Tag Archives: Mobile lifestyle

iPhone 4 – Quick impressions

I stood in line for 13 hours to get the iPhone 4.  That was an interesting experience, to say the least … I'll save that for a later post. My opinion of the iPhone is that the product really came together with the … Continue reading

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USBCell now available

The USBCell seems to be available for ordering now in the US.  For those of you who haven't seen this yet, it's basically a rechargeable AA battery, except it has a built in USB plug so that it can recharge … Continue reading

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On VPN’s and routing troubles

VPN’s, or Virtual Private Networks, are a bit of a tricky beast.  VPN’s allow remote clients or sites to join with your internal network as if they are right there in the building.  Hence the “Virtual” part of the term.  … Continue reading

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External monitors with notebooks/tablets

Eric Mack (well known for Getting Things Done and Tablet PC’s) is asking about using external monitors with a Tablet PC. Here’s my advice…if sticking to the traditional approach of hooking up an external monitor to the tablet is favored, … Continue reading

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The Toshiba M400 is out

I bought a Toshiba M200 about two months ago.  The special thing about the M200 is that, unlike most notebooks, it is a convertible Tablet PC. What prompted me to do this?  Two things.  One, my main laptop broke, so … Continue reading

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Politically incorrect moment

After many entries into the Win a DocuPen RC800 contest, Rob Bushway has finally picked the winner of the contest.  Go ahead and read the winning entry. I have to say that I’m a bit puzzled by his choice.  Keep … Continue reading

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Toshiba M200 now at 60GB

Not exactly a banner day for the Internet, but not a bad day over here at rkuo.com.  The 60GB Hitachi Travelstar now in my Tablet PC is, in fact, close to as quiet as the old 40GB Travelstar and way … Continue reading

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Noisy notebook drives

Since I’m not using the Inspiron 9100 much any more and eventually plan on selling it, I decided to swap one of the hard drives from the Inspiron into the Toshiba M200.  The drive in the M200 is only 40GB … Continue reading

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On scanning and the DocuPen RC800

The following is my humble entry to Rob Bushway’s “Win your own DocuPen RC800” contest. I think the problem with most of the comments I’ve read so far is that they all focus on why scanning is good.  A lot … Continue reading

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