11 January 2010
LENOVO MORPHS NOTEBOOK AND TABLET
This was one of the cooler gadgets on display at this year's Consumer Electronics Show. Lenovo has a notebook (the IdeaPad U1) that runs Windows 7. The screen can detach and the computer turns in to a tablet that then independently runs a Linux-based operating system. When re-attached, the devices sync up. CNET recognized the product in its Best Of awards from CES.
# posted by Greg Siskind @ 12:29 PM
05 January 2010
HOW TO "HACK" MORE SCREENS FOR YOUR IPHONE APPS
Okay, I'll admit that I comb the iTunes app store for cheap apps for my iPhone. I'm an addict. There, I said it. And an addict needs his regular fix. So I was deeply disappointed to learn that the iPhone has a limit of 11 screens with 16 apps per screen. OR SO I THOUGHT!
A clever web developer named Daynah has figured a way to force the iPhone to let free some more real estate for your apps without doing anything more than moving around some of your icons. It was a little tricky - some reboots were necessary, specific apps had to be moved to specific locations, etc. But I can attest that it works as I have just created a 12th page on my iPhone.
A clever web developer named Daynah has figured a way to force the iPhone to let free some more real estate for your apps without doing anything more than moving around some of your icons. It was a little tricky - some reboots were necessary, specific apps had to be moved to specific locations, etc. But I can attest that it works as I have just created a 12th page on my iPhone.
# posted by Greg Siskind @ 9:31 PM
04 January 2010
TAKE HANDWRITTEN NOTES ON YOUR IPHONE
Rick Boida's Business Hacks blog (which I recommend highly) has a link to an iPhone app that makes it easy to take handwritten notes on an iPhone instead of having to type.
# posted by Greg Siskind @ 11:04 AM
STOP REBOOTS AFTER AUTOMATIC UPDATES
I found this helpful and simple tip in Rick Broida's column in PC World Magazine. If you've ever had Windows automatically download updates and reboot, thus causing you to lose unsaved work (I have), then you'll recognize the benefit of this information. Here's what you do -
1. In Vista, click Start and type Windows Update and then hit Enter. In XP, you have to go to Control Panel and go to Automatic Update from the options menu.
2. In Vista, click Change Settings. Skip to the next step for XP.
3. In Vista, there is a drop down option that you click that says "Download updates but let me choose whether to install them." In XP, it is similar, but refers to letting you choose when to install updates.
4. Click OK and you're done.
1. In Vista, click Start and type Windows Update and then hit Enter. In XP, you have to go to Control Panel and go to Automatic Update from the options menu.
2. In Vista, click Change Settings. Skip to the next step for XP.
3. In Vista, there is a drop down option that you click that says "Download updates but let me choose whether to install them." In XP, it is similar, but refers to letting you choose when to install updates.
4. Click OK and you're done.
# posted by Greg Siskind @ 10:59 AM
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