Archive for the 'Feature' Category
Web-based email is great because you can check it from any computer, but there’s one little catch: it’s inherently limited by your internet connection. From public WiFi to smartphones equipped with 3G, from mobile broadband cards to fledgling in-flight wireless on airplanes, Internet access is becoming more and more ubiquitous — but there are still [...]
February 2nd, 2009 | Posted in Feature, Gmail, Google, Internet, News, Software, Video, mobile | No Comments
In theory, any computer running Linux can be custom-built and tweaked down to the very last bit. In reality, a first-time Linux user wants to grab an install CD, get a working desktop, and do their own thing from there. Lots of Linux distributions make claims about being easy to use, fast, or stable, but [...]
September 26th, 2008 | Posted in Feature, Linux | No Comments
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 to each support [...]
September 22nd, 2008 | Posted in Feature | No Comments
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, [...]
September 20th, 2008 | Posted in Feature | No Comments
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, citing [...]
September 19th, 2008 | Posted in Feature, News, Technology | No Comments
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 machine, [...]
September 19th, 2008 | Posted in Feature, Technology | No Comments
This combination video-conversion and creation tool boasts good speed and a nice set of features.CinemaForge’s polished interface is both handsome and rather simple to understand, the Tom Cruise of software if he weren’t into Scientology.
As a video converter, the application supports all expected formats. You also can choose to accompany any video with audio files of [...]
September 18th, 2008 | Posted in Feature, Freeware, Software | No Comments
If you have a lot of media to browse through, no matter what viewer you use, it’s bound to take some time. Whatever the project may be–from picking the best shots from a pro photo shoot to getting the most action-packed movie clips from a birthday party–you need a good way to browse, compare, and [...]
September 17th, 2008 | Posted in Feature, Freeware, Software | No Comments
One of my buddies just tipped me off to a must-have tab management add-on for Firefox. It’s called FoxTab, and it’s a cross between Mac OS X’s Expose, Windows Vista’s Flip 3D, and the thumbnail view in Google Chrome. When you’ve got a lot of tabs open in Firefox, this offers a quick way to jump [...]
September 17th, 2008 | Posted in Feature, Firefox, addons, browser | No Comments