Sony Clies, Mac x86 emulation
18th May 2004
Some amazing things happening these days. I’ve been using my Sony Clie heavily for quite a while now and have found it to be so convenient while travelling to/from work. I’ve got several ebooks on it (including Cryptonomicon :), some music and some technical audio talks, some movies, a few pictures I took in the office, and every morning I sync up all my RSS feeds to it and read them on the way to work
It’s got quite a good battery life, requiring recharging every few days or so, depending on how heavily I use it.
The only downsides to using a clie on the Mac is that some things like Memory Sticks don’t show up on the desktop as mountable drives. This can be fixed by downloading the excellent missingsync for macs, which allows you to use the full functionality of the clie, along with iTunes, iPhoto, etc. Memory sticks are one of the things I don’t like about Sony machines though. They are expensive for the amount of memory you get (about 50 pounds for 128MB - official sony store prices are about 70 pounds!). Yes, ebay is your friend
In other interesting news, someone’s written a Mac emulator for the PC that runs OSX! I’ve only just found out that PC fans are falling all over themselves to try this thing. There’s even a website called www.emaculation.com!
One other thing to check out: musicplasma. It’s really cool.
Hourly doses of coffee beat a cup? I better figure this out and change my daily dose, this might be quite helpful.
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