October 16th 2008
Those of you who use the search bar in Vista or Windows Search in XP know the strength of powerful searching from the command line. You may even have wished that you could search for text within your Office 2007 documents to find that nugget of information you know exists. If that describes you then [...]
October 15th 2008
We’ve only had a few short days to get our feet wet with a T-Mobile G1 phone and while there are definite similarities to other devices and platforms, this is certainly a different beast. First and foremost, the entire Android ecosystem is much more open from a development point of view. While this is clearly [...]
October 15th 2008
Our buddies at GigaOM got a 13-inch MacBook and they’ve taken some nice photos of the unboxing. Take a look at these photos and you’ll see why we are so excited about this new MacBook. How excited? We may have some hands-on video of one here at jkOnTheRun pretty soon. :) For now enjoy:
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October 15th 2008
I have long been a happy EV-DO user and my ExpressCard modem has been a joy to use. I have lately been thinking about switching to a USB modem however. I evaluate so many different laptops and not all of them have an ExpressCard slot and a USB modem would work with any of them. [...]
October 15th 2008
I just got back home from a trip to the Apple Store. Geek that I am I trekked to get you some hands-on photos of the new MacBooks because that’s what I do. What I found was…. nothing. In spite of the clear statement that Steve Jobs made yesterday that the new MacBooks would be [...]
October 15th 2008
I am a big fan of the 1Password utility for the Mac. It stores all of my passwords in encrypted form so I only have to enter them once. I just got word from Agile Web Solutions that the iPhone version is now available in the App Store and it will be free for a [...]
October 15th 2008
In the "at least it’s not the same old, same old" department, AVING has spotted a handset from Sharp that looks and acts like a MID. The 9225H is surprisingly small and thin yet has a Sharp Zaurus-like keyboard inside that looks pretty darn functional. It has a 3.5-inch wide VGA screen and a little [...]
October 15th 2008
I just got a promotional email from HP that shows the Mini-Note is now available for $399. This starting configuration is the low-end version of the netbook:
Via processor
512 MB of RAM
Suse Linux
4 GB SSD
The unit with 1 GB of RAM, 120 GB hard drive and Windows XP but with no Bluetooth is now just $499. [...]
October 15th 2008
The big topic in mobile tech has certainly been the new MacBooks announced by Apple. One thing is certain there are probably equal number of folks who are excited by the refresh as there are those who wanted more. We’ve soaked up everything we could find out about the new Macs and analyzed every hands-on [...]
October 14th 2008
You’ve likely heard enough today about expensive laptops and need to hear about some netbook goodness. Laptop Magazine’s netbook diva Joanna Stern has you covered with a hands on look at the new Samsung NC10 netbook. Joanna spends some quality time with the $499 10-inch Samsung and shares her thoughts on the new netbook. The [...]
October 14th 2008
My favorite ebook reader by far is eReader for the iPhone and they just released another new version free for the taking. Version 1.3 adds several new features, the biggest for me is adding bookmarks. Just tap in the upper right corner just like other platform versions of eReader and you get an instant bookmark [...]
October 14th 2008
Let’s take the focus off the big Apple event today and share some news about those other big guys, Microsoft. On the Microsoft Vista Team Blog Mike Nash has spilled the big beans that the next version of the Windows operating system, code named Windows 7, will officially be called…… drum roll please…. Windows [...]
October 13th 2008
I’m not sure why you would do this but a programmer in Norway has developed a dual-boot method for the iPhone providing Windows Mobile support. In this video found by MobileDevicesToday the programmer shows selecting Windows Mobile from the touch boot menu, and then running it. He claims it can make calls and I must [...]
October 13th 2008
We use corporate GMail at GigaOM and I have tried vainly several times to get it working on my Blackberry. GMail Mobile would always tell me that it only worked with GMail accounts ending in @gmail.com but that’s not the case with corporate GMail. Today I wouldn’t take no for an answer and began checking [...]
October 13th 2008
The most-used application on my Blackberry is PocketDay. It is an integrated window into my PIM data, email and other information that I configure PocketDay to show me at a glance. The folks behind PocketDay just let me know that the program has been updated to version 5.4 and they have put a lot of [...]
October 13th 2008
Netbooks are big news and they are here to stay. News about netbooks is always hot and we all clamor for word of the latest and greatest netbook coming along. What isn’t clear is how to define a netbook? We’ve discussed that in the past and we always seem to gravitate toward size and cost [...]
October 13th 2008
I have been slowly (kicking and screaming) migrating a lot of my work to the cloud, as much due to happenstance as anything. One of the utilities I have come to use frequently in that effort is LogMeIn Free, a full-featured remote control application. I looked into several different methods for doing this but I [...]
October 12th 2008
We have seen the big buzz over the first Android phone, the T-Mobile G1. We heard the stories about the difficulty getting a pre-shipment order in to T-Mobile. The only thing we could assume was that Google, HTC and T-Mobile were making as many G1s as they could because the orders were flying fast and [...]
October 10th 2008
The news about NVidia just keeps getting worse and can be filed in the "stick a fork in them" category. NVidia had to admit that some of their video chips were faulty and the impact on the company was so great that shareholders filed suit against management. The faulty chips spawned recalls by HP and [...]
October 10th 2008
The OpenOffice suite has continued to evolve and the next major release (3.0) is scheduled for official release on Monday. Sun posted it to a bunch of mirror sites already so if you can’t wait or you want something to do over the weekend then give it a go. OpenOffice is a very full-featured productivity [...]