Staples and the Blackberry Playbook

October 5, 2011

Can you believe that Staples found the one guy with too many tablets to tempt with a $200 off coupon for the one tablet he doesn’t own. But now I do! Thanks, Staples – I think! More on this soon!

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Paper vs. Digital Books

September 12, 2011

We’ve heard about the usual differences. An e-book device might be heavier than the real book. The glare on the screen might be bad for your eyes. Lugging a bunch of books around is solved with the e-book device. But, what of the pricing of e-books vs. real books? I can go to a used [...]

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HP Touchpad slowly disappears

August 29, 2011

Office Depot’s kiosk is gone. No remnants of accessories either. I found the last case and charging stand at the local Staples – in the back room. And they were 50% off. A lot of vendors are showing the HP Touchpad is out-of-stock. Radio Shack’s ad in the Sunday paper shows it at only $100 [...]

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HP kills their new tablet!

August 20, 2011

You can’t tell from their website but for the insanely discounted prices on the tablets (accessories only 15% off with tablet purchase). Also, our recently renovated local Office Depot has them on a nice display at only $100 off and nothing else to indicate they are discontinued. HP had a good product. Not perfect but [...]

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More choices for the end user!

August 4, 2011

This is a great blog regarding our choices for a computing device: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/is-xp-finally-dying-or-is-it-the-pcs-its-been-running-on/53797  I know, as a geek-to-the-extreme, I use Windows 7 on two laptops. I have an iPad 2, an Acer tablet and an HP tablet. So I’m running operating systems (OSes) from HP, Microsoft, Google and Apple. Not like the old days when [...]

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Local Computer Club Meeting Tonight

August 1, 2011

I’m the Vero Beach Computer Group (vbcg.org) club president. I’m also the speaker tonight. Subject: tablets. I’ll bring my Acer Iconia A500, my Apple iPad 2, my HP TouchPad, my Amazon Kindle DX (for comparison) and a Windows 7 tablet (an older model also for comparison). The meeting begins at 7:30pm at the Vero Beach [...]

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Android 3.1 Arrives by Air

August 1, 2011

My poor Acer Iconia A500 Tablet has been looking for the 3.1. I seemed everyone else was getting it. And so, it finally arrived! The Android OS regulary checks for system updates. It finally “found” one – the big one – from 3.0 to 3.1. Either Acer or Google releases their updates in waves. I [...]

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Still awaiting Android Honeycomb 3.1

July 17, 2011

Here I sit. Clicking on check system updates. Frowning at my Acer. Texas has it. England has it. Arizona has it. I don’t. I knew the Acer Iconia only had Android OS 3.0.1 when I bought it. But I also knew Acer would update it. Its an over-the-wire update, so no need to connect to [...]

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HP Releases it’s HPpad

July 10, 2011

Yep. I bought one. Call me crazy, but it’s like experiencing when personal computers first came out in the 80′s. Except this time I have more than a paper route and the tablets are one-third the cost. I’ve played with it about two weeks now. It’s physically so similar to an iPad, I’m disappointed HP [...]

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Experiencing Androids

July 2, 2011

Wow. This is not your cool sisters iPad 2! Yes I can do flash now. Some that means I can play flash-based Zynga games on Facebook right? Only if you have the patience of a plugged in monk. Farmville detects your Android device and says its unsupported. It won’t play. Cityville plays, but is so [...]

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