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Gadgets

Tuning my MacBook Pro by migrating to a solid state drive and keeping the built-in hard disk drive

January 13, 2010 Gadgets

I’m absolutely excited: Since I’m running my MacBook Pro with a Solid State Drive, the perceived speed has almost tippled.
Snow Leopard ‘cold’ boot time is down to less than 7 seconds and applications start almost instantaneously. Even slow bootstrappers like Adobe’s Photoshop CS4 get ready within seconds. Running Windows 7 [...]

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A couple of weeks with the amazon kindle and I love it!

November 6, 2009 Gadgets

Living outside the US feels unfavorable when it comes to movie release dates, availability of international TV programs and more often than not new gadgets and software releases.
When amazon announced the international availability of it’s much acclaimed ebook reader platform, the amazon kindle, I immediately ordered one.
A couple of weeks [...]

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Does the speech enabled iPod shuffle hint at a voice enabled next iPhone?

March 11, 2009 Enablers

Apple has released a new iPod shuffle. Besides its design a remarkable feature is called VoiceOver. I don’t own one, yet, but I assume it’s a built-in text-to-speech engine that reads out artists names, song titles and the name of your playlists. Controlling the iPod shuffle is still up to [...]

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Livescribe Pulse smartpen

February 11, 2009 Gadgets

Livescribe’s Pulse smartpen is a computer inside a pen. Not only does it record what you’re writing it also records the audio and links the two together. By tapping anywhere in your notes it replays exactly what has been said when you were writing the tapped part. Finally it allows [...]

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