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My Yellow Notepad 1.0 (Windows)

My Yellow Notepad replaces the classic yellow notepad and pen or pencil. Information is organized by topics in outline format, or tree structure, making it easy to enter, change, search and reorganize your thoughts. Topics can be organized using a mouse, with keyboard shortcuts or by clicking toolbar buttons. The...

Tags: Clone, Toolbar, Microsoft Windows, Quiet Designs, Keyboards, Mice, Hardware, Peripherals

Software downloads 2009-02-26

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InfoPrint printers make it easier to control eco-features

When you create products that encourage people to use a precious natural resource, paper, and that also spend more time sucking up energy in an idle mode than in actively doing their job, you'd better come up with some smart ideas with respect to eco-product designs. That's...

Tags: InfoPrint, Printers, Hardware, Peripherals, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-06-12

Aliph Jawbone Prime Bluetooth headset

Aliph's Jawbone headsets have consistently been the highest-rated Bluetooth headsets here at CNET because of their amazing sound quality and fashion-forward designs. However, Aliph isn't happy with just resting on its laurels. It has introduced the Aliph Jawbone Prime, which will replace the Jawbone 2, and is the company's best...

Tags: Bluetooth headset, Jawbone Prime, headset, Aliph

Product reviews 2009-04-23

Kyocera Mako S4000 (MetroPCS)

Since the words are pronounced the same, it's hard for us not think of Maaco auto body shops when we see the Kyocera Mako S4000 for Metro PCS. Of course, a cell phone has little in common with a place to get your car a new paint job, but we...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, feature set, Mako, phone, camera, Kyocera Wireless Corp.

Product reviews 2009-03-20

Samsung Hue II SCH-R600 (Alltel)

Photo gallery:Samsung Hue II SCH-R600Though Alltel's Samsung Hue II is an update to the original Samsung Hue, the two phones share few characteristics beyond their flip designs. While the first Hue had a vertical external display with red bands on either side, the Hue II features a standard external display...

Tags: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Alltel Corp., backlighting, Hue

Product reviews 2009-03-05

Motorola Renew W233 (T-Mobile)

Photo gallery:Motorola Renew W233The story of T-Mobile'sMotorola Renew W233 lies not in what it offers--its features are quite minimal--but rather in what it is. Billed as the world's first carbon neutral cell phone, the Renew is made entirely of recycled water bottles at least the plastic parts and it comes...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Cellular phones, Motorola Inc., T-Mobile, Moto, Motorola Renew

Product reviews 2009-02-04

What if Steve Jobs ran GM?

What if Steve Jobs ran GM?Talk is cheapLet's watch the computer industry go into a prolonged slump and see what is in his spine.I'm saying this because some are serious about that.RE: What if Steve Jobs ran GM?We'd have one model that cost twice as much as a similar car...

Tags: Telsa, General Motors Corp., What-if Steve Job, car

Discussion threads 2008-12-10

H2O + C = cool idea

Forty years ago the protagonist in "The Graduate" was told the magic word for the future was "plastics." I would suggest the magic word for our future now is "water." Two Michigan innovators just won a prize for an air conditioning system that uses water as the coolant...

Tags: Turbine, C, Air Conditioner, Fiber, Air Conditioning System, John Barrie, Muller, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-11-23

Microsoft vs. Apple: the multi-touch war

Because the Evil Queen of Numbers has kept the Windows branch so quiet about Windows 7, we've been relying entirely on speculation, the blogosphere, leaks and occasionally "that dreaded New Yorker" as Sinofsky would probably say. Multi-touch is the latest craze it seems. Once the technology was...

Tags: Multi-touch, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Voice Technology, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-09-23

Why do you want WinFS?

Why do you want WinFS?same questionI posted exactly the same question to AKH article talkback. It will be interesting to see the answers.This makes everything so easy, now.If MS doesn't deliver it, then it's not really a necessary technology or all that important.It makes life so much easier when every...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, SEARCH, Digital music, Digital media, WinFS, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-08-20

Psystar: Just how loud is it?

Psystar: Just how loud is it?Oh, and the puck mouse,a perfect complement...Can you restore it?Are you provided with any restore DVD? Do you get any instructions for what to do if you can't boot?I believe Nvidia video cards work well but I think you need a driver to get quartz...

Tags: C-scale, Psystar

Discussion threads 2008-05-09

News to know: OOXML; Adobe AIR for Linux; Copyright; Best midrange hardware

Notable headlines: Paula Rooney: Microsoft's OOXML gets ISO approval ... maybe Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft OOXML standardization bid: The clock is ticking OOXML standard vote down to the wire  Christopher Dawson: OOXML vs. ODF - Should Ed Tech care? ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Adobe Systems Inc., Adobe PhotoShop, Adobe AIR, Microsoft Corp., Hardware, Photo-sharing, Dashwire, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-03-31

The BIG Alienware m9750 review

I don't spend anywhere near as much time gaming as I'd like to.  Part of this is down to being busy, but a bigger factor is the fact that I have to be sitting at my desk, and that feels an awful lot like work even when it's not.  Is...

Tags: Game, Alienware, Notebook, Problem, Setup, M9750, Games, Personal Technology, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2007-11-27

Video: iPhone plug-compatible headphones featured in Altec Lansing's new Upgrader line

Last week, while at Digital Experience in NYC, my multimedia wingman Matt Conner operating the video camera suddenly realized he was without headphones. Normally, this might not be a problem. But it was so noisy in the Metropolitan Pavilion where Digital Experience took place that he couldn't hear a...

Tags: Video, Personal Technology, Mobile, Hardware Infrastructure, General, Entertainment, Apple

Blog posts 2007-07-02

Panasonic SC PT650 home theater system

It seems like we've seen every possible variation in the home-theater-in-a-box HTIB category--feature-packed little ones, countless models with willowy, tall silver plastic tower speakers, and a sprinkling of entries built around component-grade AV receivers that come with larger, boxy speakers. Panasonic's new budget model, the SC-PT650, belongs in the first...

Tags: home theater, speaker, Panasonic, receiver

Product reviews 2007-06-29

Enano ex7400u

We admit we had worries about the Enano ex7400u. At $1,825, it's awfully expensive compared to its closest small-size competition. After testing, our opinion brightened, but once we compared it to a similarly priced laptop, we were less optimistic. It's been an emotional roller coaster reviewing this new entrant in...

Tags: Notebooks, Desktops, Chipsets, Semiconductors, Wireless LANs, laptop computer, Enano

Product reviews 2007-06-06

Sony DAV-HDX267W

It might be an overly simplistic view, but the balance of design, features, and performance is generally all that separates one home theater in a box HTIB from another. Sony's Dream systems have traditionally prioritized design over the other two factors, but the new Bravia series aims to emphasize its...

Tags: Consumer electronics, speaker, Sony Corp., IR Receiver, transmitter, Sony DAV-HDX267W, wireless, surround speaker

Product reviews 2007-05-24

Open-source intrusion detector found to be flawed

Open-source intrusion detector found to be flawedWhoops.Sorry about that one guys. OpenSourcers, fix the stuff already.SnortAt least they didn't hide, head in the sand, trying to deny a flaw. I agree, it probably was already fixed, whnich is more than we can say for "Microlost," but time will tell.Hardware...

Tags: SECURITY, Microsoft Corp., Snort, flaw, open source

Discussion threads 2007-02-21

Philips Portable Media Center PMC7230

It's been a relatively quiet year for Philips in the portable entertainment category, with the company mostly massaging its touch-sensitive MP3 player line into more compact, flash-based designs. The company's latest device, the Portable Media Center PMC7230 (30GB, $349) is quite a departure from the aforementioned players, in more ways...

Tags: Media Center PCs, Digital media, Cable, Digital music, PMC, Philips Electronics N.V., video

Product reviews 2006-12-21

Etymotic Ety8 In-the-Ear Bluetooth Earphones w/ iPod Adapter

Senior editor Phil Ryan contributed to the review.Ever since the first Bluetooth headset for cell phones came out, plenty of folks have been eager to see the day when Bluetooth audio made the transition to stereo sound, so you could ditch that wire connected to your iPod--or other portable music...

Tags: Wi-Fi, Apple iPod, adapter, Ety8s, Bluetooth, headphone, Etymotic

Product reviews 2006-12-13