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Let’s face it: PDF files aren’t exactly the fastest loading documents on the planet. Now, thanks to a new feature in Gmail, opening a PDF attachment doesn’t have to try your patience. Instead of opening your native PDF viewer (like Adobe Acrobat), you’ll get the fast-loading document reader built into Google Docs. Not only is this reader fast,...
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Last year, over a million people sent a YouTube holiday video card to friends and family. This year, the feature is back, with more themes and featured videos for you to choose from. Head on over to the YouTube Greeting Cards site to get started creating your own card. Here, you can choose from dozens of holiday videos uploaded by the YouTube...
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If you’re one of the millions of people who use Internet Explorer, then you’ll probably want to know Microsoft has confirmed an unpatched bug in Internet Explorer that hackers are exploiting. The bug affects Internet Explorer 7 along with older versions of the browser, including the...
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ASUS Introduces the Completely Redesigned Eee PC 1002HA Netbook Slim, Light, Elegant: the Eee PC 1002HA Takes Netbook Design to New Heights While Delivering the Same Legendary Eee PC Mobility and Ease of Use Taipei, Taiwan, – ASUS, a worldwide leader in notebook design and the fastest growing...
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Anyone ever had a tech support issue, not just with Dell, but with any company, and ended up with a TS rep who was obviously based in India or Manila, or some country with cut-rate employee pay? of course you have. It doesn't even have to be a tech company for that to happen. And have you ever...
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OCZ Technology Introduces Premium Gold Series Secure Digital High Capacity (SDHC) CardsSunnyvale, CA—December 12, 2008—OCZ Technology Group, a worldwide leader in innovative, ultra-high performance and high reliability memory, today announced the launch of its new Gold Series Secure...
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"Parasitic energy harvesting" might sound like it is part of a Sci-Fi plot where alien beings feed off of the energy emanating from human bodies, but it is actually a means of reclaiming wasted energy. An Israeli company, Innowattech, says that it holds the patents to technologies that can...
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It all started with a snipped on page A23 of Thursday’s Washington Post, which notified the public that the McCain-Palin campaign was going to sell off its used office inventory at low prices. Then, it turned into a high-tech slip-up in which the campaign headquarters accidentally sold an...
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ASUS Launches the VH Series of LCD Monitors for Multimedia Mavens New Widescreen Monitors with Full HD Quality and HDMI Support Added to ASUS’ Monitor Lineup Taipei, Taiwan, December 11, 2008 – ASUS today continued its heritage of producing high performance, richly-featured LCD monitors with...
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You can now pick up the Acer Aspire One netbook for just $99.99 from RadioShack. If you’re thinking this sounds too good to be true, you’re right: There’s a catch. Namely, you’ll have to sign up for a lengthy and expensive service contract with AT&T. But hey, if you were going to buy that...
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Intel Completes Next Generation, 32nm Process Development Phase SANTA CLARA, Calif., - Intel Corporation has completed the development phase of its next-generation manufacturing process that further shrinks chip circuitry to 32 nanometers (a billionth of a meter). The company is on track...
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Video:Sapphire HD 4650 512MB Overclock Edition Review @ OCCMotherboards and Chipsets:Jetway X-Blue G45 Motherboard Review @ FusionMods.NetZotac nForce 630i @ t-breakDFI LanParty Jr 790GX Motherboard Review @ NinjalaneProcessors:Intel i7-920 Nehalem Processor Review @ Tweaknews.netMemory and Storage:Palit Geforce 9600GSO Sonic (768Mb DDR3)...
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In the last few years Virtualization has gone from a buzzword to a platform of choice in the world of Information Technology. Consumers already reap its benefits on a day to day basis as Banks, Internet Service Providers, online merchants, and many other companies have adopted the technology...
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In the last few years Virtualization has gone from a buzzword to a platform of choice in the world of Information Technology. Consumers already reap its benefits on a day to day basis as Banks, Internet Service Providers, online merchants, and many other companies have adopted the technology...
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but only from AT&T. If you go to AT&T's site, you can buy an iPhone 3G online, and have it delivered the next day (free). Ah, the comforts of being able to skip the store (as with the original iPhone). Apple, on the other hand, has no such online buying option on their site...
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For any of you MacBook owners who have been patiently waiting for Apple to fix the issues that cause your MacBook to freeze whenever 4GB of RAM is installed, it appears you’ll have to continue waiting, and stick with 2GB or 3GB in the meantime. This is quite the downer for many owners who are chomping at the bit to beef up their systems....
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CREATIVE ANNOUNCES AVAILABILITY OF THE VADO HD POCKET VIDEO CAM - SEE IT, SHOOT IT IN HD, SHARE IT, SAVE IT FOR A LIFETIME, WATCH IT IN TRUE HD QUALITY ON YOUR HDTV Output Your HD Video to Your HDTV in 1080i Resolution with HDMI Connection MILPITAS, Calif., Dec. 8, 2008 - Creative today...
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It's been a missing, yet highly called-for feature on the iPhone since it's launch: copy-and-paste. But despite its appearance in surveys done by Apple over possible new features, it's still missing from the OS. Now a company called Pastebud appears ready to unveil a limited version, which...
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For many, watching and/or making videos for YouTube is a hobby. Now, one year after YouTube invited members to become “partners” and add advertising to their videos, some successful users are earning six-figure incomes and quitting their day jobs. One user, Michael Buckley, who hosts a celebrity chatter show, says he is making over $100,000...
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Zeitgeist is a German term that means "the general intellectual, moral, and cultural climate of an era," or as Google likes to say, "the spirit of the times." On Wednesday Google released their 2008 version of their annual Year-End Zeitgeist List which purports to highlight "the big events...
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MTI MicroFuel Cells sent out a press release that states that by the end of 2009, the company will have a pocket-size charger available for consumer electronics that runs off a methanol-fuel-based fuel-cell technology. MTI promises that you can get up to 25 hours worth of power from a single...
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Each year we undergo a time-honored tradition of bringing you a few our picks for the hottest in computing gear for the holidays. This year, whether you're interested in a new graphics card for rendering 3D bump-mapped sugar plums in your head, a new CPU to crunch under the mistletoe or if you've been a really good geek, an entire new system,...
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