Tag: laptop

  • Circuit City needs to stop insulting customers

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    Tom Raftery
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    I’m in Las Vegas for the EnergyCamp conference. I had a couple of hours today so I decided to check out the local Electronics stores. When I went into the Circuit City store I was approached by a member of staff who informed me that I “needed to leave my rucksack with customer service near…

  • Firefox 3.0b1 on OS X Leopard quick review

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    I downloaded and installed the beta version of Firefox 3.0 a few days ago and have been using it since on my OS X Leopard laptop. I also installed the Proto theme for Mac Firefox which significantly enhances the look of Firefox 3 on the Mac. My initial impressions of Firefox 3.0b1 are very positive.…

  • Another device?

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    Amazon are set to release an electronic book reader called the Kindle today according to NewsWeek. The device sounds cool, in theory (built-in wireless over EVDO, email, long-life batteries, search, lots of storage, etc.) but do we really want another device to be carrying around? Especially at the price point being talked about ($399). I’m…

  • Microsoft needs a new strategy for its Windows platform

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    I have Vista installed on this laptop. I haven’t booted up Vista in weeks. Why? Because I installed Ubuntu on another partition and it is so much faster, and more secure (since Microsoft instructed me to remove Norton and then failed to get OneCare to work on this laptop). Many others are eschewing Vista, not…

  • Google Reader saved my life!

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    Well, that might be exaggerating it slightly 😉 Still, I was away recently on holidays for three weeks and I didn’t bring my laptop with me. I was offline. Cut off from the infostream for the first time in months. Then one evening, while walking my son Enrique around the local plaza, I noticed there…

  • Your top Web 2.0 apps?

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    If we ignore the fact that the term Web 2.0 is controversial for all kinds of reasons and concentrate on the applications themselves, which Web 2.0 apps (using the broadest possible definition) do you use most? I use: my blog and podcast software all the time (they are run out of WordPress) my Flickr account…

  • Dell's hellish batteries recalled

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    According to a report in the New York Times today, Dell is recalling over 4 million laptop batteries because of their propensity to catch fire or explode! Up to now the advice has been if you think your battery might be one of those likely to catch fire, take it out of the laptop and…