Laptop upgrades are not difficult to complete yourself, and there are three key upgrades that you can easily accomplish to make your laptop run faster.  These will also give your laptop a higher resale value when you decide to replace it.

One of the most simple laptop upgrades to complete yourself is to upgrade your operating system. If you are running Windows XP or Windows Media Center, upgrading to Windows Vista is a good idea.  You will be able to take advantage of the many features of Windows Vista, as well as enhance the speed of your system.  An upgrade to Windows Vista for the Home Basic edition is under $100 and is worth it to enhance the efficiency of your system. (More…)

The family and I are moving to a new house in a few weeks, but we’ve still got one to sell. So if you’re looking for a nice house in the Orlando area, drop me a line at mpolino at gmail dot com. You know that you’ve always wanted to move here. Do it now! But enough shameless plugging, my UMPC and OneNote 2007 in particular have been a huge help in this process.

So far I’ve:

1) Kept a list of maintenance items and supplies needed to finish off a few projects on the old house. All of these are now done, yeah!

2) Made notes during our discussions with realtors.

3) Drew a sketch of the new house with dimensions so we can see how furniture fits.

4) Laid out all the connections for the media closet I’m going have in the new house. My wife is finally sick of wires so everything is going into a close behind where the TV will get mounted with just IR repeaters sticking out of the wall.

5) Used PDF annotator to sign and return documents while we were negotiating on the new house.

6) Played music through the UMPC while working on all those projects.

Of course, now my Christmas light diagram that I did in OneNote last year is useless. I’ll have to do a new one this year.

So does anyone else have any suggestions or tips for using OneNote to help with a house move? If you do, add it as a comment to this post.

Guys, I just received this email:

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A week has passed since Vista BIG RELEASE WITH MANY WOWS and my readers are asking me WHERE ARE VISTA DRIVERS?

What am I supposed to tell them Samsung? At least I have an answer from TabletKiosk saying that they are working on that. Keep in mind that Samsung and TabletKiosk’s providers are in the other side of the planet, that means that a ship navigating in a calmed sea takes about 3 weaks to reach us, and do not ask me why not by plane because I do not know why things coming from that side of the world take that long to reach us.

We have to TRUST OEMs. That’s the message from Microsoft at this point. According to them, they have given to OEMs all that is needed for HID Drivers. But it seems to me that OEMs do not know what to do with that material. HID? Drivers? Vista? Money! You got my point, OEMs have hard time understanding the concept of multitasking… When they are releasing a new product the background task dies for the lack of resources.

Oh… I know… they are waiting for Vista SP1! You see, they are not that bad.

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MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA, January 31, 2007 - PhatWare Corporation, a leading provider of software products and professional services for mobile and desktop computers, announces the release of PenCommander 2.0 for Windows Vista-based Tablet and Ultra Mobile PCs. PenCommander is a system utility application that features a powerful scripting technology and is now enhanced to support the Windows Vista operating system.

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If you went through Microsoft’s promotional website last year, watched your three videos and are now anxiously awaiting your free copy of Vista, they appear to be slowly arriving. Mine isn’t here yet, but a coworker got his on Monday.

Now, if Samsung would just get those drivers out…