Archive for May, 2011
Lenovo ThinkPads in Space Onboard Shuttle Endeavour
The Space Shuttle Endeavour lifted off into space for a mission 16-day mission to the International Space Station bringing some much-needed tech toys for the ISS astronauts and cosmonauts. On board with them were a slew of mobile tech most notably some Lenovo ThinkPad computers. In the image below posted on Lenovo’s official Facebook fan [...]
Seagate GoFlex Satellite Wireless Hard Drive Syncs and Streams Content
Seagate announced a new wireless hard drive called the GoFlex Satellite Wireless Hard Drive. At 500GB this drive will let you back things up without ever attaching your drive to your computer. It will also stream the content on the drive to up to three Apple iPads at the same time. It supports iOS and [...]
How to Tell Which GPU Your MacBook Pro is Using and Manually Choose Your GPU with gfxcardstatus
If you ever want to know which graphics card your Apple MacBook Pro is using, then gfxcardstatus is the perfect utility. The MacBook Pro has what is called switchable or dynamic switching graphics. When your system needs a lot of graphics processing power for things like video encoding, picture editing or especially gaming, the computer switches from lowered [...]
Razer Orochi Bluetooth Gaming Mouse Review: Close to Perfect
For gaming on the go, the Razer Orochi Bluetooth laser mouse is as good as it gets ($79.99). If you are not a gamer, you will still love the size, weight and functionality for use as an every day mobile mouse. Size and Weight For gaming or just general use, the size and weight of [...]
Weekly Wrapup: Notebook, Tablet and Smartphone News (May 13th)
This was a busy week for smartphones and tablets with Google I/O 2011 and a collection of other announcements. In case you missed the news and reviews, we have rounded up the most popular items for you to digest quickly. We also have our top picks for notebook reviews and news to give you some afternoon reading. [...]
How to Get Apps On Your Notebook and Netbook (Angry Birds, Flight Control, Fruit Ninja & More)
Apps, Apps, Apps. IT seems all the cool devices these days have apps. While tablets and smartphones may be getting the most attention, you can add apps to your netbook and notebook with the Intel AppUp store. The Intel AppUp store has a collection of popular apps and works on Windows notebooks and netbooks running Windows XP [...]
Lenovo IdeaPad Z Helps Student & Parkour Fan with Work & Play (video)
The Lenovo IdeaPad Z series laptop helps student and Parkour aficionado Mikael study and play. Mikael is an exchange student from Russia studying in Beijing, China. As a computer science major he works on the laptop for school. But he also enjoys Parkour, an interesting sport where you climb walls, railings and anything else you can [...]
Samsung Series 5 Chromebook Pages Up But Not for Purchase
Samsung has their info page for the new Samsung Chromebook announced this week at Google I/O Developer’s Conference. They have three links to “shop” for the Chrome OS netbooks, however clicking the link results in a page saying you can’t yet buy one. At least you will be able to get a look at the [...]
HP WiFi Mobile Mouse Connects to Your Notebook with WiFi
HP announced the new HP WiFi Mobile Mouse today, a new portable mouse that connects to your notebook over the built in WiFi receiver in your notebook or netbook. This new mouse doesn’t need a special dongle or a notebook with Bluetooth, but uses the standard WiFi technology that comes standard on notebooks. The HP Mobile mouse will be [...]
Google Missing the Mark with Chromebooks
At Google I/O the search giant announced that this summer some interesting Chromebooks are coming from Samsung and Acer, with others likely to follow. A Chromebook is a netbook computer running Google’s Chrome OS. Is there room for a fourth mobile operating system? Microsoft Windows still dominates with Apple’s Mac OS X coming on strong [...]
