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TinyScreenfuls Review: Dell Inspiron 700m

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on October 18, 2004

TinyScreenfuls Review: Dell Inspiron 700m

I recently obtained a new laptop from a company I do some consulting for, Wright-Way Moving & Storage (contact them for all your moving needs!). After using it for a couple of months, I have written up a review. Want to know more? Read on for all the juicy details. If there’s a question I didn’t cover, feel free to contact me.

Here’s the review.

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Awesome: “I Love Katamari” for iPhone. Bummer: It’s $8, and doesn’t seem to run very well, according to comments. Too bad. I love that game. #

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Dreary rainy day. Meetings downtown. Wish I had an umbrella. Hey, that was almost haiku! #
Picked up Guitar Hero World Tour last night. A few songs - Livin on a Prayer, Eye of the Tiger, Hotel California - were worth it alone. #
@rachebancroft was mostly on vocals, and me on guitar, but we switched around. Vocals are hard! #
And our crappy old 27″ CRT TV just doesn’t cut it. So low res and fuzzy you can’t read the lyrics. Time to find $$ to upgrade it. #
One downtown meeting done, waiting to meet up now with @chrislogan at Stumptown. @portlandrain and @portlandsun battling for supremacy. #
At the ward Christmas party. Tired from staying up late playing GHWT. Can’t stop yawning… #
@pregeeth I got the whole band kit, drums included, though I haven’t even tried them yet. They’re big and solid, though! in reply to pregeeth #
@Jerry_Makare You’re right. Warble IS a great word. And you just wait until I bring it all to work someday. in reply to Jerry_Makare #
@protherj Believe it or not, I’ve never played Rock Band. Seen it, read a ton about it. Know it well intellectually, but no hands on exp yet in reply to protherj #
Comparing the new “Simple” and enhanced iChat bubble styles in Tweetie 1.1. I still like the bubbles. And Nearby has an AWESOME animation. #
Some words i never thought I’d see together: Intel, sex, Wall Street Journal. (Safe For Work) http://bit.ly/30WK2d #
@sumwan Neuvasync looks interesting. If it can sync only “real” google contacts, excluding suggested ones, like they claim, I’d try it. in reply to sumwan #

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Google Chrome for Windows comes out of Beta: http://tinyurl.com/59yaou #
Intel Oregon Mac Users Group meetup and geek out with Josh and Aaron! Whee! - Photo: http://bkite.com/02Vc2 #
Neato. Firefox 3.1b2 has a “Restore Session” UI that lets you choose which tabs to restore. Handy. http://tinyurl.com/6nggzx #
RT @atebits: “Tweetie 1.1 has been approved!” (Not showing up in the App Store yet for me, but I’m excited. http://tinyurl.com/5vn4pn) #
CubeSpace party and Legion of Tech Board meeting/election. - http://bkite.com/02VAP #
@jmoriarty Glad you were able to remember the Cluetrain. Was about to make you read it ten times as pennance. in reply to jmoriarty #

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@pdxjdangel Rock Band 2 band kit isn’t out until 12/30 in reply to pdxjdangel #
My next tweet is going to be something kind of important to me, albeit corny and cheesy… #
Thank you all for listening to me x10000. You mean a lot more to me than you’d believe. You’re my friends, and I’m grateful for you all. #
Thanks to all for the kind 10K words. I AM just a sappy, orange-Croc-wearing goofus. But I love you guys! #
Got a new toy I’m playing with as we speak: a Flip Mino HD. REALLY impressive so far. I love that iMovie likes the videos. More to come… #
The Flip Mino HD is a winner so far. No special software needed, quality is great. Even their FlipShare software isn’t terrible. #
@rachelbancroft I bet you’ve changed more diapers than I have tweeted tweets. Not gonna challenge you there. Nuh uh! in reply to rachelbancroft #
@masonwest So far, the videos off of the Mino HD are a little over 1 MB per second. in reply to masonwest #
@verso Haven’t compared video quality to the Apitek yet. But on size/feel/build quality, the Flip blows the Apitek away. in reply to verso #
The backlight on the screen of our Aiptek Action HD went out, which is what prompted the acquisition of the Flip Mino HD. #
@brucesharpe Going to compare the sound on the Mino HD/Aiptek. So far, the mic seems strangely directional, biased to the person holding it. in reply to brucesharpe #
@brucesharpe FWIW, the audio from a Mino HD video shows as AAC, Mono, 44.100 KHz. Video is AVC, 1280×720. Surprised it’s not H.264. in reply to brucesharpe #
RT @projct: AVC is MPEG4 AVC, aka H.264 (thanks for correcting me, Michael! #
@WhiplashDesign I have not tried Twitterlator, but if I had to guess/bet, my money would be on Tweetie. in reply to WhiplashDesign #
@marusin That’s another think I like about the Mino HD - it sits flush and looks right at home plugged into my MBP USB port, too. in reply to marusin #
@jltitus Try adding a sort object to your Pipe. They don’t automatically get sorted chronologically. in reply to jltitus #
Waitaminute. IGN got their hands on Rock Band 2 for Wii (final), and they say that GH:WT instruments DO work!? http://tinyurl.com/5elmpo #
Happy that now I can a) get GH:WT now, and pick up RB2 disc only when it comes out, and b) be able to play both with the same instruments. #
@sumwan You’re right. EVERYONE needs a pink plastic fake guitar. in reply to sumwan #
@treowth I’ll get right on developing that app for you. Or were you asking if I knew of such an app? in reply to treowth #
@matt says that WordPress 2.7 is live. W00t! http://ma.tt in reply to matt #

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RT @jbernoff: Attention blogosphere: only 16% of consumers trust corporate blogs. New data released today. http://tinyurl.com/5qdlc2 #
@bikehugger Yeah, that graph was a little disheartening to the corp blogger in me. But the connected individual in me agrees 100%. in reply to bikehugger #
Uh oh. @billpearson and @jmoriarty caught my in my attempt to sabotage our early morning staff meeting’s calendar item in Outlook. Foiled! #
@verso The graph was “Do you trust these sources?” Only 16% (lowest on the graph) said they trust “company blogs”. Read @jbernoff’s analysis in reply to verso #
Regarding the “only 16% of people trust company blogs” thing, I say “Duh.” People trust people they know. So become “people they know”. #
Attention Kindle owners: Amazon has 9 free books you can download until Feb. 28. Go get them! http://tinyurl.com/62ttmn #
Sure, those free Kindle books are probably crap. But they’re FREE crap! What do you want, the moon and the stars? #
@michaelrykov Oh yes. I’m a big fan of the free/Creative Commons books at manybooks, feedbooks, Gutenberg, etc. in reply to michaelrykov #
@geekygirldawn Not sure what they’ve been up to lately, but OurMedia.org has always been the site I think of when I think of Drupal. in reply to geekygirldawn #
@kellyrfeller I get a 404 not found on your Intel SM policy link. Got a correct one? in reply to kellyrfeller #
RT @kellyrfeller Post on how Intel published its SM guidelines publically. What do you think? Did we get it right? http://tinyurl.com/5u4g9f #
@CarriBugbee Thanks for your comment. I’m not seeing it yet, but I’m sure it will be great. in reply to CarriBugbee #
@bryanrhoads I was after a link to the post @kellyrfeller was talking about, but I found it. Thanks! in reply to bryanrhoads #
I’m really happy to see a “Use System Proxy Settings” option in Firefox 3.1 b2 for Mac. Been so tired of wrangling separate proxy settings. #
Family Christmas dinner downtown. Grownups only! - Photo: http://bkite.com/02Tbk #
Dessert at Rose’s Deli on NW 23rd. - Photo: http://bkite.com/02Ti9 #
@StephStricklen You mentioned TwitterFon not working. If you’re on an iPhone, I can’t recommend Tweetie enough. Best Twitter app I’ve used. in reply to StephStricklen #
@StephStricklen Tweetie does everything TweetDeck does, but in a super slick, fast, iPhone-elegant way. Definitely worth the few bucks. in reply to StephStricklen #
@StephStricklen Looks like there’s a known crashing bug with TwitterFon that won’t get fixed til the next version. So it’s not just you. in reply to StephStricklen #
I can’t wait for the new stuff in Tweetie 1.1 that the author just blogged about: http://atebits.com #

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@chrisorourke They just released uTorrent for OS X, but it lacks feed capability. Transmission seems to be the favorite OS X torrent app. in reply to chrisorourke #
@glecko Done and done. Welcome to Twitter! in reply to glecko #
Google apps are having problems for me this morning. Mail, Reader, Calendar, all timing out and acting weird. Anyone else? #
@geoffk I’m seeing the Google problems from Intel’s network. Sometimes it’s our proxies, but this seems more widespread. in reply to geoffk #
My crystal ball predicts blog posts in the usual places about Google’s problems/outages by EOD. If that’s you, get writing! #
Wow. I just had a search result google.com URL fail. Timeout. What’s going on down there? #
RT @jmoriarty: Intel has published externally our Social Media guidelines for employees. Feel free to comment and/or use. http://is.gd/aHQb #
It took a long time and a lot of work to get Intel’s social media guidelines published externally. Hats off to all those who made it happen. #
Just snagged Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 (thanks @jkendrick). Adds “Private Browsing”, and Tracemonkey (FAST javascript) is on by default. Nice. #
@Jmartens Thanks for the kind words about Intel’s SM guidelines. We’ve been doing it forever, but nice to have have something to share. in reply to Jmartens #
My Google issues seem to have smoothed out for now. Mail, Reader, and Calendar working normally. Also, Firefox 3.1 beta 2 is FAST. Go get! #
Just trained @ashokraj to post on the Intel Software Network blog. Been reading his stuff for a while, looking forward to what he writes! #
Also showed @ashokraj TweetDeck, and Tweetie on the iPhone. He’s a geek after my own heart! #
@drthomasho Tweetie is fast, saves searches, fast, lets me RT/reply/DM easily, fast, multiple account support, fast, pretty, and, uh, fast. in reply to drthomasho #
@LeStew Get Audacity. Open the AIFF, then save as whatever else you want. WAV, MP3 (needs free liblame library, instructions on site). in reply to LeStew #
@LeStew Audacity invasive? It keeps to itself, I promise! You could also try VLC. Or GarageBand. in reply to LeStew #
Hey, I just broke 3000 followers. That’s just CRAZY! Lucky number 3000 was @brandone. Why the heck do 3000 of you listen to me? #
OK, early consensus is that you don’t care what I say, you just follow because of the orange Crocs. Good to know. Oh, and @camikaos #
Oh, crap. That annoying tweeting about how many followers I have made someone unfollow me. Sorry! I won’t talk about it any more! #
@StephStricklen Yay! Congratuations! Can’t wait to see if you “live tweet” the birth. in reply to StephStricklen #
I can’t make the Ignite Portland 5 Volunteer Kickoff at 6 @cubespace, but if you want to help with IP5, go! http://tinyurl.com/5vrwow #
Tuned into @stephstricklen on @TheSquare for the first time (believe it or not) just in time for an @ahockley shoutout and her baby news #
@stephstricklen @aweiss and @thesquare have done what I would have said was impossible: made me a big fan of a local TV news show. Good job! in reply to StephStricklen #
The way the KGW tweeple have become part of the PDX Twitter community, and made our community part of their show, is masterful. Huge kudos! #
Ah, yes. It is about time to break out #pdxtst (PDX Twitter! Storm! Team!). Will be extra fun if the TV news folks (KGW tweeps) join in! #
@wheresitworking Yes, we need a tweeting weatherman. Though Mark Nielsen’s weather blog for FOX12 is awesome. I’m a long time fan. in reply to wheresitworking #
If you want to track #pdxtst, don’t forget to subscribe to a search feed at search.twitter.com. Compare with mainstream media coverage! #

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@pdxjdangel It was the song selection in RB2 that pushed me over the edge (downloadable songs). Jonathan Coulton and MC Frontalot FTW! in reply to pdxjdangel #
@pdxjdangel GHWT seems pretty good but the catalog of songs (500+) for RB2 is stellar. More songs I love. And GH Wii guitar works with RB2. in reply to pdxjdangel #
So cool to see The Amazing Race finale send the contestants all over Portland. Food carts! Voodoo Doughnut! #
There’s a taxi spot just around the corner from Voodoo on 2nd. Too bad the Amazing Racers tried to flag one down on Burnside. #
@Jmartens That would make it more challenging, but it’s all about making a TV show. They’ve won like 5 Emmy’s in a row. in reply to Jmartens #
Imagine what an advantage you’d have on The Amazing Race with an iPhone: Google Maps, Street View, GPS, buying tickets, etc. Hmm… #
We should put together a community-grown DIY Amazing Race-type game. Make it challenging, geeky, and fun! Who’s in? #
@Jmartens I’m serious. We could do some pretty cool stuff… In our copious free time, of course. in reply to Jmartens #

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Middle of the night power loss FTL. #
Power’s back on. Thanks, PGE! #
Sorry I’m going to miss the meatspace portion of CyborgCamp today. But the cybernetic parts of me will be participating as possible. #
#cyborgcamp is already #3 on Twitter trends. With all the tweets I’m seeing, there’s no doubt about it. We’re all cyborgs. #
Found out that Guitar Hero World Tour Wii instruments will NOT work with Rock Band 2. That changes things. Now leaning towards Rock Band 2. #
I like the on-disc setlist for GH:WT better than RB2’s, but the MASSIVE number of downloadable songs for RB2 has more “I love that song!”s #
Any opinions/advice for someone who has GH3, GH:Aerosmith, and one Wii guitar (which apparently WILL work in RB2)? GH:WT or RB2 full kit? #
Dinner with the dam, then off to see the lights at Portland International Raceway. - Photo: http://bkite.com/02PCV #
@Tersteeg dam = iPhone typo I didn’t catch for “fam”. in reply to Tersteeg #
@chugg But if I get GH:WT, I’m locked out of any and all RB potential. Stupid Wii incompatible fake plastic musical instruments… *grumble* in reply to chugg #
Oh, man! Now that I’ve pretty much settled on Rock Band 2 Wii as the gift I want for my bday, I find out it doesn’t ship until 12/30. #

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Crazy morning. @rachelbancroft i sick, so I scrambled to get the kids up, ready, and Emma off to school. Our house depends on Rachel! #
@LeStew That’s a good idea! in reply to LeStew #
@jezlyn Flickup is my favorite iPhone photo uploader (made by @kodachrome22), but Klick is good, too. I blogged: http://tinyurl.com/5l3zfo in reply to jezlyn #
@JeanAnnVK Here’s how I set up my blog to archive a daily digest of my tweets as my “lifelog” in the sidebar: http://tinyurl.com/5l3zfo in reply to JeanAnnVK #
@JeanAnnVK Oops. Here’s the right URL: http://tinyurl.com/39amgv And I talked about it at WordCamp: http://tinyurl.com/4u685k in reply to JeanAnnVK #
@Jerry_Makare If I get her a scorpion, I’m telling her it was YOUR idea. in reply to Jerry_Makare #
RT @mfriesen: Holy crap. How did I not now Adam Savage was on Twitter? @donttrythis (via @TheSquare) in reply to TheSquare #
Rats. Pioneer Place Apple Store doesn’t have the new in-ear headphones yet. #
Got shoo’ed out of the Apple Store for asking if I could take a picture. Lesson?don’t ask, just take. #
When I said “just take”, I was talking about taking pictures. Not theft. I’ve taken pics in Apple Stores before, never been chastised. #
@Metroknow The weird thing is, I’ve taken pictures openly in that Apple store before, and no one said anything. But when I asked first… in reply to Metroknow #

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@marusin I assume the new Apple buds work with iPhone, but I’ve heard conflicting reports, too. Waiting on a review. Would be silly not to. in reply to marusin #
Hey, remember when the iPhone 3G launched, and AT&T said they’d sell unlocked ones for $499 “after a while”? What ever happened to that? #
@junesix No, I remember them specifically saying that unlocked iPhones would be available in the U.S. for $499, sometime “after” the launch. in reply to junesix #
Hmm. Amazon Remembers employs *two* HITs on MTurk. One to say “is this identifiable and like to be on Amazon” for $0.01, and another… #
And another HIT for $0.10 that says “find this on Amazon”. So they have a penny filter to keep crap/nonsense out of the “identify this” pool #
here’s where you can see both HIT pools that Amazon Remembers uses on MTurk: http://tinyurl.com/5msskg #
@brampitoyo I use “non-trivial” as the opposite of trivial. Seriously. in reply to brampitoyo #
Hmm. I’m likely going to break 3000 followers or 10000 tweets sometime this week. Wonder which will happen first? #
Was finally able to get my Twitter Tools daily digests working again on my blog by grabbing this update: http://tinyurl.com/6p4xsc #
@adamd I was going to submit a picture of myself to AR, just to see what they’d do. Maybe they have a sense of humor? in reply to adamd #
Oh awesome! I’ve finally found a video streaming site (like UStream, Kyte, etc.) that works behind the firewall. Yay Mogulus! Messing now… #
@Jerry_Makare If you ever wanted to do Take Five Live, this is how I’d approach it. Come over sometime, I’ll demo. in reply to Jerry_Makare #
RT: @rachelbancroft: “Mom, listen to my great rhyme. I know an old lady who swallowed a bell. WHAT THE HELL, she swallowed a bell.” #
@ahockley I’m ashamed, embarrassed, and I can’t stop laughing… in reply to ahockley #
Hey, can you help me for a second? Join me here: mogulus.com/thejoshbancroftshow #
Thanks everyone for helping me expriment with Mogulus! That was REALLY FUN! I’ll tweet/blog about the results, and you can expect more! #
@jmoriarty Hmm. It works (as a watcher) on the Intel network. At least we know that it doesn’t on VPN. Thanks for the data point. in reply to jmoriarty #
@petegrillo Don’t think I’m going to be able to make it to @cyborgcamp but I always have my toys with me. Will share next time we meet! in reply to petegrillo #
Ooh, Google Reader gets a makeover. I haven’t seen it on my account yet, but I like the screenshots: http://tinyurl.com/63a7l8 #
RT @IgnitePortland Want to influence the next Ignite? Come to the planning kickoff on Monday: http://is.gd/afWR #
@Jerry_Makare @psteinb I don’t have butterscotch, but I have some Werther’s Originals, which are better, IMHO. Come get some! in reply to Jerry_Makare #
@psteinb Ah, I missed your sweet thief tweet. in reply to psteinb #
@psteinb You’re not supposed to chew them. Just suck on them, calmly. That way, no teeth stuck together. in reply to psteinb #
@psteinb Actually, you’re welcome to any and all candy and snacks at my desk. And you get style points for tweeting a photo of the theft. in reply to psteinb #
RT @amybarton New video on ISN: Developer Viewpoint - FarCry 2 and Intel Core i7. http://tinyurl.com/takefive #
Ooh, I got the new Google Reader interface in my account. I like it. Much cleaner, and feels quite fast. Can’t wait to try on a netbook. #
@croncast Actually the old Google Reader layout, with the browser fullscreen and hit “u” to hide the sidebar, was quite good on netbooks. in reply to croncast #
Welcome @rogoway, tech reporter and Silicon FOREST blogger at the Oregonian, to Twitter. Glad to see you here, Mike! #
You know, with all these new Google Reader features, it would be nice if we could rename a freaking folder by now. #
Just trained about a dozen Intel folks in China on how to post to the ISN blog. That puts me at about 14 for today, and ~20 on the week. #
@lunarobverse They may have made the advanced “beta” iPhone GReader interface default now. I’ve been loving it for months. in reply to lunarobverse #
@pdxCJC How did you manage to rename a folder in Google Reader? in reply to pdxCJC #
According to iLounge, its only the new volume buttons on the new Apple in-ear buds that don’t work on iPhones. Clicker and mic should work. #
At least, I think that’s what iLounge said. Anyone have another source? #
Ah, excellent. Gizmodo says it IS only the volume that doesn’t work on the iPhone. Mic and clicker do work. I think I’m going to get them… #
Goodle Reader for iPhone got a little makeover today, too. Buttons are a lighter color, and it feels faster. #

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