Smartphones are great. But. A lot of people don’t want them. Cost is one reason. “Feature overload” might be another.

The itablet W101 and itablet W102 from AHX Global are now available. Both devices run Windows 7 Home Premium on a 10.1-inch touchscreen.

PhatPad is a note-taking, brainstorming and collaboration app for the iPad. It offers handwriting recognition, voice notes, and a Presentation mode with VGA monitor output.

The Kindle Lending Club website lets people borrow or lend e-books. Taking advantage of the new lending feature in Kindle, borrowers can download books to their Kindle readers and read them for 14 days.

An analysis of two major BitTorrent portals – Pirate Bay and MiniNova – determined that almost a third of the 55,000 files on the sites were fake. Further study showed these files to be laden with malware.

The SmartPhoneClinic is now offering iPhone makeovers as well as repairs. They are now accepting orders for red, pink, blue, and white conversions. You can order the kit and do-it-yourself or have them make the change for you.

Gune is a system of meta-search for mobile devices that generates a single page of results from selected search engines. The app can be downloaded for free.

There have been complaints about the amount and type of information that can be mined from browsers. Mozilla is proposing a special header to help you opt out of targeted advertising.

If you’ve been waiting for dramatically higher resolution on the iPad 2, it looks like you’ll have to wait a while longer. The rumored 2048 by 1536 pixel resolution may not be available until the iPad 3 is released.

A few simple steps will turn GNOME back on.

Read this Computing Unplugged article.