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March 18th, 2009 | Tags: CES, fun, gadgets, green, head, iphone, mac, mobodojo, palm, portable, review, storage, technology | Category: Reviews | Its not often you meet the near-perfect, much less the perfect tool. While the latter still eludes me, I’ve found and have worked with the former now for about a month. True story: The dog ran off with the first one that my PR rep sent me and dropped it down a drain pipe. She very, very, very kindly sent me another one, and I’ve been eagerly working with it ever since. In case you’re not clear on what I’m talking about, I am referring to the LiveScribe Pulse digital pen. This is no normal pen, mind you. The Pulse is a wonder of technology, convenience, function, and familiarity. It does exactly what it suggests it will do, but it also does so much more.
The key to the functionality of the Pulse is manifold, but it can be counted down to the infrared camera perched under the nib (I’m old, so look it up), the voice recording capabilities, and the special paper the pens use in order to work their magic. Now don’t go groaning over the fact that you have to buy special paper. Have you seen what a simple notepad costs at Barnes & Noble these days? Shocking to the point where you’ll think that paying $20 for a 200 sheet notebook which enables the power of the Pulse is a steal and a half. Combine that with the fact that the most recent Windows version of the software can print blank pages, and you’re on easy street.
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December 19th, 2008 | Tags: CES, drive, fun, mac, portable, review, wireless | Category: Reviews | I will warn you in advance, I’m no artist. I’ve dabbled in the graphic arts for years, but I’ve never had formal training aside from a single year of drafting in college. On the other side of the coin, I edited or revised over 35 titles on Adobe’s PhotoShop software and Corel’s CorelDRAW (back when it was still competitive). I know that sounds odd, but even though I can’t paint a Picasso or model a Mona Lisa, I know how these programs work and how they put it all together. Just try doing it with a mouse.
That’s where Wacom comes in, and they’ve been doing it very well for a very long time. A couple of years ago I reviewed their first Bluetooth wireless tablet. Let’s just say that, even though I liked it, I didn’t like the Bluetooth component. It was difficult to keep it charged and it would drop connections on occasion. Accuracy was also not so great. Wacom has come a long way on their low-cost tablets, though. Their new Bamboo tablets, while not wireless, are fantastically portable and work really, really well.
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July 3rd, 2008 | Tags: portable, review | Category: Opinionation | There’s apparently very little like posting a complete story via one’s own Nokia N810. It’s made even more special because I’m not typing it in using the in-built keyboard. Nay, I’m using an Apple 2nd Gen Bluetooth Keyboard, the tiny little silver one. Uaing this little battery-powered wonder allows me to type a long closer to [...]
June 22nd, 2008 | Tags: CES, education, fun, iphone, ipod, mac, media, mobile, palm, portable, service, technology, treo | Category: Opinionation | Come July 11th there will likely be a mod at your local Apple and AT&T stores with nerds and norms alike waiting to upgrade their Rev 1.0 device to the latest and greatest Apple has to offer your hand. We’ve all heard the hype and we’ve seen Apple deliver before and there’s little to no reason to believe that his Steveness won’t pull it off again. Apple has been in the “Zone” for years now, and with Microsoft losing face with consumers and Linux starting to pull out all the stops (take a gander at Ubuntu and the newly released OpenSUSE 11 if you don’t believe me) Apple is in a real position to start making real strides into a larger marketshare. The iPhone, that little black and silver rectangle you cradle so delicately in your hand, is the catalyst of that growth, too.
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June 15th, 2008 | Tags: CES, drive, green, hardware, iphone, ipod, life, mac, mobile, portable | Category: Opinionation | A sea change is welling at the source, and Microsoft is not in a good place to weather it well. Now, before you start tossing rocks in my general direction, I’m not going to suggest that Microsoft is going away anytime soon. After all, anywhere from 96-84% of all PCs in the world (depending on who you speak to for statistics) is running anywhere from Windows 95 to Windows Vista. Part of the problem, however, is that most of them are running Windows XP and Microsoft doesn’t want that. No, indeed. Its no surprise that Vista isn’t doing well, mostly because it sucks and people know it… okay, so Microsoft itself doesn’t seem to get it yet.
Where, then, does Linux come into the picture? Do you see all of these tiny little lappies hitting the market? OLPC started it with their little green bug and kicked it into gear when they started offering the Buy-Two-Get-One deal where one goes to a child in a 3rd world country and you get the other one. ASUS saw something in that and ponied up the Eee PC, a tiny little lappy with a 4GB solid state hard drive and an eensy weensy price tag. Buyers freaked and they flew off the shelves, and other fabbers took notice and made their own. They are called MIDs (Mobile Internet Devices) and are meant to be companions to your online life.
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