Archive for March, 2011
How to Enable Pinch to Zoom and Twist Gestures in Firefox 4
If you have a multi touch mousepad and have already downloaded Firefox 4, you can enable mulitouch gestures by changing a few settings. This will allow you to pinch to zoom in Firefox 4 and enable the use of a twist gesture to switch tabs. To enable pinch to zoom, you need to head over [...]
Toshiba Portege R800 Notebooks Get Priced, Worth the Wait
Toshiba let slip the pricing for the new Toshiba Portege R800 ultraportable 13″ notebooks when the previously un-announced and un-priced notebooks made a brief appearance on Toshiba’s website. The Toshiba Portege R800 series includes several models and is a followup to our Editor’s Choice winning Toshiba Portege R705. The Toshiba Portege R800 is expected to come in four models [...]
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The Right Price for Core i7 Notebooks Revealed [Buying Advice]
We all want the best deal we can find on a new notebook, especially on powerful Core i7 powered desktop replacement notebooks with 16″ or 17″ displays. Knowing when to open your wallet and make a purchase can be a hard to figure out, but using histrical pricing, Dealnews has figured out the “Magic Price” [...]
iBUYPOWER Releases a Trio of Sandy Bridge Gaming Systems
iBUYPOWER is announcing a trio of gaming notebooks with the new second generation Intel Core i7-2630QM processor, also known as Sandy Bridge. They all come under the Battalion line and start at $899. They are available immediately from the company’s site. iBUYPOWER Battalion 101 P151HM1 This machine has an NVIDIA GeForece GTX 460M graphics processor. [...]
Notebooks.com’s Best of CTIA 2011 Awards
Notebooks.com and GottaBeMobile have been on the ground at CTIA 2011, scouring the booths and announcements to find the best smartphones and tablets that will be arriving on carriers near you. This year was a big year or AT&T which bought T-Mobile, but it was also a big year for Android with a collection of new phones [...]
How to Sync files between 2 computers with Windows Live Mesh.
There are many solutions out there for synchronizing data between multiple computers, I personally use Dropbox, but I want to look at another free solution that is just as seamless — Windows Live Mesh. Windows Live Mesh has been part of Microsoft’s set of solutions to solve issues relating to accessing personal data and settings across multiple [...]
How to Troubleshoot JAVA Installations on Windows 7 (Quick Tip)
Many desktop and web applications are built on top of the JAVA Virtual Machine which is a platform for writing special programs that are cross platform aware. Meaning, a program written using the JAVA Virtual Machine can run on Windows, Mac OS X or Linux without alteration. Unlike certain applications, where you have to get [...]
Laptop Mag Notebook Manufacturer Grades Show Apple on Top
Laptop Magazine released their brand reviews of notebook computer manufacturers ranking nine builders based on a number of criteria. The top three were Apple, Lenovo and HP. The rankings were based on the following: reviews design tech support software innovation customer satisfaction This is the second year straight that Apple has ranked first and Lenovo [...]
Chrome 11 Beta Available with Speech Input, GPU Acceleration and New Icon
Not long after finally releasing the stable version of Google Chrome 10, the search company issued the first public beta of their version 11 browser. It takes better advantage of HTML 5, the new standard that should make web sites more feature rich. One such addition is the ability for web developers to add speech [...]
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Don’t Have an App to Open that File? Try the App Store! [Mac OS X]
Trying to open a new file can be a frustrating experience if it is an unknown file type. Both Mac OS X and Windows have this issue, but on the OS X side Apple is making it easier to find out how to open an unknown file on your MacBook thanks to the Mac App [...]
