I’ve been on vacation for the last week doing some snowboarding in Colorado, but it wasn’t all play. I’ve been doing an accessory review for you, our good readers. For the last week, I’ve been testing the Marmot iTouch Multi gloves for use with capacitive touchscreens. What Are They? The iTouch Multi gloves from Marmot are gloves that have a special tip on the index-finger and thumb that allow one to use capacitive touch devices that normally only work with bare fingers. I bought mine at a local ski/snowboard shop […]

If you’ve been wondering why it’s been a but quiet around UMPCPortal for the last week, you might not have noticed that I’ve been working over at the MIDMoves project. Myself and three others have been playing with MIDs and have left a good trail of articles and media. Check them out if you haven’t already done so and keep watching as there are other events underway and planned for next week. One of the highlights for me was having the newly announced OQO Model 2+ in my hands for […]

Video highlights from the frist day of my Mid Moves tour – “fire” and “bicycle” are the words of the day as I test the Compal on a bike ride around Scotland’s capital.

Right then, what is the Compal like as a blogging tool? It’s okay. There’s nothing fundamentally wrong with the device, and people used to the web admin tools for their blogging client will be perfectly at home.

Spotted as I cycled up to Calton Hill in Edinburgh… an abandoned shoe. If only the owner had a MID with them, they could have told the tragic story of this water stained brogue missing its partner

Day one of my Mid Moves tour takes on the element ‘Fire’ and the transport as ‘Bicycle,’ as I travel jup to Carlton Hill in Edinburgh to explore the history of the area with the Compal.

For the first two days of my MID Moves tour, I’ll be using the Compal MID device. It arrived in a fantastically matt black box which reminded me of a nice bottle of Laphroig. Alas no whisky, but some of the latest technology from Intel… Mid Moves (Ewan) – Unboxing the Compal MID from Ewan Spence on Vimeo. The Compal is used as a base for many commercial MID units, has an 800mhz Intel Atom processor, with an 800×480 sized screen and weighs 340 grams.

How is it that we feel instantly connected with some devices and really not with others? Today I ‘upgraded’ from my Compal / Aigo device with Linux to something running Windows. Being a die hard windows person who can work her way around Linux (I don’t do cake but I baked myself some kernels …) but does not really want to,  I convinced Steve that is really is a great idea to swap devices. As in “I want that other one!”. It was nice getting to know you but the […]