Steve Jobs did it again and announced a device, many people think will change the world. Well, I for one am still wondering what kind of use I might have for it. A few years ago while still working at University projects I had the chance to play around a little bit with a tablet PC running Windows XP and it was barely usable for what I wanted to do with it. Granted, Apple has done some miracles with the iPhone user interface, but what would I want to have mostly the same in 9.7" device without any real benefit?
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Apple's iPad: Still looking for a use-case
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So thinking about an EeePC 1005P
It's funny: For the better part of the last 2 years I've been avoiding all the hype about netbooks, but now, in the week of Steve Jobs perhaps changing the game once again, I kind of want one ... and if it's just for coding while watching TV on my couch or in a café. So, I've been looking around a bit and at first was nearly ready to just order a Dell Mini 10v because of all those stories about how easy it is to get Ubuntu running on it. Not to mention that it's currently on sale on Dell's website. But a two year old CPU and a pain-in-the-butt method of upgrading the RAM? I don't really mind messing around with some hardware for upgrading it it, but if there is something even better, easier to customize and ... newer, I'm all for it :-)
Late last night, in some kind of semi-comatose state, I noticed a new EeePC on the website of a local retailer. The 1005P is available right now (at E-Tec) for less than 280EUR, which is really nice for an Atom N450 powered netbook. I, obviously, can't really compare that to other netbooks, but the specs look really nice :-)
What's holding me back right now is twofold: First I naturally wait for what will get announced in Cupertino, but second and more important: I've so far read enough success and failure reports by people trying to install Ubuntu on it to wait a little bit and see what's really going on. There are stories like this one where the user can't get crucial elements like the keyboard to run and then there are more than just a few reports that state that nearly everything is working properly out of the box. The most problematic part seems to be the wifi adapter. Weird... I thought the graphic chip might cause more trouble, but so far most people seem to fight with network driver issues. I guess, I realy should wait a few more days ;-)
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Demos for Magazines
Normally, if you want to check out a new magazine, you just go to the next news stand and get it. But what if you learn of one that is not officially available in your country? The rise of social media and content delivery methods like Podcasts also changed the playground a bit on how to advertise content coming from the "old media".
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Django 1.2a1 has a message for you
Today, Django 1.2 alpha1 was released and it comes with a ton of new features compared to the 1.1 branch. You can read up about them in the release notes but I want to take a quick look at probably my favorite addition: The new messaging framework. Why this and not the support for multiple databases? Well, I see myself using messaging in many more places than multiple databases ;-)
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This was 2009
2009 was quite an eventful year for me so, I guess, it is worth taking a look back. Finally got my diploma degree, found a new job, a new apartment, at least some travelling ... Sadly, I haven't written about most of that stuff here on my blog but thanks to TweetScan I could also play a little data-mining on my tweets.
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Picross 3D dated for Europe
Primary link: www.cubed3.com
It seems like Picross 3D for the Nintendo DS finally got a release date for Europe. According to Cubed3 the game will land on February 5th. It's basically the same idea as with any other picross game, but this time you're more or less working on a cube and removing parts of it to reveal an object. ... And it will feature weekly downloads for even more picross madness :D
I so need another puzzle game ;-)
