MadaboutDana
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Of course you could opt for something equally exciting: the Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 14 (available from PC World for just £400: http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/laptops-netbooks/laptops/laptops/lenovo-id...
All references to stores from Google UK's own Chromebook page:
http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en_uk/chrome/devices/chromebooks.html#hp-cb-14
Oh, and direct from HP as well, also at £280 (but that includes 3G+ support):
http://h20386.www2.hp.com/UKStore/Merch/Product.aspx?id=F1W28EA&opt=ABU&sel=PCNB
Oh, and from Tesco (£280), as in "every little helps (us to get richer)":
http://www.tesco.com/direct/hp-chromebook-14-q000sa-14-intel-celeron-4gb-16gb/315-8303.prd?icid=spiffy_chromebook_315-83...
Also, rather more expensively (£299) at Very:
http://www.very.co.uk/e/q/hp-chromebook-14.end?_requestid=195018
Bah, they're all as bad as each other. And you can find it in the UK at... PC World (tara!):
http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/laptops-netbooks/laptops/chromebooks/hp-14-q005sa-wifi-chromebook-turquoise-...
I am increasingly despondent about Android - which I like, actually - because of the number of apps demanding access to system-level functions like creating new accounts, phoning out to whoever, monit...
Happy New Year fellow CRIMPers!
1/7/2014
Thanks, Steve - that was very useful indeed, and also gave me the useful link to personal encryption-blocking software 'CryptoPrevent' (http://www.foolishit.com/vb6-projects/cryptoprevent/)
Happy New Year fellow CRIMPers!
1/7/2014
Hi Alexander - sorry, back into "work" mode, it's all a bit stressful, really...
Wunderlist: yes, not ideal, still doesn't match all my needs (colours/tags in particular; the three-part screen it doe...
Worth checking out the new HP Chromebook 14, too, which has had some very good reviews (4GB, 2 x USB 3.0, 9.5 hours battery life, 14" screen - available now). In the UK, selling for a very reasonable ...
Interesting reviews, albeit from users with slightly odd expectations.
But you can't go wrong with an iPad! There are currently some great deals on old iPad Minis (non-retina) with 64GB storage and c...
Actually, he appears to have sold them to somebody else. WriteRoom is still available (currently for free!), and PlainText was relaunched but then hastily withdrawn again following the discovery of a ...
Happy New Year fellow CRIMPers!
1/6/2014
May I join in wishing everybody a wonderfully positive 2014!
As far as crimping goes, I find that I've recoiled into fairly conservative mode (for the time being). Currently, my main apps are:
- Wund...
You might want to take a look at the Asus Transformer Book T100, a 10" tablet with keyboard combo which is available at astonishingly low prices in the US and UK. It's been reviewed very favourably, a...
Meta trends - what have we learned?
12/30/2013
Great discussion! But I think we're overlooking - or perhaps misidentifying - a trend I've just mentioned in the iA Writer thread. Touch apps are not always dumbed-down. Sometimes they've found simple...
The cautionary tale of iA Writer Pro
12/30/2013
While I agree with the dumbed-down argument (as a user of apps on Windows, iOS and Android, I've experimented with a broad range of less-than-optimal apps), I think it's easy to confuse this with anot...
OneNote lovers on MacOS
12/21/2013
I don't entirely agree with you Stephen: certainly Outline for the Mac is not as powerful as OneNote, but it's still a very powerful application, with a number of interesting features. There's the mul...
Workflowy: Your Brain on One Page
12/19/2013
Thanks for that - yes, I do use Workflowy occasionally, not least because it's got a good client on iOS.
But I turn more and more often to my favourite cross-platform apps: OneNote, Notebooks and Si...
OneNote lovers on MacOS
12/19/2013
... also, you've got to love any software that has a category called "RECENTS" on its navigation bar. Sounds like the meerkat stars of all those comparethemarket.com ads...
OneNote lovers on MacOS
12/19/2013
Those clever folks at outline.ws have just launched their fully enabled OneNote editor for Mac (Outline for Mac), which looks really rather good: http://outline.ws/mac
If the quality of their iOS off...
New Win8 Outliner
12/5/2013
Lucas has highlighted a significant point. Until I played with Windows 8.1, I hadn't realised what a truly schizophrenic operating system Win8 is. The desktop is like a completely different environmen...
Surfulater PrevGen on bits, again
12/2/2013
Strictly speaking, 22111 is correct: "foris" is the Latin dative plural of "forum". However, Franz is also correct, in that it's not used in English (only, alas, in Latin - and how many people read La...
Mohio - mindmap your Evernote
11/30/2013
Oh dear. I'm almost embarrassed to say this, but I'm pretty much... CRIMPed out... How come? Well, I've just been playing with Windows 8.1.
Let me explain: I run Windows 7 on my main machine (and am...
Perhaps you should take a look at OneNote, too?
As a translator and terminologist myself, I increasingly use OneNote to manage text. Not just because OneNote has a reasonably powerful (albeit fairly ...
File Search
11/22/2013
Interesting - from Midlinesoft, who used to produce a nice little search prog not dissimilar to File Locator (MultiFind). This looks like a simple-to-use prog with a couple of nice features (notably a...