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Best Hotels For The Tech Lover

Noemi Twigg — Sat, 16 May 2009 08:29:58 +0000

Traveling is perhaps my number 1 past time. I have to have at least two trips in a year to maintain my sanity. Otherwise, work would just burn me out. I am not a particularly fussy person but if there is one thing that would convince me about staying in a hotel or resort, it is the fact that they have free wireless Internet access in the rooms. Perhaps some of you are the same? Well, you will be interested to hear about the list that PC World came up with: the best hotels for the geek traveler.

They have a total of nine in their list, here are the most appealing to me.

Hotel Gansevoort
Located in the meatpacking district of New York, rooms don’t come cheap here. But then, you get free WiFi, 42-inch LCD TVs, CD players, alarm clocks with iPod docks, in room safes, and Wii consoles by request. Can’t beat that, can you?

Seattle Hotel Monaco
Considered a boutique hotel, this is relatively low-tech compared to many. The main selling point for me is their Guitar Hero social hour, from 5:00-6:00 pm. Perfect time to relax before going out for the night!

Peninsula Tokyo
Of course, we can’t talk about hi-tech without mentioning Japan. This hotel has all the hi-tech amenities that one can ever want. From nail dryers to fax machines to espresso makers to heated toilets – ultimate hi-tech luxury!

Pod Hotel
For the budget traveler in NYC, this hotel sounds perfect. Rooms start at less than $100 but you get iPod docking stations, LCD TVs, and their Pod Community Blog, which is a veritable treasure trove of information.

Check out the whole list here.

T-Mobile 3G/Wi-Fi USB

Jim — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 04:45:58 +0000

I’m a T-Mobile user and I’m really happy that rumors are circulating about T-Mobile’s 3G laptop USB sticks. I think I’d head on to the T-Mobile kiosk tomorrow for a looksie and a confirmation. I’m just a little too tired that it’s AT&T who’s spread out in Starbucks, Dunkin Donuts and umm… Subway. Now… I can use the internet everywhere.

Oh… rumors have said that this service will be available in a few hours… so watch out for it!

Meet Rovio

Jim — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 02:01:41 +0000

I still couldn’t believe I missed posting about Rovio during the holidays. He has got to be one of the most sensible purchases a geek could have ever made. Most specially if he needed to be two places at one time.

I think it’s a good thing too, because if you head on to Radio Shack today Rovio is on sale for roughly around US$130. Not available for online purchase though, but if you show up at many of their shops in the US you’d see that Rovio IS on sale.

I’m guessing we’d see Rovio II any time soon. Nonetheless Rovio 1… rocks. Check out the features below:

- Wi-Fi enabled robotic webcam/ led illumination/1 x speaker/1 x built in microphone
- Detects your computer settings for you and guides you though the process
- Interactive audio and video streams from ROVIO to the PC
- Control from web accessible devices
- With stored location points ROVIO can navigate itself around the home

It was on sale for US$250 at Amazon. Grab THIS chance!

What Geeks I Do On Vacation

Noemi Twigg — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 08:46:37 +0000

Today is the start of my 5-day vacation at the beach. I have been planning on this for months and now that I am actually here, it seems a bit surreal. But you know what? I am having the time of my life. I just realized something though? I seem to be doing things a bit differently from the rest of the people here are doing. Here are some of my observations.

One, the first thing that I did when I was done checking in was to see the farthest that the WiFi signal would reach. Obviously, I figured it out pretty quickly as I am online now and posting, right?

Two, my Tweeter has been busy since I left early this morning for the airport. Sometimes I used my phone, sometimes I used my netbook. But from the airport to the ferry boat, I have been Tweeting the hours away.

Three, I actually found myself a nifty gadget, a USB modem that allows me to connect to the Internet wherever I may be, as long as there is a mobile phone signal. I got it because I know how WiFi availability is so unreliable outside the city and the prospect of having no Internet for a full work week was just too unpleasant.

Four, my camera has been used a lot - and it’s the just the first day! Now you may say that this is not unusual, right? I have to say, though, the main thought in my mind as I take pictures is how nice they would look in my blog….

Enough said. And I guess that’s what geeks do while on vacation. What do you do?

SouthWest Airlines tests WIFI

Jim — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 04:59:12 +0000

It looks like geeks have growing options these days because flights are becoming a little tech savvy. Recently Southwest Airlines has been testing satellite-based WIFI service on one of their flights, aimed at hopefully rolling it out for public use anytime soon. It will be at beta testing phase for several months after this. During this phase, and if you’re lucky to be in a plane involved in the beta tests, you get to enjoy the service for free. Southwest says the service will be at US$10/day when it’s out of beta testing.

While this development is much commendable I know a lot of strict WIFI use will be set in place. I haven’t read any material on how security is on a WIFI-enabled flight. Is there filtering? Is there monitoring? Is big brother logging things you do? These and a lot more concerns have not yet reached pubic view just yet BUT am hoping that policies are published real soon.

Samsung's wireless printers

Jim — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 05:25:18 +0000

Oh no… I hope my uncle’s not reading this today because I’m sure he’d head on over to the nearest Office Depot to get this wireless printer! I’m not too sure what’s he got with printers that he always need to get the latest ones. I’ve been helping him out all week last week to install 2 fax/printer/copy/scanners by Canon. The first one on a wireless printer server via Net Gear and the other one taking an ethernet cable to his Dell True Mobile router.

He’s still to ask me to connect 2 laser printers for him next week, now this new printer comes out. I’m very sure once he get a sniff of it, he’ll get one and call on poor old me… again!

The new wireless printers are the CLX-3175FW, ML-1630W and SCX-4500W. All of them will come equipped with integrated 802.11b/g wireless connectivity, and they’ll also feature smart design that won’t take up much space wherever it is placed.

The Samsung CLX-3175FW, ML-1630W and SCX-4500W will retail for $642.99, $285.99 and $428.99, respectively, and are readily available for purchase if you’re thinking of upgrading that printer of yours.

You can get one right here.