I was looking at the new Palm Folio and it reminded me of my old beloved Radio Shack WP-2 that got me through lawschool. In many ways it was the best laptop I ever used. I didn’t need to plug it in. It ran about 20 hours on a pair of AA batteries. I beat the hell out of it and it just chugged right along for 3 years. I could fill it with a text file of notes and then go back to my apartment and dump it into my Atari ST Computer and I was good to go. Granted I love my MacBook Pro but it would be really nice to have an updated WP-2. Perhaps something with a simple screen and a decent keyboard that does raw text files and has an SD card slot in it for <$150. Something you could pull out on a train or plane or anywhere else with no fear whatsoever. I actually still have my WP-2. I’ve been letting my kids play with it for several years as a toy. They’ve beat it up more than I ever did and it still looks fine. Maybe I’ll put some batteries in it this weekend and see what happens.
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Waiting for OmniFocus …
Its been a few weeks now since the Omni Group announced the beta of its quasi GTD product, OmniFocus. I know I’m on the list and must admit I’m curious to give it a try. Depending on how well it works I’ll have to decide if I’ll run it as a sandbox application or actually re-enter my roughly 200 iGTD entries. I’ll keep you posted.
Continue readingWordPress Conversion Complete
I’ve decided to move the blog to Wordpress. It just seems more blog friendly than what I was doing with iWeb. The conversion was relatively painless. Finished in one “Lost” season finale.
Continue readingI Want One!
For some reason this creative Moleskine drive really made me smile. I think there is definitely one of these in my future!
Continue readingQuicksilver Addiction
Quicksilver is one of those programs that doesn’t wow you until you’ve been using it a month. Then it knocks you off your socks. Its a launcher, but much more. It can pull up iTunes playlists, it can compress files, it can move files, eject discs. I really didn’t appreciate how great this program is until I started watching some of the online videos so go check them out!
Lifehacker Quicksilver Videos Extravaganza
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