Keen to show those beastly Flash-hating rotters at Apple just how useful the technology is for tablets and netbooks, Adobe has knocked out a promo videos showing off its capabilities.
LG Electronics (LG) have announced the launch of their ultra-thin premium mobile PC, the LG X300 and it’s a rather sleek and stylish looking number.
Their new “flagship mobile computing device,” the LG X300 weighs a mere 970g and is wafer thin at just 17.5mm thick .
To the accompaniment of whoops, slapping sweaty palms held aloft and champagne corks bouncing off unsuspecting exec bonces, Microsoft has revealed that its latest operating system, Windows 7, has sailed past the 90 million sales mark.
For some unlucky users (including us), there’s been recurring problems with the sound vanishing from Windows and Windows 7 machines when they’re woken up from hibernation.
All our computers run 64 bit versions of Windows, but we understand that users on 32-bit Windows have suffered the same annoying glitch.
Coming with enough bells, whistles and unexpected add-ons to grant it a space on the Glastonbury bill is Lenovo’s new ThinkPad W701 series of workstation laptops.
For years on end, SplashID has been our password manager of choice, offering a simple, secure way of managing hundreds of passwords and personal details, both on our handheld and desktop.
As well as being a handy way of keeping track of log-ins, bank details and the like, the program has proved a great travelling companion, with its advanced Blowfish encryption and password protection giving us peace of mind even if some ne’er do well nabbed our laptop or smartphone.
Microsoft has put the price stickers on its new Office 2010 suite, and has included a Starter version that will come free with new PCs.
The new Microsoft Office Home and Business 2010 package will be all yours to love and to caress for £239.99, representing a substantial saving on the previous Standard version of Office 2007, which sold for a hefty £349.99.
There’s no denying that the Nokia Booklet 3G is a mighty purdy thing, with its aircraft-grade aluminium clad lines and shiny looks garnering warm praise from The Independent who frothily declared it, “a triumph of style and industrial design.”
Nokia’s first ever laptop certainly packs in a decent spec sheet too, offering Windows 7, 1 GB RAM, 120 GB hard drive, built-in A-GPS, 3G, and Wi-Fi, plus a 10.1″ HD-ready display.
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Some of the best apps are the simplest, and they don’t come much simpler than Ninite, which lets you install all the essential free downloads you’ll need for your new/upgraded PC in one fell swoop.
Forget spending ages trawling program websites looking for the ‘downloads’ page and endlessly clicking away: with Ninite all you have to do is tick off the programs you need from an expertly curated list, download your customised installer and then – bosh! – run it.
It wasn’t long ago that fancy twin monitor sets ups were the sole preserve of hotshot traders, high-flying graphics pros and, err, security guards, but recent price crashes have seen LCD multi-screen set ups becoming more affordable.
With a set of results sure set to send Apple fanboys howling at the Moon in disbelief, a recent study claims that Macs are far more insecure than Windows PCs, due partly to the attitude of its users and the relative obscurity of the platform.
An Eset survey conducted last year showed that when Apple users fell for phishing crime they tended to lose a load more dosh than your average Windows PC user, mainly because the majority of cyber crime victims are targeted via social engineering attacks rather than more traditional viruses (see graphic below).
Clearly hoping to scoop up some of that frenzied iPad buzz, UK company X2 Computing has launched their own “iTablet” range of Windows/Linux-based tablet PCs.
Described as coming “hot on the heels of Apple’s latest product launch,” X2 claims “the iTablet will revolutionise the way that Windows users can access and use data on the move”.
Easily them the most popular BitTorrent client on the Windows platform, uTorrent has moved to consolidate their lead with a souped-up new 2.0 release slipping effortlessly out of beta.
It’s still under development and not expected out until the second half of this year, but Lenovo ’s U1 Tablet/PC Hybrid has already got us a lot more excited than Apple’s frankly underwhelming iPad offering.
Showcased at CES earlier this month, the tablet packs everything you’d need from a fully functioning tablet PC – touchscreen, full multitasking, automatic screen orientation, 3G, Wi-Fi, onboard camera etc, but comes with a very clever twist: it can clip into a special shell to become a full Windows 7 laptop with a proper keyboard.
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We’ve been using various versions of ACDSee dating back to the year dot, and our loyalty has been rewarded by a fast, stable program which has done a grand job of indexing our hefty photo collection, now numbering tens of thousands of snaps.
For some time the program has been offered in two flavours – the pricier ’Pro’ version and the cheaper, consumer focused ACD See Photo Manager – with the flagship version certainly looking the part, resplendent in subdued greys and ‘pro’ black.
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