[SpikeThursday] Group editing with Gobby, Linux Laptop for $100, Laptop fuel cell

Everyone and their dog is claiming colloraborative tools these days, but few manage it in real time.  The ability to edit the same file at the same time remotely is huge boast to productivity especially when it comes to helping others with a specific problem or issue. Matt Harrison pinged me this URL of a German utility called Gobby. This is a small client side application (available for the usual suspects) that allows you to easily edit a file together, tracking the revisions in real time of who is doing what.  Stick with the tricky installation as its well worth it.

• http://gobby.0x539.de/index.html

Linux laptop for a $100?  Sound like a good deal?  Chaps with very big brains at MIT have come up with a laptop that runs Linux, on a 500Mhz AMD CPU, with flash memory in place of a hard disk.  WiFi access and a sprinkling of USB ports completes the networking aspect, and rumor has the screen is good enough for daylight and indoor use.  Sounds too good to be true.  But if it does prove successful then there is a whole bunch of applications for it especially schools and third world countries.  Fantastic stuff

• http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050929/ap_on_hi_te/hundred_dollar_laptop

One of the holy grails of mobile computing is unlimited power; but until we get that we'll settle for something that lasts more than a few hours.  Well the Akihabara gadget site (named after the geek suburb of Tokyo) profiles a story from electronics giant LG that they are working on getting a fuel cell out and ready for mainstream usage by the end of the year.  This it claims will power a standard laptop for up to 10 hours, and logically, anything with a lot of less power requirements for a lot longer.  Looks like we are finally on the way to power nirvana.  Read more:

• http://www.akihabaranews.com/en/news_10316.html

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