Archive for March, 2008



UX490 heads to Korea as the UX58LN

Sony’s most recent UX permutation, the UX490N, is heading to Korea as the UX58LN. The unit will include the same 48GB SSD, 1.2GHz Core 2 Solo (U2200), 1GB of RAM, and some iteration of Vista. Unconfirmed but assumed to be true is that the UX58LN will include a CF slot in place of the EDGE […]

Firefox tip: use favicons instead of text

For those of you using Firefox, you should already be well acquainted to the bookmark bar - a convenient little bar where you can put bookmark buttons. As a UMPC user, screen real estate is always an issue, in the case of the bookmark bar, which runs horizontally, it fills up pretty fast and starts […]

Firefox theme adds touch-friendly navigation buttons

I’ve been using this theme for a while now and I thought I should pass it on to readers. If you are using Firefox, you are probably aware that you can install different themes to change the appearance of the browser. While searching for ways to improve my touchscreen experience on the UX, I happened […]

UX280 torn apart, rebuilt

Yeggster from the forums undertook the daunting task of taking apart an entire UX280 with a broken case, and putting it into a brand new case he found on ebay. Like a hermit crab changing it’s shell the UX280 now resides inside a brand new outer casing. Yeggster was searching for a few UX accessories […]



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