Techno

Cool Tech Toys, and stuff for the boyz and the girlz!

iTWire – Palm Foleo flop or future?

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Apparently, Palm has done it again! It’s broken the mold, with a new sub-notebook computer that even John Chow could find useful on his trip to Taipei! It pairs up with your handheld to offer (cough!) convenient and portable computing (cough!)… There’s really not much information about this machine at all, I can’t find much about the actual specs either other than it runs Linux, has some editors for Word, Excel and PowerPoint, plus a PDF viewer. It comes with a 10-inch screen and full-size keyboard. And it sports upto five hours of battery life in its compact design!

There are some pretty useful features for mobile computing that we’d need on it so it includes “Instant on, instant off”, it’s light, and sports an OpenSource OS! No word on the chips, processor, RAM or onboard storage yet! I’d have to add that quality of the build is very important as Palm has screwed up majorly on several previous models of its handheld series with component problems and surly service. Let’s hope that they get this one right!

You can read more about it at these stories: Palm Foleo flop or future? or at Palm’s website.

Technology Enables and Disables at the same time!

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Technology is kind of like a drug at times, as a user or patient, your use of technology empowers you to do new things: to create a blog and update it easily and quickly without so much as a second thought!

But when it goes wrong, it really disables you! You can no longer do anything that you could do with ease! Your frustration mounts! You want to throw things at the problem!

In the past week, I’ve faced three technology problems, only one of which I was capable of fixing: 1. DNS problems at my hosting company; 2. another internet cable under the sea has limited browsing, download and upload speeds; and 3. my D-Link wireless router DI-524 (by reputation, one of the crappiest wireless routers on the market, see my review and Amazon’s reviews, too!) made by a company that USED TO turn out good products! I have to get up and reset the box every 10, 20 or 40 minutes… As a result, I’ve lost postings (2 today already), patience and my temper! (oh, and slapping the box really hard does NOT make it work better!)

In fairness, the third problem is something I could fix, but I want to go back to a regular cable, just can’t squeeze it in to my room, without my wife’s strenuous (and justified) objections to another cable in her living room!

Mmm… Should do something about that!

Three Stats Plugins: SlimStat, TD WordCount and Stats Plugin

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An interesting alternative to some of the stats packages I’ve been using. Give it the once over then decide if you like it! SlimStat — A simple web stats analyser based on ShortStat.

If you would rather try another package, here are two that I like:

1.  TD Word Count for counting words in your posts! It says I have 12 words in this post! I should refresh! Very useful, slightly odd first set up, but operates smoothly after that!

2. WordPress.com Stats Plugin which claims to track views, post/page views, referrers, and clicks. It requires a WordPress.com API key and a Wordpress.com Account (both free)

3. WP Stats which I no longer use, and can’t find the link either!

Bonus Section!

4. Google Analytics works well, but is not a plugin, and requires a Google Account.

5. MyBloglog but fairly useless! #4 works better than that!

Of course, if you are self-hosted, you likely have access to your own logs and perhaps even your hosting company can provide software for analyzing traffic.

There are many options out there, but there seems at the moment little point in some of the for pay services as the good ones are either free or already paid for by your hosting plan.