First published at www.examiner.com/gadgets-in-seattle/ Apple’s iPad 2 goes on sale today at 5pm, less than a year after the game changing original Ipad. It will be interesting to see how early sales go. Has Apple already saturated the tablet market with its successful iPad sales? Will original iPad owners trade up for the new model, [...]
Even if it was a cardboard cut out version of Dell’s new tablet that Steven Lalla, vice president and general manager of Dell’s commercial client product group, was holding up, the promised specs had to get the attention of tablet wanters everywhere. Lalla and the cardboard display of the tablet were the stars of the [...]
Remember how 2010 was going to be the year of the tablet? Well, its come and gone and the only legitimate tablet released was Apple’s famed Ipad, a giant version of their Itouch which appears to be more of a platform to sell Apps than anything else at this point. So where are the tablets [...]
Cherrypal Announces the World’s First $99 Laptop Cherrypal has done it. A $99 7″ laptop running Android. Honestly, for less than 100 bucks, it seems like an ok little ‘netbook’. And it runs Android. I could see the lack of touch screen maybe being a little clunky with the Android Interface (I have a G1) [...]
When Arrington posted that the Crunchpad is dead, there was mention of upcoming legal action against once partner Chandra Rathakrishnan and Fusion Garage. On Monday Fusion Garage released the tablet now known as the JooJoo in San Francisco. How they rubbed off the CruchPad logo so fast, I’m not sure. The touch screen device is [...]
I already run Chrome on my Macbook, but it was fun to get this in my email box It’s finally here: Google Chrome for Mac. Available today in beta! Hi there, Thanks for signing up to hear from us regarding Google Chrome for Mac! We’re excited to let you know that Google Chrome is now [...]
Yesterday, I commented on the Gboard gadget thing for Gmail keyboard short cuts, costing $20 and an USB port that I don’t have to spare… but I did learn something important Gmail has keyboard short cuts. These could be handy. Lifted straight from Google. To turn these case-sensitive shortcuts on or off, click Settings, and [...]
Have an extra $20 sitting around? Use Gmail? Can’t remember all those pesky Gmail keyboard short cuts? I present… the Gboard This little gadget looks useless. It plugs into your computer, using up one of your USB ports and gives you a little pad with 19 buttons that trigger some of the more common of [...]
Damn. Buy.com currently has a never-been-locked 3Gs 32gb Iphone for two cents under a $1000. That seems like a lot of money for a phone. For $1000 you could buy a 2.26GHz Intel Core 2 Duo MacBook. For $1000 you could buy a Golden Opulence Sundae. For $1000 you could buy a 1998 Kia Sportage [...]
It seems mininova.org has purged all user-contributed torrents in an attempt to comply with an August order by a Dutch judge, removing all the indexed torrents with questionable content and become an index of Content Distribution torrents only. Posted on the MiniNova Blog (which is now unavailable) Hi all, Today is an important day in [...]