August 18th, 2010 10:00am
mike s

Google’s hugely popular Calendar service works with with an array of desktop applications and mobile devices including iCal, iPhone and iPad, Blackberry, Android, Nokia/Symbian, and Windows Mobile phones, but a notable absentee was support for Outlook 2010.
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August 10th, 2010 2:42pm
Lee J.

When it comes to playing back audio on laptops, the sound quality is – at best - pretty shonky, but MSI is hoping to hook in audiophiles with its beefy new GX660 laptop which promises a veritable orgy of aural pleasure.
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August 9th, 2010 9:30am
Lee J.

New figures released by the PC Gaming Alliance reveal that far from being on the ropes, PC gaming remains very much alive, with shipping volumes for the platform being twice the size of the combined amounts of all the major consoles last year.
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August 2nd, 2010 9:15am
mike s

Microsoft continues to revive the fortunes of its once-ailing Internet Explorer (IE), with new figures from NetMarketShare reporting that the browser has increased its share of the browser market in by 0.42 per cent in July to bag a total share of 60.74 per cent.
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Boasting a beefy 23-inch, full HD 1080p, touchscreen display with “surface acoustic wave (SAW)” technology is Lenovo’s rather luscious -looking new IdeaCentre A700 all-in-one PC.
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Billed as a “timesheet killer,” Toggl is great way for freelancers and team-workers to keep track of their time spent working for The Man.
The free service comes in several flavours: a downloadable desktop widget for Mac, Linux and Windows, an iPhone/Android application and an iGoogle gadget that runs on all the major browsers – Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera.
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Categories: Android, Apple, Google, Windows, iPhone, mobile apps, mobiles, open source, portable, reviews, stuff Tags: time tracking
July 27th, 2010 11:56am
mike s

Dell has created some shelf space for their new Inspiron M101z netbook, an ‘ultra-thin and ultra-portable’ machine which is now available on their UK online store.
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July 20th, 2010 12:15pm
mike s

Netbooks have come a long way since the basic offerings of a few years back, and although the initial surge in sales may be relaxing slightly, they’re still very useful things and very much in demand.
With hundreds of different models now competing for your wallet, we’ve taken a look around at the very best and selected four netbooks which we think are in the current cream of the crop.
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July 13th, 2010 10:57am
mike s

If more evidence were needed of the business-repelling qualities of Microsoft’s deeply flawed Vista operating system, further proof comes in the shape of an astonishing statistic that reveals that nearly three quarters (74%) of business PC’s are still running Ye Olde XP.
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June 28th, 2010 12:01pm
Lee J.

Charging at you at a rate of knots is Samsung’s new N230 ultra-slim netbook offering an astonishing 13.8 hours battery life.
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June 25th, 2010 12:04pm
Lee J.

It seems that consumers and businesses have got over the sour taste left behind by the catastrophe that was the Windows Vista operating system, with its acclaimed Windows 7 follow-up quickly becoming the company’s fastest-selling operating system, selling a staggering 150 million licenses since its launch last October.
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June 23rd, 2010 11:00am
mike s

For many years, Splash ID was an essential install on all our PalmOS devices, with the password management software offering a handy and secure desktop/handheld combination.
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June 21st, 2010 10:30am
mike s

We used to love our old Toshiba Libretto 50, and to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Toshiba’s laptop business, the company has unveiled a dual-screen Windows 7 laptop, the Libretto W100.
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June 17th, 2010 11:54am
mike s

Now acquired by Magix AG, graphics editing package Xara Xtreme has had a major makeover and morphed into ‘Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 6′, while the more upmarket Xara Xtreme Pro has enjoyed a similar update and christened ‘Xara Designer Pro 6′.
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Promising photo pros, “improved image quality, performance and workflow flexibility , ” Adobe’s latest version of their ‘digital photography workflow program,’ Lightroom 3 has been released.
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