Archive for: March 20, 2008

Filed under: Laptops
There’s are a lot of reasons to pick another laptop by the MacBook Air — particularly whether you’re into little things like “useful ports” — but the comparison to non-Apple hardware isn’t even relevant unless you’re willing to switch to OS X, right? Well, the crew by at Xbit …

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It’s been two years since we first heard that Qantas was bringing in-flight e mail and SMS to its fleet, and after a lengthy analyzing period, it looks like it’s finally happening. The last set of analysis flights wrapped up in January, and allowing humans to check in on the status of their Nige…

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Cellphones, Gadgets

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Given how clumsy some of Nyko’s other Wii accessories are, we didn’t precisely have high hopes when we heard that the company was shipping the first third-party Wii Guitar Hero controller — so assume our surprise when we found out it’s in the shape of a Telecaster, our fave axe and one thus far…

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Gadgets, Gaming

Apple’s announcement earlier that month of the iPhone software development kit and its firmware 2.0 update assemble the hot-selling iPhone ready for large enterprises to adopt it — or at least support it. There’s a whole other lesson of iPhone-toting users, however, who might want to use th…

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It’s been a while since the HP dv2000 laptop made its original appearance, and it looks like HP’s giving the newest version a new model number as well as a slight redesign — say bonjour to the dv3000. Based around an oh-so-hip 13.3-inch display, the overall look of the machine is basically the …

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Gadgets, Laptops

The rumor mill continues to buzz with speculation that AMD is laying off five percent of its staff across the board, but it looks like the company’s trying to put out the fire — we just spoke with AMD reps who denied that any layoffs had already taken place, but wouldn’t comment further on “rum…

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Desktops, Gadgets, Laptops

The next version of Novell’s Suse Linux Enterprise Server will focus on migration technologies and virtualisation, in order to entice users from Unix and take market share from Red Hat, according to a roadmap announced at the company’s BrainShare assembly in Salt Lake City. Version 11 of SLES is not…

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OS

Apple has released the first version of its browser, Safari, for Windows. Safari 3.1, which was launched on Tuesday, will run on Windows XP or Vista and, of course, Mac OSX. Apple released a beta for the Windows-supporting version in June final year. Apple has claimed that the browser is the fastest…

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Filed under: Transportation
While oil prices continue to soar to new heights, the gurus at InnovaTek are peering into the future. After years of work, said company is finally analyzing its hand-sized microreactor that can reportedly “convert virtually any liquid fuel into hydrogen, producing a porta…

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Gadgets

Q: I have been using Symantec's Partition Magic 8.0 to repartition disks in Windows XP. But it does not run in Vista and Symantec has no upgrade for it to support Vista. What tool has taken up the mantle to support disk repartitioning in Windows Vista? - Howard Pribble.

A: Let's take a look at why Symantec didn't bother with Vista support. Right-click Computer and choose Manage. Select Disk Management from the list at left. Right-click the drive that you want to partition. Hey, what's that on the menu? "Shrink Volume"?!

That's right, non-destructive partition resizing is built into Vista. I wouldn't play around without making a backup, but it looks quite usable. Once you've shrunk the partition you can right-click in the empty space, make it into a partition, and format it. Conversely you could delete an unwanted partition and then use "Extend Volume" to make the partition preceding it fill the space. You can't do elaborate things like move a partition the way you could in Partition Magic, and you can't stack up multiple operations to perform in "batch" mode. But Vista's built-in seems to do the job. - Neil J. Rubenking.

Q: I have an odd question. Recently thinking of how I could have the "fanciest" computer, I stumbled on the idea of having a movie set as the desktop. So, my question is, is there any software that would allow you to do this in Windows? - Matt Anderson.

A: You can set any picture you want as your desktop background, so you could just use a nice big detailed picture of a movie set. But I think that may not be what you had in mind. In Vista, the desktop background can be a movie, specifically a file in the WMV format. Right-click the Desktop, choose Personalize, and choose Desktop Background. Note that it says "Click a picture or video to make it your desktop background". Browse to the location of the desired video, select it, and you've got a "live" background. Be warned, it can be awfully distracting! - Neil J. Rubenking.