Tag: psion

Just One More Thing…

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I’ve been working on something on the quiet. Actually a few of us have been working on something. If you were at Edinburgh Coffee Morning or The Tuttle Club today you may have caught sight of this little beast in the raw. We’re calling it the PsiXpda, and we’re publicly announcing it today. I’m back in the hardware game! What, you never realised that I used to be in that? Ah well, nothing like hiding things in plain sight. Bet you thought my mentions of the ZX81 on Twitter were really about Clive Sinclair’s machine as well… Some specs? Intel

Does Google Chome OS redefine our computing needs?

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So the dust settles on the details on Chrome OS and everyone can spend the next few months debating Google’s strategy. Unlike other Bay Area companies, Google has been known to get it wrong, so just because they are doing something, it doesn’t meant that they will make a success of it. With Chrome OS they’re making the biggest play to cloud computing yet. By cloud computing they actually mean “we’ll be your hard drive that you can connect to wherever you are in the world.” Yes Google have brought us full circle back to the days of mainframes Dec52’s

In Praise of the Psion Stylus

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If there is one thing that marks me out as very old school it’s the stylus that I carry when out and about. For all the resistive touch screens (ie almost everything but the iPhone) on a multitude of devices i tend to use the built in stylus for about five minutes before reaching into my drawer of spare parts for one of the many pointers I have for the Psion 5mx (and similar machines). Two main reasons I still use it. First of all is the shape – with a triangular barrel as the main part gives your hand

A Little Bit of GTD Tech For The Weekend?

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Over on All About Symbian, I’ve posted an article that talks about how I use GTD with the modern S60 smartphone. This was a question I was asked thanks to the 5800 video diary series that is now addressed in a full article. The short answer is, I don’t. The S60 derived phones have an absolutely hopeless To-Do/List system in the calendaring application, and the regular calendar/agenda functions are poor at best. As readers here (and party go-ers in SXSW) will know, I’m a big Filofax fan. It’s disappointing when paper and pencil outgun silicon, and it’s made even more

Of Course Netbook Sales Are On The Rise

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Is it any wonder that sales of netbooks are on the rise? The Guardian posted this at the start of the week and I’ve had the tab open in Firefox since then to write about this. The features race on the regular desktop market has been over for a while. The increases in CPU speed and memory don;t affect the average consumer any more. Storage is one area that is growing given the requirements of digital media, but really we should be teaching people to buy a new hard drive rather than a whole new desktop. There will always be

The Asus EEE and Psion’s Influence

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Two little things around my Asus EEE PC show why it’s obvious that I really like this machine. The first is the solitary sticker on the case of the machine – the Moo Stickers along the battery spine don’t count. It’s the metallic badge of the Psion Series 3mx, probably the finest British PDA ever made, that sits proudly on the lid. The second is the case that I carry the EE around in. It’s an old, battered, mix of hard ABS plastic covered in felt and canvas, and held my Psion Netbook for many a year, starting in early