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ASUS VH236H - LCD display - TFT - 23"

The Asus VH236H is available for around $190 from e-tailers. For that price you not only get HDMI and DVI support, built-in speakers, a headphone jack but also great movie and game performance. We'd prefer to have more ergonomic options and a less frustrating OSD menu, but with its...

Tags: Monitors & displays, Pressing Menu, LCD, TFT, ASUS VH236H, S/A, ASUS, bezel, OverDrive, OSD, Samsung SyncMaster P2370

Product reviews 2009-07-01

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Philips SBD7500

The Philips SBD7500 is a portable iPod and iPhone speaker that appeals to our sense of utility. Like many of the portable audio gadgets we've seen from Philips, the SBD7500 deftly navigates the middle ground, balancing price ($99), design, and performance in an easy-to-use somewhat boring product.From a design perspective,...

Tags: speaker, Philips Electronics N.V.

Product reviews 2009-10-22

Rock Band for iPhone 1.0 (Mobile)

With Rock Band for iPhone play solo, or push it to the limit with live Bluetooh multiplayer. Play with 2-4 band mates, earn unison bonuses, and save friends that drop out by activating overdrive. Enjoy the first full band multiplayer experience on the iPhone or iPod touch. Rock out on...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Electronic Arts Inc., Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-10-22

B&N Nook beats Amazon Kindle & Sony Reader, here's why

Thanks for double-checking on WiFintLooks good butNo international support. Like the Sony not available outside the US. Again Amazon Kindle is ahead of the curve even if the device is not as sophisticatedRE: B&N Nook beats Amazon Kindle & Sony Reader, here's whyI have a Kindle, the service for...

Tags: Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless and Mobility, B&N Nook, B&N, Amazon Kindle, Sony Reader, Amazon.com Inc., Sony Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-21

USB Overdrive 3.0.1 (Mac)

The USB Overdrive is a device driver for Mac OS X that handles any USB mouse / trackball / joystick / gamepad / media keyboard and any Bluetooth mouse from any manufacturer and lets you configure them either globally or on a per-application, per-device basis. It reads all kinds...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, USB, Alessandro Levi Montalcini, USB Overdrive

Software downloads 2009-09-29

Hands-on with the Sony Reader Touch Edition PRS-600

BooksDid you get the Cory Doctorow books from Project Gutenberg? If so, what format did you download them in?Connectivity?The Sony sounds like it's worth a look, but I didn't see much about connectivity. Does the PRS-600 include lifetime free wireless like the Kindle, or must it be tethered...

Tags: Sony Corp., Sony Reader, Adobe PDF, Sony Reader Touch Edition PRS-600, Sony Reader Touch Edition, Hands-On

Discussion threads 2009-09-03

HP 2709m

The 27-inch HP 2709m offers a larger screen than the 25.5-inch HP w2558hc, but that's about the only advantage the display has over the latter. The 2709m exhibited worse performance in games and movies and has fewer features, and a slightly lower 1,920x1,080 resolution compared with the w2558hc's 1,920x1,200. The...

Tags: Performance management, OSD, Hewlett-Packard Co., display, bezel, w2558hc

Product reviews 2009-08-31

Your Kindle can't do this, local library ebooks now available on the Sony Reader

I wrote about the new Sony Reader devices and how we would eventually be able to actually check out ebooks from our local libraries and read them on the Sony Readers. The press release and press coverage focused on the New York Public Library so I didn't give much thought...

Tags: Sony Corp., Sony Reader, E-books, Personal Technology, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2009-08-27

Inching closer to the perfect e-reader for students

What would we want in an ideal e-reader to jam in our students' backpacks? I've talked about it before (there are links to my other e-textbook musings in this particular post, too), but we'd certainly want color and high-resolution images. Touch and note-taking capabilities are obvious choices. And...

Tags: E-reader, Sony Corp., Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-08-26

2009 Volkswagen Touareg TDI

Photo gallery:Volkswagen Touareg TDIWe've seen dramatically good mileage in diesel cars, such as the BMW 335d and the Volkswagen Jetta TDI, but the 2009 Volkswagen Touareg TDI doesn't meet the possibly unrealistic expectations given to us by these other cars. This SUV shows diesel's ridiculously high torque, while delivering the...

Tags: Touareg TDI, Volkswagen AG, car

Product reviews 2009-08-13

2010 Kia Soul

Photo gallery:2010 Kia SoulRisk-adverse by nature, car companies don't often make radical moves, and although the 2010 Kia Soul looks unique, it follows the Scion xB by five years in body style. In fact, the success of the xB spawned two imitators, the Soul and the Nissan Cube. These cars...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, iPod integration, Kia Motors Corp., Kia Soul, Apple iPod, car

Product reviews 2009-08-04

Corsair debuts Dominator GT DDR3 memory for AMD Phenom II

Memory manufacturer Corsair on Wednesday announced its new Dominator GT line of ultra-high performance DDR3 memory modules, designed specifically for AMD Phenom II processor-based platforms using Socket AM3 motherboards. The new 4GB (2 x 2GB) Dominator GT memory kit operates at a frequency...

Tags: AMD Phenom, Memory, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Corsair, Flash Memory, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-07-29

Adobe 'zero-day' flaw is eight months old

The current zero-day attacks against Adobe Flash Player are not quite zero-day after all.   According to new information, Adobe's security response team knew about the vulnerability since December 31, 2008 see image below but it was misdiagnosed as a "data loss corruption" issue. When word of the...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Flaw, Security, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2009-07-24

Dell, HP even in second quarter U.S. PC shipment race; Apple market share slips as Acer surges

Dell, HP even in second quarter U.S. PC shipment race; Apple market share slips as Acer surgesWill be fun to see how Mac blogs spin these numbersThe Mac blogs always find a way to spin mediocre number gains into a statistically epic triumph. It will be fun to see how...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Apple Inc., Acer Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co.

Discussion threads 2009-07-15

iShred LE 1.6 (Mobile)

iShred LE features real electric guitar samples in three different tones, choose from eight effects pedals, amp simulator with adjustable overdrive, supports Hammer-On's, Pull-Off's, and Slides, dynamic level control while you play, save up to eight songs in your own Playlist, chord, and Fret views, overall Pitch control, and supports...

Tags: Tone, Mobile, Guitar

Software downloads 2009-07-15

In praise of 'slow IT'

Common wisdom says that an engine running in overdrive for an extended period of time will overheat and break down. People driving themselves too fast and hard risk breakdowns or health problems. David Sprott recently posted an interesting piece on the need to slow down the blistering...

Tags: Pace, Information Technology, David, Strategy, Management, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-07-12

Required summer reading: Neuromancer turns 25

Most of us have probably read Neuromancer, the canonical work by William Gibson, the loose basis for the Matrix movies, and, arguable, the first major book of the cyberpunk genre. Can you tell I'm a fan? I bring this up because this is the book's 25th...

Tags: Idea, Computer, WWW, Productivity, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-07-07

Article Marketing Secrets 1.0 (Windows)

Crank your Article Marketing into overdrive with a simple, yet advanced guide that covers all the bases and will give your website torrents of traffic. In this well explained, thorough e-book you will learn hidden facts such as: Article marketing basics demystified; How to use the right keywords to position...

Tags: Marketing, Article, Torbay Publishing, E-books, Web Site Development, Microsoft Windows, Personal Technology, Internet, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-06-01

Microsoft sends mixed patent message

In the wake of the Open Invention Network challenge to Microsoft's patents related to Linux, the company's good cop-bad cop routine has gone into overdrive. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-04-30

AMD Radeon HD 4770: Great graphics for $99

AMD has made the eagerly-anticipated Radeon HD 4770 GPU official. Although it is based on some of the most advanced technology--it's the first GPU manufactured using a 40nm process and has nearly as many transistors as the flagship Radeon HD 4890--it is neither the company's fastest nor most costly GPU....

Tags: ATI Radeon, ATI Technologies Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Graphics, Radeon, GPU, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, John Morris

Blog posts 2009-04-28