Fri July 23 2004
Fujitsu-Siemens Loox 720 revealed at FCC! |
07:08 PM by Colin Dunstan in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones Fcc.gov turns out to be one of my favorite "latest geek" news sources Their site now reveals (manuals, photos, specs) some exciting highlights of the new Fujitsu-Siemens Loox 720 PocketPC. Aside from the great 3.6" 640x480 high resolution display, this PPC will have built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, a 1.3 Megapixel camera, USB2.0, and it will be powered by an Intel PXA272 520MHz processor. |
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Thu July 22 2004
the Jackito: the first *TDA* |
02:55 PM by ignatz in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones [Links from Slashdot] |
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Tue July 20 2004
Perform surgery on your Palm and drastically increase battery life! |
01:37 PM by ignatz in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones I hadn't been to the Brighthand Palm forums in a long time, so I recently went to peruse. Lo and behold, there is an incredible (and incredibly long) thread on upgrading your Tungsten battery and squeezing a lot more life out of it. A lot is made of the complexity, but if you have any basic soldering and electronics skills, it sounds simple. I am planning to replace my T|E battery (stock at 850 mAh) with a more powerful one (1200 mAh) and will try to document the procedure for the benefit of all. If you have ever cursed your battery length and you've got a steady hand and a brave heart, this is a thread for you! (BTW, PDAparts.com has a page with instructions for dismantling a wide variety of PDA's. Recommended if you've never been inside yours before!) |
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Instant Book Machine |
09:22 AM by Bob Russell in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones Everyone knows you can walk up to machines to get a variety of items like stamps, money, tickets, etc. Well you may soon be able to walk up to a machine and get a paperback! For an expected price of less than $100,000, the On Demand Machine Corporation will be offering the BookMachine that can create paperback books on demand. Books can be printed in three to five minutes in various sizes. The machine even handles the payment process if using a credit card. While there are competing systems offered by IBM and Xerox, the BookMachine is designed to be so simple that a customer or clerk can run the machine as easily as a copy machine. A master database holds all the contents of books remotely. Pretty impressive. Still, wouldn't it be easier and cheaper to just download the book and read it on your handheld? Our thanks to Engadget for pointing out this bit of news first. |
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Mon July 19 2004
4G iPods Announced |
09:28 AM by brahamt in Archive | Portable Audio/Video After much rumor and much speculation, the fourth generation of the venerable Apple iPod was announced today Apple Site. Over the past several months, there were numerous rumors about the features to be included in the new iPod ranging from the plausible (video display) to the not bloody likely (WMA support). In the end, we got the iPod mini controls, simplified menu system, slightly smaller size, 50% better battery life, speed variable Audiobooks, multiple On-The-Go Playlists, and my personal favorite, Sync and charging through USB. Other Links |
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iSilo/X V4.1 Beta 2 |
04:12 AM by Colin Dunstan in Archive | iSilo/X The news is a few days late, but better now than never... |
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Sun July 18 2004
Radio Gutenberg |
05:17 PM by Bob Russell in E-Book General | Deals and Resources (No... There's a new audio subproject of Project Gutenberg called Radio Gutenberg. This new audio site currently has almost 400 free audio book titles available. Most are read by computer, which can be an interesting experience all by itself, but there are also 8 human read titles by Arthur Conan Doyle provided by AudioBooksForFree. "[Radio] Gutenberg makes audio eBooks available for some of the same great literature available in plain text." Our thanks to PDA 24/7 for this discovery. |
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Sat July 17 2004
ConvertLIT V1.8 |
05:08 AM by Colin Dunstan in E-Book Formats | Workshop ConvertLIT, which is most probably illegal in the US by now, allows you to circumvent Microsoft Reader DRM. V1.8 was just released, and comes with the following bug fixes and new features: - Dictionaries are now properly expanded, As always you can download the program and its sources for free. |
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