Archive for December, 2006
Wired Reviews 300 Products – UMPCs Included!
Monday, December 4th, 2006
Wired has its “Wired Test 300+ Products Rated and Tested” You’re getting a summary of the device what Wired likes, what they don’t, and a basic price of the device. They’ve included 4 UMPC’s in the mix. They’ve reviewed the ASUS R2H, Samsung Q1, Sony VGN-UX180P, and TabletKiosk EO v7110. It is really cool to see a comparison of these main players in the UMPC market all being done by a widely read magazine.
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Go to CodeMash!
Monday, December 4th, 2006
Ok, this is the first cool conference (that isn’t MSFT technology only!) that I’ve seen come to a state around the Great Lakes region in some time! I got an email from Josh Holmes this morning telling me to check out CodeMash.
Here’s what their website says the event is all about:
“CodeMash is a unique event that will educate developers on current practices, methodologies and technology trends in variety of platforms and development languages such as Java, .NET, Ruby and PHP. Held January 18-19, 2007 at the lush Kalahari resort (http://www.kalahariresort.com/) in Sandusky, Ohio, attendees will be able to attend a world-class technical conference amid Ohio’s largest indoor waterpark. So nobody will frown if you show up in shorts, sandals, and your loudest t-shirt. You might even win a prize for doing so.”
Ok, I’ll say i NEED to go. Boasting sessions like building Windows Vista Widgets, Intro to AJAX, Being a Productive Programmer, and more I need to go! The conference will have great presenters including Drew Robbins, Greg Huber, Bill Wagner, Josh Holmes and more!
Now I whine a bit and say yes, this is on January 18th and 19th. First problem I will have classes. The second semester will be kicking off about a week prior so the semester will just be getting started. Oh and I’m in college so even though they have a great early-bird rate of $99 for the conference, i’ll need to be getting a hotel too. I don’t currently see a student pricing package. But i’ll see what I can do. This is looking like a great conference that i NEED to be at.
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If you have good ideas, people may just want to talk about them
Friday, December 1st, 2006
Some time last week a daily read of mine Ubertablet written by Hugo Ortega was asking for suggetions for their next podcast, so I put my two cents in. A few days later the latest podcast by Hugo Ortega and Dr. Neil Roodyn just so happened to be using my suggestion as one of their main topics!
Hugo, you and Dr. Neil were talking about what applications you use often with your UMPCs, i’ll add mine to the list:
IE7 – decent at saving real estate, most times it doesn’t give me memory useage problems.
Notepad++ – Very nice lightweight application that is a very minimal text editor with color tag identification.
xampplite – another small application that with the push of a button allows me to use my Q1b as a PHP server to test websites.
Microsoft OneNote – I use this one on about a daily basis to keep up my daily schedules, as well as notes for my classes.
Also i’ve found that portableapps.com is a great source for quality applications that are fairly light weight. They have many useful applications listed there.
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