Archive for July, 2011
Lenovo ThinkPad X120e Review: Affordable Ultraportable for Business
The ThinkPad X120e proves that good things do come in small packages. This 11.6″ AMD Fusion powered business notebook combines a capable processor with ThinkPad build quality and an affordable price tag for a mini notebook that makes us question why you’d buy a netbook ever again. Quick Specs Inside the X120e you’ll find a [...]
Fitbit Tracker Review: Small and Awesome Fitness Tracker
The Fitbit Tracker is a small clip that attaches to your clothing and monitors your activity throughout the day, creating a log of your walking, running and other activities — it can even monitor your sleep at night. All of this data get’s sent to the Fitbit Tracker website so you can analyze your activity level. The small device is about [...]
How to Use OS X Migration Assistant to Set Up a New Hard Drive
The OS X Migration Assistant can help you move data to a new hard drive in a fraction of the time it would take to do manually. When we replaced the hard drive in a MacBook Pro with a 128GB SSD the process took far less time that it would have otherwise. We decided to [...]
Sell Your MacBook Air to Get The New One Next Week
Apple will release a refresh of the 2nd generation MacBook Air next week according to rumors. If you act quickly, you can sell yours now and help defray the costs of an upgrade. We expected an update this week along with the release of Mac OS X Lion, but that didn’t happen. Now, one reliable source [...]
Mimobot Review: Fun Thumbdrives With Character
Cloud services may be quickly replacing run of the mill thumbdrives, but Mimobots are no ordinary thumbdrives. These incredibly detailed drives come in a variety of designs from Hello Kitty to Star Wars and are portable enough to take with you as a fanboy or fangirl badge of honor. The Mimobot drives range in capacity [...]
gScreen Dual 17″ Screen Notebook Finally For Sale
If you need a massive 34 inches of screen real estate on the go, then you need to look at the, finally available for purchase, gScreen SpaceBook. We’ve been covering this dual screen notebook since 2009, and the wait is now over. The gScreen SpaceBook features two slide out 17″ LCD displays, each with 1920 [...]
PC Market Picks Up, Apple Takes 10.7% of U.S. Market
Notebooks may finally be back on the rise after a yearlong decline in popularity, mostly thanks to the iPad. According to new data from Gartner the notebook market saw a 2.5% growth this past quarter, which helped Apple grow significantly from 2010. Despite the current growth, the PC market is still battling several years of [...]
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Lenovo Boot or Bust Test: When Boot Time Matters [Video]
Manufacturers like to point out fast boot times on notebooks these days, but few go to the extremes Lenovo has to show off the 10 second boot time on Rapid Boot equipped ThinkPad T420s and IdeaPad Y570 notebooks. To show off how fast the ThinkPad T420s can boot, Lenovo strapped a parachute to the notebook, [...]
How to create your first Microsoft Access database
Many of you have Microsoft Access installed on your computer and aren’t taking advantage of it. But a database can be a tool that solves many of your problems. What is a database? A database is a container which stores a variety of information. The principal way of storing information in a Microsoft Access database is with [...]
How to Setup Accounts in Windows Live Mail
In this article we show you how to setup an email account in Windows Live Mail 2011 for the first time. We also show how to add an existing email account if you already have Windows Live Mail set up. When you launch Windows Live Mail 2011 for the first time you are prompted to [...]
