the seedy world of the crime lord: There are three types of mastermind. One is the real bad guy, sending out his goons to mug, extort, sell drugs and all the rest of it. The other is a legitimate business owner who uses…
create a single hardware-independent image for Windows deployment: If you have to install and configure new PCs as part of your job, you’ll know how handy disk imaging and cloning tools can be. You’ll also appreciate their limitations, especially when it comes to deploying…
comprehensive genealogy program: Now published by Avanquest under licence from Ancestry, Family Tree Maker 2009 is the latest incarnation of what is possibly the best-known family history software. Admittedly, it’s now best-known for the wrong reasons, following the disastrous…
NAS systems seem to never be ideally perfect, reliable, widely compatible or easy to use. Even though there are pretty big names in the business like LaCie, Addonics, Western Digital, etc. we still were able to find a thing or two to mend in their products. This is really annoying because NAS systems are what seatbelt is to a car driver ? not the most exiting thing in a car but truly life-saving. There we are then, with a new NAS gadget from QNAP Systems ? model TS-809U-RP Turbo NAS.
How many criteria has a TV to match before you suggest buying it? Ideally there always were two of them - screen size and picture quality. Recently we’ve started to look sharply at the amount of electricity any display uses and at the stock price of the thing of course. Since there is organic electroluminescence technology or OLED that is brewing its popularity every single day and even moving from home to portable gadgets, we have an ultimate solution for the picture quality and energy consumption issues, but price for an OLED gadget is way up higher over LCD. So, what do you think Toshiba contemplates for their OLED project, better picture or lower price? At this moment it is obvious they were building their OLED wallpaper under “The bigger ? the better” motto leaving no info on price so far.
The Eyeball sounds great, but it looks more like a loose leaf tea strainer than a Webcam.
(Credit: Donald Bell/CNET)
Webcams aren’t the first product to spring to mind when you think of Blue Microphones. The company has a solid reputation in the pro audio world for making …
Apple MacBook Pro (17 inch Unibody)
WordCamp Denver at the Art Museum, which was a fantastic venue.
Slashgear has recently put up a video giving the breakdown, and walkthrough of Samsung’s forthcoming SWD-M100 Mobile Internet Device.
We don’t know much about the SWD-M100 other than it runs Windows Mobile 6.1, features an Opera browser, has an accelerometer, and 2-cameras; a 3MP one on the back and a 0.3MP on the front. There is also a microSD memeory card slot for memory expansion and a port for TV output.
Sounds, and looks, cool. I remember when UMPC’s first came out and they were all the rage, oh how the times have changed.
Samsung Electronics is adopting the Nano processor from Via Technologies for its NC20 Netbook.
The NC20 is set to be Samsung’s successor to the NC10, which, like most Netbooks on the market, has an Intel Atom central processing unit.
The new Samsung NC20 Netbook.
(Credit: Via Technologies)
Via’s Nano chips are its first 64-bit, superscalar processors …
