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  • Kevin Chiu 2:41 am on October 24, 2007 Permalink | Reply
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    Gmail enables IMAP! 

    You can retrieve your Gmail messages with a client or device that supports IMAP, like Microsoft Outlook or Apple Mail.To enable IMAP in your Gmail account:

    1. Log in to your Gmail account.
    2. Click Settings at the top of any Gmail page.
    3. Click Forwarding and POP/IMAP.
    4. Select Enable IMAP.
    5. Configure your IMAP client* and click Save Changes.

    Via Google Help Page

    I now have my iPhone and Apple Mail set up to use IMAP. This is awesome.

     
  • Kevin Chiu 7:31 am on December 29, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    Samsung 

    For years, notebook technology has been advancing at an incredible pace. Processors grew in speed exponentially, along with hard drive capacities, and mobile multicore computing made a huge splash with the Core Duo. In contrast, the biggest headline for batteries this year was that the current generation has a tendency to explode.

    Samsung is going to give laggard consumer notebook battery technology and needed boost next year with, get this, a battery that will last an entire month!

    They also have one that doesn’t look like a cordless docking station, but it only lasts a week.

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  • Kevin Chiu 12:33 pm on October 26, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    Tower of Babel Translator 


    It’s a translator that translates words as you subvocalize them (think Snake’s communicator in Metal Gear Solid). Right now they have a Chinese to English translator as well as English to Spanish/German version.

     
  • Kevin Chiu 7:49 pm on January 5, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    Toshiba Tecra M4 Tablet 

    Thanks to CSE481b, I will be the owner of a brand new M4 for the remainder of this academic quarter.

    I received the tablet a few hours ago through the departmental equipment borrowing system. After the novelty of being able to draw on the screen wore off, I realized that most applications are rather terrible on the tablet platform. Using web browsers is a pain, file navigation and menus are not pen-centric etc.

    However the tablet does have one good app, Windows Journal. Journal is like the classic notepad, but it’s pen instead of keyboard based.

     
  • Kevin Chiu 10:31 pm on June 9, 2005 Permalink | Reply
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    Tablet PC’s of interest 

    pics from
    whatisnew.com

    Motion Computing’s LE1600 Slate:
    Insane viewing angle (the glare suggests this is a VA screen)

    nice cushy stylus

    really bright screen

    IBM X41 Convertable:

    Screen looks kind of dim, but it’s probably just the flash’s fault. Notice the lack of touchpad.

    It’s insanely thin.

    The stylus looks a bit bland…



     
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