Archive for July, 2011
Verbatim Dime-Sized Store N Stay USB Drive Meant to Stay Put
Verbatim introduced a new dime-sized Store N Stay USB Flash Drive designed to become a semi-permanent upgrade to computers limited in storage or that just need an extra drive. You can add a little more storage to your netbook or older notebook without a lot of expense, or the difficulty of cracking open the case to do [...]
AMD Fires Back With AMD Radeon HD 6990M – “World’s Fastest” Battle Heats Up
It should come as no surprise that AMD isn’t content to let NVIDIA go around claiming the “Fastest. Notebook GPU. Ever.” for long. Just weeks after the flagship NVIDIA GTX 580M GPU launched, AMD has fired back with the new AMD Radeon HD 6990M, a premium notebook GPU which the company is calling “The World’s Fastest Notebook GPU.” According [...]
Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E420s Review
The Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E420s delivers a more affordable ThinkPad experience to small business users without cutting corners on reliability and looks. On the contrary, this luscious looking business notebook combines chrome accents with extras like Dolby Home Theater v4 to deliver a notebook worth asking for by name. Quick Specs Forget about waiting around for your notebook [...]
How to create Charts using Microsoft Excel
Charts help people process data, and Microsoft Excel can build a variety of charts with your data. Bar charts, area, column, and pie charts commonly get used to represent data visually. Each chart type has its own set of options and variations and can exist as an embedded object in the spreadsheet with your data [...]
How to use the new Windows Live Skydrive
Microsoft announced an update to Skydrive, the company’s cloud storage service that lets you store 25GB of documents, photos and even music for free. Although similar to other cloud storage services such as Dropbox and Apple’s new iCloud, Skydrive delivers much more storage for free. I’ve been using Skydrive for quite a while now and it has gradually [...]
How to Get Your Mac Ready For OS X Lion
Mac OS X Lion is should be available to install as soon as this Thursday. As this is the first Mac App Store OS installation you will be doing, we wanted to share a collection of tips and tasks to perform today, before the official release, so that your Mac is ready for OS X [...]
How To Backup Your Software
Owning a computer means you probably invested in commercial programs from major vendors. Just like backing up your computer and its operating system, it’s also important to backup your software. Now, let me clarify something: I am not referring to backing up installed programs in Windows, but the actual install files or installation discs. It is [...]
Wait! Don’t Buy That New Mac Notebook Yet!
It may seem like a great time to head out and buy a new MacBook or MacBook Air to prepare for the back to school saga, but you should wait one more week before you buy an Apple notebook. All signs point to a new MacBook Air and possibly even a new MacBook on July [...]
Gateway NV Series Refresh: Speedier, More Social Media Options
Gateway has updated their NV entertainment series of notebooks, offering what they bill as “everyday HD entertainment and seemless social networking” with a shortcut key to open your favorite site like Facebook, Flickr or YouTube. The 15.6-inch HD display features a widescreen backlit LED with 1366×768 resolution. The laptop’s patterned lid comes with either a geometric [...]
How to Speed Up Dragon Dictate 2.0 for Mac When It Slows Down
Testing Dragon Dictate 2.0 for Mac disappointed us a little primarily because of a serious memory leak. After about 20 minutes of use, the program slows down to a crawl. The result is your dictation takes an unacceptable 4 or 5 seconds for each word or phrase to show up on the screen. We found a [...]
