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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

As we’ve come to expect from CES, the giant consumer technology show hosted in Las Vegas each January, there was a huge surge of technology related news, specifically tons of almost real time information coming out every day from many different blogs. Its fun to step back and look at what kind of fluctuation this […]

Wow I never thought I’d see the day. One of my favorite websites, Woot.com, has the UX390 up for sale today! At a wonderful price too. The 390 from Woot will only run you $1,299 + $5 shipping. By comparison the UX390 direct from Sony was $2,349, and the best place you can buy it […]