This Week at Mobile Tech Manor #55: e-Books and OSes

By James Kendrick | Friday, September 4, 2009 | 7:40 AM CT | 5 comments |

Mobile Tech Manor Large 2It is the end of the week and that means it is time to share my past week with you. It was a week of updates and software experimentation at Mobile Tech Manor, and I did some thinking about an upcoming trip. There were e-books galore as usual, and I believe we’ll see an e-book reader that will set the sector on its ear. Come on in and share the week with me.

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This Week at Mobile Tech Manor #54: Bricking a UMPC

By James Kendrick | Friday, August 28, 2009 | 6:11 AM CT | 14 comments |

Mobile Tech Manor Large 2It’s Friday and that can only mean it’s time to share my week with you. This week at Mobile Tech Manor a fun OS update turned a UMPC into a brick. I read a lot of e-books which was appropriate given the many e-book readers that were announced this week. I spent a lot of time carrying mobile devices around with me to work remotely. Come on in and share my week at Mobile Tech Manor.

I spent a good portion of this week with my sleeves rolled up, up to my elbows in one gadget or another. I started by installing Windows 7 on two UMPCs, at least that was my intention. The first upgrade was the Viliv S5 UMPC, which was harder than it should be.

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This Week at Mobile Tech Manor #53: Windows 7, Netbooks and Dead Batteries

By James Kendrick | Friday, August 21, 2009 | 6:15 AM CT | 4 comments |

Mobile Tech Manor Large 2The end of the week is rushing straight at us, which can only mean one thing — time to share that week with you, dear readers. It’s column #53, and since this is a weekly column that means it has entered its second year! That is so exciting I can’t tell you! It was a fittingly busy week, with Kevin out for a much-deserved vacation, so I was holding down the fort alone. It was like it was when I first started jkOnTheRun, except with a lot better gear surrounding me. Come on in and let me tell you what has been happening at Mobile Tech Manor this week.

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This Week at Mobile Tech Manor #52: A Great Headset, Gone

By James Kendrick | Friday, August 14, 2009 | 6:11 AM CT | 12 comments |

Mobile Tech Manor Large 2It’s that happy time of the week again, kids, where I share the happenings at Mobile Tech Manor (MTM) of the past week. It was a time of adjustment, as I settled back into a “normal” routine after my daughter and her family departed for their home up north. I tried to clean up MTM to remove some of the clutter, with little gain. I looked high and low for some great headphones to no avail. I came to realize my least favorite day, with good reason. I bought the best game for the iPhone, so far. Come on in and let’s shoot the breeze.

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This Week at Mobile Tech Manor #51: Visitors and Mobile Gear

By James Kendrick | Friday, August 7, 2009 | 9:27 AM CT | 3 comments |

Mobile Tech Manor Large 2It is the end of a week that has flown by, due mainly to having a house full of visitors. My daughter and her family came in to visit and a great time was had by all. The visit meant running all over town and seeing a lot of things I normally don’t see. It also gave me a chance to work strictly while mobile, with a common sight being me with a laptop working in a chair whenever time permitted. I didn’t spend a lot of time in Mobile Tech Manor, but then MTM is as much a mobile concept as a real place. Come on in and I’ll share my week with you. We’ll take a look at all the mobile gear that got used all over the place.

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This Week at Mobile Tech Manor #50: Updates and Tasking

By James Kendrick | Friday, July 31, 2009 | 6:02 AM CT | 4 comments |

Mobile Tech Manor Large 2It’s Friday, and that means it’s time to share the busy happenings at Mobile Tech Manor, my home office. It’s called MTM because there isn’t a form of mobile technology that hasn’t crossed over the threshold. This is column number 50, a huge milestone as it has almost been a year of sharing my work with you. This week has been a busy one as I have been getting back to a normal routine after my recent trip to the west coast. I have also been getting ready for a happy event; my oldest daughter and her family arrived last night for a visit. I am so excited to see her, her hubby and my two grandkids! Come on in and I’ll share my week with you.

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This Week at Mobile Tech Manor #49: On the Road Again

By James Kendrick | Friday, July 24, 2009 | 8:02 AM CT | 3 comments |

Mobile Tech Manor Large 2This week Mobile Tech Manor (MTM) grew wheels as the week was mostly spent on a road trip to Carmel, California. Trips like these are when it pays to be a mobile geek, as MTM can be anywhere in the world and still find me productive as usual. There are certainly worse places to go on a working trip than lovely Carmel. This week I got back to Vista and went Mac-less for the trip, with varying results. I got to hang out with a group of the brightest people in the tech world, and that made my time fly by far too quickly. Come on into MTM and I’ll share my week with you.

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This Week at Mobile Tech Manor #48: Are Netbooks Too Anemic?

By James Kendrick | Friday, July 17, 2009 | 6:22 AM CT | 10 comments |

Mobile Tech Manor Large 2Every week I share the happenings at Mobile Tech Manor, my home office. The focus at the Manor is mobile tech, as the name indicates, and there is never a shortage of gadgets moving through the doors. This column is where I share my week with you, and there is no telling what you’ll hear about. I cover things I did the past week, things that are upcoming — a lot of different things. Every week is different at the Manor so come on in and I’ll let you know how this one was spent.

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This Week at Mobile Tech Manor #47: Unplugging is a Good Thing

By James Kendrick | Friday, July 10, 2009 | 7:58 AM CT | 8 comments |

Mobile Tech Manor Large 2The week is almost over, and it’s the time to look back on how the week went down and share it with you. The big holiday weekend in the U.S. started the week off on a good note. It was good to spend time with friends and family, and it drove home to me how important it is to unplug from the grid once in a while. The work week following the holiday made for a busy time, with less downtime, which countered the holiday goodness. I spent some time thinking about cheap netbook alternatives and found quite a few of them. Come on in and share my week with me.

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This Week at Mobile Tech Manor #46: Collecting My Thoughts With Evernote

By James Kendrick | Friday, July 3, 2009 | 10:05 AM CT | 3 comments |

Mobile Tech Manor Large 2We are preparing to head into a big holiday weekend here in the U. S. and before I do that it’s time to share my past week at Mobile Tech Manor with you. I kept my nose to the computer screen pretty much all week and revisited a program that makes keeping all those bits of wisdom I run across right where I need them. Come on in and share my week for a bit.

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