Friday, August 27th, 2010
If you weren’t around last year when I was battling with ASUS customer service, the short story is that I received a brand new Asus T91 Tablet Netbook on July 16th, and it broke on July 17th. I returned it to ASUS and was told I’d have to pay for repairs. I argued the point, [...]
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Thursday, June 17th, 2010
I opted to buy a tablet netbook last year, because I wasn’t happy with the crop of ereaders available at the time. I am still happy with my netbook, and don’t really see myself replacing it. It’s a little bigger than most of the ereaders, and I only get five hours of battery life instead [...]
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Monday, September 7th, 2009
Still talking about software I use, none of these need as much explanation as DropBox did, so I’ll cover them all in one post:
AVG (free edition – An antivirus program.)
Zone Alarm (free version – A firewall.)
WinAmp (free – has several 80’s radio stations I like)
Irfan View (small and quick image viewing software)
7 Zip (free zipper [...]
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Sunday, September 6th, 2009
As I’m loading the programs I need onto my T91 (finally), I thought it might be good to share some of the programs I use that help me run my life. Most are freeware. Free is good.
Dropbox is one of those things that vastly simplified my life. Before Dropbox, I had to email files I [...]
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Thursday, July 30th, 2009
If you missed the previous posts on this, you can go here and here.
The update is that now they are saying that I damaged the screen, so it won’t be covered under warranty.
The screen was fine right before it died on me, it was the wi-fi that went out before I rebooted it. I argued [...]
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Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
I posted on July 15th that the new Asus Netbook Tablet was finally shipping and that it felt like Christmas.
When it arrived, I loved it. It runs Windows so I had to download Firefox, ZoneAlarm and AVG, and then I could start having fun. With the tablet turned around, holding it and carrying it around [...]
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