Latest Gadgets, Tablets and Smartphones
Amazon have created a list of the best netbooks costing under $350 that run the new Windows 7 OS. A number of them have received a discount to bring them under the $350 bracket which means you are getting a higher priced netbook for a better price.
Netbooks included in the offer include the always favourite ASUS Eee 1005HA, along with another top seller, the Acer Aspire One as well as many others such as Dell, HP, Gateway to name a few (full list can be found here). [Read more…]
AT&T have announced that they are now offering a voicemail to text service that is capable of converting your voicemails to either text messages or emails (or both). The new service costs $9.99 a month and allows you to save messages, forward messages as text or email and gives you more ways to reply to the sender of the message.
It will be interesting to hear reports of how the service works and what runs in the background at AT&T to convert voice to text and how it will stack up against other options available. [Read more…]
Google [GOOG] is looking in to a pay TV system on their YouTube site that will allow users to pay to watch episodes of premium content. The service is said to be taking on the iTunes service.
The cost per episode is rumoured to be $1.99 which would be the same was what Apple charges iTunes users although in the early stages it seems that Google and YouTube will be offering a lot less. The reason being that if you download from iTunes the episode can be shared among a number of Apple devices that includes iPod’s, iPhones as well as Apple TV and your Mac. [Read more…]
Some pictures of a new phone from HTC have been revealed which show it being called the HTC Touch.B. Previously it has been mentioned as the HTC Rome.
It was expected that the Touch.B would run the Android 2.X operating system although MobileFrance have said other wise showing that it actually runs a QualComm platform called brewmp. [Read more…]
These LEGO Wallets are designed to give you something different to store your money in this Christmas. Each wallet is handmade and comes supplied with a extra LEGO bricks allowing you to change the colour and design of the wallet.
The wallets are made by a company called ColorByNumbers and a number of different designs are available which are built from various LEGO bricks and base plates. [Read more…]
Microsoft have confirmed that Microsoft Office 2010 will launch in June next year. If you don’t want to wait till June 2010 to get your hands on a copy of Office 2010 then perhaps you could download the free Beta version now.
The Office 2010 download is available over here and from what I have tested appears to be fully functional. [Read more…]
When booting up Microsoft Windows you may be having problems with what is being called a black screen of death. The black screen of death was reported after a number of users installed the latest patches on what has now been named Patch Tuesday. It seems that one of the security fixes actually causes a bit more damage rather than fixing a security hole.
At the moment, Microsoft are still looking in to the issue. If you are seeing a BSOD (black, not blue) and are just seeing a My Computer explorer window then luckily there is a fix thanks to Prevx (a security company). [Read more…]
Yesterday we showed you some screen shots of Android 2.1 running on the Hero. The guys over at XDA Developers have managed to obtain a leaked copy of the OS and made it available for download on the Hero.
The installation of the ROM is fairly straight forwards although you will first need to root your phone. After that you simply run a backup, wipe the phone and install the new ROM.
As the procedure does involve messing with the ROM and installing the ROM we always recommend proceeding with caution as you might end up with an expensive brick. [Read more…]
Sony have created the smallest and lightest vein pattern recognition finger scanner in the form of a small USB device. The vein reader is called the Sony FVA-U1 and will be launched December 18 in Japan.
The unit weighs just 33g and measures 70 x 14.5 x 58mm in size. [Read more…]
“The Cloud” is a company based in the UK that provides wireless internet in pubs across the UK. The managing director of the company mentioned recently that a pub owner was recently fined £8,000 due to one of the people logging in to the wi-fi service downloaded copyrighted material.
It’s an interesting case which I wont go fully in to here, but it’s certainly an eye opener for those offering a Wi-fi service as part of their business in that they need to be more vigilant in keeping track of who logs in and what they do. [Read more…]
There are a ton of versions of Monopoly starting at the regular version with London streets, moving on to more advanced “chip and pin” versions along to City versions, custom versions and now, a Nintendo Monopoly. The Nintendo themed Monopoly game brings Mario characters to the classic game and includes a whole board themed as Mario. When paying tax, you pay it to Bowser and the playing pieces are in the shape of Nintendo accessories and in-game items such as a Koopa Shell.
Although the game is the same in that you shake dice, move around the board and buy properties, it does add a bit more fun to the game. [Read more…]
Due to their small size, Netbooks tend not to have optical drives installed on them. The Portable Netbook DVD drive is an external clamshell USB based drive that allows DVD-ROM’s to be accessed on a netbook.
With the drive being portable it can be easily carried around if needed and connected up as and when you want to access a DVD. The drive is about the size of a CD jewel case and requires just the USB cable to transfer data and keep the drive powered. [Read more…]
