So, on the last day of CES 2011, I finally made it over to the Motorola booth, as I just had to try out the new Motorola Xoom tablet powered by Google’s Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) which eventually topped the polls and was named the best gadget at CES 2011. It is indeed a crush-worthy device. The [...]
Earlier today, while monitoring some feeds on Tweetdeck, I was thinking about how handy it would be to check on all of my facebook pages, my twitter feeds, my Rss feeds, my favorite forum threads, etc… and boom Seesmic releases their new Desktop 2. It doesn’t add forum threads, that was my idea… but the [...]
D8. All Things Digital, the an annual conference where the worlds top tech gurus come to discuss the state of the digital world was created by the Wall Street Journal’s renowned tech journalist, Walter Mossberg, and his colleague-in-crime, Kara Swisher. This year the conference is in it’s 8th year, first year at the new location, [...]
Snipping Tool captures a screen shot of anything on your desktop, like a picture or a section of webpage. Snip a whole window, a rectangular section of the screen, or draw a freehand outline with your mouse or tablet pen (or your finger, if you’re using a PC with a touchscreen). Then you can annotate, [...]
With the new MacBook Pro lineup, featuring all-new processors, we can look forward to forums filling up with nitpicks and gripes and whining from the scads of fanboys who continue to believe that Apple makes perfect products. So, for your betting pleasure, here is the First-Gen Rev.A MacBook Pro i5/i7 Bracket. As you can see, [...]
The new MacBook Pro line is nearly indistinguishable from the older model, with the only difference being the larger smile of smug self-satisfaction on the face of the user.
ARM is the democratization of the CPU outside the Wintel paradigm. ARM has become the CPU of choice for mobile devices, and as the demarcation between mobile and immobile gets further eroded by devices like the iPad and Chrome OS, the ARM architecture has become the most viable x86 killer that has ever existed.
If you write for a living or for a hobby or use Microsoft Word, you want to check this program out. JDarkRoom is a piece of software that takes over your screen and gives you a 1980′s looking green screen monitor. No bright lights, just a green cursor and black background. It is so easy to use this piece of software, and IT COST NO MONEY?!?!!
A nasty little surprise waiting for me on the bottom of my laptop. At least I didn’t have to learn it the hard way.
Ordinarily, the cost to replace a lost 32GB iPhone is $700. Here is how I got my refurb black iPhone 3GS (32GB) replaced with a new white iPhone 3GS (32GB) for $300 with an option to upgrade my phone in November.
Apple’s update of Aperture is more notable for what it didn’t update – namely the processors at the heart of the computers that will run the newly-updated Aperture.
MIT research is cutting edge. While not yet of the commercial variety, the trickle down effect eventually comes into our current technologies, as they were all lab based at one point in time. It may be 5 to 10 years before we see 500 Ghz CPUs pop up, but we can still dream. According to [...]
As read on Twitter. “Fun Fact of the Week: GeForce GTX 480 and GeForce GTX 470 will be the names of the first two GPUs shipped based on our new GF100 chip!” If you want to know more about the Fermi based Nvidia GPU cards coming out. Gizmodo has a decent post.
Over at Engadget, there was a quick mention of the Nvidia ION 2 platform. Asus Atom N450-based Eees are expected to drop to the mid $400 range once N27-/280 Netbooks are phased out. A tablet swivel model (T101MT) may also release that could be based off of the ION 2 platform. The Inquirer mentioned some rumors [...]
