The home away from home for Newton users since 1999.
June 11, 2007
It’s been a while in coming, but the next Worldwide Newton Conference has been announced and is scheduled for July 7 – 8, 2007 in Tokyo, Japan. This is a sporadically annual event where Newton users, people interested in Newton technology and those in related fields gather for lectures, workshops, exchange of information and casual … More
March 1, 2007
Apologies for the temporary glitches with e-mail access this morning. The server was apparently in need of its once a year (or so) reboot. All systems are currently go.
January 9, 2007
Please note that the delightful pair of vociferous Mac-heads, Dan Benjamin and John Gruber make an ever so brief mention of Newton (and yours truly) in the recently unveiled Hivelogic Podcast. The first two episodes of the podcast are a casual discussion of their ideas regarding what new products might appear during the imminent Macworld … More
January 2, 2007
It may have all the appearances of a languishing community site, but the Newted Community is still alive. I realize that it has been over a year since the last news update, but to be honest, not much has happened around the old server since the WWNC wrapped up last January. A couple of server … More
November 23, 2005
Going to Macworld this January? Why not kick around town over the weekend and join some of your green-bleeding peers at the 2006 Worldwide Newton Conference in San Francisco. The conference is scheduled directly following Macworld Expo, from January 13 – 15, 2006. Tentative plans for the conference program include presentations by Paul Guyot, Larry … More
September 1, 2005
Ken Bush, the president of Newton supplier J & K Sales, has asked me to post the following information. Hurricane Katrina has devasted communities along and near the Gulf Coast. In an effort to provide some support, J & K Sales is auctioning five MessagePad 2100s on eBay. All of the winning bids will go … More
June 27, 2005
The ISP which supplies my DSL connection is changing the IP addresses assigned to its customers. The upside of this is that my ISP (and therefore customers like myself) will be less dependent on a certain unnamed <cough>Telus<cough> monolithic telecommunications corporation. The downside is that I have to change IP addresses on several live servers, … More
April 1, 2005
I’m not sure when it happened or what went wrong, but the Newted Community server was pooched for most of yesterday. I was aware that a problem existed first thing in the morning when I started getting email connection errors at the office. I was unable to ping or access the server from work and … More
March 10, 2005
To help perpetuate my recent Flickr addiction, I have created a Flickr group specifically aimed at all green-bleeding photographers. If you own a Newton (or two) and happen to use Flickr as well, then this group is definitely for you. The Newton Flickr group is aimed at collecting images of everything relating to the MessagePad, … More
January 5, 2005
A couple days after the fact, but still… Here’s looking forward to a year absolutely chock full of exciting and innovative green-glowing loveliness. Hopefully, there’ll be a little bit of the standard Newton community frivolity thrown in for good measure as well. Onward!