The Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3i is a budget friendly laptop that should handle basic computing …
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Obama’s Blackberry = Kid’s Stuff. Real Work Requires Windows CE
As Stephen mentioned earlier this month, President Obama should be using Windows CE on the extremely secure General Dynamics Sectera Edge. President Obama didn’t want to give up his Blackberry, so they made a compromise. According to this report from PC Magazine, Obama will be allowed to use his Blackberry for personal communications. In other words, mundane friends and family stuff. However, for the real work in his job as President, he’ll have to use …
Continue readingTop 10 iPhone Problems from Boy Genius
The Boy Genius report has posted their top 10 list of things they hate about the iPhone. We had 55 things last year, but some of those may have changed. Here’s the BGR’s list: 1. You can’t use custom sounds for email notifications, SMS, etc. 2. Copy and paste. Sorry, but it’s ridiculous at this point. 3. When forwarding an email with an attachment, the iPhone sends it out locally. That means if you have …
Continue readingIs the Palm Web OS Really Special?
Or is it just another Newbie OS trying to pull an Apple? If you’ve seen some of the demonstrations and commentary around on the net (CES Keynote), you may notice a few cool things that the Palm Web OS will bring to us, but what’s missing now? Larry Dignan says, “Palm gets in the Game, doesn’t change it; Reality Lurks” on his ZDnet post, and Om Malik of Gigaom is also skeptical. I think Palm’s …
Continue readingiGuidance 2009 Now Shipping for Windows Mobile
Since version 1, iNav’s iGuidance has been the most accurate and easy to understand voice-guiding GPS navigation program on any device. The 5th version is now available. You may have had some problems with version 4 and 3. There were a number of bugs that made the software unusable for me. I’m happy to say the new 2009 version works great on the ATT Fuze I’ve tested it with. The text-to-speech voice prompts work great, …
Continue readingTouch: the Most Evil Technology in Modern Computing
Here’s an interesting opinion piece from the ZDNet iGeneration Blog. Zack Whittaker thinks touch screens are bad for a variety of reasons. If you’ve seen some of the leaked road maps and rumors for the future smartphone releases of 2009, you’ll see that practically everything is touch-screen based. Windows Mobile Pro phones have been touch-screen based since the turn of the century. Most people were clamoring for a more hardware-button friendly user interface for Windows …
Continue readingLive Search 4: New Features in Action
If you haven’t already downloaded the newest version of Live Search for Windows Mobile from wls.live.com, here’s a short video showing the new features in action. The software now loads your location based on cell phone towers as soon as you start up, thus making searches for nearby locations much easier. All you have to do is press the “Speak” button and say what you want to search for. Originally published on Pocketnow on January …
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