Tags: android

Daily Playlist (Extended): Interesting Links, 6/15/2010

June 15th, 2010
PC World - Holy Trump Cards, Batman!!! Microsoft apparently outed the outsters (whatever that means) by throwing down a mad trump card for the other two manufacturers to flog themselves in an attempt to follow up. It gave away production units of its… more »

Hardware Changes at the 'WERKz - the past 3 months

June 8th, 2010
Location: some 10,000 feet above the planet's surface. I am attempting to tap out yet another blog post on the Archos 7 Home Tablet. Amazing that one of the things I wanted in the A7HT was a smaller computing platform to work on; smaller even than a netb… more »

Archos 7 Home Tablet: the Apps and How I Use Them - Part I

May 31st, 2010
Continuing my experiences with the Archos 7 Home Tablet. As I remarked earlier, efficient use of the A7HT is all about configuration, maintaining stability, and establishing your work patterns. My initial setup of the A7 was bunk. I went to the AppsLib m… more »

Different Ergonomic Approaches to Text Entry on the Archos 7 Home Tablet - A Small Gallery

May 31st, 2010
1-hand hold, 1-Index finger tapping on the Archos 7 Home Tablet Recommended for typo corrections, password entry, single entry tasks and dashboard and widget interaction Thumb Typing on the Archos 7 Home tablet Highly Recommended, if you… more »

First Days with the Archos 7

May 31st, 2010
I am actually tapping this blog entry out from my Archos 7 Home Tablet. My experience with the device has been all over the map since it arrived about 10 days ago. Perhaps most bothersome is the tendency for the cursor to lose focus in response to certai… more »

First Night and Morning with the Archos 7 Home Tablet

May 24th, 2010
First of all, check my twitter feed for the thoughts that precede these; they are ones I posted throughout the first night and during initial cfg of the A7HT. Then I wrote this midday after I had more time to refelct. I'll work on consolidating my tweets… more »

Most of the Tech Media Are Morons When It Comes to Tablets - A Rant that is NSFW

May 18th, 2010
In the frenzy that has occurred in the wake of the tablet craze and the release of the iPad, a lot of the tech media has felt obligated to comment on a number of areas of mobile computing that they know nothing about. One of the most prevalent trends has… more »

Thoughts on the iPad - from February

May 1st, 2010
It's been a long journey on this road of all the tablet brooh-hah. I've gone through dips and valleys and had initial thoughts and then changed them. Right now, I am awaiting an Archos 7 Home Tablet from Amazon. The pre-ordered units have yet to ship. It… more »

Interview with enTourage Systems VP, Doug Atkinson

April 17th, 2010
I have ben engaged in a dialog with enTourage Systems since just prior to the release of their device, the enTourage eDGe. While I continue to wait for a demo unit for review, I was able to conduct an interview via email with their VP of Marketing and Bu… more »

Thoughts on the iPad - Finally

February 14th, 2010
I have been silent on the iPad, at least via any of my online outlets. Warner Crocker posted some questions on Gadget Fatigue over at GottaBeMobile, and a lot of those issues point to the reasons behind my silence. It has just been so loud and so fatigui… more »