I’ve spent a fair bit of time over the last few days waxing poetic about how I think the HP Mini 1000 Mi Edition has one of the best thought out Linux user interfaces I’ve ever seen. But that’s not to say there aren’t some problems. First and foremost, my Mini 1000 crashed on Friday. […]
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How to optimize Firefox for netbook displays
I’ve taken to using Google Chrome as my primary web browser lately because it’s super fast and its navigation area doesn’t take up very much screen real estate. That makes it ideal for use on netbooks, which have relatively small displays. But as I was reading through Mobile Computer Magazine’s Eight essential netbook utilities list, […]
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How to change Firefox’s full screen hotkey
If you’ve got a netbook with a 1024 x 600 pixel or lower resolution display, the F11 key is your friend when surfing the web with Firefox. That’s the button that lets you view web pages in full screen mode with no toolbars or scrollbars to impede your view. But what if you’ve got a […]
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Keep browser bookmarks, passwords synchronized across computers
File this under things I should have done ages ago. Following the advice of jkOnTheRun’s Kevin Tofel, I finally got around to installing Foxmarks on my primary work laptop and on my primary netbook (which, at the moment, happens to be an Asus Eee PC 1000H). Foxmarks lets you keep your bookmarks synchronized across multiple […]
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The HP Mini-Note high-res display: The good, the bad, and how to fix the bad
I’ve mentioned a few times that there’s one major problem with the HP Mini-Note’s display: It’s almost too sharp. While the 7 inch 800 x 480 pixel display on the Eee PC is a bit too small to hold full web pages or some applications, the Mini-Note has the opposite problem. It’s 1280 x 768 […]