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- NYC on 2 Nokias a day
- A couple of weeks ago, I took the family on a trip to New York City. We got a pretty good deal on travel in the form of a package deal from Hotwired.com that included four round-trip tickets and two hotel rooms for about $600 per person for a four-night,...
- Tags: Gadgetry, Hardware, Mobility, Productivity, Web Apps
- Blog posts 2007-05-26
- Does the iPhone "change everything"?
- Great post today by Tomi Ahonen, one of the authors of the Communities Dominate Brands book and blog about the sea change in awareness of how mobile computing will change after the release of the iPhone. If you haven't read this book or added this blog to your aggregator and...
- Tags: Gadgetry, Hardware, Mac, Mobility, Productivity
- Blog posts 2007-05-18
- FlipStart handheld PC now available from Dynamism
- FlipStart, the handheld PC released a couple of months ago, is now available from Dynamism, a reseller of high-performance mobile gear. Previously, the tiny PC was only available directly from the company. A number of accessories including batteries and a port replicator for use on the desktop are also available....
- Tags: Gadgetry, Hardware, Mobility, Productivity, Vista, Windows
- Blog posts 2007-05-15
- What's in my gadget bag (this time)
- Im off to New York City for a few days and just finished packing my gadget bag for this outing. Given the duration of the flight (about 6 hours with ime zone changes), the brevity of the layover less than an hour, and the fact that Im traveling with the...
- Tags: Productivity, Mobility, Mac, Hardware, Gadgetry
- Blog posts 2007-05-10
- OnTheRun with Tablet PCs #37
- Listen here ( MP3, 19.6 MB, 55 minutes) or Subscribe to the show with this link RSS James Kendrick and I hit the ground running in show #37 and device reviews are the order of the day as we discuss the HP tx1000...
- Tags: Windows, Vista, Tablet PCs, Software, Productivity, Podcasts, Mobility, Hardware, Gadgetry
- Blog posts 2007-05-06
- A collection of Mac tidbits
- Yesterday was a good day if youre a Mac user. Here are three nice things I came across while catching up on RSS feeds last night:Flickr has released a new Universal Binary of the Flickr Uploadr tool for the Mac (can I buy a vowel please?). According the the download...
- Tags: Web Apps, Utilities and Add-Ins, Software, Productivity, Mobility, Mac, Hardware, Google, Gadgetry, Blogs
- Blog posts 2007-05-03
- Southwest Airlines looking at in-flight WiFi
- According to a story in the Denver Post, Southwesy Airlines is seriously considering a pilot program (sorry, couldnt resist) to test WiFi connectivity on its flights. I fly SWA all the time - I broke the 100 flights in 12 months threshold this year which means my wife can join...
- Tags: Productivity, Mobility, Hardware, Gadgetry
- Blog posts 2007-04-30
- Is there any "wow" left in the Tablet PC?
- Rob Bushway at GottaBeMobile.com wrote a thoughtful piece the other day pondering where the "wow" has gone in the Tablet PC segment. Its a well-balanced look at what he sees as a mature product segment lacking in significant new innovations that are likely to drive large numbers of new adopters...
- Tags: Windows, Vista, Tablet PCs, Productivity, Mobility, Hardware, Gadgetry
- Blog posts 2007-04-29
- iotum Talk-Now and Jajah hook up
- This is one of those natural alliances that make you nod your head at the "right-ness" of the connection. Too often, I read about companies announcing "strategic alliances" that are neither terribly strategic nor actually an alliance in the sense of a meeting of equals generating a sum that is...
- Tags: CES, Gadgetry, Hardware, Mobility, Productivity, Software
- Blog posts 2007-04-26
- A fine ergo solution for laptop users
- For the past couple of weeks, Ive experienced a significant reduction in the weariness and stiffness I normally associate with spending many hours working on my laptop when seated at a desk. This relief has come thanks to a new aluminum desktop stand Ive been using made by LapWorks, the...
- Tags: Gadgetry, Productivity, Mobility
- Blog posts 2007-04-24
- OnTheRun with Tablet PCs #36 is now online
- OnTheRun with Tablet PCs #36- the shout-out show!Listen here ( MP3, 17.4 MB, 50 minutes) or Subscribe to the show with this link RSS James Kendrick and I are back with show #36 and shout-outs are in order all around with the shipping of my...
- Tags: Windows, Vista, Utilities and Add-Ins, Tablet PCs, Software, Productivity, Podcasts, Mobility, Microsoft Office, Hardware, Gadgetry
- Blog posts 2007-04-01
- Lenovo X60 Tablet PC on the road
- I had my first real opportunity to put the Lenovo ThinkPad X60t to work as a conference machine this week at the OReilly Emerging Technologies conference in San Diego and Im more impressed than ever with how useful this machine is for someone who needs a perfect balance of portability...
- Tags: Vista, Utilities and Add-Ins, Tablet PCs, Software, Productivity, Mobility, Microsoft Office, Hardware, Gadgetry, Events, ETech
- Blog posts 2007-03-31
- How I solved my Outlook-Google Calendar issues
- Working on a number of different PCs and connected devices introduces all sorts of complexity. A constant issue is how to keep all of the information I need access to at hand, regardless of the device I happen to be using. E-mail is pretty easy - between Gmail and IMAP...
- Tags: Gadgetry, Hardware, Mac, Mastering the Inbox, Microsoft Office, Mobility, Productivity, Software, Tablet PCs, Utilities and Add-Ins, Vista, Web Apps, Windows
- Blog posts 2007-03-13
- Is Lance right? Are palmtop PCs a bad idea?
- Lance Ulanoff at PC Magazine declares the new Vulcan FlipStart and the Sony UX series and the OQO and UMPCs are deader than a doornail and a bad idea that must be stopped. Of course Lance also declared the Tablet PC a failure and has now come to his senses...
- Tags: Gadgetry, Tablet PCs, Mobility, Hardware, Productivity
- Blog posts 2007-03-08
- FlipSmart handheld PC unveiled at last
- This has been a long time coming. I first heard rumors and saw spyshots of the FlipSmart handheld PC a couple of years ago and, after a number of delays, the device has finally been announced officially. Since its first mention, the world has turned a few times and a...
- Tags: Gadgetry, Hardware, Mobility, Productivity, Vista, Windows
- Blog posts 2007-03-07
- Treo user? Get Palm updates for Vista, Office 2007, and DST
- From MyTreo.net today:Palm contacted us recently and asked that we share with the community three software updates. Palm has released a fix for a daylight savings time change issue, which could affect some Treo owners. There is an update for Outlook 2007 users that improves hotsync operation. Lastly, Palm released...
- Tags: Windows, Utilities and Add-Ins, Vista, Software, Microsoft Office, Hardware, Gadgetry, Productivity, Mobility
- Blog posts 2007-02-27
- Treo productivity podcast
- A while back, I sat down with David Spark who produces and hosts The Communications Insider for Sprint to talk about productivity and the Treo. The resulting podcast has just been posted and is available for your listening pleasure. As is often the case when I get wound up about...
- Tags: Productivity, Mobility, Hardware, Gadgetry, Software, Podcasts, podcast
- Blog posts 2007-02-08
- OnTheRun with Tablet PCs #34- CES Wrapup
- Listen here ( MP3, 20.8 MB, 60 minutes) or Subscribe to the show with this link RSSJames Kendrick and I sit down finally for show #34 and have a chance to ruminate on finally meeting face to face at the Tablet PC meetup at the CES recently in Las...
- Tags: Productivity, Mobility, Microsoft Office, Hardware, Gadgetry, Tablet PCs, Software, Mastering the Inbox, Podcasts, CES, tablet, tablet PC, Consumer Electronics Show
- Blog posts 2007-01-21
- MobileCrunch reviews the Nokia N800 handheld
- Oliver Starr has published a comprehensive hands-on review of the new Nokia N800 handheld computer – the next generation of the 770 Internet Tablet that Ive been using for the past few months. Like Oliver, Ive been under an NDA from Nokia about the device and he and I were...
- Tags: Productivity, Mobility, Hardware, Gadgetry, Nokia World, CES, Nokia Corp.
- Blog posts 2007-01-19
- CES: Mobile computing revolution
- Check out David Berlinds coverage of a number of devices that might change your mind about lugging a laptop around. He asks the question, "Are you ready to ditch your laptop?" and its a question more and more people are willing to consider seriously. I know my continued exploration of...
- Tags: Productivity, Mobility, Hardware, Gadgetry, Tablet PCs, CES, mobile computing, mobile marketing
- Blog posts 2007-01-11
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