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The prior post was on the hardware of the interesting Asus Transformer Android tablet.  In this post I’ll cover the software.  I’m only going to do this from the perspective of what I actually do with the system, and I’ll therefore cover the apps which (after a lot of trial and error) work best for…

In previous posts on Portability I’ve covered what I don’t like or don’t any more use.  This time we’ll look at something I actually do like, the Asus Transformer Android tablet.  Actually I more than like this thing, I’m pretty much permanently glued to it.  Without doubt it’s the best piece of technology I have used so far for portable…

I started mcaughtry.com in 1999 and used the best software at that time – FrontPage from Microsoft.  As web design software it was very powerful and allowed me to use neat features like frames, and inbuilt spreadsheet clips and so on.  After I had built the basic design, it was relatively easy for me to…

On a brisk Spring day in March 1996 your correspondent was excitedly waiting outside the Aladdin’s cave that was (and is) J&R World in down-town Manhattan.  At the opening of the store I rushed in and bought one of the first Palm Pilot 1000 PDAs sold.  The Palm is largely forgotten now, but 15 years ago it was a miracle…

Like many people, I have a Yahoo account (for news updates and Flickr). Now it appears that 500 million Yahoo accounts, including probably mine, have been accessed, by a ‘foreign state actor’. And 200 million of them are now for sale on the dark web. I regarded Yahoo and other non-financial and non-critical sites as…

The iPad2 revisited in depth.  How does it look now? Flicking through the web on the subject of the iPad2 vs other Android tablets, it’s become clear to me that much of the negative stuff is written by people who use only one or other of the platforms. As a result, much of the invective…