Archive for July, 2011
Gateway ID47 Notebook Get’s Sexy Back to School Look
The Gateway ID line of notebooks received a back to school makeover today with a collection of improvements to performance and looks without adding to the all important bottom line. The Gateway ID47 notebook is available today with a starting price of $699. A 2.3GHz Intel Core i5 Sandy Bridge processor delivers enough processing power to tackle [...]
G-Form Extreme Sleeve Review: Looks & Acts Like Body Armor
G-Form offers the Extreme Sleeve for Laptops to protect your notebook from drops and bumps. While it doesn’t look like it can keep your computer safe when dropped from 20 feet, it can thanks to some cool case design and surprising materials. G-Form got their start protecting elbows and knees with their sporting goods line. They [...]
Dell Latitude E6520 Review
There are notebooks and then there are business notebooks. The Dell Latitude E6520 is the latter, delivering the speed, stamina and durability that business users demand. A business rugged notebook, with MILSPEC ratings that testify to its chops, read on to find out if it delivers on all counts or needs to go back to business [...]
How to Troubleshoot Sound Problems in Windows
Sound is an important part of using your PC. We use our notebooks to listen to music, listen to the audio in a movie, while we chat with friends and to listen to online radio and video. Sound also indicates various events that take place in Windows, alerting you to a completed download, computer startup, [...]
How to Install Microsoft Office 2010 SP1
Microsoft has released the first Service Pack maintenance update for its Office productivity suite, Office 2010. Service Pack 1 contains cumulative and public updates for all Office 2010 suites and individual applications including Project 2010, Visio 2010, SharePoint 2010, Office 2010 servers, Office Web Apps, Search Server 2010, SharePoint 2010 Products and FAST Search Server [...]
How to Change the Default Start Menu Power Options (Quick Tip)
These days, shutting down your computer is a rarity. If you want to save power, but keep your computer ready to turn on, hibernation is an excellent option. I’ll show you how to change power options and why you might want to change the default Start Menu Power options. I hibernate my laptop which is [...]
How to Make Internet Explorer Open Multiple Tabs At Launch
If you like to start your day by looking at more than one webpage, you can set up Internet Explorer to open several pages when you launch your browser. I use this tip to open Hotmail (email), Google News (news) and Facebook (social networking) each morning with one click. Years ago, opening a single home page [...]
How to Change Font Size in Windows 7 (Quick Tip)
If you would like to make text larger or smaller on-screen for better visibility or because of a visual impairment, this article will show you how to change font size in Windows. Since the introduction Windows Vista, Microsoft has made great improvements to Windows 7’s DPI (Dots Per Inch which refers to the screens resolutions) [...]
Acer Aspire One Happy 2 NetBooks Offer Fruity Colors
Acer has updated the Aspire One netbook line with a collection of new Aspire One Happy 2 netbooks which come in a variety of festive and fruitful colors. While you won’t be picking up one of these to use at work, well most of us won’t, the Happy 2 netbooks are definitely eye catching. The Happy 2 [...]
Samsung Delivers More Affordable Series 9 Notebooks
Samsung is launching a volley of back to school notebooks in the Series 9 collection of notebooks. The new Series 9 notebooks come in both 11.6″ and 13.3″ models, with five distinct models. Samsung’s new Series 9 notebooks start at a much more palatable $1,049 for the 11.6″ model and $1,349 for the 13.3″ model. Samsung has taken [...]
