Ever since I started working as a graphic designer in the 90’s, I’ve always been fascinated with pen displays for computers. Well, maybe that love started with the Koala Pad on an Apple IIe in the 1980’s. Anyway, Wacom has always been the best of the best when it comes to a drawing interface for graphics software in the computer graphics imaging industry. Today, a new Cintiq Pro 27 is announced and I got to …
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A rugged hardcore portable computer Panasonic’s Toughbook series of laptop computers are mainly designed for the more rugged dangerous workplaces like military, law enforcement, or construction scenarios. It’s not meant for the indoor desk jobs and design jobs that I’m used to. I did get to use the Panasonic Toughbook FZ-55 a while back though, and that was pretty fun in its extreme modularity and sturdy build. Consumer laptops aren’t built with this kind of …
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This year Apple both celebrated the 15 year anniversary of their first iPhone and announced the discontinuation of their last remaining iPod product; something that was first launched 20 years ago back in 2002. What’s interesting to me is how far ahead of Apple, actual smartphones were back 20 years ago. Yeah, Apple got a huge amount of press for their first iPhone (which wasn’t even really a smartphone)… and they also got a huge …
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The Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Fold is Lenovo’s next generation of large 16″ laptop tablet style folding screen devices. I got to see an early prototype of this model a while back, and seeing the new version is a huge step forward. It’s better in every way. There are still a few minor software issues to fix before releasing in a few months, but this ThinkPad X1 Fold is looking really good. The Lenovo ThinkPad X1 …
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The most badass earbuds you can find today From the moment I opened the box I was impressed with the Angry Miao Cyberblade earbuds. That’s saying a lot because I’ve used plenty of different stereo wireless earbuds and many mono Bluetooth headsets over the past 20 years of tech reviewing at Pocketnow. Most of the wireless stereo earbuds I’ve tried were fairly poorly designed. Either they copied Apple’s AirPod designs or they made something that …
Continue readingThis open protocol from the 1900s works on practically everything. I see a lot of articles on other tech sites about cross-platform and cross-device file transfer problems. For example, there’s this article on XDA developers. Here’s another article on TNW about Google making yet another file transfer protocol. It makes me wonder, “Do people not know about the standard File Transfer Protocols anymore?” I mean, good old FTP has been built into all desktop computers …
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