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The USBCell seems to be available for ordering now in the US.  For those of you who haven't seen this yet, it's basically a rechargeable AA battery, except it has a built in USB plug so that it can recharge via the USB ports on a computer. Capacity is only 1300 mAh, which is a little over half some of the highest capacity ...

VPN's, or Virtual Private Networks, are a bit of a tricky beast.  VPN's allow remote clients or sites to join with your internal network as if they are right there in the building.  Hence the ''Virtual'' part of the term.  You can get complete connectivity and access to all the internal server resources you would normally have ...

Eric Mack (well known for Getting Things Done and Tablet PC's) is asking about using external monitors with a Tablet PC. Here's my advice...if sticking to the traditional approach of hooking up an external monitor to the tablet is favored, then just go with a 1900x1200 LCD.  You can't go higher without the dual link DVI interface. If Eric ...

I bought a Toshiba M200 about two months ago.  The special thing about the M200 is that, unlike most notebooks, it is a convertible Tablet PC. What prompted me to do this?  Two things.  One, my main laptop broke, so I needed a replacement and it got me thinking about where I needed to upgrade.  Two, I needed to sketch and ...

After many entries into the Win a DocuPen RC800 contest, Rob Bushway has finally picked the winner of the contest.  Go ahead and read the winning entry. I have to say that I'm a bit puzzled by his choice.  Keep in mind the form factor of the DocuPen RC800.  You have to run your hand carefully down the document for each page, and ...

Not exactly a banner day for the Internet, but not a bad day over here at rkuo.com.  The 60GB Hitachi Travelstar now in my Tablet PC is, in fact, close to as quiet as the old 40GB Travelstar and way more quiet than the Toshiba 80GB drive that I briefly tried in my last post. As a completely unexpected bonus, battery life appears to have ...

Since I'm not using the Inspiron 9100 much any more and eventually plan on selling it, I decided to swap one of the hard drives from the Inspiron into the Toshiba M200.  The drive in the M200 is only 40GB at the moment, and when completely stripped to the essentials, I'm getting by with about 10GB free space on that drive.  I have a 60GB ...

The following is my humble entry to Rob Bushway's ''Win your own DocuPen RC800'' contest. I think the problem with most of the comments I've read so far is that they all focus on why scanning is good.  A lot of what has been mentioned already can be done with existing scanners.  This is the Docupen RC800 from Planon, folks! It is ...