Archive for February, 2010
A student at Pentucket Regional High School had a broken iPod, so he “took the entire thing apart and was rubbing wires against the battery, which became very hot, then exploded.” Science projects are usually fun, but experimenting with the internals of an iPod should be left off your shortlist.
This is not a faulty product [...]
February 27th, 2010 | Posted in Fun | No Comments
According to IDC’s data, Windows is still the dominant player. The fourth quarter 2009 was more robust than the third, in terms of total revenues and units. Windows’ share of the total stayed constant unit-wise, yet declined, dollar-wise, when compared to the previous calendar quarter.
That said, Windows is still far and away the No. 1 [...]
February 27th, 2010 | Posted in Software | No Comments
The ALC882 series 7 1 2 Channel High Definition Audio codecs with UAA Universal Audio Architecture featuring five 24 bit stereo DACs and three 20 bit stereo ADCs are designed for high performance multimedia PC systems The ALC882 series incorporates proprietary converter technology to achieve over 100dB Signal to Noise ratio playback quality easily meeting [...]
February 25th, 2010 | Posted in Software | 1 Comment
The Bloom Box launch has drawn comparisons to Apple product announcement, says The Guardian. Thankfully, this technology has innovation on its side. Customers include “FedEx, Walmart, Staples, Google, Coca-Cola, Bank of America, Cox, and of course, eBay.” Video after the break.
Not much to look at, but we’re happy to say it retains a low temperature [...]
February 25th, 2010 | Posted in Fun | No Comments
With a design that looks like several houses that were stacked on top of each other, this architectural masterpiece "was built by Herzog & de Meuron for the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein, Germany." It’s definitely a refreshing sight to see, compared to the other extravagant yet dull mansions you see on MTV [...]
February 25th, 2010 | Posted in Fun | No Comments
Google Maps has a photo layer that shows high-quality images from Panoramio. Finding photos from almost any place in the world makes Google Maps more useful, but sometimes there are too many photos to choose from. Now you can filter the photos displayed by Google Maps using the tag cloud generated by Google or using [...]
February 24th, 2010 | Posted in Google | No Comments
One of the neatest new features in Windows 7 Professional and above is XP Mode, but not all machines are capable of running it. Today we show you how to use VMware to run XP Mode on machines without Hardware Virtualization.
How does this work?
Even if your computer doesn’t have hardware virtualization, you can still install [...]
February 24th, 2010 | Posted in Microsoft | No Comments
Yahoo has formed a partnership with Twitter to help boost the company’s social features. With this partnership, users will be able “to view the short, 140-character messages created by Twitter users, dubbed Tweets, directly within Yahoo sites as well as to publish their own Twitter messages without leaving Yahoo.” Continue reading for a video on [...]
February 24th, 2010 | Posted in Tips | No Comments
Norton Internet Security Strong on protection light on system resources award winning Norton Internet Security runs quietly in the background to detect and block today 39 s complex threats and to protect your identity when you buy bank or browse online The friendly and efficient product design helps minimize confusing security alerts and system slowdowns [...]
February 24th, 2010 | Posted in Software | No Comments
WinZip reg is the original and most trusted file compression software for Windows No other compression utility is as easy to use or offers the comprehensive feature set and productivity enhancing approach that has made WinZip the gold standard in file compression tools The new WinZip nbsp 14 nbsp provides deep integration with Windows including [...]
February 23rd, 2010 | Posted in Software | No Comments
Norton 360 provides all in one protection that keeps you your family your PC and your information secure This comprehensive solution combines Symantec 39 s proven industry leading security and PC tune up technologies with new automated backup and antiphishing features providing a full circle of protection Norton 360 trade Version 3 0 offers proven [...]
February 21st, 2010 | Posted in Open Play | No Comments
It’s far from the only one working on flexible OLED lighting, but it looks like ModisTech could be among the first to actually bring something to market, as its now announced that it will begin commercialization of its 150 x 150mm flexible OLED panels this year (seemingly ahead of its original 2011 schedule). Those will [...]
February 20th, 2010 | Posted in Fun | No Comments
Download Accelerator Plus DAP is the world 39 s leading download manager allows you to download up to 300 faster with increased reliability resume support and errors recovery It searches for mirror sites that most effectively serve your downloads through multiserver connections for optimal utilization of dial up or broadband connections DAP automatically recovers from [...]
February 20th, 2010 | Posted in Software | No Comments
Mozilla Firefox faster more secure easier to use and sporting a new look this latest Firefox release sets a new standard for web browser innovation Mozilla Firefox project formerly Firebird which was formerly Phoenix is a redesign of Mozilla 39 s browser component written using the XUL user interface language and designed to be cross [...]
February 18th, 2010 | Posted in Software | No Comments
WinRAR is a general purpose archiving and compression program competing with replacing programs such as PKZip ARJ and others It offers significantly improved compression ratios easier use and a cheaper price as well as supporting long file names disk spanning and self extracting file creation WinRAR Unplugged is portable Now you can take the best [...]
February 15th, 2010 | Posted in Software | No Comments
Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster safer and easier Google Chrome also uses a brand new javascript engine V8 which is much faster than existing javascript interpreters This means you can create more complex and more intensive AJAX applications with fewer speed and [...]
February 13th, 2010 | Posted in Software | No Comments
The complete solution to optimize tweak and clean up Windows 7 An all in one utility to tweak optimize tune and clean up your Windows 7 it includes over thirty different utilities to help make your system perform faster increase stability and security and helps you to personalize your copy of Windows 7.
Download : Yamicsoft [...]
February 13th, 2010 | Posted in Software | 1 Comment
BatteryBar works on various versions of Windows, but my focus was on Windows 7 since that’s what I’m using at the moment. The Taskbar icon is both compact and informative, and even more details can be revealed if you click on the icon. After you’ve used the app for a while it will also [...]
February 13th, 2010 | Posted in Software | No Comments
Shield up to Three PCs from viruses and other malware in an easy to use package Acronis AntiVirus 2010 protects your family and their computers from phishing attacks spammers and as many as 10 000 new viruses created every week Superior antivirus and Web page scanning technologies keep you safe while e mail scans block [...]
February 10th, 2010 | Posted in Software | No Comments
Did you know you can download free Nero 9 software Nero 9 is a popular multimedia suite that lets you create rip copy burn edit share and upload data online Now you can grab the free limited Nero version and enjoy.
Nero lets you play with music videos photos and data that you can enjoy and [...]
February 9th, 2010 | Posted in Software | No Comments