Virage Corner update – new pics of the process for removing water from the fuel tank

In prior posts I have covered the core browsing software for Android tablets as well as the soft and hard keyboards. In this post I will round things up by looking at the other software that I use on a day to day basis. I’ll continue to compare these apps to those available on the…

The last post (mournful trumpet sound) on Portability covered the core systems and browsing experience of the Transformer tablet. Looking at things is a reasonable pleasant and uncomplicated experience on a tablet. Where it gets frustrating is actually typing something, and after that, trying to edit. I think many people who use the iPad came…

My recent posts of Olympics photographs made me think more about practicality in portable cameras, and also what the absolute ideal would be for me.  The closing ceremony in particular provided a classic example of real-world usage.   Knowing the closing ceremony was going to be visually interesting, and also probably quite low-light at times,…

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…

Apple’s all-out assault on Android around the world is Google’s biggest problem by far.  And on the day that Steve Jobs retires, it’s looking bad for Google/Motorola, Samsung and HTC.  Very bad…… In the last post on this subject, I covered Google’s problems with Oracle, and noted that the Apple situation was likely to be…

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…