I replaced one of my 512MB modules with a 1GB module in October. Time to get the old one off my desk.

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Because I didn’t realize there was something really cool about this! I finally just happened upon it accidentally. One one of the times I rebooted, I noticed the pretty little icons for cds, thumb drives and more below the toshiba logo at startup. Pressing the left and right arrow keys highlighted the icons and voila I was able to boot from my selected device – CD.

Yah , I know – RTFM. I don’t happen to have it. But now that I knew what I was looking for, I was easily able to find it online.

From the manual,

“You can also manually choose the boot-up sequence by sliding the power switch, then quickly pressing the right or left arrow keys.”

Very cool feature!

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I didn’t realize it was done yet as I hadn’t gotten the print copy. (Update: it arrived within a few  hours of posting this!!)

But the jam packed special issue of CoDe Mag, filled solely with Tablet and Mobile PC Articles, is online here!

There are articles by Markus Egger, Billy Hollis, Larry O’Brien, Dr. Neil, Ellen Whitney and myself. Also, there’s a forward by Frank Gozinski, from the Mobile Platforms Division of Microsoft. Additionally, there are quotes throughout from some of the key players at Microsoft in research and design of TabletPCs as well as the developer platform.

Here is the description from Frank’s blog:

Code Magazine has put together a complete end to end developer reference for building applications tuned for the Tablet PC and Mobile PC applications. Are you mobilizing your applications? With the continued move by customers who want anywhere access to their data and applications mobilizing software applications is taking on a new sense of urgency.  This Focus Issue of Code Magazine is a reference you’ll want to have and it’s free, check out the work Markus and company have done http://www.code-magazine.com/focus/TabletPC/ 

Happy reading (I really like the welcome letter)

and he means it. Try not to laugh too hard when you read about his sad predicament.

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nothing like a little Vermont snow to welcome him with…

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I have a 512MB memory chip for a Toshiba Portege M200.

They are on sale right now at Crucial for $50 so if anyone wants to buy mine, I’ll sell it for a little less than Crucial. I bought this a little less than a year ago and the M200 is not my daily use machine. You know, only driven by a little old lady on Sundays. 🙂

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Here’s a new Channel 9 video with all my buds on the Tablet Team.

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I murdered my TabletPC functionality on my Vista laptop when I hacked the glass onto it. So I can’t play with all of the awesome new TabletPC features. Very disappointing and I am looking forward to a remedy. In the meantime, I can oggle the 123 screenshots that Peter Rysavy did showing off the Tablet tools on Vista over here. Thanks to Lora for the link..

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The improvements to usability for ink in the Vista UI are wonderful. I wrote about them here. However, as many tablet geeks know, the Toshiba M4 drivers don’t support glass too well. I did hack glass onto my machine but it totally wrecked most of my tabletpc functionality.

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CoDe Magazine will soon be putting out a special focus issue on Tablet PC and Mobile PC Development. There will be articles on a wide range of Tablet PC and Mobile topics by Billy Hollis, Dr. Neil Roodyn, Carl Franklin, Markus Egger, Larry O’Brien, myself and others.  

This is one of their “CoDe Focus” issues and you can get one for free by signing up here.

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