I hate the abomination that is Windows Vista as much as anyone. When I got my current laptop, I went through the painful and annoying process of muddling together an unofficial collection of drivers to get Windows XP working on it (god damn it, Dell, why couldn’t you just support it?). It immediately [...]

The diametric opposite of a non-tactile iphone: the SparkFun Electronics “portable rotary phone“:
It’s actually a mobile phone – you just stick a sim card into it and you’re set.  It even supports international roaming and has 5 days battery life (I guess minimising size and weight were not issues).

You may have heard of Google Chrome, Google’s attempt to take on Internet Explorer and Firefox by releasing a stand alone web browser (no doubt part of Google’s secret plan to gradually take over the world).  As with most Google services, it looks interesting and well designed.
However, as this article suggests, as is also the [...]

What the hell is a “netbook”? The New York Times tries to explain in plain English.
By the end of the year, consumers are likely to see laptops the size of thin paperback books that can run all day on a single charge and are equipped with touch screens or slide-out keyboards.
A friend (Karloskar, who [...]