Review Composed of standard looking battery-powered pen and rechargeable receiver module, the IRISNotes Executive aims to relieve some of the tedium of transcribing handwritten notes by converting your scribblings into useable text and drawings.
Pen pal: IRISnotes Executive 1.0
Designed to work independently of your PC or Mac, you attach the receiver unit to the top of your page – either centred or in a dog-ear position at either corner – hit the button on the unit to tell it you’re starting a new page, and then begin your epic novel. Read the rest of this entry »
How big is big enough? It’s a question many of us have asked, as we cruise the aisles of Currys or John Lewis, looking for a new TV. It’s all too easy to be seduced by a special offer, or by extra features like net connectivity, and end up with a TV that’s larger than you anticipated.
And while you might make space for a jumbo set in the living room, is it actually worth it? Even if you’re watching a 1080p movie on Blu-ray Disc, rather than the over-compressed mush broadcast by some Freeview channels these days, can your eyes actually make sense of what you’re seeing, or are those extra pixels just wasted?
Are you sitting comfortably? And close enough?
Reg Hardware asked me to discover whether or not size really matters when it comes to your HD TV.
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Android App of the Week My Tracks is a GPS tracker app and a must-have for any Android user who wants to record where they have been, how fast they got there and just about any other details of their trips, walks, bike rides and assorted wanderings.
Track your trip – with waypoints (left) and then upload to Google etc (right)
Recorded data can be exported as either GPX, KML, TCX or CSV files but most of us will just use the Send to Google function that automatically uploads journey details to your Google account where it appears in the My Maps folder. Read the rest of this entry »
Android App of the Week Google’s cloudy calendar was the main reason I adopted Android as my mobile OS of choice so it’s with no apologies that I’m selecting Touch Calendar as the one third-party app that Google really should license and install as part of the system. It’s that good.
Pinch to zoom between views
The genius behind Touch Calendar is the way it lets you see all your Google calendar data with perfect clarity even on a 3in or 4in screen. It partners up equally perfectly with Android’s pinch-to-zoom capabilities. Read the rest of this entry »
Review It took Amazon’s Kindle 2 a good while to escape from Uncle Sam’s backyard but less than three months more for the international version of the Kindle DX to arrive. Before we even laid hands on the DX we knew it was both bigger and more expensive, but is it any better?
The most obvious difference between the DX and Amazon’s lesser Kindles is the larger screen. Like the standard Kindle, the DX uses an E Ink display, but it’s a 9.7in unit with a resolution of 1200 x 824 rather than the basic Kindle’s 6in, 600 x 800 panel.
Amazon’s Kindle DX: the size e-book readers should be?
Though larger, the DX’s screen actually has a lower pixels per inch figure – 150 vs 167 – but the difference is indiscernible to the eye. In every way, the DX’s larger screen makes for a much better reading experience than that provided by any other e-book reader we have tested.
Because the DX has followed so hard on the heels of the Kindle 2, Register Hardware found itself with both devices in its clammy grip at the same time, allowing for a direct comparison. While the screens look the same in terms of contrast and shade, there’s no doubt that the DX changes pages with a far less obvious grey-to-black-and-back-again flash. Read the rest of this entry »
