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Internet Explorer 8 beta 2

It’s nearly 3 months and as promised, Microsoft released Internet Explorer 8 beta 2 to the public.  Beta 1 showed much promise but as the “beta” title implied, it was very rough around the edges and barely usable, unless of course you were a developer (since Beta 1 was dubbed as a developer-only release).  With [...]

[ More ] August 31st, 2008 | 6 Comments | Posted in Software |

Microsoft’s Photosynth

Microsoft’s Photosynth is one of the company’s most interesting (not to mention free) software to date.  Although the service has been out for quite awhile, Microsoft just recently opened the feature to users to upload their own photos.  With the attention that everyone gave it, the Photosynth site was unavailable roughly throughout the day of [...]

[ More ] August 28th, 2008 | 2 Comments | Posted in Net-topics |

Lenovo’s UMPC bet, the Ideapad S10

With more and more companies pitching in on the UMPC market, it’s Lenovo’s turn to unveil it’s bet for the netbook market.  A direct competitor to the EEE PC 1000 series and the MSI Wind, the Ideapad S10 will be released with 8.9″ and 10″ units.

Here’s the details of the Ideapad hardware specifications:

Integrated 1.3M Camera
2 [...]

[ More ] August 22nd, 2008 | 5 Comments | Posted in Notebooks |

Do you Scour the Web?

Web search has become an integral part of our lives (life on the internet that is).  Whether it’s research or simply something we’re curious about, web search is simply what to do.  Now while everyone has their preference of search engine like Google, Yahoo, MSN etc, there’s a new name on the block that promises [...]

[ More ] August 14th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Net-topics |

Never forget the Milk.. or anything else again

Let’s face it, with the flood of things going on in our daily lives and items and ideas to keep track of you’ll end up forgetting something important, once, twice or even possibly most of the time.  Organizers, PDAs, then cellphones helps a lot with that but most of the time, it’s better to do [...]

[ More ] August 7th, 2008 | 3 Comments | Posted in Software |

Why do UMPCs sell?

To complete the question, why do UMPCs sell when full fledge laptops have better specs at roughly the same, if not lower prices? The answer isn’t as simple as you think.

UMPCs or Ultra Mobile Personal Computers, which is starting to be referred to by several manufacturers like Intel, Asus, Dell, etc as Netbooks, started [...]

[ More ] August 5th, 2008 | 1 Comment | Posted in Notebooks |