Archive for November, 2007

Kindle comes to Amazon

Amazon’s answer to the ebook is here. I guess it has been here for about a week. I didn’t know it was also their answer to an Internet Tablet, in a way? I had heard about Amazon’s ebook reader, but I guess I didn’t realize it let you use the Internet… for free. The Kindle [...]

Why you should use BCC

Back in October, I wrote a post about Email Etiquette and in it I discussed why you should use the BCC option when sending out an email to a group of people. Well, in the news there is another good example of why you should do this. Carson Daly sent an email to just a [...]

The Garnet OS Virtual Machine on the Nokia N770

I have never totally given up my Palm. My Internet Tablet is certainly physically capable of everything the Palm is, but one application has prevented me from throwing the Palm in a drawer, or giving it to my kid. This is a program I use for tracking my time called Punch TimeClock Pro. I tried [...]

The quest for the $200 mini pc continues

As I posted a week or two ago, with laptops coming in at $299 and under on Black Friday sales, it would seem a mini pc equivalent to the laptop without a monitor, keyboard, touchpad, or a Microsoft tax should be able to be cheaper. Say, $100 cheaper. So I have been looking for such [...]

GPS units – Cheap enough for anyone

Last year, around this time, I purchased my first auto routing GPS for use in the car. I picked up a MIO c310x. At this time, these types of GPS units were finally breaking the $200 mark. And what a difference a year makes. This year entry level GPS is more affordable than ever. Black [...]