Looking for something smaller than a netbook but will give you more time to check your mail, read an ebook or two and watch videos? Then it looks like Sharp might have the answers to your prayers with their upcoming PC-Z1 Mobile Internet Tool.

Image Credit: Sharp World
Features:

Quick launching of applications
Long battery time – but this could be affected by your usage. If you watch videos or listen to music a lot, this is going to be lessened.
Touch screen LCD and keyboard. Your input is not limited to the keyboard. I suppose that a …read more

In my case people just recommended various distributions for me to try out. In my case, whatever most of them used ended up as the one I’d use during the time I’d be searching. It made it easier for me because I could easily ask them about using it. My use of Ubuntu started out as a convenience more than anything. These days, I work in an office where the Linux machines are on Ubuntu so that also makes it easier for me when other users ask me about it too.
There are so many Linux distributions …read more

From the looks of it, that is. It sounds like a cool thing to me. If more people have access to OLPC for their children, the better. If governments do not want to make that investment in tools for learning, then it’s up to the people to decide what to do. It’s access that shouldn’t be taken away from people especially those with a desire to learn and improve themselves and their children.
While OLPC pilot projects are currently on in Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Maharashtra, the $188-laptops are also expected to start retailing in India by the end …read more

I also want something light and powerful enough to be my work machine. Unfortunately, I haven’t seen any yet. Well, anything affordable, that is.
To someone who travels by riding buses, trains and jeeps, going light is a big factor. There are days when I have to take a cab going to the office because I feel that my bag is too heavy or I am carrying too many bags – one for the laptop, the other for books, and other supplies I need.
The Asus EEE PC is something I’ve always liked because of the form factor. …read more

Here’s an awesome tip I got today:
On the old computer, run dpkg –get-selections >> packages.list. Get the new computer online and install dselect (yeah, it’s not part of dpkg anymore). Copy the packages.list to your new computer. Then run sudo dpkg –set-selections < < packages.list. Finally, run sudo dselect and choose Install. (Oh the fun of migrating data)
Thanks, Ubuntu Linux tips and tricks! I often forget what other software I install apart from the defaults and my usual ones, this is especially true for the apps that I installed for the heck of it or for other people. I’ve …read more

I saw a blog entry on Slashgear about the Alpha 400. At the moment, I am still looking around to find out what Linux distribution is running on it. Unfortunately, there seems to be a lack of information from the manufacturer’s official site.
At 250 USD, you might get tempted to buy this ultramobile laptop. Why? Because it’s small and light. And it’s got Linux on it. But there are drawbacks: No webcam, no built-in wifi. Those two things are worth buying in the Asus EEE. Well if you want more space there’s …read more

For lack of space, people compress files before copying them or sending them via email. If you guys didn’t talk about the archiving, you might have some headaches especially if you haven’t used Linux before. There are tools like XArchiver and when you’re using Gnome, there’s FileRoller and in KDE you have Ark. These are all graphical ways for you to use the tools like the tar compression and zip compression applications. I haven’t seen a distro without one of these three yet.
For users of Gnome and Kde, you could simply click the file you want …read more

After reading the articles on Computerworld and the Inquirer, I felt disappointed. Why? Because it seems that the OLPC team is backing off from their original plans. They are now thinking about using Windows XP instead of Linux on the OLPC. Uh… Hey, that’s so weird, dude!
*sigh*
Reasons mentioned:

Compatibility with Flash sites
Compatibility with other software

And speculations seem to imply that the move by Intel to sell the Classmate PC for a low price was one of the triggers. Why? Because consumers would buy that. And it seems like this shift to Windows XP would help …read more

Laptop prices have dropped considerably lower over the last two years and it’s even getting lower with the Asus EEE. Dell apparently wants to introduce laptops which will have a competitive price against the Asus EEE. They have Red Flag Linux running on one of their low-end machines.
This sounds great to me! No lock-up with Windows. You could either go with the default Linux installed or you could install a distro you are more comfortable with.
News from PCWorld.

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If you’ve been wondering if there’s a lite version of Inkscape, there’s a possibility that there might be one in the future. Bryce Harrington blogged about keeping the toolbars simple and changing some settings. He also noticed that the dialog boxes appear bigger so it will probably look smaller when they implement it in Inklite.
A snippet from his blog entry on Inklite:

The main challenge was the aux toolbar – I think we’ll need JonCruz’s toolbar rework (which missed 0.46 but …read more