Recent Comments:
WiBrain's B1 UMPC hits the FCC, every branch on the ugly tree {Engadget}
Dec 29th 2007 12:00PM "There's also hovering - but give me a button that says 'I'm touching the screen ONLY to move the mouse... not click"
- I just got a new fujitsu p1610 and butted heads with this problem. I solved it by using Autohotkey (http://www.autohotkey.com/) and disableing the "left mouse button" (which disables the click of the stylus) and mapping an available button to make the "left mouse button" instead.
i.e. (the p1610 has pageUp and pageDown buttons on the edge of the tablet) ...
Autohotkey script ...
lbutton::return
pgup::lbutton
pgdn::rbutton
Philippe Starck calls the Kindle "a little sad" {Engadget}
Dec 12th 2007 6:11PM There's a gulf between design for use and design for admiration. Like most gadget designers, Starck is concerned with the latter.
Scientists develop sticky tape inspired by insect feet {Engadget}
Nov 6th 2007 2:20PM I think it's a contest between your post and mine.
Sony's VAIO UX490N now on sale: yours for $2500 {Engadget}
Nov 4th 2007 11:44AM The battery isnt that much of a problem if you had the option of a bigger battery connected by an umbilical. I dont see why it's so important that the weight of the batteries needs to be carried by your hands.
I think in design of these things there's very little focus in the way of user requirements and too much in the way of design for the display stand.
How would you change Windows Vista? {Engadget}
Aug 19th 2007 4:33PM How would I change Windows Vista?
Well .. I'm quite happy with XP - it does everything I want and need.
So, if for some insane reason i had an OS installed that didnt provide any facility i needed and was inferior due to resource use, I'd wipe it and install XP.
U.S. military turns to competition for robot "surge" {Engadget}
Aug 14th 2007 6:18PM we need devices like these so that our most precious asset (war supporters) need not go to the battlefield and test their principles in any realistic way. They need not be distracted from their valuable contribution of convincing us that war is entertainment.
Vista's successor now known as "7," due out within three years {Engadget}
Jul 20th 2007 8:42PM windows is self bashing
Wii outselling PlayStation 3 'six to one' {Engadget}
Jul 5th 2007 11:05AM It's the same old lifecycle ...
Company struggles and innovates through imagination and enthusiasm. Product stikes a chord with users. Everyone wants one.
Company rakes in cash and entrenches as a standard in the minds of users.
Company becomes used to being top dog. Becomes arrogant and lazy. I.e. money and technology replace creativity.
Company creates dull hi tech product.
Company becomes angry cos users are stupid and dont buy product.
Company hits doldrums.
Researchers tout breakthrough in single chip parallel processing {Engadget}
Jun 26th 2007 11:52AM whatever happened to the Transputer?
Leopard dock resembles Sun's Project Looking Glass? {Engadget}
Jun 12th 2007 7:15PM Whatever it was, Amiga did it first.
Probably.
