Computers

Weekly Deals: HP dv6t Quad Edition, Dell Inspiron Duo & Apps for Cheap

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Another week, another line up of good laptop deals from two venerable PC manufacturers as Apple slowly siphons away their market share. Ouch! HP recently reported poor quarterly earnings, especially on their consumer side of the business, while on the flip side, Dell’s earnings surprised analysts as their enterprise business is picking up steam. In [...]

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Innovative Uses for Your iPad

Apple iPad

We all know that your iPad is a great tool for surfing the web, reading e-books, checking e-mail, playing games and more. And, of course, there’s an app for just about everything. With customization, you can use your iPad to balance your checkbook, find out how fast your car is traveling, log your daily food [...]

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How to Clean Up Your Mac

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Like any computing platform, Mac computers have their share of cleanup needs. While the Mac does not have a windows registry like PCs, there are other file burdens that hog disk space over time necessitating a Mac cleanup operation. You will know it is time to clean your Mac when you notice appreciable slowing of [...]

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Sony Shows Off 2 New Android Tables

Sony S2 Android Tablet

Last but not least, Sony is now in the Android tablet game, joining existing entrants Samsung, Motorola, et al. Well at least their announcment is on the books as the tablets won’t be released until later this Fall. Sony showed off 2 models at their press conference: the S1 and S2, which is a dual-screen [...]

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[Video] Easy to Follow Tips to Improve your Computer Ergonomics

Computer ergonomics are important for our well-being, but we tend to balk due to the seemingly long list of rules. This short but entertaining video posted by VodafoneES gives you some basic tips on how to improve your set up in an easy-to-follow manner. Don’t worry about the Spanish title, there is no speech to [...]

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Google Aims to Speed Up the Web with SPDY Protocol

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Google has been quietly working on a new protocol for Web traffic that would augment and speed up HTTP, a protocol that is now over 20 years old. Called SPDY — not an acronym, but short for “speedy” — it is currently part of the Chromium umbrella of open-source projects and its main aim is [...]

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LaCie’s Little Big 1TB Drive has 10Gb/s Transfer Speed

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LaCie have announced their new Little Big Disk, featuring Thunderbolt technology. And, no, it has nothing to do with Little Big Planet – this is a storage drive that offers transfer speeds of 10Gb/s! Developed by Intel,Thunderbolt even trumps USB 3.0′s top-end 5Gb/s speeds.

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Windows 8 SmartScreen is a Step in the Right Direction, but Needs a “Warn” Setting

Windows 8 SmartScreen

Windows 8 will have a new feature common to the entire OS and not just IE called SmartScreen that will dynamically prevent programs that have been deemed illegal, fraudulent or malicious from running (assuming you have it turned on).

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Weekly Deals: IdeaPad Y560p, Dell XPS 17 Laptops & Apps For Cheap

Dell XPS 17 laptop

Despite the emergence of touch-based tablets for casual computing, if you want to play the latest 3D games or have real productivity requirements, the best portable solution is still using a laptop. This week, here are two solid laptop deals from Lenovo and HP, both at similar price point but they’re definitely built for different [...]

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Commodore 64 Relaunched With New PC Guts

'new' Commodore 64 PC

Commodore is a brand that refuses to die, and there are enough nostalgic supporters to make a businessman think that it’s still worth something, which is why Barry Altman — who now owns the trademark — has released a desktop computer that looks just like the original Commodore 64 did, except it’s not actually a [...]

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