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Holiday recap: Amazon bucks trend of worst retail season in decades

Holiday recap: Amazon bucks trend of worst retail season in decadesConvenience, availability, and price are what customers wantAmazon.com is convenient and the free shipping with $25 or more purchased gives a good shopping experience. I have bought things from them before, so my information does not have to be...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-12-29

Xmas 1.1 (Windows)

Xmas is a theme made up of original icons drawn by me, a snowy background, and Christmas-colors throughout.

Tags: Background, Theme, Icon, Matt Coxwell, Xmas, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2008-12-17

Motorola gPhone by Xmas '09: A big mistake?

Motorola gPhone by Xmas '09: A big mistake?I agreeYou hit the high points of this topic well. Motorola will be very very sorry if they delay a year in taking advantage of this new OS and the feature set it can support. This will be too bad, because they have...

Tags: motorola, Motorola Inc., GPhone, Xmas, big mistake

Discussion threads 2008-10-31

Solid State Drives: Samsung may accelerate adoption just in time for Xmas

Solid State Drives: Samsung may accelerate adoption just in time for XmasI am certain...The cost will drop and the reliablility will accelerate for this technology. Can't wait to buy one to replace my clickety old notebook platter.Sounds great, but what will it cost????RE: Solid State Drives: Samsung may accelerate adoption...

Tags: Quality, adoption just-in-time, solid state disk, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., JIT, Xmas

Discussion threads 2008-05-26

Sony announces development tools for PS3

Sony announces development tools for PS3Smart move butSony really took their time addressing dev concerns. The buy ups will surely help but I'd wait until the end of 06 or begining of 07 to buy one. Those first 150 titlesat release will pale to what comes later after dev units...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Development tools, Middleware, Sony Corp., Xmas, development tool, Sony PlayStation 3, tool

Discussion threads 2005-07-21

Additional Resources

Pinned tabs? (Gallery: Chrome OS revealed)

Easy to see why Google wants thisAll roads lead to Google and advertizing.RE: Pinned tabs? (Gallery: Chrome OS revealed)Aouch!! what is this crap os is??? Bad Bad Bad idea!!!RE: Pinned tabs? (Gallery: Chrome OS revealed)NO thanks. I am not in Kindergarten.RE: Pinned tabs? (Gallery: Chrome OS revealed)I think it...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Microsoft Windows 7, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, netbook, Chrome, Google Inc., Chrome OS, operating system, Gallery, Linux, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

Apple Tablet - Unofficial, unannounced ... but still delayed

You guys have been asking...You guys have been asking for a Mac tablet for years already, while we have been able to get tablet PCs for many years now, in many different form factors and from many different vendors.Yet when you close your world off by relying solely on Apple,...

Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, tablet, Apple Inc., vaporware

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

Gingerbread Cookies Screensaver 1.0 (Mac)

Tis the season with a delightful batch of gingerbread cookies. This screensaver will decorate your desktop with cookies floating against a gorgeous Christmas theme photo. These frosted baked cookies look so real you'll want to eat them right from your desktop. Yummy! Features: Beautiful high-res Gingerbread cookies Select up...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Cookie, WebAppstogo

Software downloads 2009-11-15

UK Santas getting gadget training before the holidays

Shopping List for regular readersExcellent idea training: then you can select with confidence from ZDNET bloggers' recommended XMAS gifts:1. Ed Bott: Windows Secrets by Paul Thurrott. You might get a signature on that because Ed is on a world tour fixing Vista PC's one at a time. Oh, you wanted...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, RAID, PRODUCTIVITY, Memory, UK Santas, gadget training, Xmas Gift, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-11-11

The iPhone is one of the best phones in the world, carriers with it are the problem

far from perfect indeedIt's a great gadget...until it freezes and you have to wait several minutes while you reboot it. That is if you know how to reboot it, the first time is always accompanied with panic because you think the thing went dead. Don't blame the carriers,...

Tags: Smart phones, iPhone Screen, BlackBerry Tour, Apple iPhone, phone, carrier, keyboard

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

Disney, Asus launch 'Netpal' netbook for kids

Disney Netpal Netbook - Top Christmas GiftI think the Disney laptop will be a great gift for this xmas. I was not surprised when I found the Asus netpal netbook as one of the top christmas gifts. The good news is that is more affordable today. I found a good...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Disney Corp., netbook, NetPal, ASUS

Discussion threads 2009-11-03

Deck the halls with LED

Sounds OKSounds like a reasonable idea although the cost of LED lights is quite high ($30?).lehnerus2000$30 for LED lights?We buy sets here for $15... and considering that the power consumption is so much lower that they quite literally pay for themselves in the savings on my electric bill, they're worth...

Tags: Engineering, light-emitting diode

Discussion threads 2009-11-03

Psystar: From Hell's Heart, I Stab at Thee!

No matter who they have to sueApple will never allow competition.agreedthey want as much profits as they can make.too bad their computers aren't very good for anything other than the basics and some visual/audio work ;)with that said, i believe that apple will have its future in their i-products (ipod,...

Tags: Hacking, SECURITY, Apple Inc., hardware, Psystar, OSX

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

Flash Empires 1.0 (Windows)

Flash Empires is an interesting shooting game. Buy castles, spear men, soldiers etc to stop enemies from taking over your empire. Flash Empires 2 is coming out sometime next week, so look at for a game called Christmas crusades or Xmas defense. There are 3 different buildings in the game,...

Tags: Menu, Microsoft Windows, NowStat, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-10-28

Lenovo reveals dazzling Windows 7 IdeaPad, IdeaCentre lineup

I think Santa Claus just found what he wants for Xmas..Nice ones and cheap as well.RE: Lenovo reveals dazzling Windows 7 IdeaPad, IdeaCentre lineupvery stif price please give me back my Setellite I thank youFirozali A. MullaDazzling?Interestingly, any time I configure Lenovo on a Canadian site to a comparable Mac...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Windows 7 IdeaPad, IdeaCentre lineup, Lenovo Group Ltd., IdeaCentre, Microsoft Windows 7

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

Netflix arriving on PlayStation 3 next month

Hail PS3!! PS3 is on the roar.. After beating XBox after a long time in console sale, they are back in news again after a successful deal with netflix.I was expecting this deal a year before. But its never too late. All the things will turn out to be good...

Tags: Game players, Linux, Right Now IT, XBL, Sony PlayStation 3, NetFlix Inc., Microsoft Xbox, Sony Playstation

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

Windows 7 in action: a closer look at Windows XP Mode

Now that's coolSo XP apps can be run directly on the desktop? Now that's cool :).How is this different than Virtual PC?Ed, I have XP running under MS Virtual PC 2007 on my Vista Business x64 machine. How is this different? I know that I had to supply...

Tags: Microsoft Windows XP, Windows XP Mode, virtualization, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

Plastic Logic unveils Que capacitive touchscreen e-book reader; aims at business professionals

Little Late for this Xmas season...NTI want to hear how crippled it is with DRM...IF this one is shackled with insane DRM like all the others, then it's a deal breaker regardless of the features.RE: What about book rental instead?What about all of the people that still like to read...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, E-books, Plastic Logic, e-book Reader, touch screen

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

Countdown to Google Voice on iPhone

It's going to be a while...I don't think Apple is ever going to approve Google Voice, unless pressured to. They know that when users install Google Voice, they are going to want to replace the phone icon with Google Voice. They will want to replace the Messages Icon with something...

Tags: Smart phones, Google Inc., Apple Inc., Apple iPhone

Discussion threads 2009-10-06

Tech Needs New Words: Tech Marketing Needs Your Help

How to sell Tech like the consumer products folks do While on HRE Online yesterday, I spied this revolving advertisement. I was struck with the copywriter’s spelling of ‘integrated’ and how no one caught this in editing or graphics. But, I can’t really complain as I’ve...

Tags: Advertisement, Microsoft Word, Marketing Research, Marketing, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-09-11