Clever idea for the Touchpad
A new TouchPad, called the cPad, from Synaptics, with a touch-sensitive LCD screen where the notebook’s TouchPad would be. Could be used as an application launcher, calculator, calendar display, sticky notes.
The new iMac
I really like this. Very bold move launching it in this economy, but that is Steve Jobs for you. With the new iBook (which I LOVE) and the new Operating System (Mac OSX) I think Apple might just be getting…
Daylight come and I want to go home…
This is the inevitable version of the Taliman song converted to the Taliban song. Not politically correct (again!) but hilarious! I love Bush beating on the bongos…
Beautiful watch
fliegerchronograph 170×296I have been looking around for a new watch… and I thought that this one from UNION – Glash
Microsoft Passport compromised…
I just read this article, CNN.com – Microsoft admits major ‘Passport’ flaw – November 3, 2001, that describes how someone was able to get someone else’s MS Passport details through a fairly simple process. This is very bad. MS is…
Taxi on Trolleys
My dad sent me this picture from a local newspaper in South Africa. Quoting the text under the picture: “Infamous for their driving skills, it has long been suspected that some taxi drivers are off their trolleys. And pirate taxis…
Smallest digital camera I have seen
This is a new digital camera from ‘Che-ez!’ called ‘SPYZ’. It has a fixed lens, CMOS sensor and shoots at 640 x 480. Aparently, the image quality isn’t anything to write home about, but I just thought that this was…
Windows XP slower than Windows 2000
According to Infoworld. “In every test we performed on systems with a single CPU, OfficeBench ran in less time under Windows 2000 than under Windows XP. The differences ranged from slight to dramatic, depending on the hardware configuration, but XP…
Please vote for Trillian on the PocketPC
Please go to this site and vote for the next port of Trillian to be for the PocketPC. What is Trillian? It’s a freeware unified instant messaging client that lets you connect and communicate with other people who are on…
Unix apps (Apache, Emacs, X-Windows) for the Pocket PC
The folks at General Paranoyaxc Software compiled a bunch of Unix applications for the Pocket PC and Windows CE. Crazy stuff. Who would have thought it possible to run Emacs, X-Windows, or LaTeX (seen in the picture) on the iPaq!…