Archive for December, 2010
Holiday Gift Guide: Laptops and Netbooks
Giving a laptop as a gift during the holiday season usually means that someone has been really good, or you’r picking up a needed laptop at holiday pricing. Whatever your reasons, we’ve narrowed it down to some of our favorite laptops and netbooks to help you pick a gift that will bring smiles all year [...]
Dolby Home Theater v4 Equipped Notebooks Coming Soon (video)
Dolby is set to formally introduce Dolby Home Theater v4 at CES 2011 next month. Dolby is working with most major PC manufacturers to improve the audio experience when listening to music and movies, whether through headphones or laptops’ built-in speakers. Rather than simply selling PC companies a software solution, Dolby works with them to [...]
Android 3.0 Honeycomb Tablet Teased by Google Co-founder
With so many tablets being released this year, many of which are running Android, Google co-founder Andy Rubin teased the media at the All Things D: Dive Into Mobile conference in San Francisco by showing off a tablet running Android 3.0, also known as Honeycomb, which Google itself has said is the first version of [...]
Evernote Ups Monthly Limits and Offers Premium Gifting
Great news for Evernote lovers, Evernote has decided to make the season a little bit brighter by giving all Evernote users a higher monthly limit and rolling out Premium invites to all accounts starting right now. All in addition to the early gift of Evernote 2.0 for Mac that landed yesterday. The new higher monthly limits affect the amount [...]
New MacBook Pros Rumored for Early 2011 with New Design
Redesigned MacBook Pro models are expected to arrive in the first half of 2011, according to DigiTimes. The new MacBook Pro models are expected in the first half of 2011 along with a new iMac model, possibly a 22″ size. DigiTimes expects that these new upgrades will lead to a growth of Apple notebook shipments [...]
Mac App Store Coming January 6
It is official. The Apple Mac App Store is coming January 6, per an announcement from Apple today. The new Mac App Store is designed to harness the success Apple has had with the iOS App Store for OS X. The company’s belief is that this will make finding, installing and updating apps for their Mac [...]
Dell Inspiron Mini 10 4G w/ T-Mobile Review
While the iPad may have stolen some thunder from the world of netbooks, there are still plenty of small and portable devices with Windows 7 and a keyboard ready to deliver on the go productivity and in the case of the Dell Inspiron Mini 10 4G from T-Mobile, do it with the speed of 4G. We already took a [...]
Opera 11 Announced With Extensions, Tab Stacking and More
Opera has announced a new version, Opera 11, which brings with it further refinements to browsing including tab stacking, visual mouse gestures and one of the most requested features — Opera Extensions. Extensions Opera 11 is available for download right now with close to 200 extensions available to install including the top five downloaded extensions [...]
Evernote 2.0 for Mac is Out of Beta – Sharing, Stacks and More
Take note Max users who love Evernote. Evernote announced today that Evernote 2.0 is now available for the Mac, exiting beta and bringing with it plenty of new features and a in some areas a new look that should excite Mac users who don’t want to forget their notes or go to the web to tackle simple [...]
Frontface Released: Makes Windows More Touch Friendly
Frontface is an overlay for Windows from Mirabyte which tries to make Windows more touch friendly with a simplified user interface. The company claims it will make using a netbook, tablet, or home computer easier to use for average users. It has previously been in the Release Candidate phase, but the company has announced that [...]
