This is probably a better review than I could offer for the new Livescribe smartpen. It has gotten to the point that when my peers see me using my smartpen, they either clam up or ask me to stop using it.
David Pogue: A High School Student Reviews a Smartpen, the Livescribe Echo
And as an aside, [...]
Undergrad John Rust provides some revealing insights about how he uses his iPad on a daily basis. Note his yearning for an iPad version of OmniOutliner.
Ever wonder where your hard drive space went? Find yourself needing to free up a few gigs to download that Snow Leopard update? While you can manually start checking individual folders and files, this can be a tedious and daunting task. Fear not, there is a better way.
GrandPerspective and Disk Inventory X are both programs [...]
Bare Bones Software’s Yojimbo ($39 / $29 for students) is an excellent tool for filing and finding all the little snippets of information that must be remembered but would clog up my hard drive if stored as separate documents. Passwords, quotes, computer configuration details, product serial numbers, the text from really important emails, blog post [...]
I’ve been obsessing about the iPad for at least two years. In a post called The Perfect Law School Laptop in February of 2008 I suggested that a perfect law school laptop would:
Cost less than $2,000
Have sufficient power to handle daily applications
Incorporate truly exceptional WiFi
Use a 10″ – 12″ screen (so as to not get [...]
