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COMPUTING UNPLUGGED MAGAZINE - MARCH 2005 |
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Cut the wires on your handheld stream
Wouldn't it be great to be able to monitor live Internet video from different locations using your palm device? Author Richard Siderits can and does. In this Power Tip, he brings it all together for you, showing you how you too can wirelessly stream video to your handheld over a network.
Critical ad-hoc networking features
Mobile ad-hoc networks are highly dynamic. In essence, the critical features of mobile ad-hoc networks can broadly be classified as Quantitative and Qualitative feature types. In this article, Contributing Editor Humayun Bakht presents a brief overview of some of the critical features of mobile ad-hoc networks.
The Planon DocuPen, not your plain old pen
Document portability is one of the foundations of mobile computing, but who wants to carry around five pounds of paper in addition to a laptop? That's where the DocuPen R700 from Planon comes in. The DocuPen is a portable handheld scanner specifically designed to scan a full-width sheet of paper, yet remain portable enough to fit in your pocket. Read on to see what Senior Editor James Booth thinks of this pocket-sized page scanner.
WE GOT GAME!
GameBox Solitaire, twice the Solitaire, twenty times the game
With solitaire being one of the most popular game genres for the Palm OS. Hundreds of choices exist, some utterly amazing, some utterly pathetic. In this edition of We Got Game, author David Silver covers PDAMill's GameBox Solitaire and GameBox Solitaire II. Read on to find out where they rank on the scale.
WE GOT GAME!
Retro gaming redux: to boldly go...
In a previous We Got Game column, Senior Editor James Booth profiled a couple of older games that at one time were leading edge, but are now considered outdated. He feels these older games are perfect for taking your gaming on the road with your laptop. Now he's back with a retro gaming redux, covering a couple of games that didn't make the previous article due to length.
KEEPING SCORE ON MOBILE SOLUTIONS
Mobile media goes corporate
Dale and Dawna have taken a bit of break on the standard Keeping Score fair in this month's column. With wireless data transfer rates finally becoming reasonable, Video On Demand technology, and more effective compression algorithms, mobile devices are transforming into fully equipped media centers. Given that it's award season in Hollywood, this month has mobile media on the playbill.
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