MrWoodleigh

This video from Google tries to make Google Docs easier to understand:

I’m finding Paris a little hard to crack, wirelessly. It’s not a lack of wireless. I can see a dozen wireless networks from the comfort of the couch in our studio apartment and from about any other place I try. (Almost) everybody’s wireless is password-protected here. What’s with that?!? [...]

I’m a happy man. Now that Google has added IMAP access (Google is rolling out IMAP over several days; it’s possible that not all Gmail users have the option yet), I can see my Gmail messages from Outlook, Mac Mail, and Evolution (my email clients on Windows, Mac OS, and Ubuntu respectively) and move [...]

I just installed Vista on my HP tc4400 Tablet PC and I’m going to use this entry to keep track of performance tweaks.

Turn off most of the visual effects.   Right-click on Computer and Choose Advanced Properties, then click on Performance Setting.

Choose Adjust for Best Performance.  Hit Apply.  Things will get ugly.
Using the checkboxes turn on [...]

A few years ago I was excited at the prospect that OpenOffice would by my office suite of choice, but I ran into two significant problems.

I didn’t like using it as much as I liked using Microsoft Office. I was reluctant to admit it to myself, but I finally had to.
The version [...]

The New York Times ran an article in the Education section entitled Seeing No Progress, Some Schools Drop Laptops (free subscription required) that documents instances of school districts (and one independent school) retiring their laptop programs after they failed to deliver results.
This make sense to me, not because laptop programs are a bad idea (says [...]

Need to back up your laptop files or stash some large files someplace? Check SteamLoad out. They are offering 25gb of storage. They provide a web interface for downloading and uploading and a downloadable PC application for file synchronization.

Musings on a snowy day…
It’s crazy how much better my networking experience is at home than it is here on the campus where I work.   It’s that way for a lot of people now.   Of course, it used to be quite the opposite.  You were stuck with dial-up at home and would head into the [...]

Two recent product announcements have piqued my interest.

Apple’s iPhone sounds so cool. (Oh, the product may have to be renamed since Apple didn’t quite lay claim to the name iPhone before going public, but that’s another story). What impresses me most is how Apple managed to come up with something that is so [...]

In October, I mentioned Libya’s agreement with One Laptop per Child (OLPC), the non-profit group working on an inexpensive laptop for children in developing countries.
Intel is now developing a laptop for school children, the Classmate PC, which will be more powerful and sell for more than the OLPC laptop. It will still cost far [...]