Article archive for 2005

Thursday, December 1, 2005

Great software to help you manage your New Year’s resolutions

It’s here again: New Year’s resolution time! Writing out your goals and setting out the steps that lead to achieving those goals improves your chances of actually meeting your goals. Having your goals in your Palm, always accessible, should make your success nearly certain. There are many goal-setting and planning programs available, and Contributing Editor Heather Wardell tested five of them in this article. What’s the right choice for you? You’ll have to read Heather’s article to find out.

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Thursday, December 1, 2005

The inside story of Sereniti, a new wireless router company

We recently had the opportunity to meet Wade Callison. Wade is bringing a new wireless router product to market and we thought it’d be interesting to go inside a new company and learn what goes into developing a product like a home network router.

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Thursday, December 1, 2005

Create musical joystick mash-ups with the StikAx

This could have been such a great product. If you’re a fan of TV, you’re probably familiar with "Saturday Night Live" and the show’s Not Ready for Prime Time Players. While the StikAx has an enormous amount of potential, it too isn’t ready for prime time. For our review of this very interesting, yet flawed device, read this review.

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Thursday, December 1, 2005

Wireless healthcare vendor information, where/when you need it.

This short tip can help you organize vendor materials. Richard Siderits uses it in the hospital, but you can use the LifeDrive (and other higher-capacity Palm devices to accomplish the same thing).

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Thursday, December 1, 2005

Power aware routing for mobile ad-hoc networks

Contributing Editor Humayn Bakht continues his quest to educate Computing Unplugged’s readers about mobile ad-hoc networks. In this article, he examines why routing data is important and two methods that can gauge how much power is used to transmit data.

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Tuesday, November 1, 2005

Hands-on (literally) with the Palm wireless keyboard

Palm makes a nice, portable wireless keyboard that works through your handheld’s IR port. How well does it work? You’ll have to read Heather Wardell’s hands-on review to get a final read.

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Tuesday, November 1, 2005

NoiseBuster, who you gonna call?

Senior Editor James Booth has been curious about noise-canceling headphones for quite some time, but is too cheap to actually buy them. Imagine his elation when we were approached by Pro Tech Communications to cover their NoiseBuster noise-canceling headphones. Read on to find out how well the NoiseBusters work, and how they compare to the competition.

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Tuesday, November 1, 2005

LifeDrive cases: Palm vs. Proporta

With the acquisition of any new gadget comes the search for accessories to go with that gadget. In his latest coverage, Senior Editor James Booth compares the Alu-Leather LifeDrive case from Proporta with Palm’s branded case.

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Tuesday, November 1, 2005

Move over Fabio, it’s the Pavio

In this article, Senior Editor James Booth examines the Pavio from DateXX, a new entry into the portable digital theater/media player field. Find out what kind of features the Pavio brings to the table and what makes it stand out. No Fabio required.

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Tuesday, November 1, 2005

Implementation of distributed hash tables in mobile ad-hoc networks

In this article, Contributing Editor Humayun Bakht explores the implementation of distributed hash tables in mobile ad-hoc networks. This article could be of great interest to you if you have have some technical knowledge of the Internet and its associated technologies.

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