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Netbook Freedom
Jan 20th
A few years ago, the Web 2.0 revolution came riding in on a wave of technological advancements, bringing with it a fundamentally different way of thinking that has forever changed the world of personal computing. No longer are users tethered to bulky, immobile desktop PCs, tangled amongst a mass of cables and surrounded by piles of mis-labeled CDs.
Instead, small and lightweight netbook computers offer an almost sublime freedom, letting people stay connected to the world wherever they happen to be. Users can access email, communicate with friends, family and associates, or even do their personal banking from anywhere that offers a wireless internet connection.
The possibilities offered by netbook computers rely very heavily on a special sort of software that has evolved along with changes in hardware that made netbooks possible. So-called “web apps” are programs that live online, and that owe their power to software technology like Flash or Java which lets programmers embed these apps into their websites. Such apps do not need to be downloaded or installed – they just load right inside the user’s web browser. Web apps are often cross-platform, and can be accessed from virtually any computer in the world.
Web apps and netbook computers go hand-in-hand. Because netbooks offer limited computing power and meager storage space, users may find it difficult to install large programs such as full office suites or photo editing apps. Web apps, which stream their services through the internet, fill this gap nicely.
Moreover, the fact that web apps are always accessible means that netbook users are never far away from the files and the programs they need. Users only need to get online from wherever they happen to be, and everything they need becomes available right away.
Today, there is a “web app” version of just about every piece of software that a person might normally install on their desktop PC. Online programs are available that offer advanced word processing, spreadsheet, and database capabilities. Users can edit and resize photographs, create videos, compose presentations, and play games.
Even the world of online gambling has embraced the concept of web apps. Many internet casinos now offer “no download” versions of their best online casino games. These no download casinos let players connect to their accounts through their netbook computers to play real-money games and participate in multiplayer events like online casino free tournaments.
While the future of personal computing cannot be predicted, it seems that netbooks and web apps represent the beginning of a major wave of change. The move towards wireless systems, cloud computing networks, and web-centric software has only just begun, and as technology allows computing to become more and more portable, the possibilities can only increase.
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Netbooks vs. Tablets – Too soon to declare a winner
Jan 20th
Notebook computers and tablet PCs are two very different beasts that both live in the same jungle. Each sort of machine aims for a similar set of goals: ultimate portability and ultimate connectivity. These machines let users hold the whole world in their hands – so long as there is free wifi nearby. But do both machines have an equal footing in the computer industry? Will both be around in five years? To answer this, we need to think about what each machine does, and what each is best used for.
Netbooks are basically miniature laptops. They offer fold-out “clamshell” designs with a keboard at the bottom and a screen at the top. Long battery life, slim profiles, and antennas for every sort of wireless signal available ensure their portability. Their design is familiar, and the only thing that new users need to get accustomed to is their mini keyboards and small screens.
Tablets, on the other hand, are 100% screen. They lack keyboards and mice entirely, relying instead on touch input for all controls. While touch is tactilely invigorating and lots of fun to use, it really limits how these sorts of computers may be used. Playing games, surfing the web, or reading ebooks on a tablet PC are all easy to do, but touch-screen keyboards turns a simple task like writing a letter into something a lot more complicated than it needs to be.
Ultimately, both types of portable computers have different target audiences. Netbooks are aimed at anyone who needs to conduct business or stay in touch when on the go. Tablet PCs on the other hand are more for fun than for work, offering outstanding multimedia capabilities and great interaction that most computers can’t provide.
Of course, there are plenty of things that can be accomplished on both netbooks and tablet PCs. Both can make full use of online programs called “web apps” to accomplish all sorts of useful things, from uploading and editing family photos to managing finances, composing presentations, and more.
Games also work equally well on both netbooks and tablet pcs. Thousands of free games are available on the internet – games that do not need to be downloaded in order to be played. Players who know where to look can even find free casino games online, and can gain instant access to real-money events like online free blackjack tournaments from anywhere in the world using either a netbook or a tablet PC.
At the end of the day, while netbooks and tablet PCs have similar overall goals, each targets a different demographic and each is best suited to its own purposes. Perhaps the future will see hybrid machines – small notebook computers with swivel touch-screen displays. Such devices have already been released by some manufacturers, but they have yet to catch on. One thing remains certain – whether your goal is work or play, the future of computing is online.
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Netbooks vs. Tablets – Too soon to declare a winner
The Best iPod for Your Lifestyle
Jan 20th
We all know that iPods are the most popular MP3 players on the market. However, which iPod should you choose? We will take a look at the different brands of iPod and discover which ones match your lifestyle and your budget.
When you consider buying an iPod, the choices may seem endless with too many options to consider. However, there are really only four iPod choices: the iPod shuffle, nano, touch, and classic. Within each of these choices, your main decision is usually simply how much storage do you want to go with in your iPod.
Let’s start out with the iPod shuffle, which was my first iPod and holds a place near to my heart. Unlike all of the other iPods, the shuffle does not have a screen on which to select your music. I loved their initial advertising slogan, “Life is Random”, because it often is. Apple chose this slogan because with the iPod shuffle, you never know what you are going to get. After you place songs on your shuffle, you simply sit back and listen to them randomly.
Though my initial shuffle was 1GB and about $100, the new iPod shuffles come in many colors and there is a 2GB and 4GB option. The 4GB shuffle, which can hold over 1000 songs, currently sells for just under $80.
In my book, the iPod shuffle wins the award for the “best workout” iPod. In fact, though I have upgraded to the nano, I still keep my shuffle for exercising.
Now I use the iPod nano for all my music, movies, TV, and photos when I am not working out. Many people incorrectly ask, “how do you download songs onto an iPod nano?” when they should really be asking about songs, movies, TV shows, and photos. The iPod nano does it all! The iPod nano is now in its fifth generation and comes in 8GB and 16GB varieties as well as many colors from which to choose. The latest upgrade to the nano gives it the ability to shoot home videos.
The iPod nano is sleek, sexy, and is the best MP3 player that you can buy.
What about the iPod touch? The iPod touch is the most advanced iPod on the market. However, I would classify it less as an MP3 player and more as a very small computer. It truly does just about everything that the top rated netbook computers do. However, it’s often more expensive than a netbook and lacks one essential thing: a phone. If you are interested in the iPod touch, I would instead recommend the iPhone, which is essentially the iPod Touch with telephone service.
Finally, we have the iPod classic. The iPod classic distinguishes itself in look and feel as do the other iPods but it has one essential difference: amount of storage. The iPod classic currently has 160GB of storage (because it uses a hard drive) which can easily hold over 40,000 songs. Thus, if you own an absolute mountain of music, and want to have all of your songs with you at all times, the iPod classic is the way to go.
All iPods are cool but not all iPods are for everybody. The exercise buff needs the shuffle. The “hipster” must get a nano. The technophile should go with the iPod touch or iPhone. And finally, for those who want sheer volume of music, the iPod classic is the best choice.
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The Best iPod for Your Lifestyle
Oct 14th
The first thing that would pop out in my mind when I heard this stuff is that “the best-known for expensive and highly recommended accessories, high-performance PCs, and delivers a good gaming laptop at a reasonable price. There is no such “cheap” thing in there product because all are designed and produced by the game machine maker that creates the premium packages with premium prices that is exclusively just for Alienware accessory. For an Alienware laptop, the m17 is priced within a reasonable ballpark even while packing 1GB of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2 graphics processing power on board. As a result, this monstrous desktop replacement runs modern games at a respectable clip.The Alienware M17 laptop provides fairly solid audio with its 2.1-speaker configuration. While a little tinny, the two front-firing cones are acceptable enough for cube rocking–and surly looks from neighboring officemates.As a gaming machine, the m17 delivers speed where it counts, but it lags a little in more conventional office-application tests.
The Alienware M17 has a big 17-inch screen. Though it is not as eye-blastingly bright as some normal laptop that I have seen but it also displays a normal desktop and color. Even so, the screen doesn’t get the picture quite right at the default settings. Some colors get a little muted and warmer colors get cool. Also, the screen is glossy. That means colors look good when viewing the LCD indoors, but viewing anywhere near daylight will bring a little look fiercely. It also goes without saying that desktop replacement notebook batteries don’t last long. In this case, you get just under 2 hours on a charge. That’s really not surprising given this laptop’s big, gawky, heavy design: It weighs a full 9.5 pounds and measures 15.6 by 11.7 by 2 inches.
The biggest beef in the Alienware is with the rubberized wrist rest. Or maybe I should say, “wrist landing pad.” Its so huge, you coul park a can of coke on it without fear of hitting as you type. Seriously, it feels like an unnecessarily large gap between the keys and the edge of the notebook. I do like the touchpad and its long, thick mouse button bar, but trying to go back and forth between that and the keys forced my hands into an awkward angle. So make sure you’ve got good carpal tunnel coverage on your medical plan before buying this laptop (or get an external mouse).
The freezing happens every time my antivirus scans the rootkit. Nothing else has caused it. The freezing didn’t happen before I reformatted and reinstalled, but I can’t remember if I enabled rootkit scanning so I’m unsure whether it’s a bad sector on my HD or corrupted data. Freezing never happens with anything else though so if it is a bad sector then it doesn’t contain crucial system data.
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Oct 14th
Let me share you about PSP or the Play station Portable and Nintendo. These two are both games machines that are also intended for game addict. PSP are for those who loves to play Play station 2 with a joystick and DVD games before. In this game machine it is portable meaning it is transferable, transportable. You can bring it anywhere you want and also it has nice and advance features that you will surely enjoy the moment you will hold and explore it. . The PSP is obviously more expensive than NDS.
The Playstation Portable (PSP) is the best handheld console out today. The closest competition when it comes to gaming is the Nintendo DS. While the DS trumps the PSP in terms of its library, the actual games are better on Sony’s advanced little device. But let’s go down the list to see exactly why the PSP is better than the DS. The PSP also has an analog numb. While it’s not the most intuitive piece of gaming hardware out there, having analog control on a portable device is a great thing.
The PSP-1000 is the weakest design out of all of the DS and PSP designs. The D-pad was horrible (diagonal directions were incredibly difficult to perform), and the Circle button was prone to breaking. Sony realized this and remedied those problems with the PSP-2000. The PSP-3000 offers the most options. It carries over the large and responsive D-pay from the 2000 model and adds a microphone.
Meanwhile, Nintendo has remained fairly consistent with their setup. The D-pad for the DS is highly responsive and easy to handle. However, if you have bigger hands, the DS’s small pad can become problematic. There are no problems with the face or shoulder buttons. Of course, the DS’s most innovative design choice is the inclusion of the stylus. This has been both a blessing and a curse, as some games benefit greatly from it, such as puzzle games and strategy games, while some games have suffered. The DS is a landfill for gimmick games that use the stylus. It’s also a puzzle-game lover’s dream come true. And it’s got its fair share of original titles to boot.
Another drawback that the stylus users often encounter is that it isn’t always precise. Sometimes you can be direction touching an object and it won’t respond to the stylus until it is tapped several times from various angles. The DS has a rarely-used microphone. When it does have a use, players are more likely blowing towards the microphone than actually saying anything into it. Lastly, the DSi has a camera. I haven’t seen a practical application for the camera just yet, but the DSi is still fairly new.
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Oct 14th
Let me share you some tips on choosing the best gadgets that are very handy, user -friendly and easy to learn. Which is better IPhones or PalmTop ? About their similarities and differences, what makes them very popular to the crowd?
Let me start in the Iphone fever. Iphones today are very popular especially to those who love music and love playing many applications like high capacity external and internal , high pixelate resolution with a 2 lead flash camera, scrolling images, flash games, music playlist and music editor, Wifi-ready, touch screen and touch pad , fast downloads and less bufferring that will make the user enjoy the moment when he or she is exploring his or her Iphones.
People nowadays are looking for enjoyment and convenient way of using mobile phones not just the simple way of texting but also the gratification of the latest and most advanced features that are built-in the device like Wifi-ready, very loudspeakers and the very own high resolution with 2 lead flash cameras that is very similar to a high digital cameras with a clear and nice image capture or shall I say the DSLR digital cameras. They want a package that will satisfied not just their very need but also their want to do and even experiment more hidden features of the Iphones that only you, yourself can discover.
And for the PalmTop it is likely a mini Laptop that is big as your palm. It is also like a mini computer that has also a mini hard drive or the memory card where you can store all your data. It has also many features but not as a advanced to the Iphones. Anyway, PalmTop are popular only to those who are workaholic and also for the business people because of its style and the it is program. It has also a music and video player and editor and loudspeakers. The style of the device is not the catchy like Iphones because it has a dry and dull screen color. And lastly the cameras are not that clear compared to Iphones with High resolution flash cameras. But Iphones and PalmTop are very similar but their only difference is that the features and software applications used in order to give spark or appealing to the crowd.
So, no wonder why Iphones are loved by everybody and become obsession that’s because of its amazing features and advance built-in software.
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Oct 14th
The first 8GB personal media player. The Archos 2 plays video and audio and FM radio, supports microSD expansion and voice recording and song lyric files, and is only about the size of a credit card. Sound too good to be true? …Well, it kind of is, but aside from a few minor snags the Archos 2 is still a heck of a value for this price point. The player itself is all business, with a simple black or white facing and a sensible square pad of push-button controls, but adds a touch of class with a clean aluminum backing (which iPhones don’t even have anymore).
The screen itself is a 1.8″ LCD with a 128 x 160 pixel resolution and a vertical orientation, which means you need to turn the player horizontally to watch video. The headphone jack is at the base of the player next to the USB port, which makes it more pocket-friendly, with the top of the player reserved for the power switch and the microSD card expansion slot. There’s no “hold” switch on the player to prevent “involuntary pocket shuffling”, but the buttons are flush enough and require a solid push to activate that it was never a problem for me. The Archos 2 supports only non-DRM’ed .mp3 and .wma files for audio, so it’s not going to play well with your iTunes purchases, but ID3 tags are supported and the drag-and-drop functionality when connected via USB is always welcome.
Note that album art is not supported, which seems like an odd omission. Sound quality is excellent, however, with powerful volume and equalizer settings available. FM radio works just fine on the player, and I found the station scanning to be sensitive, picking up plenty of stations.
Pros:
• Small, lightweight player
• Great sound, with EQ settings available
• ID3 tag and lyric file support
• Strong FM radio performance
• Huge storage
• microSD card expansion for even more storage
• Drag-and-drop file transfers
• Extremely low price for the features Cons:
• Utilitarian menu theme • Poor video quality
• No album art support Video is 15-FPS .avi only and the player comes with a software disc to help convert most video formats to one that will work on the Archos 2. But I’ve got to say it: if you get this player, don’t get it for video. Scanlines and ghosting are abundant–watching video on this player isn’t easy and at best is suited for content that focuses on large subjects that don’t move much in frame. Things like sitcoms, news video podcasts, and stand-up comedy are watchable, but don’t bother converting, say, Lord of the Rings for the plane flight. All in all, you’re looking at an admittedly utilitarian player, the Archos 2 packs so many features into a single tiny package that it’s almost worth picking one up even if it’s just as a backup player. Even if it didn’t do video at all, it’d still be a strong value for a tiny player with that much space, considering your nearest iPod in price point is a 1 GB Shuffle.
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