Noticing that my Dell laptop was becoming misshapen, I remembered what happened recently to an old cell phone. This was the same. I extracted the useless swollen battery and saved my laptop. Now it works just as well, as long as it is plugged in.
A number of times I’ve tried out new apps for my Firefox OS phone and they haven’t worked. The latest was an ftp program – the only one in the app store. I got it to work once, and then not. Really, I’ve no patience for applications that are more trouble than they are worth, …
Funny how these are so crazy popular here and in Europe, whereas on my recent trip to Washington and Virginia, I didn’t see even one. Also, on my last check, the new generation of electric bicycles hadn’t yet reached India – apparently not even in Auroville, which once led the way with electric vehicles. Despite …
Computerworld has an article about the success of Chromebooks this year: “Chromebooks’ success punches Microsoft in the gut” and Dave Winer has written his response in a blog post Microsoft and netbooks, in which he rues Microsoft’s failure to capitalize properly on Netbooks. As a result of its missteps, i.e., not understanding the need for …
My first experience with a cellphone was while staying in a Bedouin tent in the Judean desert. It was at a time when Maaleh Adomim, a large Jewish settlement, was encroaching on Bedouin who had lived in the area since they were ethnically cleansed 40 years ago from the Negev desert. In order to protect …