AmigaAnywhere at CES 2008

Amiga, Inc. announces the availability of AmigaAnywhere(TM) version 2, the first phase of the Amiga OS.

The new platform offers more features and flexibility to safely move content from a physical to a digital environment and instantly run all types of content on a variety of devices, including mobile phones, cameras, audio and video players, STBs, laptops, PCs and servers.
The latest version of AmigaAnywhere facilitates rich-media content featuring extraordinary audio-visual quality, high-speed interactive gaming, education and entertainment anytime, anywhere. "The Amiga world has waited long enough," said Bill McEwen, President of Amiga Inc.

"AmigaAnywhere is the step forward we've been diligently pursuing, making it easy to instantly and safely run all types of content on their favorite devices. And we're thrilled to be able to unveil this during CES at Digital Experience and hope to identify an additional, new set of strong hardware partners as well."

New features of AmigaAnywhere 2 include a device-independent, single, ubiquitous Virtual Environment (VEN) that functions across different operating system and the Internet.
AmigaAnywhere 2 currently runs under Windows proper, Windows Mobile, Linux for PCs and Linux for embedded systems. A Mac OS X version is on its way, as well as a Symbian version.

AmigaAnywhere 2 (aka AmigaOS 5) made a covert appearance at an event outside the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), turning up in the guise of a version of Space Invaders running on a Windows Mobile 6-based smartphone.
It has been pointed out that since AmigaAnywhere 2 effectively starts up a virtual machine, boots AmigaOS and runs the code on top of that, it makes it perfectly possible for Amiga users to fire it up and run the Amiga GUI instead of a game.

Under the new platform, consumers are able to have the same user experience to engage in activities such as listening to music, surfing the net, buying video, editing photos, or working on work contracts.
AmigaAnywhere dynamically scales the applications/services to the accessory device.



More Info:

• http://www.reghardware.co.uk
• http://www.amigaweb.net
• http://www.amigau.com

Computer Gadget Inspector: MojoPac, Mobile Computing in your USB2 device

The Gadget Computer Inspector has posted a review on the MojoPac:
Computer Gadget Inspector: MojoPac, Mobile Computing in your USB2 device

The MojoPac is software that transforms your iPod or USB Hard Drive or Flash drive into a portable Windows XP PC.



The MojoPac can be downloaded from the MojoPac website, although we don't find many good reviews in the Net.
See some samples below:

Some alternatives to MojoPac, mostly from people that have used it and don't like it at all:

The sad MojoPac saga continues…


MojoPac - Potentially Great Software with Serious Flaws


Ceedo is better with its speed and Mojopac is better with its price and different options.:

Dump Ubuntu and get Xubuntu

Ubuntu sucks.
Yes, it does. It is slow, buggy and not functional.
At least version 7.04, running on a 2-years-old Acer laptop
Get Xubuntu instead.


Although Xubuntu is based on Ubuntu, it is much lighter on system requirements and far more efficient than Ubuntu with GNOME or KDE.

The reason for that is that Xubuntu uses the Xfce Desktop environment, which, according to Olivier Fourdan, creator of Xfce, "Xfce is a lightweight desktop environment for various *NIX systems. Designed for productivity, it loads and executes applications fast, while conserving system resources."
I can testify to that being absolutely true.
They also say that it "makes it ideal for old or low-end machines, thin-client networks, or for those who would like to get more performance out of their hardware."
To which I would add that it is also ideal for those that don't like to sit in front of a computer waiting for it to perform a simple operation.