ITOS 2006 – The Elusive Thumboard

Have you used the thumb-board (T-Board) yet? It’s tricky. The idea is that you use the pressure of your thumb or finger, say, in the chat screen and the T-board will pop up. You put in your line of text, then return to the chat screen. Here is the T-board: You control the pressure to…

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ITOS 2006 and IM

So the new IM client on ITOS’06 is really nice. Of course it does Google, and through that Google Talk- but it also seems to be a full featured Jabber client. At my company, we’ve installed our own Jabber server for internal IM. I was able to easily add a new “account” and connect to…

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Nokia 2006 Beta

Lots of talk on the net about this- and they are all correct- this beta is amazing. It’s very fast and the the UI enhancements are nice. I’ve taken some screen shots (12) the old fashion way, and I’ll let them do the talking. First, the flasher on OSX worked like a charm: blinky:~ dillera$…

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Firefox and Tooltips on Macintosh

I love Firefox and I hate Firefox. On the Mac, it’s great and it’s even better on my new MacBook- it’s super fast. You are using the built-for-G4-G5-Intel builds over at Beatnikpad aren’t you? With all the Firefox goodness however, there has always been one thing that has driven me nuts: the ToolTips. I like…

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VMware, Solaris9 x86 and Disk

So my Solaris sysadmin skillz are getting rusty, and I had to add a new virtual disk to a VMware Solaris9 X86 system (it’s a long story) and I was drawing a blank…. bash-2.05# dmesg | grep ata Jun 6 17:44:48 solaris pcplusmp: [ID 637496 kern.info] pcplusmp: ide (ata) instance 0 vector 0xe ioapic 0x1…

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Updated Newton Emulator for 770

Paul Guyot released this email to the NewtonTalk (a Newton list). He had a special showing of his latest build of Einstein Platform 2006 at the Apple store in Ginza. Here is a picture of the participants, Newtons in hand. The 770 build is going to be released shortly– if you have a Zaurus, you…

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MacBook LCD Screens- Gloss or Not?

There is a large amount of chatter regarding the new glossy LCD screens on the MacBooks, and the option to have one on your MacBook Pro. I found an amazing link to page that describes what the technical differences are, and why you want one or the other. It seems to me that it comes…

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FBreader- Holding the 770

Update on ebook reading with the 770: Adam Wolf kindly alerted me to his page where you can clearly see what I am talking about in terms of the haptics involved with reading on the 770. Thanks Adam for taking those shots. This is where the size of the 770 clearly comes into play. Any…

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InfoLinks for Google & Nokia Announcement

Is the new Nokia Internet Tablet device is coming out next Tuesday? More news about the Google Talk & Nokia collaboration: SeattlePI CNN Money Daily Tech Not any real new info- just that a new Tablet is coming out, with Google Talk as the VOIP software. The announcement is Tuesday- who knows if the device…

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700 Ebooks and FBreader – Missing the Point

So I was fighting with FBreader for a long time, and not understanding why it was so great- until I realized a few basic things, which I’ll pass along– in case you haven’t been using it for all your reading lately. Rotate the screen 90 deg Go full-screen Use the rocker button, which is now…

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Google Trends and the 770

So Google trends is now live– with it you can compare all sorts of things, like how the UMPC (remember Origami?) could turn out to be just a flash in the pan as the reviews of the first devices (just the Samsung for now) are rolling in– and almost all of them are dismal.  …

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New Browser in next release of Internet Tablet Software?

I have no evidence for this, other than my own investigations, but could Nokia be planning to replace the Opera Mobile browser that is currently included in the Internet Tablet Software (i.e. the 770’s Linux OS) with their in-house S60 browser (here is the official Nokia page), which is based on Apple’s own WebCore (Apple’s…

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Don’t tell me this isn’t aimed at the 770

Leaked picture of the Origami Device? Look at those buttons- they even have the same zoom button as the 770 (but the zoom is lower left instead of upper right). You can’t tell me that a device like this isn’t isn’t going to stomp all over the nascent Internet Tablet space… No word if this…

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The Nokia 880?

Word out there is that Nokia already has the next device in their Internet Tablet Platform. Lets take a guess at its next CPU. For all the talk about what the 770 can do, given better software, and or RAM, the CPU was designed for a mobile phone, not a Internet Tablet. The CPU inside…

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Einstein on 770 mini-update

For those of you interested in the Einstein Project (emulation of an Apple Message Pad 2000 on your Nokia 770), I have some news. Good and bad of course. The Good news: Paul has his own 770, which was donated to him. This will certainly help the eventual development of Einstein on the Nokia platform…

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Sony eReader – or the Nokia 770?

Sony has released their eReader today– the PRS-500 is available in the US for $349. Guess what else you can get today for $349? The 770 and PRS-500 share nearly the same screen specs (800×600 for the PRS-500 and 800×480 for the 770) however the PRS-500’s screen is non-color. Beyond that, they are very different…

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Origami and the Nokia 770

Nokia better get their butt in gear for the 2nd generation Internet Tablet- the hype (more analysis) over the Microsoft Origami project is growing, and while it is very much vaporware at this point, a lot could happen this year. This device is aimed squarely at the niche that Nokia has identified. More than a…

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Scanner Darkly Trailer for Nokia 770

The new trailer for A Scanner Darkly is out, and there is a feature in the current (March) Wired Magazine about the issues that Linklater has had with the technology to rotoscope this entire movie. Seeing as how the trailer is very cool, and not too big, I decided to encode it for the 770–…

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