We’ve had a recent increase in junk comments lately (30 comments in the last 12 hours) so I have increased the aggressiveness of our spam filter. I’ll be checking daily for false positives (your comments that have been wrongly junked) so please do not worry that your wonderful comments will be lost.

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I forgot to post a HUGE shout-out to Josh Einstein of Einstein Technologies for helping out with the contest!!! Both second and third place wanted TEO (Tablet Enhancements for Outlook) as their prize and Josh donated them to the contest without me even asking!

Thank you so much! Everyone should check out TEO just because the [...]

Before I explain my opinion of the two, I’d like to hear what the opinions of our readers are on the following questions.

Which provides more benefit to a student: the new UMPC’s (”Origami”), or the small tablets that have an 8-9″ screen size, such as the LS800 and P1500? Why? What do you think a [...]

In my last article I described my ideal tablet with the basic configuration (read here for complete specs):

Detachable slate that’s ~2 lbs A battery on the base to serve as functional weight Reliable way to connect the slate to the base Extras such as nice keyboard, CD drive, and a possible hard drive on base also.

After that article, [...]

This is a work in progress, however I hope you can look past what still needs work and enjoy taking a look at our new Software Links. Not only does it look a lot better than the old blog’s links page, but it also allows us to do a few other cool things: It’s in [...]

Woot has a deal on two Logitech Quickcam Deluxe Notebook Webcams. The package also comes with two microphones and two rather crummy headsets, but you could easily use the camera in class with OneNote.

If you are interested, the deal is good ONLY FOR TODAY (Woot: One Deal, One Day). So check it out => Logitech [...]

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Today I had the chance to play with the Motion LE1600 tablet and attachable keyboard and I had a couple ideas that would create THE perfect tablet (for me at least). I would buy the following concept tablet in a instant if ANYONE made one.

The Problem: I love laptops. They’re a [...]

Oh my goodness! It took forever and a day, but the tips are organized into some categories and edited to be fairly uniform and easy to scan. When it was all said and done, I ended up with 220 tips I decided made the list (the ones I didn’t include wouldn’t have changed any rankings, [...]

As promised, Microsoft has lifted the NDA for the client programs of Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, InfoPath, Access, Project, Visio and Publisher. This is from the top and is posted on the Beta place home page, thus it is 100% legit and legal. So ask any questions you have and I’ll do my [...]

Good news everybody! Microsoft has released the Technical Refresh for Microsoft Office. This also means that the NDA has been lifted, in part (more on this later). Bad news is: I’ve having a butt of a time connecting to the Microsoft servers to download the files. I have no class tomorrow, so I should have [...]