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I was a Director of Software Development at Homestead Technologies for over 10 years and I'm now a happy Intuit team member!
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Monthly Archives: March 2006
links for 2006-03-29
Posted in Links
Negativity
I wish every negative comment about Dave Winer and Robert Scoble was accompanied with little symbols that indicate whether or not the person making the comment appreciates Dave for his work on blogging and RSS and Robert for his work on business blogging and Channel 9. That way, I could ignore all the irrational people who don’t think these two do great work. I could limit my reading to comments that are more likely to be valid criticisms.
Personally, I take everything I read at Dave’s and Robert’s blogs with a grain of salt. I know that their posts are often written in haste – many bloggers write that way. Get over it.
links for 2006-03-28
Posted in Links
TabletKiosk EO UMPC/Origami Preorders
This has been an exciting day full of cool UMPC news!
AllTP.com will be taking EO preorders very soon and the manufacturer, TabletKiosk, has order forms up at MSRP. I’m guessing that AllTP’s price will be a little cheaper than MSRP.
The specs look great for the price! I’ll have one before the end of April (I’m 3rd in line with a deposit at AllTP) and I’ll be sure to post all about it here – maybe something like the ‘diary’ I did with the IO Digital Pen.
The Via C7 cpu that TabletKiosk is using sounds like a real workhorse, by the way, with low power consumption.
Posted in UMPC
DualCor cPC
dlmag has a MUST-WATCH video (and writeup) of the DualCor cPC. It’s out of my price range, but if they brought the $1500 price closer to $1000, it would be a no brainer.
The DualCor cPC is a 1.5 GHz handheld that runs on XP Tablet PC edition. At the flip of an on-screen switch, though, it runs Windows Mobile on a much less battery hungry CPU. Really, this is a great idea!
Posted in UMPC
Origami/UMPC Barebones Kits?
One way for vendors to keep costs down on the UMPC devices would be to have versions that ship without RAM or a hard drive. Considering that I will most likely want to upgrade both of those items, I’d rather get a barebones unit so I don’t have to resell those components.
This is assuming that the hard drives will be the standard laptop 2.5 inchers and that the RAM is also standard.
Posted in UMPC
Shared Source .Net CLI – ONLY FOR WINDOWS
Eric Albert notes that Rotor used to support Windows, FreeBSD and Mac OS X, but is only supporting Windows in its latest incarnation. Rotor is Microsoft’s shared source .Net implementation.
Now, I don’t think Microsoft has any real obligation (or business reason) to port .Net to other platforms, but I wish they would, with no strings attached. With a lot of help from Sun, they managed to really hurt Java’s chances for becoming a contendor for Windows GUI apps and, to make up for that, I’d really appreciate it if they made it super easy for .Net GUI apps to be cross platform.
The impact of various GDI+ effects on battery life…
Today, I started porting one of my homebrew pda games to C#. This particular game has always been difficult to play on a typical PDA. The many touch points are hard to hit reliably on a small screen. I think the 7″ screen of a UMPC/Origami device will be perfect.
Anyway, I’m starting to think about the game’s impact on battery life. After several searches, I haven’t found anyone who has put together tests comparing various GDI+ effects and their impacts on battery life. When I get closer to completing the port (probably another weekend or two), I’ll try to put together my own tests. I’m guessing I’ll have two graphical modes for the game – one that’s beautiful and abuses the battery and one that is relatively simple and does its best to preserve battery life.
Posted in UMPC
