Archive for December, 2009
Gift Guide: Video chat just like the Jetsons!
The holidays are a great time for many people simply because they get to see their family. Whether you’re traveling 30 miles or trekking 3,000 there’s something special about seeing your loved ones. Wouldn’t it be great if you could see them all year long? Sure phone calls are fun for connecting with Mom and [...]
Using Action Center in Windows 7
Making your operating system communicate with you can be a daunting task. It’s something researchers have been working on for many decades now. Microsoft might have just found a solution with Windows 7. The way Windows has communicated a problem for many releases have varied over the years. We are all aware of the blue [...]
Gift Guide: For the Geek with everything, a UMPC or MID
Buying a gift for a geek or gadget addict can be tough; not only are they likely to have already bought many of the mainstream gadgets but they also are apt to have strong preferences for particular brands like Apple or yes even Microsoft. So what’s left to get the geek in your life that [...]
Onkyo Introduces the Dual Screen Onkyo DX Tablet
With manufacturers running out of new ideas to make their product stand out in the crowd it seems that adding a second screen to notebooks and netbooks is the new trend. First we saw the gScreen notebook which featured sliding door style dual-screens and GottaBeMobile covered the Kohjinsha Dual-screen tablet and now Onkyo has rebadged [...]
Notebook Holiday Shipping Deadlines
With Christmas and many other holidays just around the corner you should take a look at the following holiday shipping deadlines for computers if you are planning on giving a notebook as a gift this year. If you are customizing the computer you will need to order much sooner than if you purchased a ready [...]
University of South Florida Equips Student Athletes with Macbook Pros
In a move that’s likely as much about recruiting new students and student athletes as it is about keeping athletes in touch with their classes; the University of South Florida announced that it will be providing each of its student athletes with a 13″ Macbook Pro. The program will loan athletes a Macbook Pro for [...]
Free Eye-Fi 4GB card with Google Storage Purchase
I’ve always thought the Eye-Fi card, an SD card that uses Wifi to upload your geotagged photos to your photo provider of choice, was a cool product but a bit pricey for my occasional photography. The 4 GB Eye-Fi SDHC card is still expensive for me at $70 for the “Home Video version”; but right [...]
Dell’s Tweets making sweet music for their bottom line
Most everyone these days is familiar with Twitter and tweets. Every major site, vendor, person has a Twitter account set up and uses it to talk to the fans and consumers. Twitter itself is not a revenue stream by any stretch of the imagination. But, take a sharp business sense and some tech savvy, and [...]
Want a Free Online Computer? Give icloud a Try
Have you heard of icloud ? If not then don’t worry you’re not alone, even I didn’t know about this cool service until last month. Icloud is an internet service that provides a virtual desktop and OS for free, directly on the Internet in a browser. In short, icloud is a web site that turns [...]
Tech Tip of the Day: Install Your Favorite Software Automatically
If you have recently installed Windows 7 on your computer, or any other fresh install of Windows, then you surely realize how long it takes to install all the other applications that you use. In fact, manual installation of each application on an average notebook could easily take entire afternoon. Thanks to a new service [...]
