The Netbook Diaries

On the Business Hacks website this week Rick Broida has been documenting his experiences of using a netbook when he has been out and about.
I am on my second netbook having recently change my Asus EEE PC for a rebadged MSI Wind and I love it but, as Broida points out, the battery life […]

1st November 2008

Stories that caught my eye this week – 1st November 2008:

Five Best URL Shrinkers [Hive Five]
Introducing Google Earth for iPhone
How Long Does Your Computer Take to Boot Up? [Reader Poll]
The town in the cloud…
New Default Groups for Google Contacts
Microsoft to battle in the clouds
Google Adds Gadgets To Gmail (Docs And Calendar)
Google Labs Gets to […]

BlackBerry Storm

Visiting Vodafone’s UK HQ today I had the opportunity to try out the new BlackBerry Storm – the first with a touchscreen and touted iPhone killer. As ever it was a well put together device with a bright screen and felt good to hold in the hand.
The real surprise though came when using the […]

4th October 2008

Stories that caught my eye this week – 4th October 2008:

Songreference Turns Your MP3 Playlist Into A Video Playlist
Technology - is the party over?
Facebook for iPhone clicks over to version 2.0
Cloud + Client
Which way to the mobile web?
Fast forward for mobile broadband
Google Launches Its Own Memetracker
“Windows Cloud” Operating System to Be Released Within a […]

Intel Predicts Positive Future for Mobile Web

A report from Intel today (via the BBC) predicts that mobile web is in for a bright future with 1.2 billion connected devices by 2012. This prediction was made at an event to highlight a range of Intel chips for web-enabled mobile devices.
Gadi SInger, head of Intel’s mobility group, made an interesting point that […]

Firefox Through a Prism

I have stated previously (here and here) that the main focus for my attention on my desktop and laptop these days is the browser as I have more and more of my key applications (email, calendar, documents etc.) in the cloud. This is all well and good but this has thrown up a number […]

McGuider Update

Since my original post on the McGuider sat nav software for mobile devices I have had more of a chance to put it through its paces and I have to say that the results have been extremely disappointing.
I have now used it for about four routes that I do often and in half of those […]

The first 10 applications you install

There’s a couple of these surveys kicking around at the moment (here and here) to find out what are the first ten applications that you install on your mobile. Ever one to jump on the bandwagon here I present my top 10 for Nokia S60 3rd Edition:

emoze – Free push email
Handy Calendar – Replacement […]

Asus EEE PC and Mobile Broadband

Got one of these? Then get one of these   (but only one of these, a Huawei E220, as this is, apparently, the only one that works out of the box with the EEE).
Currently UK mobile operator 3 are doing an offer for existing subscribers where you can get a mobile broadband dongle for […]

Google Docs Offline

So I have been testing the new offline (i.e. the ability to access your docs when you have no Internet coverage) capabilities of Google Docs over the last week on my trusty Asus EEE PC. This seemed like the ideal device for me to do the test on as it is so obviously designed for […]