JoHo

Taking off the shorts!

30-Sep-2005

Well, it’s the time of the year again, when I get that moment of sadness realizing summer is over. So it’s off with the shorts and on with long pants …

How Microsoft Lost the API War

21-Sep-2005

I just stumbled across a really good article; good in the sense that it made me feel interested and glued to its contents, also good in the sense that it …

Canon to unleash the EOS 5D!

22-Aug-2005

There’s a lot of hot stuff cooking at Canon! Last in a number of recent product announcements comes the not-so-unexpected (it seems Canon enjoys “pre-releasing” aka leaking, quite a bit) …

Joshua is back!

21-Aug-2005

Want to play with the computer that let Joshua communicate with Mathew Broderick in the 1984 movie WarGames? Well, now you can! The Fischer-Freitas Company, formed by a couple of …

Canon Powershot Pro 1

23-Jun-2005

It has been clear for some time, but I haven’t found a good enough replacement yet. That may have changed today. Janet has been using a Digital Ixus 400 from …

Gigapixels next?

04-Jun-2005

Is the analog world catching up to the digital world? I’m not sure, but it feels like many digital camera manufacturers are trying to zero in on a large number …

My new light saber; XFCE

27-May-2005

So I’ve been curious about XFCE for some time now, but I never seem to find the time to install it for a test-drive. So today I decided to go …

Negative vibes

03-May-2005

So I finally got around to testing our newly acquired “toy”, the Epson Perfection 4990 scanner. It’s an A4-sized flatbed scanner with a ton of accessories intended to make negative …

Antique that kicks ass

06-Apr-2005

It’s a boring piece of equipment; this model is really antique too, with just a plain old cable that connects it to the computer. No bluetooth, no wimax, no 3G, …

The HP6220 in Sweden

28-Mar-2005

So HP is rolling out a new fleet of notebooks.

Wonderful.. or?

I’ve gotten used to, and quite fond of, the HP NC6000 notebook. It’s a “just enough”-type product with almost everything you need, except a fast harddisk and a Firewire connection. I’ve mostly been using the 1.8-512-60 model.

Set to replace the NC6000 is the new NC6220 (there’s also a more budget-like 6120 and a 6230). The specs look OK; there’s still no firewire in any of the models I’ve seen – but perhaps I haven’t been looking hard enough.