Phantom tablets got you down? Time for Laptop Fu!

THURSDAY December 3rd, 2009 @ 10PM PST (1AM EST)

Nathan Clevenger, Enterprise Editor, Smartphone magazine

Have a Laptop FuSummer!

On break, getting ready for summer and completing a few last spring projects. Make sure your computing in the sun is with plenty of water (at least 1 foot/meter from your laptop of course!). See you in a few week. 

Laptop Fu 20: MEDC 2007

Laptop Fu was in Vegas! Hal Goldstein (www.pocketpcmag.com, www.thaddeus.com) graciously donated a badge to MEDC!

Topics:

MEDC 2007
Schwag
Interview w/MVPs James McCutcheon (j2technology)
& Dwane Lamb (Visual Byte Inc., vbdogs.com, mobidogs.com)

Laptop Fu 19: Mark Yoshimoto Nemcoff, Director of Content Development, PodShow L.A

Interview w/Mark Yoshimoto Nemcoff from PCH, DSC & PodShow on his thoughts on the industry, past, present and future.

Laptop Fu 18: Laptop Fu - Hailstorm 2007

Rankings
News
Free Services/Hailstorm Revisted
Microsoft Dead?
Laptop Isolation

Laptop Fu 17: Hal Goldstein, Exec Editor/Publisher, Smartphone & Pocket PC magazine & site

A Laptop Fu extra: interview w/Hal Goldstein from PocketPCmag.com on his thoughts on the industry, past, present and future as well as take your calls and comments.

NEXT: Laptop Fu 20: Idiocracy Computing Finale
Thursday 5/4/07 @ 12PM PST, 12AM EST

Conclusion of 3 part series - Audience participation is encouraged.

NEXT: Laptop Fu 21: Grab Bag - Dial In with your Questions, Answers, Theories, Discoveries!
Thursday 5/11/07 @ 9PM PST, 12AM EST

Hot Laptops (Both in popularity and temperature)
GPS
AMD/Intel
Using a Laptop as the "Main" Computer
More form factors
Your calls, comments, questions, suggestions, critiques, etc. 

Laptop Fu 16: Office Space Edition

RIP Kurt Vonnegut
Today's Current Notebook/Laptop News
Office Space as desktop culture
Laptop as freedom vs. increased work (i.e. bring your work home w/you)
The Stapler More...
Your calls, comments, welcome! 

Laptop Fu 15: Idiocracy Computing Part II

Laptop Fu 14: Idiocracy Computing

Special Guest: Dad
Laptop Fu discussion
Hot Laptops (Both in popularity and temperature)
Phone as Laptop replacement
Laptop usage
Your calls, comments, questions, suggestions, critiques, etc.

Laptop Fu 13: Microsoft Live Search Mobile Special - Laptop Fu: TalkShoe format w/Steve Garrity, Product Manager, Microsoft Live Search Mobile

Laptop Fu discussion
Live Search Mobile
GPS and Location Sensing
Driving while computing
Tellme, Voice
What's Next?

Kivathon:First 24 hour LIVE Talkathon for Kiva: Sunday 3/18/07 @ 6am EST Host Alex Reich from Laptop Fu

March 18th starting at noon EDT, tell the world about KIVA.ORG and microlending! Kiva lets you connect with and loan money to unique small businesses in the developing world. By choosing a business on Kiva.org, you can "sponsor a business" and help the world's working poor make great strides towards economic independence. Join Us on Sunday/Monday.

Laptop Fu Friday Night 3/16/07

What is the latest in the laptop world?
Hybrid hard drives
A few announcements about upcoming episodes
The LIVE launch of a website.
Answering your laptop mysteries, rebooting as needed.

Laptop Fu8: Form Factors Galore

New shapes of laptops
Replacing HDs
Touchpad, Stick or External?
Driving w/internet access
Bluetooth me

Laptop Fu: The end of mobility has been greatly exaggerated

What is mobility?
Controversy:Wikipedia, Encarta & Beyond - Who is an authority?
Windows Vista Ultimate = Windows XP Plus packs but better

To Dock or Not to Dock?
Operating Systems Wars = What to run?
Stickers or not to sticker?

Have I mentioned the email for comments?

comments@laptopfu.com

Laptop Fu: "True" Vista laptops, Macbooks are good too

Deadlines pushed aside, we are back! The latest episode is up and new topics are coming in.

Welcome To 2007

There is a (formerly cobwebbed) blog over at Microsoft's spaces MSN/now live.com:I have been sweating through some deadlines... er, uh, waiting for serious IT news to happen. Here is a list of topics for the upcoming TalkCast. Email!

New laptops

Why the iphone sells Tablet PCs

Apple's iPhone v. Microsoft's Windows Vista

Wm5: Steve Jobs kills the smartphone = WM6: standard, classic, professional

Clamshell designs

Watching movies on your laptop (joost, gootube, pc/xbox360, ...)

Linkback to blog

There is a (formerly cobwebbed) blog over at Microsoft's spaces MSN/now live.com:
http://areich.spaces.live.com/

Starting to come out of the IT cave, down the mountain, to re-engage in misanthropic ramblings about IT, programming and life in Southern California and LA in particular (for a former OH, IL, NJ, NC-ian). Join here or there for living out pre-Gibsonian life while we all wait for a neural jack. In the meantime, even the old 'analog' keyboard will do the trick.

comments@laptopfu.com

Episode 4: LaptopFu: TalkShoe format w/Stephen Toub, MSDN Magazine

Laptop Fu discussion
Vista on laptops (mobility center)
.NET v3.0
Languages: C#, VB, IronPython, F#
Preview Handlers
MSDN Magazine
Reflection

Stephen Toub was be the guest. Steve is Technical Editor for MSDN Magazine and works @ Microsoft HQ. Thanks again, Steve!

His blog is http://blogs.msdn.com/toub/.

Episode 3: Paul Bunyan Lap

Remembering James Kim
Buy new online, in-person at a Big Box Store or get a used machine?
OLPC - hype or harbinger?
Get one now or wait for that next chip?
Windows, Mac or Linux (or all 3)?

Recorded at the "center" of the universe in Venice, CA.

I have to admit the TalkShoe concept is great, but they clearly are having issues. Last week, I had tried to restart an episode and now their system has gone into maintenance mode. I love the idea; is it jsp? ;P

Episode Reset: The 10 of you that downloaded last week's experiments in casting, I salute you and thanks. I'm going to try TalkShoe a few more times in hope that it comes out right. BTW: Drop me email at comments@laptopfu.com for comments, suggestions and wisecracks. As always, an ounce of civility required for a response.

Episode 2: Master Blaster

This was great fun to do at the recent DevConnections conference in Las Vegas. I especially want to thank Dan Appleman from Desaware, C.A. Callahan from Callahantech and Charles Firth for sitting down with me. This cast owes a special thanks to Erik Ruthruff from DevConnections as it took place in the same space as the Microsoft Press room - where 24 hours earlier it was used to report that Office 12 had shipped.

Episode 1: Quite the Laptop

This is the first, experimental laptop fu cast. I am still experimenting with the format. Should it be a 1-1 conversation about an individual's experience with a laptop? Panel discussion. Let me know your thoughts.