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iPhone Blog Theme

Monday, September 28th, 2009

phone-rev.gif Wow! I just installed WPtouch on this blog as a test. I think I’ll keep it, and install a few more.

WPtouch automatically transforms any WordPress blog into a better viewing experience for users of iPhone, iPod touch or Android touch mobile device. It detects the mobile device automatically and presents the mobile theme. There is a switch at the bottom of any mobile page that alows the user to turn off the mobile theme and revert to the normal one.

It has all the standard WordPress blog features such as search, login, categories, tags, archives, photos & more. It also has links at the bottom of each article so you can email the article (link), post a link to some twitter clients, and post a link to some social bookmark sites. There is also a button to increase the fint size. The admin panel offers customization of these features and the options to add more.

Using optimized code, the WPtouch theme will also dramatically lower the download time for your blog resulting in a more pleasing viewing experience for mobile users.

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Have an iphone? Load up this blog and give it a try.

5 stars!

//Jon

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Your Own WiFi Bubble

Friday, May 8th, 2009

This is simply awesome. The MiFi from Verizon lets you carry around your own personal WiFi router connected to their 3G network. What makes it different than a cellular modem card it that this is a router and allows up to 5 others to connect to the same device. Read the article for more.

MORE: Since I posted this I have had the opportunity to test this device. It performs well even on areas with marginal 3G coverage. If you want to test one with no committment to a contract you can rent one for days or weeks. I rented one from Rovair.

State of the Art – With a Private MiFi Hot Spot, Be Online Wherever You Like – NYTimes.com

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Pogoplug review

Thursday, April 9th, 2009

Great gadget for simple network based storage or backup of your files, and you can access the from anywhere, even your iphone!.

Pogoplug review: ”

When we first caught wind of the Pogoplug — a small box that essentially lets you turn any USB hard drive (and drives only) into a network device — we were pretty darn excited. Having a house full of disparate storage boxes and no easy way to connect to them made the prospect of the ‘plug seem very enticing. Not only does the Pogoplug make your drive accessible via your PC (with accompanying software), but it — we think more importantly — makes the drive accessible via a web front-end and an iPhone app. We finally had a chance to break one of these out and see how it performs, and our findings are below.

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Cardboard Scandock turns your iPhone into a document scanner

Thursday, April 9th, 2009

I’ve got to make one of these. It would be perfect for use with Evernote which is my extra brain for remembering stuff. Evernote can already convert text in any photo you upload, for example business card, or a shot of the white board at a meeting, and return it to your Evernote DB with the text scanned so it is searchable. This adds another dimension to that idea. Way Cool.

Cardboard Scandock turns your iPhone into a document scanner: “

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High tech meets low tech with this simple corrugated cardboard stand, that makes capturing document images with your iPhone a snap. If you’ve ever attempted to scan a document by just holding up your phone, you’ll know that a blurry image is often the result. This simple stand created by University of Cincinnati DAAP student Kyle A Koch, is an elegant and green solution that holds both the phone and document in the perfect position to get a sharp capture. The stand comes flat packed for just $16 through the Ponoko design store.

Of course if you insist on something a bit more high tech, you could always make a scanner using Lego.

Ponoko, via Red Ferrett

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(Via DVICE.)

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Netbooks – email and web on the go!

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

Need a simple and cheap laptop to browse the web and check email? Consider the new class of small computers called Netbooks. They are in the $200 price range and most run on Linux, although some have Windows XP. Don’t be scared of Linux, it is very stable and arguably more secure because it is not prone to contracting Windows based viruses. Email and web browsing works exactly the same way as on any Windows or Apple PC you have ever used.

It looks like chip-maker INTEL, who’s chips make almost all computers run, has entered the operating system market. They are providing a customized version of Linux, an open source operating system, to run on this new computing platform. This version is optimized to run efficiently with new class of Netbook microprocessor chips supplied by Intel, according to the article.

Intel hasn’t hasn’t really taken a shine to the idea of netbooks, since the low price point of the Atom processor they use doesn’t allow for very high profit margins. Well, it looks like Intel has realized that netbooks are here to stay because they’ve just taken the wraps off their own flavor of Linux optimized for the Atom processor: Moblin. Currently available as an alpha release, Moblin is built off of the GNOME Mobile platform and will utilize Intel’s own Clutter and GUPnP open source technologies. This is pretty exciting news since we just found out about another netbook-specific operating system: Jolicloud. At the very least, you probably won’t be seeing a lot of XP around soon.

link: Intel’s new OS for netbooks


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Pogoplug puts any hard drive on the Internet

Thursday, January 8th, 2009

Wow, this looks like a very simple way to add NAS (Network Attached Storage) to a home system. I have asked the maker how many USB devices can be attached, waiting for the answer. . .

(update, 1/9/09) And today the JKOntheRun.com blog had the answer on a video interview, “you can daisy chain as many USB devices as you want”.

Credit to Rafe Needleman from CNET while at the CES 2009 show in Las Vegas.

//Jon

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Home CNET CES 2009 January 7, 2009 9:00 PM PST Pogoplug puts any hard drive on the Internet Posted by Rafe Needleman

Here’s a cool little product that I can’t wait to try out: The Pogoplug. It’s a simple and relatively cheap box that plugs into an external hard drive (or flash drive) via USB, and also into you home’s Internet connection. Then it puts the hard drive on the Web as well as on your local network. Any computer in your home can access it as a shared drive, and people outside can also connect to it over the Web. It sounds like a very quick and simple way to put a whole bunch of files online for friends to see.

Pogoplug connects your USB drives to the Internet.Now, it’s no great feat for a geek to wire up a PC or a network-attached storage drive for Internet access. What the Pogoplug does is not utterly unique. The company is going for ease of use”

(Via CNET.)


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