I’ve Been Around The Block Now, I’m no stranger to ebooks. Long before the release of the first generation Amazon Kindle, I read Dracula on a Handspring Visor. Once I moved into the world of smart-phones with the Palm Treo, I read many great books with the excellent offline reader Plucker. In fact, I’ve been [...]
5 Editorials You Missed in 2011
Hello 2012! If you were looking for 2011′s Best of, click here. We’ve already done a recap of our most trending pages of 2011, but there were some great pieces that got lost in the mix. Here are the best editorials 2011 had to offer at The Powerbase. Number 5 Who’s On Google Plus And [...]
Ice Cream Sandwich for HP Touchpad
It will happen. This seems like a no-brainer for the staff at the Powerbase. Between the release of the Touchpad, and the Firesale 6 weeks later that killed it, developers started working a port of Android for the device. Honeycomb was an obvious choice for this machine, but since Google had not released the [...]
Jon Rubinstein and Palm: A Retrospect
Ruby and I [dropcap]L[/dropcap]ong before I became a user of Open Source software, I used a Mac. Specifically one running Mac OS 9.2.2. I didn’t have alot of money, so my 266Mhz Beige G3 was what got me by. It still had a little heat to it, and one of the most modern things it [...]