The world's thinnest projector phone is how Samsung is playing it at Mobile World Congress. This actually looks like a usable smartphone, and runs Gingerbread Android, and has a PicoProjector built it that will throw a 50 inch image at a wall or screen. I can see users projecting onto the seat back in front of them on an airplane to watch a movie. Or, if you make presentations to small groups, why carry a projector and a notebook computer? Put your PowerPoint on your Android phone, and project away. The novelty of the projector phone will divert your audience's attention from your boring PowerPoint presentation.
iScore Baseball | Features. If it's springtime in Florida, it's time for baseball. Down here, in the springtime a young man's fancy turns to baseball, which is a kinder mistress. You can collect stats, and manipulate them, and massage them, and pretend that you know them. With smartphones and tablets, you can score the games, and get daily refreshes of stats on every Major League player and roster, sent to your phone or tablet. No more paper scoresheets. No more long nights compiling stats (okay, I never did that anyway; but, I wanted to). The best part of iScore Baseball is the paper scoresheets that are neatly printed out for later reference. Want to know the OBP (On Base Percentage) for any player? Click, click and it's done. This is the year the Rays win it all. Go Rays!
I know. You are just now getting used to Windows 7, and the Microsoft honchos want you to pony up another several hundred dollars plus training for every workstation at your firm. Or, you have been using Windows XP for 15 years, and you aren't ready for a change. Or, well you know what your office looks like. Sometimes, it is a nightmare to go into a law firm and see the mishmash of operating systems and the range of old to new hardware. I am glad I don't do onsite software support and installation any more. You have another 5 years to think about it; but, if you still have some Windows XP or Windows Vista installations around you; you really need to upgrade to Windows 7. It is a no brainer. Windows 8? I am waiting for a Windows tablet that has a 500 gig hard drive and an attachable keyboard and a Core I7 chip. It will be nice to have convergence between high end notebooks and usable tablets. But, I can wait. But, then, nobody lives forever. Maybe I shouldn't wait. Oh, well. At least, I'll have a lot to write about.
By the time you read this, it will be late Sunday in Barcelona, and Samsung will have announced the latest tablet in the line, a 10.1 inch Galaxy Note. That's right, a 10.1 inch phablet that will serve as a phone and as a tablet. Naturally, you will need a bluetooth earset to make calls; unless you want to be the geekiest guy in the room. I swear, if I see any of you holding a 10.1 inch tablet up to the side of your head, I will report you to the people who prey on geeks in dark alleys. OMG. More on this when I have more details.
Only 30 years ago, in 1980, supercomputers looked like the IBM 3380 cabinets on the left. They were taller than a man, and had to be moved by forklifts. Each one cost about $648,000 and had huge, heavy disks inside that stored a total of 2.5 Gigabytes of data. They were housed in huge server rooms that had to be temperature controlled, and were accessed from a central desk and terminal. Only one user at a time, thank you. That user was like the gatekeeper in a scifi movie. He was the Lord of the Kingdom. He had a lot of minions who performed peripheral tasks, and who sucked up salaries. Fast forward to today, when a smaller than a postage stamp solid state devices can hold 32 - 64 Gigabytes of data for under $100. I hope I am alive in another 30 years. It will be "interesting".
Chrome is finally getting on the "Don't Track Me" bandwagon. For some time, there has been some impetus to a global agreement for large advertisers to agree that, if a browser sends a header to the advertiser advising that the consumer does not want targeted ads based on user browsing habits, the advertiser would honor the choice. Now, Google has added an extension that will mimic the services already offered by Opera, Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Apple Safari. Of course, rogue advertisers will still ignore the header; but, it is a start. The retailers who would honor such a request are probably the ones I want to hear from. If you still want to hide, of course, you need to anonymize your browsing, and that is a whole other post. Be careful out there.
I loved my Asus Transformer; but, it was a WiFi tablet, and I wanted an on board 4G LTE radio. So, I moved to the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, which I also love. I gave the Transformer to She Who Must Be Obeyed, and she uses it all the time. Now, in an ironic twist, because Asus is always ahead of the curve, she is getting the Ice Cream Sandwich update to her tablet, months before Samsung will get around to it for mine. Is there no justice in the world?
Execupundit.com: No One Answers. Execupundit asks a serious question today. Do you keep the contact information for those you know who have died? He does, and the entries bring back fond memories and sadness. In an Internet world, the data we leave behind can serve as an autobiography of sorts. All of our Social Media posts, photographs, emails, tweets, and other Internet detritus really can make for quite a summing up of a life. Perhaps there is a business opportunity here for some enterprising entrepreneur. Internet autobiographies. Hey, if we lawyers can use your Internet life as a weapon; why not turn it into a memorial?
Do you sometimes feel like a computing session has a deja vue aspect? Over and over we repeat the same keystrokes, program opening, and screen shots. This free little utility will turn any number of keystrokes and mouse movements into a repeatable symphony of computing action, that you can call up with a hot key you identify. Very cool. I am going to create a morning coffee run program that opens my browser, and goes to all my favorite sites. Then, when I get back to the desk, everything will be open. Now that I have 8 Gigabytes of RAM in my machine, I won't worry about using up memory. Oh joy! Oh, happy day! I love Parrots.
Asus U46E-BAL6 Review - Watch CNET's Video & Read Our Review. Recently, I realized that my old Dell Inspiron Duo was getting slow and laggy. The Atom processor just couldn't handle all the business apps I was running simultaneously anymore. It did the job; but, I spent a lot of time waiting. So, I began a search for a mid-range notebook computer with lots of RAM, and a fast processor. But, I didn't want to spend Apple prices; I wanted everything for less than $800. Little did I know that I would end up with a high-end ultralight whose specs blew away the competition for less money. Nirvana. The Asus mid range notebook line is led by the $829 U46E. It has the fastest processor money can buy - the Core I-7. It has 8 Gigabytes of RAM, enough to run dozens of apps simultaneously. It has a huge 750 Gigabyte hard drive, which will never fill up. This thing flies. Zip, zip and work is done. Compare this to other computers, and they all cost several hundred dollars more, and have inferior specs. The best part is that, when I finally found one, the only one left was the demo model, which had been discounted to $700, which I got further discounted to $679. And, it weighs less than 5 pounds. This thing isn't the most svelte at the dance; but it is easily transported back and forth. Don't buy a new computer until you spend some time with this guy at the store.
Lawyer,Poet, author, educator. Practices real property, corporation, wills, trusts and estates law in Pinellas County, Florida. Writes the FutureLawyer column. Gives seminars on technology and the law. Author of "Life is Simple, Really", Poems about Life, Loving, Family and Fun, and "Poems For Lovers".
