Archive for the ‘Computing’ Category
Tuesday, October 24th, 2006
Had call from Lloyd and a visit from Nigel from Novitatech.
They're evaluating this neat phone/gps device that comes from Europe. Mainly the alarm feature of the phone is why they were investigating it in the first instance. With the idea that maybe this device could see convergence of phone and ...
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Wednesday, July 12th, 2006
The other day I got a message fom Nathan who read my AcerC200 tabletpc review.
He told me about an onscreen keyboard, text input alternative he uses on his PPC device that is also available for TabletPCs, Origami, cell phones or it looks like nearly anthing else requiring text input.
Hi Dave,
Just ...
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Sunday, June 18th, 2006
Over on Binary Bonsai blog, some thoughts about the Scrollwheel Sensitivity of the fifth generation iPods caught my interest:
Did you know the iPod scrollwheel, on 5G iPods at least, is sensitive enough to be operated through the leather pouch that comes with the iPod? It's true. It's even sensitive enough ...
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Friday, May 26th, 2006
I'd mentioned previously how while doing my first review of using a Tablet PC how I'd come across the AcerC200 series tablet notebook and how its' layout really tweaked my interest. Well, as it happens, not long after I presented at a conference right here in Adelaide and one of ...
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Thursday, May 11th, 2006
I've been keeping an eye on what's going on at the Australian CeBit show via the CeBit blog.
One interesting thing that caught my lifekludger eye was the Wacom tablet input options. After just having my second experience with a TabletPC (an Acer c204, a review of which you'll see here ...
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Wednesday, April 19th, 2006
Just watched a video Hugo Ortega has made about a potential UMPC controlled 'home Automation' system that uses IP. By doing so he's just made my dream of a Horizontal computing solution more real. (By Horizontal I mean while in bed)
This whole 'Home Automation' thing really is a broad consumer ...
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Sunday, April 16th, 2006
It's rude not to pointÂ
Ok here I am typing on the onscreen keyboard of a Tablet PC*. A first for me.
The good folks at Tegatech Australia kindly sent me a Tablet to loan and have a bit of a play and see how someone without the use of hands might ...
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Thursday, March 9th, 2006
Came across this product called the iLap which as the site describes it:
iLap is a versatile stand that keeps your laptop cool, and at the same time, lets you work comfortably on your lap as well as your desk.
This could be very useful for stabilising the laptop in a ...
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Saturday, March 4th, 2006
The other day the e-HomeUpgrade blog had news and a review about some speech recognition software from OneVoice Technologies. The Media Center Communicator Version 2, is designed to let you talk to and control your Media Center PC.
For the future One Voice Communications is working with other partners on integrating ...
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Wednesday, March 1st, 2006
All throughout my life with technology I've used add-on software to help kludge my way around. Macs had accessibility features built right in from the word go - though mouse-drags were problematic. DOS & early Windows required external software to handle mouse-drags until the click-lock functions appeared in XP. It ...
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Sunday, February 26th, 2006
My first computer was an Apple Mac plus in 1984. In 1984 there were no trackballs for the Mac. A tech. modified an arcade style trackball to work on that first Mac until Abaton released one which I promptly bought - and in fact still have in my shed. Now ...
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Wednesday, February 15th, 2006
Last year I met Toan Nguyen at a seminar in Adelaide. Tonight I was watching The New Inventors on ABC TV and Toan was on as a contestant with his SGD Mobile Access interface :
SGD Mobile Access is a software interface added to existing technology. This enables users who do ...
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