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…

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…

This is the second in a series of posts about portable systems – focusing mainly on Android technology. As I mentioned in the prior post, that begs the question of ‘why not Apple (or IOS)’? So in this post, I will list the reasons I prefer not to use their stuff (if I don’t have…

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…