Archive for October, 2010
HP Mini 5103 Business Class Netbook First Impressions
HP recently updated the company’s business class netbook, the HP Mini 5103 to work with the new dual core Intel Atom N550 processors. The upgrade which added a few new features to the Mini 5012, which we recently reviewed, doesn’t contain many cosmetic changes, sticking with the duracoat keys, metal body and other features that add up [...]
Samsung RF510 First Impressions: Power and Beauty Unite
The Samsung RF510 laptop is, based on our initial testing, an incredibly powerful notebook that’s also beautiful and available for just under $1,000. Launched in early September the Samsung RF510 comes in two configurations, the S01 and the S02. Samsung was kind enough to send us over the Samsung RF510 S02 notebook which comes complete with an [...]
Facebook Launches Revamped Groups, Higher Resolution Photos
Facebook is a highly iterative website. The developers behind it are constantly making tweaks and changes to the layout, organization, etc. Sometimes these aren’t very visible to users, but other times they manifest themselves as new features for users to enjoy. Groups Just a few weeks ago, Facebook announced two major overhauls of integral parts [...]
Netbook Market Still Growing but Slower After Tablets Steal Some Steam
Netbook sales have slowed some this year probably due to the popularity of the upstart tablet category that is being driving by the Apple iPad, recently called the fastest selling electronic device ever.†But despite what some have said about the iPad eating away at netbook sales figures, they are still growing. This is all [...]
Ergotron WorkFit C Review: A “Standup” Stand Up Desk
Stand up desks and treadputers have been common internet fixtures for the past several years, but not exactly commonplace in offices and homes of “regular” workers. That’s something that Ergotron is hoping to change with its Just Stand campaign to raise awareness of the benefits of working while standing. The Ergotron WorkFit-C is a standing [...]
Goldilocks, Apple of My Eye Creators Talk About Shooting Films with the iPhone 4
If you haven’t seen what Majek Pictures is doing in shooting professional quality short films with unique video capture devices like the iPhone 4 and the Red Camera, then do yourself a treat and watch Apple of My Eye and the first episode of their new web action thriller series Goldilocks. Apart from anything else [...]
XGearlive Touge Special Edition Case for iPhone 3G and 3GS is “Hardcore and Stylin’”
XGearlive is focused on ‘sophisticated coolness’ for the cases they make for all iOS devices, MacBook Pros and other mobile devices. Their Touge Special Edition case for the iPhone 3G and 3GS successfully applies their design philosophy with a case that one of our guest reviewers, my son, said was ‘hardcore and stylin’. XGearlive sent [...]
How to Pin Hotmail To Your Windows 7 Taskbar
Last month Microsoft launched the innovative next generation version of its popular browser, Internet Explorer 9. One of the major highlights is the app centric experience IE 9 introduces. This makes it easy to access your favorite websites in Windows much easier while also providing unique co-branded experiences. The Windows Live Team are updating their [...]
How To Use Google Voice With a Regular Cell Phone
Using Google Voice with a smartphone offers easy access to most of the Google Voice features, but there is still an easy way to use Google voice with a standard cell phone and enjoy all the same power user features including the ability to get transcribed voicemail, make calls and send texts from your Google [...]
The Dangers of Buying or Using Pirated Software
Software piracy remains a major problem around the world and it affects all of us, at least indirectly. Some people believe casual copying of software won’t affect a developers bottom-line, but it does. Whether its research that goes into developing the product to make it better, investment in maintaining the software with updates throughout its [...]
