As Chippy pointed at his personal blog, it’s possible to search Flickr for pictures taken by particular cameras. By analyzing EXIF data, flickr is able to keep detailed data for all the cameras that are used for snapping photos that end up on the site. Flickr has a neat page that has stats for all [...]

We have a limited amount of time to write articles for Carrypad so we try and pick products that truly fit what we believe to be a consumer internet device. Here are three very important points we consider: Web – High quality browser (but not full internet experience with Flash, plugins.) because 50% of tweets, [...]

You might have caught my excited tweets and posts about getting Ubuntu running on the AC100 over the last few days and if so, you might be starting to realize how close these ‘smart’ books or ARM-based netbooks, effectively smartphones in a netbook-style case, are getting to the netbook experience. The overall experience is certainly [...]

There are a few consumer tablets that stir excitement more than others. Of course the iPad is a leader in terms of being a complete product but there are three others you should watch out for. The Dell Streak gets Android 2.2 in November giving it a leading position in the Android tablet space. The [...]

I’ve installed Ubuntu on my Toshiba AC100 ‘smartbook’ and I’m accessing my WordPress back-end via Firefox 3.6. This is a test to see if I can create and post an entry. You should see a photo on the right (uploaded from the filesystem on the AC100) Wifi is obviously working and considering i’m running this [...]

Here’s a quick hands-on with the Motorola Droid R2D2. The R2D2 edition is the same phone as the Droid 2 [product page][review] but it has interesting Star Wars branding and content included. The phone is themed to look like the famous droid from the Star Wars saga and the phone features custom Star Wars themed [...]

Firstly, thanks to these forums (I’m just putting the pieces together here and testing it all out) tosh-ac100.wetpaint.org forums.computers.toshiba-europe.com ac100.gudinna.com The work of the uber-Linux and Tegra Lords of these three forums allowed me to do this today: Yes, you’re looking at Ubuntu 10.10 (RC) running on a Toshiba AC100 smart book. This is the [...]