Archive for August, 2009
The verdict: Logitech takes the mouse prize with Darkfield sensor
The results were conclusive in our mouse head-to-head. Logitech’s Performance Mouse MX and its new Darkfield sensor boldly went where Microsoft’s Explorer Mouse and its BlueTrack sensor could not. We tried two different glass tabletops and Logitech’s new mouse tech had no trouble maintaining signal integrity. Microsoft’…
Orginal post by Rich Brown
Leaked Asus roadmap shows (surprise!) more Netbooks

These allegedly leaked roadmap documents from Asus purport to show the company’s Netbook plans for the rest of 2009. The systems and specs indicated aren’t terribly surprising, and are in line with what we expect to see from various Netbook makers around the Windows 7 launch.
The most …
Orginal post by Dan Ackerman
Introducing the nondenominational Laptop Burka
For those of you in parts of the world where there remain only four or five sunny days–London, New York–the wonderful news that I am about to impart may well be a little frustrating.
However, for those of us in the deserving paradise of the American west coast, that is …
Originally posted at Technically Incorrect
Orginal post by Chris Matyszczyk
Minimise to Application Icon in Dock
Another small but new feature of Snow Leopard is minimising open application windows to their respective ‘application icon’ in the dock (instead of a new icon on the right hand side of the dock). Not poor!
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Orginal post by James
Digital City No. 47: Installing Snow Leopard and the fallout from falling PS3 and Xbox 360 prices
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Episode 47 of the Digital City, where we install Apple’s new Snow Leopard OS update; discuss the current round of game console price cuts; check out some Netbooks with HD displays; and
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Originally posted at Digital City Podcast
Orginal post by Dan Ackerman
New Screen Capture / Grab Filenames
Looks like when you take a screen cap / grab in Snow Leopard, you get really useful filenames, instead of just “Picture1.png” etc.
Check out that how-to video (done with the new Snow Leopard screen recording feature of Quicktime!)
(if you are struggling to see the text/screen in that video, please view it on youtube
Orginal post by James
Get a Sony Blu-ray drive for $49.99
For the first instance ever, you can score a Blu-ray drive for under $50.
(Credit: Sony)
Two sweet deals from Sony in one week? Mercury must be in line with Neptune. First we got the refurbished PlayStation 3 for $237, and now you can pick up a Sony BDU-X10S Blu-ray drive for $49.99 shipped (…
Originally posted at The Cheapskate
Orginal post by Rick Broida









