Using the Ideapad K1 for Business
How To Read eBooks On A Lenovo IdeaPad K1
Lenovo IdeaPad K1 Practical Use
Bill C-11 Canada’s SOPA
How To (NOT) Check Email Over The Holidays
Search & Move Files Between Your Android, PC & Mac
Outlook Out of Office Christmas Message
New Barnes & Noble eReader Tablet
I’m a small business owner, and technician, and usually carry a laptop everywhere I go. Lately though I’m using my tablet for business much more and leaving the laptop turned off. If you’re thinking of getting a tablet for business or have one now and want to use it for more than just books and games, here’s how I’m using my tablet for business.
I picked up a 10 inch Lenovo Ideapad K1
The Lenovo IdeaPad K1 with its 10 inch screen makes for a great reading tablet. Here’s how to use eReader, the ebook reader that comes with the Ideapad. See the first article on the IdeaPad K1 for a list of other features and specifications.
Reading on the K1 works best when you hold the tablet in portrait mode and using it this way gives you the equivalent of a full page of text from a book. The screen is bright and the text is clear. Lenovo includes a reader with the tablet (along with the Amazon reader for Android) called eReader and I chose to use that rather then download anything new. (more…)
When browsing the Internet on your Lenovo Ideapad K1 you don’t want to have to type the address in for websites you go to often. Here’s how to save your favorite websites as bookmarks:
This is an ongoing series of articles on using the Lenovo Ideapad K1:
[This is a reposting of an article from Alarm.com]
Vienna, VA (PRWEB) February 02, 2012
According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, a home robbery occurs every 12 seconds. While there are multiple security system options available in the market today, Alarm.com offers five reasons why a wireless home security system is the superior option when it comes to providing homeowners with the peace of mind that their homes can remain safe, secure, and connected at all times.
A customer recently called saying that email messages were gone when moved from their inbox to another folder. Here’s how we fixed it.
First we checked the folders adjacent to see if it had been dragged there by mistake, this can happen in Outlook, especially if you have a lot of sub-folders. When you’re in a hurry or are doing an Inbox cleanup it’s easy to drag a message to the wrong folder by mistake – and difficult to find afterwards.
We also checked the Outlook Deleted folder to see if, somehow, the message had gone there. (more…)
It’s my first week using a Lenovo IdeaPad K1 Tablet and so far I’m impressed. The K1 is nimble and responds quickly to touch. The screen is clear and although it is apparently a little heavier than other tablets I don’t actually hold it much and don’t find it overwhelming, usually it is on the desk, counter or lap.
Come March 1st you may see even more focused advertising in your Google searches.
Google announced a new privacy policy that takes effect March 1st that will start combining nearly all the information it has on its users.
This could mean, for instance, that when users search via Google, the company will use their activities on sister sites like Gmail and YouTube to influence those users’ search results.
Google hasn’t done that before.
Depending on how you feel about targeted advertising this could be a benefit, as you will see ads that closely reflect you and your activities on the Net. However it could also mean that your online privacy has taken another dip and you are yet again more easily trackable. You’ve probably already noticed that advertising seems to follow you from website to website and personally I feel this restricts your exposure to new products and things that may ordinarily be “outside your box”.
You may feel different, however after March 1st you may not have a choice.
Extension has been granted by Ofcom
Communications companies Everything Everywhere and BT Wholesale annnounced an extension to the UK’s first live multi-operator customer trial of next generation 4G LTE broadband.
Under the 4G LTE trial, the two companies collaborated to provide wireless broadband to 180 customers living in and around St. Newlyn East in Cornwall since October 2011.
The extension has been granted by the regulator Ofcom to enable the companies to continue to investigate the application of 4G LTE in rural areas, which will be beneficial to the rollout of any potential subsequent commercial service.
The trial has proven that fixed and mobile technologies can work together to provide a broadband delivery option for remote rural areas and also demonstrated that the low frequency spectrum allocated to the trial is optimal for enabling broadband in remote rural communities.
Everything Everywhere CEO Olaf Swantee said the rollout of 4G will help drive economic growth and create jobs across the UK by making the economy more competitive, by enabling businesses to be more productive, and by allowing consumers to benefit from the latest mobile innovations.
“This trial has been key in investigating ways to rapidly bring 4G LTE to Britain, and Ofcom is helping us do the groundwork to accelerate the UK from laggard to leader,” said Swantee.
BT Wholesale CEO Nigel Stagg said the trial is enabling BT to see at first hand the real difference LTE is making in rural Cornwall and how it could provide an alternative mode of delivery in rural areas to complement fibre delivered broadband.
“There’s no doubt that fixed line solutions offer a faster and more reliable broadband service, but there isn’t a single silver bullet to meet the rural broadband challenge. We continue to also assess other potential solutions including other mobile and wireless technologies,” said Stagg.
Steam, the online games and gaming community, has released to Beta a Steam app for iOS and Android. The app is live in the Android and iOS app stores.
Steam Mobile sports a set of features that should be familiar to PC gamers, including gaming news feeds and the ability to browse the extensive catalog. It additionally provides up-to-date information about games on sale. It’s also very geared toward communication, as it allows you to keep in touch with your fellow Steam buddies by poking through their profiles or kicking off a mobile chat session.
If you followed the now delayed SOPA Piracy Bill in the US, (our review) then you should also know about Bill C-11 here in Canada.
Amendments are being proposed to Bill C-11 that would introduct SOPA like wordings and control. the Huffington Post has an interesting article this morning about it:
“With Bill C-11 back on the legislative agenda at the end of the month, Canada will be a prime target for SOPA style rules. In fact, a close review of the unpublished submissions to the Bill C-32 legislative committee reveals that several groups have laid the groundwork to add SOPA-like rules into Bill C-11, including blocking websites and expanding the “enabler provision” to target a wider range of websites.”
How do you feel about SOPA coming to Canada?
