Archive for May, 2010
Kindle Comes Standard on ASUS Netbooks and Notebooks
Today ASUS announced that new notebooks and netbooks from ASUS will come with Amazon’s Kindle for PC software preinstalled. The software, which is available as a free download, will be a pre-installed along with other standard software. The Amazon Kindle software allows users to read ebooks from the Kindle store on their notebook and, when [...]
Asus Adds Seagate Hybrid Drive to ROG G73Jh Gaming Notebooks
A traditional hard drive offers cheap capacity. A solid state drive offers speed. Like peanut butter and chocolate, two great technologies are even better together. Asus certainly thinks this combination is delicious together. They are including the Seagate Momentus XT Hybrid hard drive as an upgrade option in their Asus ROG G73Jh gaming notebooks. Republic [...]
Intel Introduces ULV Core Processors for Ultra-Thin Notebooks
Nearly 6 months ago Intel announce the Core i3, i5 and i7 processors which have delivered better performance to notebooks and computers which have been readily available from many manufacturers. Today Intel has announced a new line of Ultra Low Voltage Core processors which are designed to fit in ultra-thin notebooks. The new processor line [...]
Best Place to Buy a Notebook
Where is the best place to buy a notebook? In short, someplace with a well trained and specialized sales staff. For most consumers buying a new computer is a bit confusing. Manufacturers like AMD are attempting to make buying a new notebook easier with their AMD VISION program, but overall most consumers still want someone’s [...]
Try Out Android on Older iPhones
Want to see what all the Android fuss is about? You can if you have an older iPhone 3G or 2G. 3GS owners need not bother; it won’t work yet. For details you’ll need to head on over to Linux on the iPhone and read about the process. There is a version of Android that [...]
HP WebOS Tablet Before October and Printers Coming Too
After purchasing Palm earlier this month for a cool $1.2B, HP promised to double down†on WebOS. As many are expecting, the company will produce and release a WebOS tablet this year and it could come as early as this summer or very early fall. HP will announce more details after the completion of the [...]
How to: Use Google’s OneBox Results to Get Info Quickly
You can do a lot of nifty little things with Google these days, rather than just searching. Just today, my brother asked me what the score of the Phillies game turned out to be the other night. A quick search for phillies score†showed exactly the info I needed right on the search page, I [...]
iPad Inking Improved with Penultimate “Wrist Protection” Update
Up to this point inking (drawing with a stylus) on the Apple iPad has not been a good experience. The problem was that Tablet PC users were used to resting their wrists on the screen while drawing or writing with a stylus. On most Tablet PCs you could do this without your wrist or hand [...]
How To Use Keyboard Shortcuts in Gmail
If you are like me you almost live in Gmail. I have about five Gmail accounts. A personal account, two for organizations I work with, a spam account that I use for signing up with web sites that require an email address and a few Google Apps for Domain accounts. I have never learned the [...]
Play Pacman on Google to Celebrate Arcade Game’s 30th Birthday
Google is celebrating the 30th anniversary of Pacman by replacing the search company’s logo with the game today. Pacman was one of the most popular arcade games through the 1980s. To play Pacman today, just visit Google.com and click Insert Coin. For many kids growing up in the 1980s, arcade games like Pacman were their [...]
