Toronto’s tech sector is on fire!
When I first arrived in Toronto in 2004 I found very little in the way of Tech community. I was told that the Dot Com Crash had pretty much annihilated every shred of enthusiasm this city had left to offer.
Today, in 2008, there’s no doubt in my mind that […]
Some of you may have noticed on the upcoming page that March’s date for Toronto Wiki Tuesday was preliminary, due to a schedule clash on my diary. I’m settling on the 2nd Tuesday of the month whereever possible, making Toronto Wiki Tuesday on the 2nd weekday of the 2nd week of each month.
This month only, […]
Eeepc user? Take a look at these.
http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/04/3m-to-showcase-a-micro-projector-for-handheld-devices-at-ces/
http://www.letsgomobile.org/en/3032/samsung-mbp-100-microprojector/
Fancy that, using just a full-size roll out keyboard, a 32GB SD card and a pocketsize projector capable of a 1m+ picture, you’d end up with full sized facilities in an ever-so lightweight and tiny 9″ bag.
I suppose though, with a roll-out keyboard and a micro projector throwing a […]
All credit goes to Andrew Butkus and the fabulous efforts of the WINE project (which allows some Windows software to function on the Linux Operating System).
Anyhow check out on http://www.slingcommunity.com/group/discussion/26840/Slingplayer-Linux-Install-Script-1.0b/
I just love this eeepc!
PS. If you think that slingplayer on the eeepc is ridiculous, check out this effort to run vmware player on the […]
Technology marches on, smaller, faster, cheaper.
This is especially pertinant at the ultralight end of laptops. My Asus EeePC is a diminutive (7″) laptop running Xandros, a windows-look-alike version of Debian Linix, had a 4GB solid state drive, built in wifi and webcam. The cheaper ones (surf models) don’t have webcams. Here’s the http://wiki.eeeuser.com/eee_hardware_faq
It’s […]
I’m just going to give a quick mention for Onaswarm, a product of Toronto firm BlogMatrix, and run by my friend David Janes.
The web has seen a plethora of sites become platforms, each site now holding some fragment of our digital lives. From that stems a problem: many of us find our attention fragmented across […]
Wordpress 2.0 introduced a mechanism for programmers and plugin authors to schedule programmatic tasks to be run at designated times in the future. Glenn Slaven in his article Timing Is Everything does a great job of describing how this works. (Sadly, Wordpress’s convention is that people write Wordpress documentation to their blogs rather than contributing […]
I met Tari Akpodiete at PodCamp Toronto 2007 a couple of weeks back. Tari was giving talks about a host of things, one talk (videocast) I attended was about MindMapping and Getting Things Done. Like me, it seems that Tari also subscribes to Giveaway of the Day. But, unlike me she spotted this already and […]
Around the start of December http://Palm.com (makers of the Palm Pilot, Palm Treo etc) took their user forums offline, promising they’d be back soon. Now they say we need to wait till early Jan 2007.
What’s with a company that size taking its forums offline? Minimally I would expect them to make them read-only if they […]
It sounds like Socialtext have pulled off masterful feat of technology: taking a web application and making it available offline. Such a goal is really sound: so many of us live in a ever-more mobile world, the frequently disconnected worker is usually excluded from some of the best apps.
Take, for instance, the case of IBM, […]
