Archive for February, 2011
Motorola Xoom Commercial Arrives: Snaps Laptop In Half
Motorola may be fighting an uphill battle with the $800 Motorola Xoom and its access to 16 Android HoneyComb apps, but that’s not stopping the company that successfully brought Android to the smart phone masses from upping the ante with a new Motorola Xoom commercial. The new Motorola Xoom commercial is much better than the inside joke [...]
Week in Review: Tablet and Smart Phone News You Need to Read
This hasn’t just been a big week for Notebooks, it’s also been packed full of tablet and smart phone news and videos. We’ve rounded up the best of the week into a bite size version that will let you digest the week’s tablet and smart phone news while you enjoy your Friday afternoon. Tablet News [...]
How to Create a Simple Partition in Windows 7 (Quick Tip)
If you have a large hard disk installed in your computer, you can split it up and create small partitions. This can be handy for backing up your data safely from the system drive where Windows is installed. The key advantage to this is, when you are reinstalling Windows, you can just reinstall on the [...]
OS X 10.7 Lion Brings Tablet Scrolling Gestures to Notebooks, Desktops
Apple has long implemented multi-touch scrolling on its notebooks via a two-finger scrolling gesture, however the new version of OS X 10.7 shows the direction that Apple may be headed in merging its full OS X operating system, found on notebooks and desktops, with the mobile iOS operating system, found on iPhones, iPod Touches, and [...]
Tutor for iMovie 11 Teaches you How to Use iMovie for $5
Our Mac App Store Highlight is a simple tutorial app for iMovie ’11 called Tutor for iMovie. It comes from Noteboomproductions.com and gives some good basic learning videos about a specific application. This app is about iMovie ’11 which is part of the recently updated iLife suite of production applications from Apple. iMovie is a simple video editing [...]
Roundup of 25 New Sandy Bridge Notebooks: Apple, Dell, HP, Lenovo & Sony
This week was one of the busiest we’ve seen in a while with 25 new notebooks or refreshed notebooks being announced this week from Apple, Dell, HP, Lenovo and Sony. The new notebooks ran the gamut from consumer devices to corporate work stations and range from $579 to $2,199 for the base models. There’s even [...]
Why OS X 10.7 Lion’s Version Feature Will Simplify File Management
As part of the new auto-save feature of Apple’s new and forthcoming Mac OS X 10.7 Lion that we had previously reported about, Apple will also introduce a feature called Versions that will allow users through a timeline of the various edits and versions of a document they are looking at, which will help users [...]
Benchmark: Apple MacBook Pro Refresh Shows Performance Boost
Benchmarks of the new MacBook Pro are showing that the refresh is going to bring a nice performance boost for users. The biggest difference between the older models and this year’s is the processor and graphics chipset. Apple went with Intel’s brand new Sandy Bridge version of the Core i3, i5 and i7 CPU. That’s [...]
Apple’s Bid to End Optical OS Distribution Hits Snag
Apple is releasing a beta version of the next big update to their operating system dubbed OS X 10.7 Lion. The only way for developers to get it is through the Mac App Store, further showing that Apple means to kill of the optical disc, says Tech Crunch. The move started when the MacBook Air [...]
MacBook Pro (early 2011) Teardown Raises Quality Control Questions
The new MacBook Pro models, introduced as the 2011 refresh, weren’t even a day old when do it yourself repair sit iFixit took the aluminum clad notebook apart to show all of us what the inside of a MacBook Pro looks like. In doing so, iFixit found some design improvements, but also found a few quality control [...]
