Archive for February, 2008



More useful Firefox add-ons: No Squint

Thanks to a tip from Sull86 of the forums, we have another useful Firefox add-on for UMPC users. This one is called No Squint. This clever add-on allows you to zoom to a custom zoom percentage or use buttons on Firefox’s bar to increase/decrease the font size on the page. This may sound like the […]

Excellent UX490 pictures from Sabesh

New UX490 owner and MPCT forum user Sabesh has kindly taken some wonderful pictures of the UX490. These high res images (click to enlarge) really help show off the crisp design of the device as well as it’s built quality, and it definitely looks wicked in black! Don’t forget to stop by Sabesh’s informative mini […]

Grab and Drag add-on for Firefox enables inertia scrolling

Have you ever wished you could have the same cool inertia scrolling on your UMPC as the ever so popular iPhone? Well believe it or not, you can with relative ease. If you use Firefox a free add-on will do just that. Its called Grab and Drag, and it will enable inertia scroll which can […]

Sull’s Custom Windows XP CD Creator for UX

Sull86 of the MPCT forums has done it again. This time, instead of helping you install drivers for the UX, Sull has made a guide to make it easy for anyone to burn their very own Custom Windows XP CD for the UX. Sull has taken his UX driver pack and integrated it into an […]

UX390 $1,299 from Buy.com, best deal yet

Jenn over at Pocketables spotted a great deal from Buy.com on the UX390. For the same price as Woot’s recent UX390 one-day-deal ($1,299) you can secure one of the most powerful UMPCs on the market. The UX390 comes with a 30GB SSD, 1.33GHz Core Solo (U1500), 1GB of RAM and Windows Vista Business. Most will […]

VAIO Applications Uninstaller

This is the VAIO Applications Uninstaller which makes it easy to uninstall pre-installed software from Sony. While it would be nice to not have a bloat installed in the first place, at least we now have a tool to help remove it. I found this software on the Sony esupport page for the UX490, and […]

Linpus Lite video demo from UMPCPortal

UMPCPortal has posted a good video demo showing Linpus Lite, a mobile focused Linux based OS, running on the Q1 Ultra. The video shows a what appears to be an OS that is pretty well designed for touch screen use. The main screen has tabs across the top which gives you different categories to sort […]



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