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Where In The World Is Alan Zaks?

People have been wondering where I’ve been. A legitimate question. As friends, clients, and editorial contacts know, I’ve been touring the world for the last year or so. Lately I’ve slowly been starting to rejoin the mobile society. Watch for the latest and greatest in reviews, …

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A cover/case/holder has to be one of the hardest things in the world to get right. Its so hard, in fact, that I’ve long ago given up on carrying my devices in cases. Aside from the obvious issue of having to obtain cases for devices that just hit …

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Sony Vaio TZ170 - R.I.P.

Well, its been a great ride. If I had to define the TZ in two words, they’d be “portable elegance”. Like no other laptop on the market, the TZ series screams class …

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Just over one year ago, at the ShowStoppers convention at CTIA, MobiMate demo’ed an unbelievably exciting travel concept to me, then called Worldmate i10. MobiMate is known for their popular travel tool Worldmate which won acclaim for being the first smartphone client to effectively leverage and provide real …

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firstcopmuter Michael Gartenberg, analyst extraordinaire at Jupiter Research, just wrote an article for ComputerWorld  about the necessity for Windows to introduce and market a slimmed down version …

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SP12

Unreal.

Not 8 hours ago I posted about my Vista SP1 woes, and how I finally had to uninstall an added language in order for WU (Windows Update) to push SP1 to …

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RSS, termed “Really Simple Syndication”, has experienced the kind of explosive growth that is usually found only with internet related tools. Today, most, if not all news sites/blogs offer a form of an RSS feed. You can easily identify RSS ready sites by the universal RSS icon-…

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Vista SP1

When I saw James Kendrick’s post on Vista SP1 hitting his HP Mini, I decided to be a little proactive about why SP1 wasn’t hitting my machine. I’d been wondering what in …

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Yawn According to Engadget (see post below) as well as a number of other online news sources, the iPhone now does screen caps. Wow. Who would’a thunk it? You mean we can instantly …

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apptodatecustomuielements

AppToDate from MoDaCo is a new initiative designed to make it easier to update Windows Mobile applications on the fly. Paul O’Brien, the brains behind MoDaCo and a Windows Mobile MVP himself, has …

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