Archive for the ‘Computer Gadgets’ Category
Thursday, January 7th, 2010 |
CPU Meter Gadget is a Windows gadget that can be used for Windows Vista and Windows 7. It is a system utility gadget which is very easy to use and very responsive. This Windows gadget displays your computer’s memory usage and CPU. These are the 2 important resources you might like to keep track on because they provide useful information about your computer’s performance.
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This is the gadget you are looking for if you want to find one attractive and simple to use. This desktop gadget is included by default with Windows Vista and Windows 7. It has a minimal configuration which can be great for those of you that want a simple and easy to use Windows gadget, but it can be not so great for those of you who are looking for more complex memory usage and CPU gadgets.
The gadget provides a live reading of your computer Memory usage and a live reading of your computer’s CPU.
The gadget looks nice and it works well and if you have Windows 7 as operating system you have to right-click anywhere you want on your computer’s desktop. Identify the CPU Meter gadget and drag in to the computer’s desktop.
DriveInfo gadget is an easy to use Windows gadget. The gadget is able to show you the remaining free space on the computer hard drives and 2 formats: GB format and percentage. You can customize the gadget by choosing from different icons and background until you find the ones you like. This gadget is available only with Window Vista and Windows 7.
You have several options for the flexibility in the hard drives display and it is very easy to use. DriveInfo gadget shows live information about your hard drive(s) free space. You can use it as a shortcut to your drive content, because if you press on the icon of a hard drive you will see that a window will open containing the information you have on that hard drive.
You can also view, as an optional feature, your media drives, network drives and removable drives.
This gadget is useful because you can see the free space on your hard drive in real time and if you let the partition where you have installed the operating system (usually is the C: drive) to become near full or full you will have problems and the computer will have errors.
With a nice interface and icon and background option, this Windows gadget is great and also free to download from Windows Live Gallery.
Xirrus WiFi Monitor is a nice Windows gadget that runs on Windows Vista and Windows 7. This gadget will display information about: your current wireless connection, it can search for available wireless network and it can very for wireless connection coverage. The gadget gives you the possibility to control and manage your wireless adaptor and connection right from your desktop.
The gadget provides the signal history and also detailed and clean signal strength. You can customize it by choosing from many skin colors and other configurations. The gadget is available is 2 sizes and you can choose the size you like best.
Xirrus WiFi Monitor display the network’s channel, data rate and the network’s SSID. You can also see your current MAC address and IP address.
This gadget is great, but is also has a few cons: for example the radar display is too big and the constant radar motion could distract you from your work.
This is one of a kind Windows gadget and it is available for free download from the Windows Live Gallery.
AletCon is another cool
Windows gadget. This is an internet security gadget which displays the AlertCon status and information about the pages and the sites you visit. The gadget will provide you with information and alerts if you visit a page where there is kind of virus infection or other malware. The status of the gadget will automatically refresh from 6 to 6 minutes giving you fresh information.
Another great system utility Windows gadget is System Control A1. A great thing about is gadget is the fact that it can support 8 CPU cores. This is the perfect gadget for tracking the latest processors CPU. You don’t have a lot of customization options with this gadget, but it is very attractive and well designed.
The gadget support 5 levels of opacity and it is available only for Windows Vista and Windows 7. The gadget can display the CPU history and the available memory in MB.
The lack of options is a negative aspect of this Windows gadget. You can download it for free from the Windows Live Gallery.
DropTo gadget it is a simple Windows gadget to use. Just drag and drop the files or folders you want to compress and the job in done. You also can choose the output folder where you want your files to be saved. One negative aspect of this gadget is that is too big and it won’t fit to the sidebar. This is a great gadget if you want to create gadget package files.
Outlook info shows you information about the tasks, the appointments and the number of email you have in your MS Outlook. The gadget is fully customizable, you can choose from a lot of skin and if you don’t like them you can always create new ones. It is a useful
Windows gadget is you want to keep track of your appointment and emails. This gadget is available for Windows Vista and Windows 7 and you can download it for free from the Windows Live Gallery.
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Tuesday, January 5th, 2010 |
In the top notch gadgets category we can’t leave behind the world’s lightest notebook. This is the Sony VAIO P series. This 8-inch notebook has only 1.4 pounds and it is an incredible notebook with a great style. The great think about this top notch gadget is that it is very small; therefore it can easily fit in your jacket pocket or your purse. Is a great notebook to have if you want to travel light. The Sony VAIO P series has a price starting at $849.99 and it has the following features: an 8-inch screen, 2.0 GHz, 2GB of RAM, 256 GB solid state drive storage and 3.5 hours battery life time at a single charge.
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Even if is a small and compact notebook, the Sony VAIO P series is also a very smart one. If you have a lot of pages or documents opened on your screen and you want to see them in a fresh and new perspective all you have to do is push a button and the open windows will be presented side-by-side, for a better view, all in a single screen. You can also video chat with your family and friends thanks to its built-in MOTION EYE webcam. The quick-boot option gives you fast access to email, photos, web and more.
If you like this top notch gadget you have 4 colors to choose from: Emerald Green, Onyx Black, Garnet Red and Crystal White.
If you want a
top notch watch you can try the next one – the Casio Pathfinder Multi-Band Solar Atomic. This is the ultimate watch you can have with a digital compass, a thermometer, a barometer and an altimeter. The watch has 16 measurement points which can be seen on its dial face. The altimeter includes time, date and month and it is able to show you the altitude and to track the whether. The barometer with its automatic calendar features is programmed to display the current date until 2099 and it has atmospheric pressure tendency. The clock has high precision thanks to its moon and tide graphs.
This top notch gadget has other features, like: 60 minutes range timer, 5 alarms that can be set every day and a world time which has the ability to show you the time of 30 different cities in 29 different time zones.
If the features present above weren’t enough for you to be interested in this watch you must know that the Casio Pathfinder Multi-Band Solar Atomic watch has titanium bracelet, water resistant up to 200 meters and an afterglow backlight. This cool watch also has a radio control features which gives it the possibility to get time calibration radio signals to ensure a very high accuracy of its time.
The watch also has a mineral crystal dial window, clasp buckle, bidirectional bezel function and stainless steel bezel, power battery indicator, 12 and 24 hour formats, maximum altitude memory and it is -10 degree Celsius temperature resistant.
You can find it at amazon.com at a price of $230.00
The LG enV3 is a top notch smartphone. Is has a sleek appearance and it is very slim. It comes with a great QWERTY keyboard, a 3.0 megapixel camera, easy-to-use controls and dual displays. This smartphone has a small external display and a wide and skinny rectangular shape. It looks like a small notebook and it is very comfortable in the hand, in both closed and open positions. If you want to make a call or type a short text message you can use its small external display – only 1.56- inch screen, but if you want to open your Web browser and navigate trough the Internet, to send e-mail you will have to use the internal by opening up the phone.
When you open up the phone you will see a flat QWERTY keyboard which is quite roomy and makes the typing easier and faster. On the left side on the smartphone you will find the volume rocker and the camera key and on the right side you will find the 2.5mm headset jack and the microSD card slot.
The enV3 2.6 display supports a resolution of 320×240 with 262.000 colors. On the both sides of the display you will see 2 stereo speakers which make the music to listen to sound real great.
This top notch gadget has the following features: mobile instant messenger: Yahoo, AIM and Windows Live Messenger, calendar, voice commands, a vibrate mode, notepad, voice memo recorder, Bluetooth, a world clock, an alarm clock, phone-book, file transfer, visual voice mail, e-mail, music player (edit, create playlists, shuffle, repeat a song) and many more. The music player supports the next formats: AAC+, unprotected AAC, WMA and MP3.
You can find at a price of $ 300.00.
If you have money to spend, you can try The Monster Turbine Pro In-Ear Speakers at a price of $25.00. These high quality headphones provide top-notch sound a stylish look. They are made of shiny metal plated in gold and the Monster company offers you a lifetime warranty for this product. The headphones offer good sound isolation therefore you can listen to your favorite music at a lower volume. The bass is very deep and the mids are very rich. If you have an iPod you should know that these headphones don’t have controls for your iPod.
If you are looking for a top notch digital printer, you can the next gadget from Sony. Sony DPP-FP97 is one of the best digital printers you can find on the market. This great digital printer looks very stylish and has a lot of functions. You can print of process the images both manual and automatic and the 2.5-inch LCD display allows you to see the image before printing. You can send the imagines you want to print via Bluetooth or you can print them from a stick or a card. You will get lab quality photos in just 45 seconds with this digital printer which cost around $199.
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Wednesday, December 30th, 2009 |
CleanMyMac is a great application that keeps your Mac healthy and clean. The application has a lot of features, like: Clean Unneeded Languages, Slim Universal Binaries, Clean Caches, Logs Rotation, Application Uninstallation, Killing Trash Left From Buried Applications and Quick and Secure Erase. With CleanMyMac you can delete useless files and safe a lot of disk space. If an application runs on your Mac and you delete it, the application will leave many support files behind even if the applications in no longer installed. This is when CleanMyMac comes in because it is able to locate and erase all the data that the application left behind giving you the possibility to easily uninstall and install new applications and software whenever you like. These “leftovers†we are talking about can make your Mac work slower and you need to remove them from your computer’s system if you want to reduce the amount of operations needed for offline and online activities.
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It has an easy to use interface with the drag and drop system. If you use this application your Mac will work smoother and faster and you will be able to upload or download important documents while listening to online radio.
You can try this cool application for free in a trial version that allows you to clean 200MB of disk space.
Mac Clean 1.5 is a free Mac application that can sync documents or move files form your office computer to your home computer or vice versa. Is cool application with a shareware license which means that you can download the full version for free. All you have to do is to create a new item and the application will do the rest.
A simple and powerful Zip-archive application for your Mac is YemuZip. This is a free application that allows you to create in an easy way zip files. It has a user-friendly interface with the drag and drop system that gives you the possibility to choose between a Mac format and a PC-compatible format preserving in the same time all the Mac-specific data. You can choose the destination of the zip files between Desktop, source or Documents and you have also the possibility to attach a zip file to an e-mail message.
Anxiety is a cool to-do list free application for Mac OS X Leopard. You can easily add, check or remove your tasks while you are synchronizes with Mail and iCal. The application’s interface is effective, small and easy to use. You can make shortcuts or if you want to edit a task all you have to do it double click on the item and this action will reveal the task in Mail or iCal. The application is fully customizable, you can set the list to disappear when it is inactive or you can enable list sorting. This great application is completely free; therefore everyone with a 512MB of memory Mac with OS X Leopard can enjoy it.
The easiest way to share the files you want with the people you want is DropBox. This is a free application that runs in the background and in the free version you have 2GB of transfer limit. DropBox has a cool feature that allows you to access your files from anywhere and from any browser and you don’t have to access them from your Mac. The files are safe because the file sharing is encrypted with AES-246 and is done over SSL. A green mark appears when the sharing is done and a blue marks shows that the files are in the syncing process. This application is also compatible with Linux and Windows. This is a great application if you want to save precious time with your file sharing.
If you need a cool free application that will help you create catalogs and list of your used documents, folders or applications, Quicksivler is the application for you. The application grows and adapts from your everyday work. You can also search for contact number from your Address Book through Quicksilver without opening the Address Book. To run this application you need a Mac with OS X 10.4 or something higher. This application is also able to email files, upload files using Transmit.
Reader Library 3.1 for Mac is a cool free application that allows you to search and buy thousands of eBook and read them with two-page view feature and adjustable text. If you don’t want to buy an eBook you have the possibility to borrow it from the library.
iTool is a free application for your Mac that provides a complete system cleaning and maintenance. You have the possibility to choose from: rebuilding tasks, maintenance tasks and cleaning tasks. And you also have the option to turn off your computer when the maintenance process is complete.
iClockr is a simple and small application that keeps track of your work time. You have the possibility to set up many different projects and to put a task for every project. The idea of this application is to time the tasks you created. The application offers you 2 possibilities to manage your time: Range based or Flat Rate. This application runs only on Leopard operating system and is a free application.
Paparazzi is a application that can help you make screenshots of your favorite web-pages. You have the possibility to save the picture as .pdf, .tiff, .jpeg, and .png. You can define the capture size and the minimum size for the best screenshot.
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Monday, December 21st, 2009 |
Laptops or notebooks are the best computers you can have nowadays if you travel a lot, because they are slim, easy to carry and have the same features and applications like a desktop pc. You can keep all for information safe, you can work from home, you can travel anywhere while you are working and keeping in touch with your business partners or friends and, to be honest, they look great with their colorful cases, small buttons and thin display.
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The first cool looking laptop we are going to talk about today is Dell Latitude Z. This laptop has a special design and special technologies built in it. If is for the business man/women this laptop is for you: it is easy to carry, has a 16-inch HD display, a 256GB hard drive and an Intel Core 2 Duo processor. It also has a multi-touch trackpad that is able to support zooming and pinching. All the features we talk about until know are not that impressive, we find them at Macbook and other pc’s and we tend to say that are not state-of-the-art technologies. The fun begins when you look closer at the display and you will se that is not an ordinary one. Dell Latitude Z has built along the display’s frame a lot of touch functionalities. It has never been easy to find what you are looking for; if you want to open an application all you have to do is to slide your fingers along the frame. This action will open a tool bar that lets you choose a lot of applications, for example: camera, photos or e-mail.
Even the laptop’s camera is special and is beyond traditional webcams that you can find at an ordinary pc. The camera has 2 Megapixels and it has a lot of great features: for example, if you have a simple sheet of paper or an important document and you want to save it on your computer but you don’t have a scanner, you will see that you don’t need it because all you have to do is to hold the documents in front of the camera and then choose in what type of format you want to save them (for example, PDF). If you have a business card you can do the same actions and the computer will recognize that is a card and will save it in Microsoft Outlook contacts.
And if that was not all, if you turn on the camera while you are the laptop and then you step away from it, the camera will detect that you are not in front of your laptop anymore and will automatically look it. The camera can to that thanks to the face recognition feature that it has.
This laptop offers you another security feature: the card reader is great, is not a simple one is a contact less smart card reader. It is able to recognize your office badge and if you want to loch the laptop on the go all you have to do is wave for badge over it. And it has also a fingerprint reader. That is a lot of protection for your laptop and foe your important information.
If you need to send an important e-mail urgent and you don’t have time to wait until to turn it on and all the features start up, the laptop offers you the possibility to start it up in “Latitude On†– a mode that has instant start up and connection to internet, e-mail, calendar and contacts. This mode offers you battery life time of 12 hours but you don’t have access to applications like Word or PowerPoint.
Dell Latitude Z laptop costs $2.000 and if you want the wireless charging feature (because this laptop can do that) is will cost you a lot more.
Alienware laptops are for gamers and everyone that wants to play a game in its full potential. These are the most powerful gaming laptops. Let’s take for example Alienware M15X, beside the fact that is a cool looking laptop is has some great features. It has an Intel Core i7 quad-core inside and the Intel Turbo Boost technology speeds up the processor giving you the performance you need. Don’t worry about your games details because the NVIDIA PureVideo HD gives you picture-in-picture movies, great game details and crystal game view. If you want a life gaming experience you will have it thanks to the DirecX 10 that offers you 3D film quality effects. The Alienware M15X gives you the possibility to choose 3 colors to match your game: Metallic Silver, Metallic Red and Metallic Black. For the best game play M15X offers you a QuickTouch System Control Pad that is very sensitive and lets you make all the best game movements. A 2.0 Megapixel camera will make it easy for you to broadcast across the Internet and it has also a face recognition feature. This laptop looks awesome, has a good battery lifetime and is very fast.
If you got yourself a Sony Vaio Nebula you know that this laptop is looking great. If you didn’t buy it, you can’t find it on www.sonystyle.com anymore because they are all sold out and they were produced in limited number. This laptop is a great match for technology and science fiction. It has a Blue-Ray player, 16.4â€-inch display, Dolby Surround Sound, a 3.06 Intel Core 2 Duo processor and the latest operating system form Windows – Windows 7. It has a unique design with a 500GB hard drive and up to 8GB RAM depending on the model.
When we are talking about cool looking laptops we can’t leave the kids behind and the next cool looking laptop is made especially for them. The X0-2 laptop is not on the market yet but we aspect it to be in 2010. This laptop has a special feature, instead of a classic keyboard it has two 16:9 touch-screens (one of the touch-screens can be used as a keyboard when needed). The X0-2 has can be make completely flat so you will have a large touch-sensitive table. It is design as an e-book reader and the goal of this product is to make it $75 in 2010, so that anyone could afford it.
These are the coolest looking laptops you can find on the market today, because when you buy a laptop you have to consider the aesthetics too.
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Tuesday, December 15th, 2009 |
There are many cool websites on the web, a lot more then we can write about. This is not a top of the best sites, but a gratitude for those websites that helped us when we most needed, for our exams, for our essays or for our entertainment.
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Wikipedia is the well-known free encyclopedia. Here you can find anything about everything, it is free to access and you can edit and update the information in it. The information you find on the website is very accurate and we know it helped you a few times with your school essays or homework. It is available in many languages: French, Italian, Spanish, Deutsch, German, Romanian and a lot more.
Another cool website is YouTube. When you need to view a video from your favorite pop or rock star you will always find it on YouTube and you can see it as many times you want or you can download it. If you need something to make you laugh, you can always view a lot of funny cat movies, funny dog movies or a lot of human tricks movies. You have a project in PhotoShop but you don’t know anything about this program you can always find a few tutorials on YouTube and all this for free. And if you want everyone to see your funny moments you can upload them on this website, all you need to do is make an account.
Everyone has a Twitter account. This is a cool site that helps you stay in touch with your friends, change impressions, ideas and communicate, make new friends and upload photos. Twitter’s community is very large, so if you need to find new virtual friends you can look for them on Twitter.
If you need to find something on the Internet the first place you should look is Amazon. This is the website where you can find almost every product sold online. You will find here: books, music, games, DVDs, electronics, toys, computers, clothes, watches, shoes, products for your health and beauty, software programs, kitchen products, garden products and many more at a very good price. This is a website for everyone, so no matter if you are from Canada, United States of America, Europe or Asia you can buy online whatever you want.
When you are a student you have a very full life, full of parties, trips and mall shopping. We know you try to find some spear time to go at courses but you just can’t find the right moment. Well, thanks to Academic Earth you can view your courses online. This cool website offers you the possibility to access a lot of academic lectures and video courses, for example: Introduction to Literary Theory, Introduction to Life Sciences or JavaScript. You can find a lot of video courses from the next subject: history, literature, media studies, mathematics, anthropology, biology, computer science, architecture, chemistry, medicine, psychology, political science and many more.
To communicate with the ones you love while they are million miles away by mobile phone doesn’t seems such a good idea because you will get a very big phone bill. The answer is Skype, the cool website that uses voice over Internet protocol to help you communicate with other people. All you have to do is you join Skype and tell the people you want to talk to do the same and Skype will turn your and their internet connection into a videophone. It is free to download and you can make as many calls as you want wherever you want for free.
Hulu is a website financed by Fox and NBC that gives its users free movies and TV in a high quality. This is a free online service and you can here many TV shows including: Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Family Gay, America’s Most Wanted, Cops, The Office and many more. You don’t need to wait for your favorite TV shows to be on TV when you can search for it on Hulu.
Google is a rearch engine and an e-mail provider. It is always there when you need to search for something on the Internet, you can type a word, a phrase and it finds very quickly what you are looking for. And you can always reach for images by size or type.
OpenTable is a cool website that helps you make a reservation to your favorite restaurant. You can even say what kind of food you want to have when you go at the restaurant and where you want to have your table. It easy to use, it really works and saves you a lot of time.
There are thousand of things happening in the world every day and if you want to know them all you can visit Popurls. This is the website where you will find the headlines from the most popular and biggest news. You can also find some comments and opinions about the news.
Etsy is the child of eBay and Amazon. You can find here a lot of products if you are looking for furniture handmade, fashion handmade, toys handmade and housewares. This site feels very intimate and specially designed for you, because it sells products handmade by people for the people all over the world.
California Coastline is the website that shows you everything you want to see from the best surf place to celebrities Malibu backyard. It is made from about 10.000 up-close shots, therefore the quality of the pictures and places you see is very high. This cool website shows helps you find everything you want on the California Costline.
These are some cool websites on the web that you can explore whenever you need to.
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