Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 initial impressions
Four years ago, I wrote a short blog post about the Nokia N800 “Internet Tablet”. Like its 2005 predecessor, the N770, it was a small, expensive device that let you use the internet everywhere you went. I probably would have gotten one if the whole netbook hype hadn’t happened. But as cool as netbooks were (and sometimes still are), they’re still “small laptops”. And while I was playing with Eee-PCs, tablets were getting increasingly alluring.
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Tags: 10.1, Android, Galaxy Tab, Honeycomb, iPad, Samsung, tablet
WordPress On Tour
WordPress has recently been described as “the dark matter of the web”. It’s absolutely everywhere. The WordPress ecosystem is probably bigger than Facebook. But at the same time, most of the WordPress people I know are “flying solo”. There are a lot of freelancers out there who work with a small team, or none at all.
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Tags: Automattic, coworking, vacation, WordPress
Joli OS is great for kids!
When the first wave of netbook computers appeared, I got myself an Asus Eee-PC 901. I loved it, and used it to play around with various flavors of Linux, even Chrome OS. But since then, I’ve been forced to buy a full-size laptop computer, and I handed the 901 down to my daughter. At first I installed Ubuntu, but the 4 GB SSD in the Asus turned out to be too small for that to really work out. So I decided to try Joli OS instead. And I think it’s great. Especially for kids.
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Tags: Asus, eee-pc, Joli OS, Jolicloud, Ruby, Ubuntu
Having trouble with VNC and Unity? Try this!
The latest version of Ubuntu, released two months ago, replaced the Gnome desktop interface for a new one called Unity. In terms of simplicity and speed, I quite like Unity, but I found that operating it through VNC was horribly slow. Often, I’d be unsure whether VNC was still connected. Screen updates would sometimes take minutes. Today, I found a workaround that makes VNC usable again for me.
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Tags: tip, Ubuntu, UltraVNC, Unity, VNC
Five things the PC industry can learn from Apple
While I don’t always agree with the way Apple conducts business, there are alot of things the Windows PC industry can learn from them. I often help people pick a new PC, and there are things I bump into every time that make the process of picking, buying and setting up a new PC unnecessarily cumbersome. Here are five things I think HP, Acer, Asus and all the others could learn from the way Apple does things.
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Tags: Acer, Apple, Asus, hardware, HP, Microsoft, PC, Software, tip
Apple is now evil, and here’s why!
Today was one of those days where Steve Jobs gets on a stage and unleashes new Apple products. Being the gadget freak that I am, I usually follow the new announcements through tech blogs or Twitter. Years ago, I used to marvel at some of the stuff they’d put out. But the last couple of years, nights like this leave me with a very uneasy feeling. The hair in the back of my neck are on end. My moral compass tells me something’s wrong. I get that feeling I get when I see someone treated unfairly. Apple has been slowly but steadily turning into an evil company. And people are being misled.
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Tags: Apple, evil, iOS
Is your router overheating?
A while ago, Evercool introduced the world’s first aftermarket router cooler. Most of the blog posts I saw about it made fun of the concept, but I could totally see myself using something like this. My router gets really, really hot sometimes. And as a result, speeds decrease, and wifi reception suffers. And the cable modem next to it runs even hotter.
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Tags: cooling, heat, linksys, NetGear, router
Using Cumulus? Please check your tagcloud.xml!
Because WP-Cumulus is open source software, the source files are available online. I didn’t package them with the regular plugin download, but you can download the Flash files from wordpress.org and my blog. Included in those downloads is a file called “tagcloud.xml”, which is mainly used to test the Flash movie locally, within Flash’s IDE. Unfortunately, that file sometimes ends up online. And, in most cases, it shouldn’t.
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Dear gadget manufacturers, please stop teasing
There’s a story running on Engadget right now about an FCC filing for Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet. It’s the last of at least 26 posts about this still unreleased product. The first one dates back to February. That’s four months of excellent “investigative journalism” om Engadget’s part, and four months of agony for gadget loving would-be buyers.
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Tags: Galaxy Tab, hype, manufacturers, open letter, Samsung, tablet
Idea: A mobile network performance statistics app?
People here in the Netherlands will often complain about poor 3G data speeds. Twitter is full of people complaining about T-Mobile. Some will suggest Vodafone for better reception, while others agree that KPN has the best network. I simply don’t know. And to my knowledge, no independent studies have been done recently. So maybe it’s time for a community app that measures network performance, and reports back to an independent database?
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Tags: Android, apps, mobile, network, open source, performance, stats