Sep 3, 2010

Happy day for Apple fans! Apple has released new iPod models and a nou Apple TV, about which we are going to talk in another post, in a few days. The last refresh of the iPod players line took place in September 2009. Apple now brings more interesting iPods, and the prices remain almost the same. iPod Shuffle The smallest of the family is still the iPod...

Sep 3, 2010

Microsoft has created a new type of mouse, which they named Arc Touch, with a futuristic design and they replaced the traditional scrolling wheel with a narrow touchpad, which can be configured based on users preferences, according to Gizmodo. The mouse is equipped with a small speaker that is used to reproduce the sound produced by pressing the scroll button....

Sep 1, 2010

Hardware acceleration is one of the most trendy technologies nowadays. Not only video players are offering this feature. Right now this feature is also present on modern Web Browsers. The newest follower of hardware acceleration is Google Chrome 7. Chrome gets inspired by Firefox 4 and Internet Explorer 9, web browsers that have already made their intentions...

Aug 30, 2010

Currently, the DDR3 memory is in full display of forces, being preferred in the desktop market but also on the notebooks market, regardless if the platform is Intel or AMD. Still, although present on the market for a few years now, this memory hasn’t reached its full potential, being held back by the controllers inside CPU’s. They officially support...

Aug 26, 2010

Currently, are are witnessing a real inflation of USB TV Tunner’s. And its true that they are very practical mainly on laptops because of their portability. However this doesn’t mean they can’t just as easily be used on any computer. Such a tv tunner is the Hybrid Volar HD from AverTV. Just like the AverTV pilot, Volar HD has the construction...

Aug 26, 2010

Tabs represent an almost mandatory feature for those programs that run in multiple instances. Although they are most commonly present in web browsers, tabs can prove to be very practical in other types of applications as well. For example, in the Office programs. As Microsoft Office is the most used office uit, I bet that many users, especially those who...

Aug 24, 2010

Nobody from Microsoft invented the mouse. However almost all their operating systems and programs are centered around this simple controller. And despite the fact that Microsoft tried to show us how the mouse of the future should be, now they are trying to convince us that the digital rodent is no longer necessary. It may be replaced by the adaptive keyboard. Or...

Aug 24, 2010

Toshiba claims that they have discovered the next step regarding magnetic hard drives, which allows them to have a much bigger storage capacity. The technology is named Bit Patterned Media and allows the sharing of the entire surface of a platan into magnetic bits, each with the dimensions of a few  magnetic crumbs. And each magnetic bit is the corespondent...