Category: Toys
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Netbooks – Future or folly…
Over the past few days, I’ve been putting an Asus 1005 HA through it’s paces and I must say that I’m impressed with it – with a few caveats. When I got it, the first thing I did was ditch XP Home for Win7 Enterprise. Yes, a 1Ghz Atom with 1GB RAM ran the big…
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Seeing in the Dark
See It (full 1080p!) bigger at SmugMug. It seems that things are really going to get interesting at the top end of the Nikon (D3s) and Canon (1DMkIV) lines as both have revealed bodies that can essentially see in the dark. Notice, there are no quotes. Something like this, right now, isn’t going to change…
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My take on Google Wave
So, everyone out there who has picked up an invite has been posting their reflections on Wave and so this will be one more voice to add. My quick take on this service is that it is a very powerful bulletin board. People involved share a common document and can attach elements just like a…
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Google Wave in just over 2 minutes
This is the best explanation I’ve seen of how Wave solves one key problem with email. As the users mature with the technology, other uses will make themselves evident.
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A simple Hackintosh
One of my most popular posts has been my Hackintosh build list, and while that machine is still a dream, I’ve been thinking more and more about hacking a netbook rather than a desktop. The reason being is that the list of known components in a ‘book is much easier to work with compared to…