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- Weekend Gadget Guidance: Avoid accidental copies in Windows
- Ever use Ctrl+click to select files, make one wrong click and end up with a load of duplicate files on your screen? For power users like you and me, it happens all the time. Today's batch of guidance aims to fix that. The problem,...
- Tags: Pixel, File, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-05-09
- HRH Prince Penguin
- Did anyone else happen to notice that Prince Charles is a closet Penguin? On our UK-based sister site, ZDNet.CO.UK our British colleague Andrew Donoghue quoted His Majesty as follows: "Many of the case studies we received highlight the...
- Tags: Thin Client, Thin Clients, Hardware, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-05-09
- News to know: Office 2007 SP1; Microsoft security; KVM vs. Xen; AMD
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Mark your calendars: Microsoft to push Office 2007 SP1 on June 16 EIC podcast: SAP; JavaOne; AMD, Microhoo Larry Dignan: Microsoft previews three critical bulletins; two for Office Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft shares...
- Tags: Security, Microsoft Office 2007, Xen, Microsoft Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-09
- New Dell Inspiron consumer laptops leaked! (hint: thin)
- Those tricky people over at Engadget have gotten their digital hands on the next crop of Dell Inspirons, and it's safe to say that thin is in. The Dell Inspiron 1435, 1535 and 1735 mid-range consumer laptops seem to share the same basic design and have, as...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Spec, Laptop Computer, Dell Inspiron, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- News to know: AMD; Oil and telecommuting; Verizon's EV-DO modem; Linux
- Notable headlines: Jason O'Grady: Review: Verizon UM150 USB EV-DO modem Gallery (right). Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft Live Mesh to get more competition -- from Sun News.com: AMD revises server road map Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: How long can AMD...
- Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan, Oil, Telecommuting, Sun Microsystems Inc., EVDO, Verizon Communications Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Linux, Modems, WiMAX, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Federal Government, 64-Bit, Microsoft Windows, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Components, Wireless, Government, Processors, Semiconductors
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- HDTVs: How black is black?
- An announcement comes today by way of Pioneer, maker of the ever-popular Kuro HDTV line, saying that its new Kuro sets are five times blacker than the Kuro line on the market today (which we reviewed as the TV with the deepest blacks out there). So wait...
- Tags: HDTV, Image, Ratio, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-05-07
- 'In 2008, Vista will make mobile internet fun.' (UPDATED)
- ...that's what HTC head Peter Chou said this morning after introducing the Diamond Touch, a slick piece of smartphone that exudes all the right iPhone notes. The one-touch phone, of course, is worth talking about: Windows Mobile® 6.1 Professional with Qualcomm MSM 7201A 528MHz processor WCDMA...
- Tags: Mobile Internet, Mobile, Microsoft Windows Vista, Chou, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- Peripherals: This keyboard may outlast you.
- ...at least that's what Mike Yamamoto at CNET's Crave blog thinks, who has discovered a peripheral that's almost indestructible. You know, in a reasonable way. Designed for the most violent (think frag, but taxes can apply, too) of computing, SteelSeries' 7G professional gaming keyboard claims to be...
- Tags: Keyboards, Hardware, Peripherals, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-05-05
- Weekend Gadget Guidance: Send a fax for free -- digitally
- If there's one thing I cannot stand, it's the fax machine. In a world of e-mail and attachments and PDFs and perfect digital copies easily archived, the fax machine is a painfully archaic reminder that everyone hasn't quite hopped on the digital bandwagon just yet. ...
- Tags: Fax, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-05-02
- News to know: Sun; Microhoo; Vista; Linux security; Spigit
- Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Sun plans layoffs following weak quarter; Blames U.S. economy Nate McFeters: Multiple Linux flaws show that Linux also has kernel issues More bad news for McAfee, HackerSafe certification Steve Ballmer's defining hour Mary...
- Tags: Security, Adobe Systems Inc., Larry Dignan, Sun Microsystems Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., Linux, Virtualization, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware
- Blog posts 2008-05-02
- Stream PC content to every HDTV in the house via coaxial cable
- In a similar vein to yesterday's post about wireless HDTVs, today's news arrives with a media streamer by ZeeVee that plugs into one's computer and sends on-screen content to every TV in the house over existing coaxial cable. In effect, the unit, called the ZvBox, enables users...
- Tags: PC, HDTV, Cable, Computer, ZvBox, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-05-01
- News to know: Microhoo; Adobe; MacBook Air; OLPC; RIAA
- Notable headlines: Microsoft: We'll raise our bid for Yahoo, but can't make up our mind yet. Techmeme Jason O'Grady: Excess thermal paste causing high temps in MacBook Air Ryan Stewart: Adobe Open Screen Project Dan Farber: IBM...
- Tags: TIBCO Software Inc., Adobe Systems Inc., Google Inc., Advertisement, RIAA, Apple MacBook, SAP AG, Microsoft Corp., One Laptop Per Child Project, 3G, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Professional Development, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Career, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-01
- Sharp to offer ultra-thin X-Series LCD TVs with wireless HD feed
- Like big TVs? (Who doesn't?) How about without tangled up cables hanging out the back? If you've ever seen the Sharp AQUOS X-series -- just 1.35 inches deep and, according to Sharp, the world's thinnest LCD televisions in production -- then you know what...
- Tags: IBM xSeries, LCD TV, Sharp Corp., Wireless, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Cable, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Telecommunications, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-04-30
- TechNet Edge Series: Windows Server®2008 Interview with Server Core PM Andrew Mason
- Interview covers why server core exists, explanation of what MinWin is, the differences between MinWin and server core and why MinWin was created. To view the entire video click here.
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft TechNet, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows
- Videos 2008-04-29
- More USB fun: Copy 60 USB drives simultaneously
- The fine people at CNET's Crave blog always find the strangest things, and this adds to our growing archive of wacky-but-useful USB devices. The Virtual Console "USB Flash Drive Duplicator" can make digital copies of 60 -- that's right, as in six-oh -- 1GB drives in...
- Tags: USB Flash Drive, USB, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- News to know: Psystar; IT Dojo; Microsoft moral; SQL Injection attacks; Ubuntu
- Notable headlines: David Morgenstern: Is Psystar Mac clone using the Kalyway boot hack? IT Dojo: Create your own bootable USB flash drive for Windows XP Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft internal memo details Windows 7-Windows Live ties Another reason...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Information Technology, Microsoft Office, Yahoo! Inc., SQL, Microsoft Corp., SQL Injection, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Strategy, Software, Management
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- Is Psystar Mac clone using the Kalyway boot hack?
- The video on Monday was posted to Gizmodo. A reader named Patrick (Whiskeyfrown) made a video showing the machine's connections to the back to the monitor (somehow making the demo more legit?) and then a video of its boot process into Mac OS X. ...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., DVD, Kalyway, Desktops, Hardware, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2008-04-28
- Intel releases 2.5 GHz, 45nm 'Yorkfield' Core 2 Quad processor
- In today's news, Intel has released a new sibling of the 45nm family of Core 2 Quad processors: the Q9300 "Yorkfield" processor, which comes in at 2.5 GHz with a 1333 MHz front side bus. The new chip breaks down like this: You get a faster front...
- Tags: Quad Processor, Overclocking, Intel Corp., Q9300, Blogging, Processors, Internet, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-04-28
- Weekend Gadget Guidance: Save on shipping online purchases
- Ah, the bane of a Toybox reader's existence: online shipping costs. You've narrowed down which gadget you want to buy, you've found the most inexpensive vendor that's still trustworthy, you've put the item in your shopping cart and....wait, 12 bucks for shipping?! Highway murder!! ...
- Tags: Coupon, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-04-25
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