Category: Laptops
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Samsung Shutting the Lid on Netbooks for Good in 2012?
Samsung Netbooks look to be on the way out in 2012, following declining interest after 4 years in service. The Netbook came about as a smaller, lightweight and cost effective alternative to the Notebook in 2007. From a number of manufacturers with sizes ranging from 5” up to 12” and supporting operating systems for Linux […]
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Google Block Torrent Sites from Auto Complete Feature to Help Curb Piracy
Google has taken action against internet pirates and removed several popular peer-to-peer file sharing sites including The Pirate Bay, isoHunt, 4Shared and Torrentreactor from its instant autocomplete search. The search provider hopes to prevent the distribution of pirated content with the move. This means that if you want to use Google to search for these […]
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Amoeba modular USB flash drive – Multi segmented data storage gadget
A South Korean designer has come up with a very unique way of storing our data with flash drives. Basing his design on the traditional USB flash drive, Hyunsoo Song has created a concept for the Amoeba modular flash drive. The Amoeba is a segmented device which in concept could be used as one complete […]
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Spotify to hit NYC for ‘What’s Next’ event – Moving towards movies?
Facebook’s pal Spotify will arrive in the Big Apple to unveil some big news in a ‘What’s Next for Spotify’ on November 30th with an event which many are suggesting will be the arrival of streaming movies to the online music platform. Possibly in response to last week’s launch of Google Music, Spotify is looking […]
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How to Run Android Apps on Your Windows PC – With BlueStacks
You can now run your favourite Android apps on your Windows desktop thanks to new software called BlueStacks, but why would you want to do that? Because with over 500,000 Android apps there’s a world of cool, useful and fun apps just waiting to be used! BlueStacks App Player is an amazing Windows program that […]
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Get New YouTube UI Before it Rolls out to Everyone
Google has secretly been working on a new UI (User Interface) for YouTube, and this is how you can switch to it before Google give the go ahead. The process isn’t hard and we will take you through it step by step. The new look for YouTube is not Cosmic Panda – this is even […]
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“Occupy Flash” urges for removal of Adobe Flash Player
A web group has set out to destroy Adobe Flash and remove its use from personal computers, tablets, mobiles and the internet. The group is calling themselves Occupy Flash, after the recent wave of Occupy protestors (or “trendy students”) causing disruption on Wall Street and other places of capitalist celebration. The Adobe plug-in is […]
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Study reveals 25 WORST passwords of 2011
Situations like the current Facebook hack/spam attacks are increasingly concerning to us web-users and it has helped emphasise the importance of a strong password for protecting our web presences and valuable information from intrusion. So with this in mind, there comes no better time for researchers at SplashData to release their annual list of the […]
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George Clooney Set to Play Steve Jobs In Hollywood Take On The Apple Founders Life
As Hollywood rushes to get a film of the Apple founders life, George Clooney and Noah Wyle are battling it out to play the Genius in the big screen motion picture. The news comes from the UK’s Now Magazine, and it is quite ironic that the Actor Clooney is fighting with for the role was […]
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Development Weekly – ICS Ports, Kindle Fire Mania and Cotton Candy
So here we are, another week of developments in the mobile world. This week we are going to have a look at some of the most interesting developments in the world of Android. First of we will touch on some of the Ports from source of Ice Cream Sandwich, Android 4.0.1. This has been one […]
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HP unleashes Envy 15 and 17 Laptops with Beats Audio tech
For those who love the Macbook Pro design but not the price
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Angry Birds Set To Hit CD Rom To Target A Wider Audience
Angry Birds is nearing the best ever selling multi platform game with its almost half a billion downloads across, IOS, Android, WP7, Symbian and Google Chrome. But Rovio are not content. Not yet anyway. In order to get Angry Birds to a wider audience Rovio is going back a step, where as most things are […]