Archive for December, 2009
Thin is in- Seagate launches world’s thinnest hardrive for laptops and netbooks
When it comes to new laptops and netbooks, thin is in. Users want them easy to use, but thin and lightweight. Enter Seagate and the new Momentus Thin drive, the world’s thinnest 2.5-inch hard disk drive. It stands at 7 millimeters tall, comes in 250 GB and 160 GB and includes an eight megabyte cache, [...]
Window Access Panel for easy access of system settings
If you are one of those users who don’t like the default setting that comes with Windows 7 or Windows Vista and have found it hard to customize or make changes to default settings than you need to try out Windows Access Panel. This free utility from Windowsclub brings many common settings into one location [...]
New Acer Ferrari One notebook– speeds its way to us for the holidays
If there’s one car name that is synonymous with luxury, speed, and style, it’s Ferrari. A Ferrari is the car that all of us speed junkies would love to race up and down the Autobahn in Germany. Now what if you could have that same speed, luxury and style, but in a netbook? Acer has released the Acer Ferrari [...]
Taking out the Trash with TrashIt! for Mac
I have been a Mac user for several years now. And, luckily, for the most part, it works fine. Until the other day when I needed to delete over 1 GB of data from my Time Machine backup drive. I did the standard Move it Trash and then Empty Trash. And then, it just froze. [...]
Software Security: Filtering Out the Noise and Finding a Deal
Security software is a multi-billion dollar industry and is growing rapidly. There are hundreds of commercial security solutions being sold at retail stores. Many notebooks come pre-installed with some form of protection from the dangers of the Internet. Every day, news outlets publish stories about worms or viruses being spread online and rendering computers inoperable. [...]
How to Turn a Netbook Into an eBook Reader
The news around the Internet these days is all ablaze with talk of the Barnes and Noble Nook vs. Amazon’s Kindle. Which one is better? Feature to feature comparisons? Who likes what and why? Can it support this format? How about that format? And then, they throw in Sony’s Touch Reader, the iRex, and the few [...]
How to Increase External Hard Drive Performance in Windows Vista and Windows 7
In Windows Vista and Windows 7 you can increase the performance of external hard drive by increasing its speed in just a few easy steps. This is possible because Windows Vista and Windows 7 operate external hard drives connected by USB differently than internal drives. By default, in Windows 7 and Vista, write catching is [...]
Microsoft’s new tool makes loading Windows 7 on a netbook as easy as USB
Loading the Windows operating system on any kind of computer has always involved floppy disks, CDs or DVDs. That’s kind of a problem if you want to load Windows on a netbook. Unless you buy an external CD/DVD-ROM, which isn’t cheap for one-time use, you are out of luck trying to install Windows on your [...]
Make the Move to Cloud Computing with Jolicloud
It seems that everyone wants to get into Cloud computing these days; there’s Google’s Chrome OS, iCloud and a longtime cloud computing operating system named Jolicloud. We’ve already talked about how you can have a cloud based computer for free with iCloud. Now I want to share another player in cloud computing market Jolicloud. With [...]
Get to know your PC with CPU-Z
If you don’t know a lot about your notebook configuration like your hardware, processor model, RAM size and speed, BIOS brand and version then you should check out CPU-Z. CPU-Z is a freeware program that gathers information on some of the main devices of your system and reveals all kinds of information about your hardware. [...]
