Author Archives: Prithvi Mandava
For the geek that has it all comes a desk that can fit it all
Introducing (well I’m not “introducing” anything really since this thing has been available for at least a few weeks now) the Pro Gaming Table from Digital Edge. Priced at $380, and designed with CH controllers in mind, the Table offers what looks to be eight different platforms. (Credit: Digital Edge) Three of the eight platforms are built …
Oosah Hosts up to 1TB of Media Online for Free
Web application Oosah hosts a whopping one terabyte (that’s 1,024 gigabytes) of media online for free. In addition to hosting videos, photos, and music you upload directly to the site, Oosah also integrates with Flickr, Picasa Web Albums, Facebook, and YouTube. Once you’ve connected your accounts, you can actually drag and drop photos between webapps—so, …
Three free alternatives to pricey graphics software
Why spend big bucks on graphics software when you can get many, if not most, of the same features from freeware? Here are three mui-expensive graphics apps and their free counterparts: Adobe Illustrator Available for Windows only, Creative Docs .NET (yeah, weird name) is a vector-based graphic design tool for creating illustrations, manuals, flow charts, icons, …
Top 10 USB Thumb Drive Tricks
Is that a gigabyte in your pocket? And are you putting it to good use? The explosion of USB thumb drives gives anyone the ability to take some serious file storage space along with their house keys. Developers and road warriors have come up with all sorts of innovative techniques for putting these tiny, roomy …
Five killer software freebies you’ve (probably) never heard of
I don’t know about you, but I’m getting a little spoiled by all the free software out there. Seriously, I feel for the developers working hard to make a buck when there’s so much good freeware. Like these five gems, all of which I use almost daily and love dearly:
The Indian behind Intel’s super chip
When Intel launched its first six-core x86 microprocessor – a high-end processor to crunch huge amount of data – designed and developed by its Indian team, there was relief at its India office. This made-in-India project, code-named Dunnington, was launched after another much-touted India-specific project – Whitefield – was aborted mid-way by Intel in 2005, …
Trojan masquerades as iPhone game
Security firm Sophos warned on Thursday that e-mails being circulated on the Web that purport to offer a free iPhone game instead are carrying a Trojan horse that can take control of infected Windows machines. The e-mails have subject lines like “Virtual iPhone games!” and “Apple: The most popular game!” The attachment is called “Penguin.Panic.zip,” …
World’s smallest PC?
As reporters, we tend to be wary whenever a company claims to be the first, the best, or the smallest of anything. But when we saw an image of CompuLab’s Fit-PC Slim, we thought it could very well be the tiniest machine capable of running Windows XP yet. The original Fit-PC 1.0 was already a minute …
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