While I’m making predictions, I think this is also the year Flash finally started its long slow exit from the web. With HTML5 gaining more and more interest and cool capabilities, the need for a dedicated browser plugin to render animations and play sounds has all-but vanished. Now it’s just a matter of time before [...]
I predict that the Kindle will support the increasingly-popular ePub format by year’s end. There, I said it. (Though apparently I’m not the first to want this. There’s already some kind of app available that can do it natively called Savory.) Whether it’s by third party app through Amazon’s recently-announced SDK or, hopefully, because Amazon [...]
Watched some of the live stream from Engadget on the iPad announcement today. It was, as expected, a tablet shaped like a big iPod. It comes with wireless and it can hook up to a 3G network if you buy the big one. Notably, for me, were the things it didn’t do: No camera (!) [...]
Late last week I was griping about the poor trackpad performance on the Dell Mini 10 and decided to try to fix it. It was usable, but difficult and caused a lot of erroneous clicks and mouse-moves and was a bit like trying to use a Fisher Price toy to perform brain surgery. Clunky, imprecise, [...]
A commenter asked about the horrible touchpad on the Dell Mini 10. Not sure if he was using Linux or Windows, but a couple of quick searches found some mention of a better driver. Top link was on superuser.com and has some hopefully helpful links. I’ll post back with results when I’ve had a chance [...]
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