If you’re busy talking to people all day and switching from phone to computer constantly, it would make sense to have a dual-purpose headset. Plantronics’ Voyager PRO does exactly that.
This wireless headset has bluetooth compatibility, but also has a USB receiver for your PC and when needed can swap between the 2 transmitters.
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In late 2009, the Geeks reviewed an Epson WorkForce 600 multipurpose printer/fax/scanner printer and we thought the WorkForce 600 was an excellent all-in-one printer. Fast forward a year and the Geeks received an Epson WorkForce 635 to review and several months and after testing every feature on the all-in-printer, we’re still impressed with the quality of prints, copies and scans not to mention the quality of the device.
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How would you like to carry a portable music studio with you? Using the Garageband App on the iPad, you can!
This next generation iPad app provides value by allowing iPad user’s to create music content rather than just consume by turning the iPad into a collection of touch instruments including Guitars, Basses, Keyboards and Drum Sets and use the app as a full-featured recording studio that allows you to mix up to eight tracks to create songs you can easily share.
The track layout allows you to trim and place musical regions exactly where you want them to play and fine-tune individual track volumes including turning the track into a solo or muting and adjusting pan, reverb and echo. Garageband also includes 250 professional prerecorded loops to enhance your song.
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It was almost 2 years ago that Oracle decided to purchase Sun Microsystems. And now in what seems like the final nail in the coffin, they will also be completely killing off the www.sun.com website.
Most of the content has already been transferred over to new Oracle websites, and trying to go to sun.com already redirects you to an Oracle page.
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Market intelligence firm, IDC, reported that almost 18 million media tablets, such as the iPad, were shipped in 2010. The number jumped dramatically from the 3rd quarter of 2010 from 4.5 million to over 10 million in the 4th.
Apple’s iPad accounted for 93% in the 3rd quarter, but then fell to 73% in the 4th pushed down by the popular Samsung Galaxy Tab.
The current target for 2011 is 50 million units.
The eReader market also continued to grow strongly, with over 6 million units shipped in the holiday 4th quarter.
We’re pretty sure memory sticks exist that have parts of them that glow in the dark, but MyZipZip, a company specialising in brick-shaped memory sticks, has come up what we think is the first fully glow in the dark one. Styled like a LEGO brick (although the designers claim it isn’t…), every last inch of the stick glows in the dark when the case is on.
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Watch this 90 second clip of Paul Graham, of Y Combinator, Viaweb, etc., talking about how he worries about Apple and Steve Jobs becoming the ‘dictator’ types that they once mocked in the 70s and 80s when they were a young company.
I and others have been saying this for ages. It’s ironic, but also how human nature and corporations tend to play out given the circumstances.
Bloomberg has disabled embedding of the video, so just hit the link to watch directly on YouTube.
If you’ve never heard of Paul Graham, it’s worth checking out his fantastic essays on all things computer- and startup-related. He has also written and published a book, Hackers & Painters, which is also worth checking out.
Another search engine is on the horizon. This one, called Greplin, aims to let you search your cloud-based data and is really more of a personal search engine than a search-the-world type of application. Think of it as Google Desktop for the Web instead of your computer.
Greplin currently works with data stores and services like Gmail, Twitter, LinkedIn, Dropbox, Evernote, and of course Facebook. It also allows you to add additional services for ones that aren’t included out of the box.
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Steve Jobs returned from his medical leave absence to show off the latest “insanely great” product by Apple – the iPad 2. Of course the audience provided Steve Jobs with a standing ovation when he came on stage and it’s good to see him looking fairly healthy, albeit a little thin.
Jobs started the announcement talking about Random House and their 17 thousand books are joining the other publishers to provide content for iBooks. Additionally, in less than 1 year, 100 million books have been downloaded.
Always wanting to show value for the App Store developers, Jobs then mentioned that Apple now has over 200 million Apple ID accounts with credit cards linked and ready to purchase using 1-click purchasing. He questioned whether Apple or Amazon had the most accounts with a linked credit card. Next he mentioned that over $2 billion has been paid to developers cumulatively. To further drive home his point of providing a marketplace with built in consumers for Apps, Jobs mentioned that over 100 million iPhones have been shipped.
With that out of the way, Jobs then started talking about the iPad 2…
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Microsoft’s Arc Touch Mouse looks more like something Apple should be producing (except in white, of course). The key selling point is the flexibility – the mouse comes flat, and to switch it on you squeeze the mouse into an arc shape. Scrolling is by touch, so you can flick and whizz around webpages and documents in seconds.
Each movement you make on the touch-enabled scroll surface can do different things according to applications making it more versatile that an ordinary mouse. BlueTrack technology means you can use this mouse almost anywhere too.
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