZ Computing comes this interesting tidbit. The popular gaming peripheral maker, Razer, will soon be releasing a keyboard with a built-in iPod dock. It’s likely to cost $99 and will have a number of programmable keys and will almost certainly be […]

gobinder 2006

Wednesday, March 15th, 2006

Download.com highlight that gobinder 2006 has shipped.
“While the Tablet PC world may still be considered a niche space, there are some really interesting applications that have been developed for tablets that cross boundries into the mundane computing world. One of these is Agilix’s GoBinder. Agilix has just released a radically updated version […]

vista and writing on your tablet

Sunday, March 12th, 2006

Microsoft Vista will bring some changes for the Tablet PC. Hopefully, the new operating system will take the Tablet PC functionality to a new level. Zdnet reports that:
‘In Vista, the new incarnation of desktop Windows, due next year, the software giant will let people give the operating system examples of their own handwriting in an […]

iBoxer

Saturday, March 11th, 2006

Now if I can just get Mrs Geekyinfo to wear these – she is obsessed by her ipod so she just might!

Man, there is no escaping the iPod is there? Just when you thought they’d come up with every possible accessory, the iBoxer pops up! So, apart from serving its basic needs (of you know […]

people like linux

Saturday, March 11th, 2006

Tom Adelstrin pens an article about Why people like linux.

So, here’s the most current findings I have in order of importance. They differ greatly from the reasons Ransom Love gave at a Linux Business Conference in Austin six years ago when the major reasons people used Linux included: File and Print serving, an Internet Platform, […]