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			<title>5 Inch Google Android 1.5 OS with WIFI,GPS and 3G Built-In</title>
			<link>http://www.tabletpcbuzz.com/blog.php?b=19</link>
			<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 14:58:49 GMT</pubDate>
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[B]5 Inch Tablet PC Google Android 1.5 OS,with GPS,WIFI and 3G Built-in.Good Quality and Competitive...]]></description>
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[B]5 Inch Tablet PC Google Android 1.5 OS,with GPS,WIFI and 3G Built-in.Good Quality and Competitive Price to all of our clients.[/B]<br />
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[B][COLOR=blue]High-Lights:[/COLOR][/B]<br />
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[B][I][COLOR=blue]Processor:[/COLOR] Marvell PXA303 Xscale 624 Mhz [/I][/B]<br />
[I][B][COLOR=blue]Operating System:[/COLOR] Google Android 1.5[/B][/I]<br />
[I][B][COLOR=blue]Display:[/COLOR] 5-inch (diagonal) LED-backlit high quality resistive touchscreen display,800-by-480-pixel resolution[/B][/I]<br />
[I][B][COLOR=blue]Wireless and networking:[/COLOR] 3G HSDPA (WCDMA 2100 Mhz or EVDO) (3G Moudle built-in side Card Slot.Huawei EM770),Wi-Fi (802.11a/b/g) [/B][/I]<br />
[I][B][COLOR=blue]Location:[/COLOR] On-board GPS chip,Digital compass (GPS based)[/B][/I] <br />
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[B]Storage capacity:[/B] 8GB microSD card included. Expandable up to 32GB; Dedicated RAM 128MB + 256MB NAND FLASH <br />
[B]Sensors:[/B] Built-in accelerometer,Automatic screen rotation from landscape mode to portrait and vice versa. ( Where applicable) <br />
[B]Audio playback and Video Playback:[/B] Audio formats supported: MP3, WMA, AAC, OGG; Video formats supported: MP4, AVI, WMV, DIVX, Flash <br />
[B]Mail attachment support:[/B] Viewable document types: jpg,bmp,png,gif,txt,pdf,xls,doc,zip Built-in Google viewer &amp; photo editor Supports third party software via the Official Google Android Market <br />
[B]Battery and power:[/B] Up to 4.5 hours of surfing the web on Wi-Fi, watching video, or listening to music,charging via power adapter only <br />
[B]Google Android Market:[/B] Download and install any compatible application from the Official Google Android Market.You can already choose from almost 5000 applications available and the number is growing very fast! <br />
[B]Input and output:[/B] Standard micro USB port,3.5-mm stereo headphone jack,Built-in speaker,microSD card dock,SIM card slot <br />
[B]External buttons and controls:[/B] On/Off, Sleep/Wake; Home; Menu; Back to previous window, Search,Trackball input control <br />
[B]Accessories:[/B] USB Cable,Earphones,Power Adapter,User manual,Touchscreen stylus <br />
[B]Languages:[/B] Language support for English, French, German, Japanese, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Simplified Chinese, Russian<br />
Dimensions &amp; Weight: 152mm x 83mm x 16.5mm, 500g<br />
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			<dc:creator>Amanda Wei</dc:creator>
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			<title>Follow Up to Bad Shutdown</title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 22:02:42 GMT</pubDate>
			<description>I was able to boot my M200 using the original USB CD drive after I returned from my trip.  The hard drive had simply died, so I have replaced it with...</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>I was able to boot my M200 using the original USB CD drive after I returned from my trip.  The hard drive had simply died, so I have replaced it with a 320GB Western Digital Scorpio Blue drive.  I booted with the Windows 7 installation disc and restored from a backup image on an external hard drive.  The process took a while, but the computer is working smoothly again.<br />
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I used an external floppy drive to update the BIOS to 1.8, the latest version.  I have not tried making a bootable memory card for recovery, but I will look into it before my next long trip.</div>

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			<dc:creator>Wallace487</dc:creator>
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			<title>Bad Shutdown While Travelling</title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 05:47:08 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[I forced a shutdown on my m205, and now it won't boot.  It looks like an MBR error, and I need to run the Windows rescue disc.  I'm traveling and did...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>I forced a shutdown on my m205, and now it won't boot.  It looks like an MBR error, and I need to run the Windows rescue disc.  I'm traveling and did not bring the approved external CD to boot from a rescue disc, so I investigated a few alternative boot options.  From what I can determine, the boot options for the m205 are the hard drive, external Toshiba CD drive, SD card, and Compact Flash Card through the PC Card slot.  Of these options, the hard drive, CD drive, and Compact Flash are not possible for me due to lack of equipment.  I tried booting from the SD card and ran into these issues:<br />
- BIOS version 1.20 is loaded on my machine, and I need the latest BIOS version (1.80) to boot from an SD card over 16 MB<br />
- The SD card needs to be formatted with a Toshiba SD Format Tool<br />
- The SD card needs to be run through the Toshiba SD Boot Utility<br />
- I need a bootable floppy disk image file (.img) to use with the SD Boot Utility<br />
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The good news is that I was able to assemble the following software package:<br />
- Windows 7 rescue disc .iso file<br />
- Toshiba SD Format Tool<br />
- Toshiba SD Boot Utility<br />
- Virtual Floppy Drive<br />
- Virtual CD Drive<br />
- MS-DOS 6.22 boot floppy image<br />
- Toshiba m205 BIOS version 1.80 update floppy image<br />
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I also read about the HP USB Floppy Drive Key (<a href="http://www.slashgear.com/hp-usb-floppy-drive-key-2420273/" target="_blank">http://www.slashgear.com/hp-usb-flop...e-key-2420273/</a>), which is a thumb drive that presents itself to the computer as a floppy drive.  It looks like HP has stopped manufacturing these, but I'm going to try to find one for a reasonable price to see how well it works.<br />
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I was not able to make the SD card bootable despite attempting to format it with the Windows 7 rescue CD, MS-DOS 6.22 boot floppy, and Ubuntu.  I assumed that the problem is my outdated BIOS version, and I attempted to load the Toshiba BIOS update to the SD card.  This also did not boot, even when an 8 MB partition was added to the SD card.<br />
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I'm giving up on repairing the MBR while I'm traveling.  I will repair the error when I have access to the accepted CD drive, and I plan to prepare a working SD &quot;rescue disc&quot; that I can take with me when I travel.  Based on my research, it's common to have trouble booting the m205 from anything other than the hard drive, so I will make the SD &quot;rescue disc&quot; creation method available once I have it figured out.</div>

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			<dc:creator>Wallace487</dc:creator>
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			<title>Motion LE1600 and LE1700 slate Tablet Group</title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 16:36:28 GMT</pubDate>
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			<dc:creator>digitaldoctors</dc:creator>
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			<title>Le 1600</title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 18:20:33 GMT</pubDate>
			<description>:Cry:Hello im new sorry mi english im frenschmen live en dominican republic 
Need help for LE 1600 
No run 4 beep y nating 
Please thanks for info...</description>
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Need help for LE 1600<br />
No run 4 beep y nating<br />
Please thanks for info<br />
Thank<br />
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			<dc:creator>rodolphe</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Windows 7 Upgradin': It Ain't That Bad]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 02:36:38 GMT</pubDate>
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Flash backwards to the summer of 2009. There were some who were not enamored of the advance buzz they were hearing about the upgrade schema from Windows Vista/XP to Windows 7. I will not get into all the various ways to achieve an upgrade here. Mostly because there are so  many that I would likely confuse myself. I have been able to <b>do</b> the upgrades with no problem, but articulating those methods to other people on <b>how</b> to do it makes me dizzy. Suffice it to say that there are two main ways to do it. One upgrades your system in place and so all of your icons and folder structures and so forth reappear in roughly the same place you left them. And, by and large, you supposedly do not need to worry about backing up all of your files. The second is destructive, completely (for the most part) overwriting everything on your Operating System Hard Drive and doing a complete write-in of the Windows 7 OS. This is what is called in tech circles a &quot;fresh install&quot;. In some cases, this latter method is the <b><i>only</i></b> way to upgrade to Windows 7. When people heard this last year, there was a lot of moaning and groaning. Now, 3 months since its release to retail chains, the complaints are not so much.<br />
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There are a few reasons why. Mostly it is because Windows 7 works as advertised. And that is making most people happy. Or at least Windows XP happy, which is shinier than Windows Vista happy, which does not really exist. Secondly, it is because most of these complaints did not matter. They were things that should be done anyway.<br />
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In terms of the first method of upgrading, the upgrade in place. The one that supposedly leaves your files unmolested. Anyone who goes into this process without backing up their most critical files is rolling the dice. Who knows when your PC is going to get zapped by a power surge while you are doing your install, or any other calamity that might interrupt a very delicate process. Oh, by the way, these files should be backed up anyway. Ok. I will not be a hypocrite and say that I back things up every day. But I backup with a degree of frequency that makes me certain that all of my important things will be saved in the event of an electrical calamity (not to say a physical one that effects my whole apartment) within a reasonably safe time-lateness of the file versions.<br />
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In terms of the destructive type of upgrade, the same holds true. I was amazed that even IT professionals talked about this being painful because it required a user to back up all of their data and reinstall apps. OK. I understand that this may be a pain if we are talking about a corporate roll-out of the OS. This conversation is limited to the average home user. The files should be backed up already. And re-installing apps? I know I cannot claim that any of my systems is always up-to-date with the most recent version of every single app that I run. A fresh install is a chance to baseline the system with the most up-to-date stuff that should have been on the previous install but I was too lazy to configure. <br />
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To me, the fresh install is like that feeling you have when you drive your car away from the shop having just had your oil changed, tires rotated, and brakes done. Everything feels clean and smooth. Doing a fresh install is something that should probably be done once a year. Especially if the PC is a dedicated everyday PC that a single user employs. This is true even if you are just going back to the same old OS. A year of use and of installing new apps and upgrading new apps and all of the things that we do to a PC in the course of use can take its toll on a single installation. Cleaning up the plumbing with a fresh install will make most PCs that most users complain about as performing slowly seem like the first day they took it out of the box.<br />
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The FUD that was strewn about on the interwebs about the need to do a fresh install for some PC upgrades to Windows 7 were mostly hype. I have personally never bothered with an upgrade in place. Fresh installs are the one sure way to blow away any of the nits and bugs specific to its configuration existing in the last install. It also ensures that, if I have to troubleshoot the PC, theoretically any possible causes are only associated with what has been done with and on the PC since the recent install.<br />
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A lot of these thoughts are occurring as I prep my 5th PC for the migration to Windows 7. Every one of those PCs to date have been done with a clean install. This last workstation, the Acer Aspire Timeline 4810T, will erradicate Windows Vista from my home network. Incidentally, it also eliminates the one LINUX client I had running. Vista will be a footnote in OS history, probably not faring better in our memories than WindowsME. My foray into LINUX will be a footnote in my own personal history. I've dabbled with the OS off and on for 2 years. I am now pretty set in the projects I am working on consistently, and LINUX is just not the best platform for a lot of those multi-media oriented functions.<br />
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I'll be quite happy to start my time over with the Acer. Quite happy that my data is backed up, safe and secure, and quite happy that any kinks that were in my system will be flushed clean. Not to say that there will not be new ones. But, hey that is half the fun of doing the upgrade in the first place, right?<br />
     - Vr/Zeuxidamas..&gt;&gt;</div>

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			<dc:creator>Zeuxidamas</dc:creator>
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			<title>Battery Charger for CANON BP-422</title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 01:53:07 GMT</pubDate>
			<description>100% NEW HIGH QUALITY OEM CANON BP-422 BATTERY CHARGER PACK  
*CANON BP-422 CHARGER DESCRIPTION:*- PACKAGE INCLUDES CAR CORD AND AC POWER ADAPTER.-...</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>100% NEW HIGH QUALITY OEM CANON BP-422 BATTERY CHARGER PACK <br />
<b>CANON BP-422 CHARGER DESCRIPTION:</b>- PACKAGE INCLUDES CAR CORD AND AC POWER ADAPTER.- CAR CORD USE FOR CHARGERING IN CAR, USEFUL AND CONVENIENCE- DESIGNED TO CHARGE BATTERIES QUICKLY AND SAFELY.- CONVENIENT LEDS INDICATE THE CHARGING STATUS<br />
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CB-400<br />
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			<dc:creator>locia885485</dc:creator>
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			<title>Tablet Requirements</title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 03:16:38 GMT</pubDate>
			<description>Thanks CES. There have been more Tablet discussions than I can keep up with. And I mean generic Tablets...Tablets being rolled out by all of the...</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>Thanks CES. There have been more Tablet discussions than I can keep up with. And I mean generic Tablets...Tablets being rolled out by all of the manufacturers. No, the Apple Tablet is not the only Tablet being released on the planet. One of the more productive conversations I was involved in was over on Carrypad.com. Productive for me anyway, because in ruminating upon my response, I finally came full circle to defining my specific needs for a Tablet. And here they be:<br />
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&quot;Of course no one asked me, but IMO: 7 inch display; should support both landscape and portrait VKBs (would be great if display tech would allow a light enough touch for you to tap-type with one hand while you held it with your other hand); desktop display should allow something like OS X’s Spaces but be “swipe-able” like WebOS; a little nub-arm prop like the ones that come with the iMo 7 inch; USB sub-monitors but that snaps into a recessed cavity on the back of the device would be great for watching video. Protecting the screen? A chemically-hardened screen like on the HP 2730p EliteBook? (but then maybe the display is not so bright-and-shiny; I could stomach that knowing that you could take a baton to my screen and it wouldn’t break, but the mainstream user wants a glossy screen).<br />
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It does not matter to me if this device comes from Apple or someone else. I just need a slate-style companion device that has a 7 inch; screen, has a decent VKB and allows a USB KB plug-in, allows me to view and edit any MS. Office docs, and lets me both consume media and create/produce content on the go. Not a tall order, is it.<br />
– Zeux..&gt;&gt; (from my Palm Pre)&quot;<br />
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In the recent days, I have added that this device <u><i><b>MUST</b></i></u> support inking. If I can't pick the thing up and scrawl a quick digital post-it, then I have no use for it. And the OS, whatever it is, must allow me to access and interact with iGoogle (Docs and Calendar specifically), Evernote, and allow me to create and post a blog article.<br />
<br />
So my fear is that only Windows-based Tablets are going to support the inking (Come on, Microsoft, where and when is Courier?!). Why the other OS vendors choose to ignore this capability is beyond me. The <a href="http://www.gottabemobile.com/2010/01/12/ces-2010-finally-met-the-entourage-edge" target="_blank">Entourage Edge</a> is apparently going to support it, but I am not sure that it's implementation will be robust enough to make for an effective degree of productivity. John Hill (from <a href="http://www.tabletpcbuzz.com" target="_blank">TabletPCBuzz</a>), <a href="http://&quot;http://www.gottabemobile.com/author/sumocat" target="_blank">Sumocat (GottaBeMobile)</a>, and I seem to be on the same page. While the bulk of potential Tablet consumers want a device for consumption, I need a device that permits productivity as well.<br />
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My largest fear is that as devices are designed for the mainstream user, the power user will get left behind. The Tablets that are about to be deployed will likely, in the majority, fall short of the features most needed by mobile professionals and gear-heads. This has already begun to occur in the smartphone space. Hopefully some of the more business oriented companies (Microsoft, HP, Lenovo) will stay the course and offer the devices that some of us need.<br />
     - Vr/Zeuxidamas..&gt;&gt;</div>

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			<dc:creator>Zeuxidamas</dc:creator>
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			<title>Back and Forth in the Cloud</title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 12:40:26 GMT</pubDate>
			<description>It appears that I am going to go through this about once every two or three weeks. That is the flitting back and forth across the line of whether I...</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>It appears that I am going to go through this about once every two or three weeks. That is the flitting back and forth across the line of whether I think the Google ChromeOS makes sense or not. And if it does make sense, where am I going to use it? I recently went back and looked at some of the articles on the OS, and some of the videos and commentary by other bloggers, in an attempt to reassess where I am on this thing. Right now, I am back on the side of it not making sense.<br />
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One of the videos I watched was <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QRO3gKj3qw" target="_blank">this one</a> over on YouTube, which made the rounds about a month ago. While I may not be entirely opposed to the concept of the browser-based OS, this video pushed me back onto the naysayer side of the fence because of some of the assumptions it makes about users. Of course, the main dichotomy is that the video is likely making assumptions based on the average user, and I am not sure that I fall into that category.<br />
<br />
The first premise is that the OS will be a best fit for users that spend 90% of their time on the web. There are a few ways to interpret the assumption as it is stated. The speaker caveats the assumption with a &quot;if you are like me&quot;. Just to be combative, I could assume that Google is trying to say that this is true of most users, but I'll take the angle just as it is put, that the fit applies <i>if</i> you are a user like the speaker. Which I am not. While connectivity is important to me (the two most important things about an apartment or house I am going to live in is the stability of its electrical power, and the stability of the internet pipes coming into the place), I have insisted on being able to function without it.<br />
<br />
I do a lot of local archiving offline. I keep important things on a thumb-drive. Most things I need to function as far as data artifacts are maintained on my NAS. I have gradually shifted to some cloud-based tools, but this is predominantly because I am a multi-computer user. The only reason I have items based in the cloud now is so that when I start a project on one PC, I can access that project when I am on a different PC. But I used to do this by storing the files on a thumb-drive, and could do so again.<br />
<br />
I have traveled a lot and still spend a good chunk of time on the road. So I can not be entirely dependent on the web and internet access. I have to have locally stored and installed apps. The speaker talks about email. I always download email locally. I have one account that I leave in the cloud, but that is about it. I rely mostly on my smartphones for my current email, and then periodically download it locally. I am not dependent on Gmail. I do not chat frequently, mostly because most of my friends are not that PC-based. Texting has become much more prevalent in my life than online chats. Reading news? Yes, I use the web for it. But the frequent access that I need most readily is, again, based in my smartphones.<br />
<br />
The other items he discusses I do almost entirely out of the cloud-realm. While I do stream movies from NetFlix from time to time, I spend a lot more time consuming video entertainment from tangible media sources. I play very few games that require internet access on the PC to play. Most of these are retail games that I have purchased on optical media that require a check-in via Steam. But again, it is not an actual browser that I need for that functionality. The one use I guess that I am absolutely dependent on my browser for is purchasing items. However, that only extends to major items of significant expense that are tangible products. Things like movie tickets and music I buy via my cell phones or iTunes, not in my browser.<br />
<br />
&lt;!--nextpage--&gt;<br />
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Where he talks about the new innovations that have led to the rise of the eminence of the browser, I only actively participate in two of the four, blogging and micro-blogging. The latter I do much more so from my smartphones than my PC. Social networking and YouTube-as-a-hobby are still PC-based events that have not interested me.<br />
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The video goes on to discuss a lot of the issues with boot-times and the performance overhead of managing critical computing resources and infrastructure. It is hard for me to imagine people who still boot their PCs frequently. Pretty much the only time I boot my PCs is when I go on or return from travel, and that is usually just the PC that I am taking with me and returning. My laptops remain in standby and are available about 5 seconds after I pop the lids. I am all for faster boot times, but I can not say that straddling myself with an anemic, under-powered OS is justification to shave 35 to 40 seconds off of my boot time.<br />
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And that is the thing that would most hamper me in terms of real-world productivity; the fact that, in most cases, a cloud-based tool inherently under-perform a locally installed equivalent. I do not think that I could ever propose that a web-based tool, that has to overcome latency and packet transfers, would ever rank ahead of a local tool that leverages a PC or Mac's hardware performance. I am never going to go to editing my photos via Flickr or Picasa's online tools over iPhoto or Photoshop or Nero. I am never going to edit audio via an online tool instead of Garage Band. Windows Movie Maker has left my bag of tools as it is now only available via Windows Live. A cloud-based productivity infrastructure, at least today, is simply not as robust as a locally based one. As I look at my own uses of cloud-based tools, I have migrated to them for the simple tasks, most of them text-based, that do not require a lot of performance. But I still do too many things in the multi-media space for a cloud-focused OS to ever be my primary computing platform.<br />
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I am aware that Google is going to allow some level of caching so that you can still work locally. As I see it, this will be an allowance that will have much more strict ceilings than I have on any of my current machines. As far as other general users, of course the OS effectively eliminates rural and underprivileged communities who are still trying to get reliable connectivity to the extent that the ChromeOS will depend upon.<br />
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Where I do see this OS making sense for me is residing in a MiD of some type. I have the purchase of such a device on my technology roadmap, and this is an environment that I can see myself stomaching a dependence on connectivity. This, of course, would be because I would not have as heavy a requirement on productivity from this device; it will predominantly used for consumption. And this is where I currently see the ChromeOS making sense. In spaces and for users that are primarily focused on consumption and online interaction. For &quot;power users&quot; or whatever we are calling non-generalist PC users these days, ChromeOS might be a good fit in companion devices that are used for consumption. Funny that Android is being deployed as a solution by hardware vendors for that application, and it wil be interesting to see where and when the ChromeOS will be preferable to Google's own Android. When it comes to actually creating content, multi-media development, and productivity, locally installed and embedded OS' and apps will continue to be where I need to be.<br />
     - Vr/Z..&gt;&gt;</div>

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			<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 10:14:30 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[What a week. I am safely at my girlfriend's flat after being stranded for 4 days due to the winter storm that blew through here last weekend....]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>What a week. I am safely at my girlfriend's flat after being stranded for 4 days due to the winter storm that blew through here last weekend. Somewhat ridic since the only real reason that I was stranded was because the subdivision area I live in and the local DoT, betwixt the two of them, could not figure out how to get the main drag plowed 4 days after the snowfall. So what's a geek to do? I packed several bags of gear for the stay, since I have no real idea when I will be back. <br />
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My largest science experiment was figuring out how to make the GearWERKZ audio studio suddenly portable. Most of this gear has basically gone unused for the two years since I bought it, and hence I do not have the schema in my head that I do for other equipment loadouts that allows me to make quick emergent pack-outs of gear. This was all new. I'll be addressing some of those issues in a later post. <br />
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What I was able to pack quickly was my camera kit for this off-site period. <br />
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The gear pictured is as follows: Dolica ST-300 Tripod, Sony DSC-S750 Point-and-Shoot Digital Camera, Bower SFD2965 Flash, Compact Flash Cards (32GB and 2GB), Minolta 50mm FFL Lens, +2 Macro Lens Filter, Sony Alpha a350 dSLR Camera w/75-300mm Telephoto Lens and orange Color Filter attached. Not pictured is my gearbag for this trip, a <a href="http://products.lowepro.com/product/CompuDaypack,1922,16.htm" target="_blank">LowePro CompuDaypak</a>.<br />
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Today was a day to wrap up Christmas shopping, so there was not much time for picture taking. I am still struggling with ideas for a good photo shoot, what with all the snow still piled on the side of the roads. Might be a good time to hit Flickr and try and get some ideas. I'll post something here if I figure out anything worthwhile. Until then, Happy Holidays!<br />
     - Vr/Zeux..&gt;&gt;</div>

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			<title>Technical Journal 121009</title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:47:31 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Finally. After being grounded behind my desk for I don't know how many months, I am finally back out on travel. Yeah, ok; I don't need to be out here...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>Finally. After being grounded behind my desk for I don't know how many months, I am finally back out on travel. Yeah, ok; I don't need to be out here 80% of the time like I was for a 2 year stretch. But some time in the saddle out on the open range is always healthy; at least for me.<br />
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If you track the Twitter feed, you'll have noticed the contents of my Pack-Up kit for this week. I brought a lot of gear. Some of it is working out great. Some of it, not so good. Out of necessity, I took along two laptops: the Gateway P6860FX for entertainment, and the HP EliteBook 2730p for work. The HP, as always, is working out fine, but I have not spent a ton of time on it, as my workday (training) activities are leaving me little time to dial back into the home office. The Gateway is working great now as an iTunes player and web-content creation workstation. I also got to watch The Talented Mr. Ripley on the big (17&quot;) screen, so that, in some way, justified me having lugged it along.<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gearwerkz/4163878904/" target="_blank"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2644/4163878904_81aab0b821.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />
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What the Gateway has not done well, or at least has not done well in conjunction with Windows 7, is play legacy PC games. I tried to get both Freedom Force and Darkstar One to run on the Gateway to no avail. Freedom Force ran, but had a sound glitch and a click-move glitch (when I would click on one spot on the map, the characters would run to a different spot, or the mouse indicator was always the attack symbol, so that whatever I clicked on the cahracters would attack instead of just move or talk-to). It [Freedom Force]lost its chance at survival on my hard drive when I was unable to reliably save content in-game, or load datafiles that I had saved from my campaign. Darkstar One I could not even get to launch. <br />
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And so I was off to work on developing more content for the site. Which requires web access in a lot of cases. Which brings me to my next hairball.<br />
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First of all, I think any hotel that does not provide free internet access is an atrocious business model. If a Best Western or Days Inn offers it, a business traveler class hotel like a Hilton is just being greedy by not providing the same, in my opinion. So I have had to rely almost exclusively on my Sprint Sierra AirCard 598U USB Wireless Modem. I have been on travel with the modem before, and it works great. Even in a place like Bridgeport, WV, which is not a major metropolitan hub, my service has been great. <br />
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Can Sprint not figure out how to get it right in Baltimore, of all places? I am less than a mile from the airport [BWI]and you would think I was out in the boonies somewhere based on the speed and reliability of my connection. To be truthful, we did have a spot of weather last night, so I'll check my connectivity in the AM and see if the problem is endemic to this area, or if it was the weather that caused all of my woes this morning. [update: it is the next morning, clear skies, and I'm on 1XRTT, not even EV-DO, and my signal strength is between 1 and 2 green blips; for whatever reason my signal was much better the first night in the same hotel room, but has been poor since yesterday).<br />
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It has been a while since I used the model of generating my blog posts offline for a later upload. I have been using GoogleDocs as my central draft engine in order to get away from the problem I used to have of starting a blog post on one machine, not being done when it came time to switch workstations, and winding up with a half-dozen half-written article ideas strung out across multiple machines. To say nothing of my lack of motivation to pick up a stream of consciousness some number of weeks old and trying to finish it out. <br />
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The lack of free wireless and my spotty 3G connection have forced me back to generating content locally again, at least until I get back to Virginia. The interesting thing this has turned up is the new functionality within Sticky Notes in Windows 7. Sticky Notes now supports text entry, as well as ink (in fact I wrote this post out in that very app). This might now give me a way of putting sticky notes up about article ideas I get while working on a given machine instead of some of the other data repositories I had been forced to use (and lose) under Windows Vista. Now where is that blasted MS Word file again? <br />
     - Vr/Zeuxidamas..&gt;&gt;</div>

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			<title>Stuff from the Other Half</title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 14:46:45 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[This Week's Stuff (http://www.gearwerkz.net/techblog/index.php/2009/12/05/stuff-from-the-other-half)]]></description>
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			<title>Motion Computing offering $200 off UltraView display</title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:34:53 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Image: http://www.tabletpcbuzz.com/blog_attachment.php?attachmentid=2&stc=1&d=1228152821 If you are considering purchasing a new Motion Computing...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div><img src="http://www.tabletpcbuzz.com/blog_attachment.php?attachmentid=2&amp;stc=1&amp;d=1228152821" border="0" alt="" />If you are considering purchasing a new Motion Computing LE1700 Tablet PC with the UltraView display, now is the time. Through December 31st, you can save $200 by purchasing any Motion Tablet with the UltraView display from one of their resellers. They are not offering this promotion on their website.</div>


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