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The Wikipedia is an “open source” internet encyclopedia, and blows Britannica away. My favorite use for it is pulling down definitions of new slang that comes my way, always useful in making dialogue sound more “real.” Never be clueless again!
Want a Treo 650? Better Sprint | CNET News.com: “Asked why the Treo 650 does not include support for Wi-Fi, PalmOne President Ed Colligan said the company will eventually make its add-on Wi-Fi card work with the Treo 650. However, he said the company still has to write drivers to make that possible, meaning Wi-Fi [...]
Mr. Stephenson answers 10 12 questions. Among them is an attempt to answer why sci-fi writers get no respect.
I hope that title was inscrutable enough. NaNoWriMo is the National Novel Writing Month (November). The deal is that you write a novel with a length of 50 000 words. That’s it. You can post excerpts to your account that you set up at nanowrimo, and you self-report the words you’ve [...]
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“Author James Michener liked to write large books, he said, because once, when standing in a store that was being robbed, he was shot in the posterior, and the bullet passed through his back pocket and then lodged on page 450 of his novel.
Ebooks can’t do that. But here are some [...]
This is the machine I want! I wonder if it can sync via ActiveSync. It has a 600×800 screen, serial, USB, modem ports, and a PCMCIA slot. Although it doesn’t have eReader (and it’s strange they do not include MS Reader either), they include uBook and MobiReader. If it essentially runs as a PocketPC, this [...]
Pepper Pad 2 Specification - Pepper Computer
When I decide to upgrade from the Zodiac, this may be the way to go. Linux, SVGA screen, lotsa RAM, 20GB HD, and so much more. This is the most perfect tablet I’ve yet seen. Wow.
A friend of mine relayed some interesting news from Franklin/Covey today. They are selling more paper planners than they have in years, while their PDA sales have dropped to a trickle.
I think I know the reason for this. And no, before I even get started, PDAs are not dead. The handheld computer is every bit [...]
Okay, so I’m not impressed with PalmOne’s Tungsten T5. But you know what? I completely understand it.
The initial reaction to the T5, from myself and most people I’ve talked to, was, “So they take a Tungsten E, slap a better battery and Bluetooth in it, do a little gimmick trick with flash memory, and suddenly [...]
I had high hopes for the T5. I really wanted to like it. But really. This is it?
Let me say this up front. With the T5 on the market, the Tapwave Zodiac is still the best Palm Powered device on the market. Why? Because with one notable exception, it does everything the T5 does, only [...]