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Losing the love and starting a new “affair”  

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Diana McDonough was once a staunch Palm user, but has started flirting with many other hand-held operating systems and devices. Read what she has to say! Well, I've had my Palm Pre for five months now.  After that amount of time, here's how I feel about the device. All in all, I LOVE WebOS.  It's simplicity and native integration with Facebook and Google are not to be beat.  The OS is exceptionally stable.  In the time I've had it, it has only spontaneously rebooted twice.  The text messaging app integrates with GoogleTalk and AIM all in one.  Hooking the device up to a USB cord on the PC turns...


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Windows 7 on a Wind  

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Sometimes you find yourself in a situation where you know you shouldn't, but you just can't resist. I recently found myself in just such a situation when presented with a beta copy of Windows 7. Did I ignore it? Of course not! I did what any red blooded geek would do: I installed it on my MSI Wind. I knew when I bought the Wind that my os choices were limited. I could use Linux or Windows XP. I honestly prefer to do my tweaking on a smaller platform (Windows Mobile or Palm) and not on a pc, so I have studiously stayed away from Linux. Nonetheless, I wanted to see more power (insert Tim 'the tool...


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