Why I did not choose a Samsung Tab 2

A couple of days ago I very nearly pressed the button to buy the above, but there were a few key things which stopped me:

Android's Bluetooth doesn't support Foreign character keyboards.

The screen resolution was not going to make reading ebooks easier for me.

I would have been unable to view iTunes video podcasts.

Two apps were a 'must' for me:
Momento, and Mindnode Touch, neither of which are available for Android. Otherwise, the majority of my most-used apps run on both platforms.

So, regretably I chose to increase Apple's disgusting margins once again.

I have a horrible feeling..

Yes, I do believe I am going to buy the new iPad later today. I have been checking out the apps I most use, and they don't take a lot of space, so I think the 16GB wifi model will satisfy my needs :)

More about Windows..

I was asked to help solve a wifi connection issue yesterday, and was very impressed with the Dell Latitude running Windows 7 Pro!

So, if Apple's next Macbook Pro 15" doesn't have ethernet or USB 3 ports I will seriously consider getting one of the above. For once it was nice to hear Andy on Macbreak Weekly ranting about the above possibility.

The trouble with Windows

My T91mt doesn't get used every day and every time I switch it on it takes an hour or so being updated!
Like today. All I wanted to do was install a very fast search app called Everything. That finished ages ago and still its only on 5 of 14 updates :(
Why do I keep it?

Easy Upgrade to Ubuntu 12.04

Really impressed by how smoothly this upgrade from 11.10 went.  I was expecting the worst, this being a Virtualbox installation, but it couldn't have been easier.  Things have changed a lot since my Gentoo days.

The only problem I had shows how far I have been left behind concerning Linux. Installing VLC was simple enough, but I couldn't for the life of me find where the app was started!

Eventually I found the Dash Home button, and discovered that Linux has become unbelievably simple to use.

Not sure what the Gentoo guys think about that..?

Even installation of Guest Additions was simple, and after a while I was able to play a CD.

Nothing more to do, other than sort out bookmarks in Chromium. Xmarks isn't behaving as I would like.

Sorting out local and cloud email links

Quite a while back I decided to forward all mail from my main 'gfraser@online.no' account to Gmail, where it was checked for spam and returned to the online.no account.

Yesterday I split the online.no and Gmail accounts on both mobiles.. one client for each service.

Today I went a step further, cutting the link From online.no to Gmail, but retaining the link from Gmail To online.no.. not sure what affect that will have on spam levels, which were terrible a few years back. We'll have to see ;)

What it means is that my Norwegian account is once again 'private'.

Had a hell of a job stopping the Samsung email client's notification squawk every time mail arrived. Eventually I found it was a matter of right clicking the account name and there lay yet another group of settings.. so peace has been returned :)

Decisions, decisions.. and Google Drive

Came across an article linked on Google+ about Cloud storage, and how perhaps one should be rather more concerned that the T's & C's one accepts for most of these services refer to US jurisdiction, should one have something stored there which the US finds objectionable. Now the author of the article definitely did not like that thought, and I must admit to that being my worst nightmare, not that i have any actual reason to worry.

It made me think. Then I thought some more, slept on it, and wonder how on earth I got sucked into these services in the first place..?

Dropbox was the one which gave me a clear benefit when running Apple, Windows, Linux, and Mobile devices. It still does, but I don't use Windows very often, Ubuntu runs on my iMac, and I have lots of space on my two iMacs, besides half a dozen WD drives rotating regularly.

So, I'm going to change a few things round here, starting with separation of my Gmail and Online.no accounts., running Online.no on the GS2 and iPhone clients, and Gmail on its own clients.

What I do with Box, Google Drive, Evernote and Dropbox I'll leave for a bit more thought..