Monday, August 26, 2002

Brutally simple alternative to drive-cases. The SuperDriveDock is a brutally simple alternative to drive-cases. If you've got a naked drive and need to mount it in a hurry, just snap the dock on, plug in a FireWire cable and biff-bam, it's connected. Link Discuss [Boing Boing Blog] 6:06:19 PM  comment []     Walk Your Data Into Port. Who needs clunky FTP or Web storage anymore when you can move data on floppies more easily and much faster ... with your feet? That's right, Sneakernet is back. By Paul Boutin. [Wired News] 6:04:25 PM  comment []     Wi-Fi Projections from Toshiba. Toshiba has announced a series of new digital portable projectors that feature 802.11b-based wireless support and, on some models, a built-in document camera. [allNetDevices Wireless News] 6:00:25 PM  comment []     HP touts new all-in-one printers. Listening to the needs of home users drawn to digital imaging, the computer maker is releasing a lower-priced model that can print, copy and scan. [CNET News.com] 5:57:19 PM  comment []     VeriSign promises 100 percent DNS availability. Company announces managed Internet DNS services [InfoWorld: Top News] 5:55:45 PM  comment []     The Chronicle of Higher Education: Students Complain About Devices for Reading E-Books, Study Finds. Although the researchers started with the assumption that e-books would be just as easy to use as textbooks, they soon found that students had various complaints about the performance of the e-book devices. But students who used e-books did just as well on quizzes as those who used printed texts. [Tomalak's Realm] 5:52:49 PM  comment []     Mindsurf discource is a networking & software pack .... Mindsurf discource is a networking & software package that support interactive class room instruction. The hardware consists of Compaq iPAQ Pocket PCs, Cisco WLAN cards, and Targus Stowaway keyboards. There is a nice video linked off the home page that shows how the package is used by a middle school English teacher. [PocketPCHow2 Log] 5:51:32 PM  comment []     Danny O'Brien: "I have an always-on broadband connection, so I can check my mail from anywhere by logging in to my home computer from any net connection. And I do not need spare storage on someone else's server as I have enough spare disk space at home, thanks very much." [Scripting News] 5:20:07 PM  comment []

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