tablet netbooks smartbooks and e-readers

January 17, 2010 | In Other Tech | No Comments

Touch Books / Smart Books with Detachable Keyboards

• Always Innovating’s TouchBook
• Freescale’s Tablet Smartbook at CES

Freescale announced a $200 tablet reference design that it hopes will come to the market via an OEM partner as early as this Summer. The tablet has a 7-inch (1024 x 600) display and is powered by the i.MX515 processor (including the ARM Cortex A8 chip), 512MB RAM and 4-64 GB of flash storage.

More SmartBooks arriving in 2010

E-Readers

• Barnes’ and Nobles’ Nook
  • the Nook’s FAQ
• Amazon Kindle and Kindle DX

What we are looking for and waiting for is a machine that has these features and specifications:

Features

• Ebook Reader
  • Annotate Ebook Documents
  • Obtain Ebooks from multiple sources
  • Read PDF’s
  • High Quality Reader screen
• Email Reader
• Webcam / Skype
• Touch Screen
• Stylus writing
• Word Processing
• Web Surfing
• Play Videos

Specifications

• Light, Thin, Carryable – small form factor
• Less than $500
• 9″ or 10″ viewable screen
• optional physical keyboard

Will 2010 be the year that we find this?

ubuntu screensaver activate

January 1, 2010 | In Linux | No Comments

gnome screensaver is controlled by gnome-screensaver-command

gnome-screensaver-command --activate

Adding Shortcut Custom Launcher to the Gnome Panel

1. right click on the panel and select “Add to Panel”, then “Custom Application Launcher
2. Add gnome-screensaver-command --activate

found in http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-492749.html

for more information about gnome-screensaver-command:

man gnome-screensaver-command


gnome-screensaver-command(1)

NAME
gnome-screensaver-command – controls GNOME screensaver

SYNOPSIS
gnome-screensaver-command [OPTION...]

DESCRIPTION
gnome-screensaver-command is a tool for controlling an already running instance of gnome-screen?
saver.

OPTIONS
–exit Causes the screensaver to exit gracefully

-q, –query
Query the state of the screensaver

-t, –time
Query the length of time the screensaver has been active

-l, –lock
Tells the running screensaver process to lock the screen immediately

-c, –cycle
If the screensaver is active then switch to another graphics demo

-a, –activate
Turn the screensaver on (blank the screen)

-d, –deactivate
If the screensaver is active then deactivate it (un-blank the screen)

-p, –poke
Poke the running screensaver to simulate user activity

-i, –inhibit
Inhibit the screensaver from activating. Command blocks while inhibit is active.

-n, –application-name
The calling application that is inhibiting the screensaver

-r, –reason
The reason for inhibiting the screensaver

-V, –version
Version of this application

AUTHORS
gnome-screensaver-command is written by William Jon McCann .

This manual page was written by Sven Arvidsson .

SEE ALSO
gnome-screensaver(1)

GNOME 2007-09-27 gnome-screensaver-command(1)