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- Disney, Asus launch 'Netpal' netbook for kids
- Disney and Eee PC maker Asus announced Wednesday their collaboration for the Disney Netpal, a netbook computer for children aged 6 to 12. Developed with parents and kids in mind, the Disney Netpal has a reinforced mechanical design and, naturally, a Disney user...
- Blog posts 2009-06-17
- AVADirect Custom Gaming PC
- A dirty secret of gaming PC reviews is that vendors frequently try to submit systems with aggressive overclocking that they won't actually sell because of poor reliability, but that will last long enough to score well on our benchmarks. Imagine our skepticism when this $2,900 AVADirect Custom Gaming PC showed...
- Product reviews 2009-04-23
- The BIG iPod touch review
- A few weeks ago I got my hands on two 16GB iPod touch devices. Having spent a lot of hands on time with these devices it's time for a comprehensive review. The iPod touch was for me the first Apple device to come out when I eagerly...
- Blog posts 2007-11-23
- Free alternatives to commercial software
- Free alternatives to commercial softwareFoxit reader as a replacement for Adobewww.foxitsoftware.comAny alternative to Real for Vista 64?Amazon uses Real to preview tracks but I won't install that in Windows. Any alternative?RE: Free alternatives . . .I have a couple . . .ZipGenius - an Excellent Winzip Alternative that handles just...
- Discussion threads 2007-11-21
- Sony LF-V30 LocationFree TV
- In some ways, you've got to feel a little sympathetic for Sony. The company effectively invented the placeshifting concept--the ability to stream TV programming from your living room to another device via the Internet--in 2004, only to see it co-opted by smaller upstart Sling Media a year later. The latter...
- Product reviews 2007-10-26
- Toshiba Satellite A215 (Turion 64 X2 1.8GHz, 2GB RAM, 250GB HDD, Vista Home Premium)
- Toshiba's latest mainstream laptop occupies the sweet spot between price and features, packing in a generous 250GB hard drive and 2GB of RAM for $999. The 15.4-inch Toshiba Satellite A215 also includes a Labelflash DVD burner that can burn text and images on your optical media, but it skips the...
- Product reviews 2007-08-16
- Apple's summer 2007 announcements (updated)
- Apple CEO Steve Jobs just wrapped up his live Product Presentation for the media at the company's Cupertino campus. The company announced new, thinner aluminum and glass iMacs with zippy Core 2 processors and a completely new low-profile aluminum keyboard. Apple also used the presentation to announce revamped versions of...
- Blog posts 2007-08-07
- Jensen MP6612i
- Jensen has a hit on its hands with the MP6612i. This inexpensive and visually plain car stereo has more features that far more pricey systems, and gives drivers an easy-to-use means of controlling them all when on the road. While its monochrome display is a little low-rent for our liking,...
- Product reviews 2007-08-02
- Build the biggest bang per dollar PCs: June 2007 Edition
- It's Father's day coming up and what better way to put a smile on Dad's face than a new computer. The timing couldn't be better with the arrival of the newest 3-Series motherboards from Intel and the somewhat new 690G AMD motherboards which I reviewed yesterday so it's time to build a new PC...
- Blog posts 2007-06-13
- Help me redesign the web
- Help me redesign the webdon't do flash. won't do flash as long as it is proprietary. lazy, carelesspeople do flash and call themselves programmers when they don't know the first thing about a real programming language.i will fight this proprietization of the web till my last breath.let the web author...
- Discussion threads 2007-06-07
- XtremeMac Tango Audio System for iPod
- XtremeMac is no stranger in iPod accessory land, but the company made its first foray into the tabletop audio arena with the Tango. (XtremeMac now also offers an iPod radio alarm clock, the Luna.) Indeed, the Tango looks a bit like a tabletop itself, a design that won't appeal to...
- Product reviews 2007-02-23
- Sharper Image iPulse for iPod (with subwoofer)
- The Sharper Image's wares fall almost entirely into one of two categories: expensive, useful electronic toys or expensive, useless electronic toys. When I first caught sight of the iPulse, a light-adorned speaker system for the iPod, I fully expected it to fall into the latter category. After my experience with...
- Product reviews 2007-01-17
- HP TouchSmart PC IQ770
- If two days from this posting, Apple announces a touch screen iMac at its 2007 MacWorld event, we may have to reconsider this review. Until that happens, HP's new $1,779 TouchSmart PC IQ770 is our all-in-one family PC of choice. You probably wouldn't want to make it your main PC...
- Product reviews 2007-01-08
- From Mashup University: Video of Introduction to Mashups 101
- ZDNet was the official media partner to Mashup University which took place at the Computer History Museum this past July and since then, our broadband team as been pioneering the intersection of on-demand distance learning by way of highly post-produced Webcast lessons that brilliantly merge the video output of the...
- Blog posts 2006-10-19
- Griffin TuneCenter
- Griffin has had its hands in Mac accessories for well over a decade, so it's only natural that the company turn out a slew of iPod accessories as well. One of the latest products to hit the shelves is the TuneCenter, a low-profile iPod add-on that lets you integrate your...
- Product reviews 2006-10-16
- Sony VAIO VGC-LS1
- Sony's VAIO line of desktop PCs has traditionally been a more of a showcase for new designs and technologies than a collection of workhorse systems for everyday use. In the past year, we've seen VAIO systems such as the XL1 Digital Living System, which paired a living room PC with...
- Product reviews 2006-08-22
- HP Pavilion Media Center a1510n
- Hewlett-Packard is making a concerted effort to corner the market in low-price PCs--a strategy that analysts say is helping the company gain market share at the expense of archrival Dell. While the very cheapest Pavilions, the a1400 series, start at a mind-boggling $250 after rebate, the $599 Pavilion a1510n...
- Product reviews 2006-08-18
- Klipsch Quintet III
- The Klipsch Synergy Series Quintet III Microsystem is the aptly named successor to the Quintet II system, the company's best-selling surround-sound speaker package of all time. In addition to its ability to play louder than its predecessor, the 5.0 surround-sound speaker system incorporates an upgraded tweeter and a slew...
- Product reviews 2006-05-05
- Eurocom M590K Emperor
- While it's not the first laptop we've heard of that features a 19-inch display and two graphics cards running in a scalable link interface, the Eurocom M590K Emperor is the first such laptop we've laid hands on. And we like both marquee features very much: the laptop offers one of...
- Product reviews 2006-04-26
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