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Cavalcade of… stuff

  By Alex | August 23, 2011 - 9:36 pm | Published
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I write a lot most of the time. Then there are the weeks where I write so much, if I didn’t know I was me, I’d accuse myself of being a small army of Bolivian Word Midgets. This is clearly one of them.

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Shiny happy gadgets…

  By Alex | June 16, 2011 - 2:14 pm | 30 Seconds Of Tech, Published
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Things that shine seem to prevail today.

Over at Geekspeak, a quick primer on the state of Google’s Chromebooks:

Google’s Chromebooks: Shiny, Or About As Useful As Tailfins? “Is there space for yet another operating system in the marketplace besides Windows, Mac OS X and the many flavours of Linux?”

And then at 30 Seconds Of Tech, a video covering a product that sounds like digestive biscuit and (if the video is any indication) is prone to attack from other, larger streaming devices:

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Mobile Offices & Comfortable Mice

  By Alex | June 9, 2011 - 4:27 pm | Published
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Over at Geekspeak, my weekly column has looked at the mobile office concept through the prism of the smartphone. By way of that brother of mine — the one I’m frequently mistaken for. I don’t know why — his hair looks totally different to mine.

Is the mobile office a reality right now? “The concept of carrying a single, small device to do all your on-the-go work is becoming more and more realistic…”

Meanwhile, at CNET.com.au, I’ve written up yet another Microsoft mouse:

Microsoft Comfort Mouse 3000: “The Comfort Mouse is a basic mouse option at a basic price. Nothing fancy, but nothing terrible, either.”