Archive for May, 2010
How to use your iPad as a Mouse – Mobile Mouse for the iPad
Mobile Mouse for the iPad (iTunes) is one of the most useful, and cool apps, I have found since I purchase the iPad a few weeks back. This $2.99 app turns your iPad into a huge multi-touch mouse surface — but it doesn’t stop there. Mobile Air Mouse uses Wifi to connect your iPad to [...]
Toshiba’s Next 13″ Notebook Rumored to Charge in 10 Minutes!
Toshiba’s next 13″ ultra-portable notebook is rumored to include a SCIB battery which allows it to charge at an almost ludicrous speed; from 0 to 90% in just 10 minutes. Yes, 10 minutes; as in the notebook will be almost fully charged before you can finish a coffee. Image Via vozExpress Warner at GottaBeMobile shared [...]
How to Speed up Slow Netbook SSD Drives Without Upgrading
Did you buy a netbook with an SSD drive expecting blazing fast hard drive speeds, but end up with a relatively slow SSD? If so then you should check out FlashFire, an SSD Accelerator that uses your netbook’s RAM to increase the speed of low end SSDs. Essentially, FlashFire performs some Windows tweaks to increase [...]
Adobe CS5 Now Shipping – Free Trials Available, Free Shipping Coupon
Adobe CS5 is now shipping to customers, and if you haven’t already ordered an upgrade to the popular suite of design tools, you can download a free 30 day trial of CS5 right now. As an added bonus, free shipping has been extended through May 31, 2010 when you buy Adobe CS5 suites or Photoshop [...]
Review: Waterfield Designs iPad Smart Case
For the past month I have been on the search for the perfect iPad case. I haven’t found it yet, but I’m pretty close. We showed you some iPad cases about the time that the original iPad was released from Waterfield Designs. They looked like really nice cases so we asked if we could test [...]
Friday Funnies- Vintage Tech Ads
Ok, we usually dont see very many funny technical ads, except during the Super Bowl. Those are the ones we want to remember. Then again, sometimes, we wish we could forget. Madison Avenue tends to forget that even if the ad is aimed at a technical person, not all techs are “geeks”. We like normal [...]
Acer Aspire 5542 Review: Shows Off AMD Vision Technology (Video)
For the past month I’ve had the chance to try out the Acer Aspire 5542, a notebook computer featuring AMD’s Vision technology. The Aspire 5542 is not a new notebook, but to get a feel for what a Vision Notebook PC offers, we were offered a few samples to test for ourselves. Josh Smith shared the background [...]
Notebook Travel Accessory: Add an Outlet to Your Notebook Cord for $4
Finding a spare outlet when you are traveling can be a pain, especially if you are stranded in an airport or poorly laid out hotel. We pointed you towards a cool adapter from Japan that added an extra plug to your notebook’s power adapter recently; but it didn’t work here in the States. Since then I’ve [...]
Notebook Computer Costs May Be on the Rise
It seems most technology gets cheaper instead of more costly. Bu,t due to supply and demand, it sometimes goes the other way. This could be the case with notebook computers due to the tight supply of printed circuit boards or PCBs. They are the simple foundation of electronics today, including computers. Two of the major [...]
Apple in anti-trust investigation?
Just when Apple thought they could do no wrong, the bottom drops out. Right after Steve Jobs announced this week that they have sold one million iPads in one month, the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission are trying to decide which agency will begin an anti-trust inquiry into Apple’s new policy of requiring [...]
