Windows 7 Candidate Available To The Public Starting Next Week, Free For A Year
Sick of your copy of Windows Vista? Microsoft is releasing a near-finished version of Windows 7 on May 5th, available for download to the general public. Based on feedback from those who’ve tried earlier beta releases and from what has been shown so far, it looks like a good idea to chuck that poor excuse [...]
BumpTop Finally Comes Out of Beta
After years of endless beta versions and announcements, Bumptop finally surfaces as a downloadable retail application. I’ve been using BumpTop since an early beta and I have to agree with their claims that it’s going to be the future of desktops in operating systems. What’s so good about BumpTop? Let me list the ways: It [...]
MSI X-Slim X340: Budget Macbook Air For The Rest Of Us
MSI’s X-Slim X340 is getting a lot of good press lately as more and more folks are getting a chance to play with it. Soon to begin selling for less than $1000 and sporting looks that match up with Apple’s groundbreaking slim laptop, it’s fair to say that this notebook may just be worth holding [...]
REDFLY Mobile Viewer Lets You See Your Phone Screen On A Full-Size PC
With phones becoming more and more like real computers with decent apps on board, you’ll probably be using your mobile handset’s software tools with increasing frequency as well. Celio Corp.’s REDFLY Mobile Viewer, a PC program that allows you to view your phone’s screen on a full-size display, should make using your phone’s onboard suite [...]
OnLive Looks To Make Gaming Rigs Obsolete, Suprisingly Is Not Alone
Hassle-free gaming, that’s what OnLive promised during their press conference last week. Gamers will no longer need to download drivers, install graphics cards, troubleshoot problems or worry about compatibility issues. Hell, they won’t even need a PC or a console in order to play! All you’ll need is a set-top box that you can connect [...]
Apple Announces Major Product Updates With Unusually Low-Key Announcements
Apple announced a spate of changes to their product lines today with little seeming fanfare. Here’s a quick recap for those untrained in catching Apple releases without the usual hype: Mac Pro A new line of Mac Pros have been announced with prices ranging from $2500 to $3299. The rigs will feature Intel’s Nahelem Xeon [...]
Sony Shaving $100 Off The PS3′s Price?
Sony’s PS3 has, hands-down, the best hardware among consoles currently on the market. The Blu-Ray player alone sets it in a category all its own. Unfortunately for Sony, it also left them in a price range all to themselves. Two years after the the PS3′s release, it still lags a far third behind both the [...]
Digital Books: It’s All Alright
Richard Sarnoff, chairman of the Association of American Publishers, recently spoke against the duopoly currently shaping up to be the online book reading market. According to Sarnoff, the court ruling between Google and book publishers last October has made entering the market a difficult proposition. Google BooksGoogle’s game, in particular, has set up a virtual [...]
Ringtone Maker RCP Tones Goes Pay What You Want
Last I heard, the ringtone market has been seeing a bit of a slide in recent months. Understandably so, considering any idiot with a PC, a USB connection and decent software can make their own ringtones since ages ago. Add to that the mounting complaints from consumers sucked into expensive monthly subscriptions, along with worldwide [...]
Switching to Digital Cable, Why and How soon ?
For those of you that watch TV in the U.S. know that Midnight, on 2-17-2009 Analog over the air terrestrial broadcasts will be switched to digital only from the simulcast that currently exists. Sad, right ? Although this may be a shock to many, television owners have been warned well since last year now. For [...]