The Beginner’s Guide To Choosing a PDA
For everyone thinking of buying their first PDA, this guide’s for you! A gentle introduction to these devices should be all you need. PDAs aren’t like other computers – they’re compact, user-friendly, fast, featureful, and even fun!
The first thing you have to do is figure out what you want [...]
Things You Can Do With Bluetooth Sunglasses
Let us not be shy about it: When you use Bluetooth-enabled sunglasses and eyewear devices, you are officially living in the science fiction era. It’s no joke, you really have joined the era of *Star Trek*. We’re only a holodeck and transporter away from exploring the galaxy and talking [...]
What Accessories Are Available For a PDA?
In light of the explosion in PDA’s popularity in the past decade, it’s kind of surprising how many people are still running around with just the bare unit. They might keep the AC adapter/charger that came with the unit, and might even drop it into a leather pouch when [...]
What Can You Get in Bluetooth Devices?
Information technology kind of hit a jackpot with Bluetooth. For once, we have an extremely useful telecommunications protocol which became an open standard, and to this day enjoys an open existence while not being owned by any company in particular. That is, the Bluetooth special-interest-group is actually a conglomerate [...]
Is Open Source Just For Do-It-Yourselfers?
We blame Richard Stallman. Stallman, God bless him, is the Godfather of the Free Software movement (and by extension, the God-uncle of the Open Source movement), but he projects this image of the world’s oldest hippie. Add to this that many of the original Free Software founders and contributors (as [...]
Will DOS Always Be With Us?
Kind of like the COBOL programming language, DOS is in a state of perpetually being declared dead, while still seeing moderate, if unenthusiastic, usage. There are very good reasons for this, but they lie in the murky depths of computing history.
To deal with COBOL first, the COmmon Business-Oriented Language came [...]
I never thought I’d see the day when a piece of free software got me reaching for my wallet and singing the praises of everyone involved – but here it goes… It’s a quick story over two days… So bear with me.
The story starts with the stark realisation that even after shelling out for the [...]
There needs to be a Gadget for everything? Right?
Well given that cardboard is so 1980’s and every item of clothing will soon need to have a battery to make it “do something” – the MingleStick fills an age-old niche. The business card replacement.
While I can’t see companies handing out MingleSticks instead of business cards to [...]
On occasion, I give presentations both in my office and traveling. I had considered buying a projector to use with my laptop, but put it off because most of the ones I had seen were bulky and expensive. I was thrilled when I came across the Pocket Projector for only $399. It is simple to [...]
Every time we check lately, there’s another glowing review of an HTC Touch mobile device online. This Engadget story is one of the latest, linking to a German review calling the HTC Touch HD an “iPhone killer”. The praise mentions features including the TouchFLO 3D interface, the Opera web browser, and the large display. We’re [...]
