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 […]

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 […]

I just ran across a neat puzzle game called Factory Balls. The goal of the game is to use the tools to modify the ball in the correct sequence, and match the final solution that is on the box. When you have reached the correct combination, the ball will drop into the box. The thing […]

Recently I’ve downloaded and installed Notebook Hardware Control. Its a freeware application that lets you monitor and adjust many aspects of your computer’s hardware. One of my favorite features are the real time graphs that show you your battery charge level, and better yet, your current battery charge rate. The great thing about the battery […]

Shane Conder just posted an entry on his blog on installing Origami on his Sony Vaio UX390N. The bottom line is it works. It won’t install however without the patch to make Origami install on to other devices, as detailed by seamonkey420.

Whenever someone asks what I dislike most about the UX, I always say, the keyboard. I found the keyboard quite unintuitive, having my right thumb stretch all the way to the left to do a cut (CTRL-X), paste (CTRL-V), select all (CTRL-A), bring up Windows Explorer (WINDOWS-E), even uppercase a letter using the SHIFT key. […]

I have managed to put together my semi-perfect mobile micro desktop. It is comprised of the Sony Vaio UX50, a slim CD/DVD drive, an external hard drive, a bluetooth keyboard, and an optical mobile mouse.
The slim CD/DVD drive in the pic is an old USB Sony DVD-reader/CD-writer. I am upgrading it to the PCG-DDRW3, a […]