Published on Thursday, May 27, 2010 by admin If you are moving from Vista to Windows 7, you might miss the Sidebar which was introduced in Vista. Today we take a look at a couple options for getting a Sidebar back in Windows 7. Copy Files from Vista Note: In this example we are using 32-bit versions of Vista and Windows 7. Make sure you are logged in with Administrator credentials. If you have a Vist...

Published on Saturday, May 22, 2010 by admin Does the much-hyped HTC Incredible really live up to its name? We compare spec-by-spec versus Apple’s iPhone 3GS to find out. We have little doubt that HTC’s Incredible is king of the Android mountain for the time being. But even if it stares down at the myTouch puttering around in the foothills and the Droid on a craggy outcropping just below, it still has t...

Published on Saturday, May 22, 2010 by admin Android titans clash when we pit the Motorola Droid versus HTC Droid Incredible. With the long-rumored HTC Incredible now unmasked and headed to Verizon in just days, many early reviewers claim it may be the finest Android handset to date. But how does this darling ‘droid stack up to the last Google-powered phone to that held that disputed title – Motorola’...

Published on Tuesday, May 18, 2010 by admin HTC has officially announced the HTC Wildfire, a new Android 2.1 smartphone that resembles the already-available HTC Desire, although it’s smaller and comes with not so advanced features. As you may recall, the hew handset’s name was chosen by HTC fans via Facebook [ad#300x250_image_ads] With the Wildfire, HTC plans to “make the HTC Sense experience ...

Published on Tuesday, May 18, 2010 by admin Last night Google spruced up their Android Market website, but it was not the major upgrade everyone has been waiting for. The site acts mainly as a showcase and does not allow users to browse all apps, download apps, see full app details, or even perform basic Google-functions like search. [ad#300x250_image_ads] Even though the site is still mostly useless, G...

Published on Tuesday, May 18, 2010 by admin As expected, the official-looking Windows Phone 7 OS ROM leaked over the weekend is already yielding results. Pictured above is an image extracted from the "oemavatar.cab." Now that could be a generic Windows Phone 7 image or it could be the HTC Mondrian already seen referenced by the 100MB file. [ad#300x250_image_ads] The kids at XDA-Developers have also pie...

Published on Tuesday, May 18, 2010 by admin Garmin-ASUS’ M10 may no longer be the only Windows Mobile 6.5.3 smartphone we know about – what with the Sony Ericsson Aspen launching this morning – but it’s one of the first to be caught in the wild. Two Chinese sites have managed to acquire the M10 and put it through its paces, mPro and GPC, including comparison shots with other handsets and photo sample...

Published on Sunday, May 16, 2010 by admin The iWatch is as fanciful a design as you could wish for. The concept timepiece is a wrist-sized iPhony, a tiny iPod Touch on a strap. It’s also gorgeous. [ad#300x250_image_ads] The design is from the Italian ADR Studio, and exists only in the world of Photoshop. The main screen, seen above, shows the time, date and weather (Rome’s looking very inviting th...

Published on Saturday, May 15, 2010 by admin TagScanner is a multifunction program for organizing and managing your music collection. It can edit tags of mostly state-of-the-art audio formats, rename files based on the tag information, generate tag information from filenames, and perform any transformations of the text from tags and filenames. Also you may get album info via online databases like freedb o...

Published on Thursday, May 13, 2010 by admin There are quite a number of Android based netbooks in the market but if you are tight of budget and still would like to own one yourself, the recently announced entry level machine by Cherrypal, a Hong Kong based company may be one of your great options. Named as Cherrypal Asia, there are available in two different models with one at seven-inch while the other one a...

Published on Tuesday, May 11, 2010 by admin Research In Motion is acquiring QNX Software Systems, whose open Neutrino operating system is used across many industry verticals, including autos. RIM may plan to let its BlackBerry smartphones control automotive and other functions. The QNX technology has been licensed for more than 17 million in-vehicle systems worldwide. Research In Motion has put its buying po...

Published on Tuesday, May 11, 2010 by admin I'm very proud of companies like ASUS and HTC. These aren't your tradtional consumer electronics companies. They have their roots in the OEM business, working hard but for very little recognition. These Taiwanese companies have been desperately trying to bridge the gap to the mainstream consumer market over the past few years and honestly, they've done a great job thu...

Published on Saturday, May 1, 2010 by admin There's nothing quite like playing games on a computer with a multichannel audio setup. Hearing not just the sounds but where they're coming from adds a uniquely absorbing dimension to even titles with the most engrossing game play. But buying and setting up five or seven speakers and a subwoofer just so you can get this experience can range from an annoyance to ...

Published on Saturday, May 1, 2010 by admin DPF (Digital Photo Frame) is getting good traction among consumer market with more and more feature sets being integrated into it. You may have heard or seen WiFi connected, VOIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) convergence with media oriented Digital Photo Frame but 3G capable one could be something new and may able to attract certain users especially those that don’...

Published on Saturday, May 1, 2010 by admin The global leading maker of computer peripherals for Windows, Apple and Linux users, LaCie has launched its new power–efficient and high-performance external hard drives designed by Neil Poulton, named as LaCie Rugged USB 3.0, which combines ultimate rugged design that able to absorb drops up to 2.2 meters with high-speed USB 3.0 interface delivering speeds up to 11...

Published on Friday, April 30, 2010 by admin What Comes After the iPad? When the iPad was unveiled in January, everyone could agree on one thing: it did look a lot like a big iPhone. Extends Apple's consistent design to its logical conclusion in the company's next two revolutionary devices. [ad#300x250_image_ads] I hear the iBoard's going to implement twenty finger multi-touch and the iMat's even going ...

Published on Thursday, April 29, 2010 by admin A student gamer says he ran into a "lifetime limit" of two iPads when he attempted to buy more of Apple's tablet devices. The report seems bizarre since Apple has not reported iPad inventory problems. So the iPad "lifetime limit" may have been an isolated incident at Apple's Los Angeles store. Apple says more than 500,000 iPads have been sold. Apple is surely ove...

Published on Wednesday, April 28, 2010 by admin RIM (Research In Motion) has introduced its new elegant, ultra-compact BlackBerry Pearl 3G, which the company claims as the smallest BlackBerry smartphone as yet, based on BlackBerry OS 5, combining a suite of incredible powerful features with the industry-leading BlackBerry email, messaging as well as social networking capabilities. “Considering the fast growi...

Published on Wednesday, April 28, 2010 by admin Do you have too many icons on the desktop, having trouble finding your files covering most of your desktop wallpaper  ? Fences in action Maybe you need a program to organize your icons into neat little groups like programs, shortcuts, latest changes. This is what Fences does. It groups your icons into transparent windows which you can drag and hide to make ...

Published on Monday, April 26, 2010 by admin Verizon Wireless has launched the sleek Samsung Reality SCH-U820 smartphone, which features 3″ full-touch display, full QWERTY keypad, multiple messaging options, one-touch access to popular social networking sites, and Samsung’s TouchWiz interface for unique personalization, offering enhanced messaging and social networking experience for Verizon Wireless cus...

Published on Monday, April 26, 2010 by admin A camera that’s the size of a matchbox will be handy to carry everywhere and a much talked about gadget to show off to friends. The ultra compact, pocket-sized Chobi Mini Digital Camera has point-and-shoot features which can capture pictures and videos with resolutions of 2048 x 1536 pixels and 1280 x 960 pixels, respectively. This is pretty good quality for ...

Published on Friday, January 8, 2010 by admin New to Canon this year is a unique image processor, DIGIC 4. The processor enriches color depth of the images, while compressing the total size. The bus speed is faster in general and it is less likely to hang and slow down photo capture than the previous models. The implementation of this new processor will greatly assist the powershot camera developed by Cano...