Month: January 2010

Battle of the small laptops (not netbooks)

It is amazing the number of netbooks and small form factor laptops that were showcased at CES. I am a full supporter of Laptops. I have gone through the process of eliminating as many PC’s in our house as possible and replacing with Laptops. My current need is to replace my wife’s laptop, in this purchase process I have been looking …

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Cool Laptop bag

Was checking twitter and one of the people I follow had a link to a sweet laptop bag. I followed the site to see some laptop bag goodness. They make some sweet bags – http://www.booqbags.com/

Plugins – Mailbrowser

I’ve been testing mailbrowser (MailBrowser.com) It is a gmail (browser plugin) that allows you to search / file / lookup contacts based on interaction. Similar to Xobni for outlook. I have used Xobni for outlook before and had performance issues. I will update on the usage of this new little plugin

Podcasts – What do you listen / watch

I have recently started to listen to more podcasts. When training for the Chicago Marathon back in 05 I listened to a lot of podcasts. Here are some that I subscribe to 5 live world football Hak5.org Tekzilla Dave Ramsey What else is interesting that I should be listening to?

Laptops / Netbooks and usage

I am very lucky to purchase computers. I have a macbook, netbook, toshiba laptop (wife), and my trusty T61 thinkpad. I have realized that I use each device for a specific task. Excluding my wife’s laptop I have found that the macbook and netbook are interchangeable. The small form factor MacBook makes it as handy as the netbook. Because of this …

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