Author Archive: Xavier Lanier
Adobe Photoshop CS5 ‘Content Aware’ Demo
Adobe’s getting ready to launch Creative Suite 5, which includes an updated version of Photoshop. The application is used by countless creative professionals, including professional photographers and editors. A new Photoshop CS5 feature called ‘Content Aware Fill’ CS5 is simply magical. The engineers at Adobe have somehow taught Photoshop to automatically understand what objects are [...]
Plastiki Sets Sail on Green, High Tech Voyage
A boat made of 12,000 bottles is sailing today from San Francisco to Sydney to . The Plastiki is a boat designed to raise awareness of environmental issues, including the massive amount of plastic bottles that are dumped in the world’s oceans. The Plastiki crew is using a number of high tech tools while on [...]
Review: Amazon Kindle for Mac
Amazon just released Kindle for Mac, an application that allows Amazon customers to read more than 450,000 books on their MacBooks. Anyone with a U.S. Amazon.com account can sample and buy books with kindle for Mac, even if they don’t own an Amazon Kindle. This application is technically in beta despite being released to the [...]
Dell Vostro V13 Unboxed and on Video
Our friend Jason Dunn from Digital Home Thoughts got his hands on a Dell Vostro V13. The Vostro line is Dell’s affordable business line of notebook PCs and were originally based off of Dell’s Inspiron consumer lineup. Times have changed though and the Vostro V13 looks like it’s all grown up. As Jason points out [...]
Google Nexus One Coming to Sprint
Sprint announced to day that a version of the Google Nexus One will soon be available that will work with its network. According to Sprint, its mobile broadband network has twice the network coverage of AT&T’s network and ten times the coverage area of T-Mobile’s network. The Nexus One will only be available through Google’s [...]
HP Coupon: $250 off Pavilion Notebooks
HP is offering an additional $250 off coupon redeemable on Pavilion Notebook PCs configured to at least $1,099 for a very limited time. The $250 coupon can be used in conjunction with existing rebates. That means that this deal can save you up to $450 off the standard price on well-configured HP laptops. To take [...]
Google Voice Reviewed: Why Google is my Phone Company and Should Be Yours
A lot of my friends and family have been asking me questions about my weird new phone number that I’ve asked them to use instead of the phone number I’ve had for over 14 years. My new number is the axis of my Google Voice account and it’s changed the way I communicate. Google Voice [...]
HP Elitebook 2740p Tablet PC (video)
The Elitebook 2740p is HP’s latest convertible Tablet PC for business users. The 2740p is the first HP business tablet to come with a multi-touch display, making it easier to use when in slate mode. Another big change is that the 2740p will come with powerful Intel Core i5 and Core i7 processors. The 2740p’s [...]
Lets Do a Little More for Haiti
Last night I shared a link to the Red Cross, which is collecting donations via SMS for earthquake relief efforts in Haiti. I was very glad to hear that the Red Cross has raised more than $1.2 Million via its SMS campaign in a single day. That’s very impressive considering they did it $10 at [...]
ThinkPad Edge 13 on Camera
Charles Sune from Lenovo gave us a quick overview of the ThinkPad Edge 13. The new ThinkPad Edge series is much more affordable than ThinkPad’s T and X Series, but retains some of the things I like about the more expensive ThinkPads. The keyboard is probably the best one I’ve tried on a 13″ notebook [...]
