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Shields Up!: The best software for malware protection

November 10th, 2009 link to (permalink)

15 years ago
Section: Computers, Security Malware is absolutely everywhere these days.  Even if you do all the right things like not clicking on links or opening attachments in emails, avoiding bittorents, porn sites and illegal download sites like Limewire (which is full of malware!)

Bowers & Wilkins intros MM-1 desktop speakers

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Loudspeaker company Bowers & Wilkins has announced its latest set of computer speakers, the MM-1. Each speaker integrates one 3-inch woofer and a 1-inch tweeter, with each driver powered by a dedicated 18W amplifier.

Review: BlackBerry Bold 9700

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15 years ago
RIM is not typically known for revolutionary new phones that are entirely different than previous models. The BlackBerry Bold 9700 certainly stays consistent as it is represents an evolutionary step forward from the Bold and other previous BlackBerries.

Rob Walker’s Sweetest Newest Idea

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Above: Proposed, and actual buildings Rob Walker pitches a great concept for some collective street art action: Signs advertising fanciful future-use development plans There's a little building around the corner from me with this sign posted on it--a rendering of its supposed future.

Mouse and keyboard vs. Console controller: Let’s bury the hatchet

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I suck at GoldenEye. There, I’ve said it. I get schooled every time I play, even if I’m Odd Job. And chances are, everyone who reads this is better than me at Halo, Killzone, and pretty much every other console FPS.

ViewSonic introduces MovieBook

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15 years ago
Section: Gadgets / Other, Miscellaneous You know the holiday shopping season is coming up when devices from strange companies start showing up.  Not strange in terms of questionable, but strange as in companies not usually associated with the device in question.  Usually it means a large...

Cases and Stuff

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I don’t know what else I’ll fill in with, or even if I’ll have to, but I know there are several cases/enclosures reviews in the inbox, so I’ll start there.

New THX-certified Yeti USB condenser mic

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Blue Microphones has expanded its line of consumer products with the Yeti, a USB-attached condenser mic with THX certification. The mic features three of the company’s 14mm condenser capsules arranged in a triple array, with support for omni, cardioid, stereo or bidirectional polar patterns.

AVerMedia Turns Your PC Into a DVR

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Why get a separate DVR when you already have a computer? That’s the idea behind the just-released AVerTV HD DVR. This PCI Express card lets you record high-def video from your cable or satellite set-top box with two HDMI inputs.

Drew Beam

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Fahrenheit 212 Paintings by Drew Beam.

Don’t Do It Dell: Think Tablets, Not MIDs

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15 years ago
It looks like Dell is planning to release a mobile internet device, or a MID. The details are few and far between but the product—code-named Streak—looks like it packs Wi-Fi, 3G and Android 2.0 all into one.

Dell ships fastest office color laser printer, two others

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15 years ago
Dell on Tuesday released three commercial workgroup printers meant for use by businesses. This includes the 5130cdn, which is being touted as the worldís fastest single function letter-size office color laser printer; the 7130cdn, Dellís first LED color printer with tabloid-size printing...

Introducing the $1,500 Intel e-book reader

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The Amazon Kindle costs $260. The Barnes and Noble Nook costs $260. The Sony reader is $300. Clearly there’s an established price point for what we call an e-book reader. Jumping into the e-book fray comes the Intel Reader, for fifteen hundred U.S. dollars.

New OLPC laptop with “double the speed” coming next month

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Section: Computers, Mobile Computers, Laptops, Netbooks Despite not hearing much in terms of the OLPC project recently it seems that they are still seeing their fair share of success. According to Walter Bender they have topped one million downloads on Sugar Labs.

Apple poised to take over the (tech) world

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15 years ago
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Apple Financial, Apple, Apple HistoryOur friends at Cult of Mac commented on the possibility, floated on CNBC, that Apple will eventually overthrow Microsoft as the most valuable company in the technological world.

Well, That Was No Fun

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15 years ago
The show itself was fine, but last night my knee quite spectacularly gave out at work. They think I may have torn some cartilage, but I have to see an orthopedic specialist before they’ll know for sure. Excruciating does not even begin to describe it, and ibuprofen does NOT help.

Colorful S101 NewYork netbook offer Accelerometer

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Accelerometer comes to netbook, Colorful S101 NewYork netbook to be precise. Comes with a 10 inch display with a 1024 x 600 resolution and powered by usual 1.6GHz Atom N270 CPU, up to 2GB of RAM and 160GB HDD with shock protection , Colorful S101 NewYork netbook is the first netbook packs...

Test Driving The World’s Fastest Golf Cart

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Last week Tesla asked me if I’d like to take the new Tesla Roadster Sport for a day to see what I thought.

Ricoh GXR

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Today Ricoh GXR Camera($549) is official, which is an interchangeable unit camera sys..(more...

Motorola Droid Weekend Sales Tops 100,000, Says Analyst

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Motorola’s Droid phone may not be an iPhone-sized hit yet but it is flying off the shelves. More than 100,000 Droid phones were sold in the first weekend since the device’s launch, estimates Mark McKechnie, an analyst with Broadpoint AmTech.

Things to do today that have nothing to do with Modern Warfare 2

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I know that there’s a certain of percentage of people who want nothing to do with Modern Warfare 2. It’s all meatheads and explosions, right?

Dreamers

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15 years ago
A photography project of the university Wiesbaden ( now Hochschule Rhein Main ). The concepts name w..(more...

Leaked Verizon docs promise Droid update Dec. 11

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The recently launched Motorola Droid at Verizon is already due for an over-the-air update to fix a large number of issues, according to a lengthy document leaked from Verizon.

Hands-on with Rogers’ 21Mbps HSPA+ 3G

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15 years ago
Over the past few days, Electronista has had the opportunity to test Rogers' new HSPA+ 3G service to see whether or not it lives up to the cellular provider's claims and see what T-Mobile USA users can expect in the near future.

An AppleScript trick turns any NAS device into a Time Machine drive

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15 years ago
You can turn any network attached storage device into a Time Machine back-up drive with one simple step. Simply download this app package and drag your drive onto it. The script adds the drive as a Time Machine capable device and then you can simply add it under Time Machine System Preferences.

Samsung ULV (Ultra Low Voltage) laptop gets Hands-On

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15 years ago
Section: Computers, Mobile Computers, Laptops, Netbooks, WirelessThe Samsung X120 with Intel’s new ULV chip got a hands-on and the result: there is lots to love.  It is small, not much bigger than a netbook, packs lots of computing power (it can handle Windows 7) and a multi-touch...

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