Samsung has introduced two mini-computers that feature Instant-On, which means you can start surfing as soon as you flip up the screen on the laptop. Smart!
The two new models called the Samsung N210 and N220. With Instant-On, you will be on the Internet and can start surfing as soon as you flip up the screen of your computer. This has been solved by computers have two operating systems - one less operational starting immediately while Windows 7 will be loaded in the background.
More noteworthy features that N210 and N220 offers a liquid proof keyboard, so would you spill cola or coffee over the computer, there is no danger on the roof. In addition it offers a battery life of up to a full 12 hours, which should be just right for all people who likes to work on the go.
Samsung N210 and N220 have a full-sized keyboard, even though they count as mini-computers ( netbooks ). The liquid-proof keyboard can withstand up to 50 milliliters of liquid.
A security feature in computers is that it can be labeled theft. This means that if someone steals your computer and connect to the Internet, the software will check your computer against a database and the computer is registered as stolen, sent information about IP numbers, etc. to the owner. You can even use the built-in webcam to take a picture of the thief.
The difference between N210 and N220 is that the former comes in white and black, while the other model is available in red and green. Recommended retail price is 4000 SEK. Specifications are an LED-lit LCD screen of 10.1 inch, Intel N450 processor at 1.6 GHz, 250 GB hard drive, Bluetooth, memory card reader and a weight of just under 1.3 kg.
Logitech webcam C500 is a true ordinary model without any special features to be seen. But it delivers good quality and it has everything you might need a decent webcam.
A web camera is now almost standard equipment for the Internet user. Software as Skype, Windows Live Messengerand Logitech's own case lets you conduct video calls for free over the Internet, and more and more into play their own video diaries and other videos to upload to YouTube.
Logitech has a wide range of web cameras in their range, where the C500 is a new model aimed at normal users. The camera has a sensor of 1.3 megapixels and a glass lens. It has a good stand that you use to attach the camera on your monitor. This should be suitable for all flat panel displays, as well as common on laptop computers. I tested a couple of different screens. A detail of the camera worth mentioning is the built-in lens cover that can be drawn down over the lens.
The installation of the camera went smoothly proceed. You can choose whether to install Logitech's software at which you use to make video calls. This tool is good and easy to use, but it has the obvious disadvantage that there are as many users as compared to Skype and Messenger.
Good software
The software is installed, there is nothing to fault. It is high class and you can do everything you could possibly do with a webcam. You can record video with sound simple, and these are saved in WMV format. There are many different formats, ranging from 320 × 240 pixels to 2592 × 1944, and also allows you to record in widescreen up to 1280 x 720 pixels.
The quality of the picture is beyond expectation to be a webcam. Logitech has equipped the C500 with RightLight technology that automatically adjusts the brightness. There are lots of filters and effects that can be applied on the image for example, make the image grainy as an old movie, or to turn you into an animated space creature that follows your movements.
With one click you can upload your recorded videos to YouTube, which is certainly appreciated by all who have a video blog.
Logitech C500 is a mid-range camera that offers good quality for money. Looking for an affordable webcam that is doing its job properly, this is simply a good choice.
Facts about Logitech C500
Contact: Logitech
Price: 499: -
Resolution: 1.3 megapixels
Video: Up to 1280 x 1024 pixels, 30 FPS
Still: 5 megapixels (software enhanced)
Other: USB2, built-in microphone, lens cap, good tripod
Buffalo is launching an external burner for Blu-ray, CD and DVD which is able to burn Blu-ray discs at 8x speed. This is an interesting alternative for those who want to take big backups on disks. A disc can hold 50GB.
The external device called Buffalo Blu-ray External and connects to your computer via USB 2.0. It handles most CD and DVD formats and burn Blu-ray discs at 8x speed. For CD and DVD is the maximum speed limits up to 32x and 16x.
Buffalo Blu-ray External runs in black and has a rather anonymous appearance, which allows it to fit on most desktops. Blu-ray discs hold as I have said up to 50 GB of storage capacity, which, according to Buffalo's calculation corresponds to about 40 000 digital photos, six hours of movies in HD or 20 hours of DVD quality.
With the package comes with software CyberLink Blu-ray Disc Suite, which you use to make backups and play Blu-ray movies. The program includes the option to upscale DVDs to higher resolution. It allows you to watch DVD movies on your computer to get a better picture than if you use your ordinary DVD player to the TV
Buffalo Blu-ray External available on the market and costs in 2499 dollars.
Norton Internet Security 2010 from Symantec is the new version of the world's probably most well-known security package. This year has trimmed the software package further, and brought several smart features to protect against new threats that come from the Internet.
Security companies have been asked to start thinking about when they build their antivirus software. Viruses do not work at all the same today as it did a few years ago. In 2003 they found about five new viruses a day. Today it released about 25 000 different types of viruses, trojans, worms and other dangerous code - every day! Viruses write about themselves and create new versions automatically, to make it more difficult to identify them.
In order to offer better protection against today's dangers on the Internet is no longer just relying on the so-called definition lists , or signature files. These are databases containing information on all registered viruses. In order to keep their antivirus software needs to continually update this list. Are we a couple of years back in time this took place about once per day. Norton Internet Security 2010 update itself about every five minutes.
But this is not enough. Therefore, antivirus programs today are increasingly moved towards the work in the cloud. By this means, briefly, the program communicates with the manufacturers' servers, thereby exchanging user information about files that are downloaded from the Internet. This is done automatically and there is nothing you need to worry about, but it gives you just simply a much safer and better protected.
Symantec technology called Quorum. Today there are tens of millions of Norton users worldwide sharing of information. Loot a dangerous file by a user in Costa Rica, another user in Säffle be protected against this in minutes. This is totally the way to go.
Lenovo IdeaPad U350 is a computer that falls somewhere between the segments, mini-computer ( netbook ) and ordinary laptop. It is an ultraportable laptop in a stylish form that is easy to take with them, but bigger than a mini computer.
The Lenovo IdeaPad U350 I have test driven the Windows 7 installed instead of Windows Vista, which would otherwise have been the operating system that U350, which usually comes with. Now that Windows 7 is launched, I think it is better to run with it.
The appearance of the IdeaPad U350 looks different than what we're used to in terms affixed,. This is really a matter of taste, but I like the design. The lid is glossy black with embossed pattern, and the keyboard is surrounded by brushed metal. It is both stylish and practical, because it makes your computer more resistant - metal will not bend like plastic can do.
Snygg design
After I test drove the computer I looked up what other reviewers thought of looking and it has really separated themselves properly. Datormagazin sawn appearance quite whereas C | Net raised it to the skies. It certainly proves how subjective reviews are.
U350 is a very light machine and it weighs just over 1.6 kilograms. For the thickest, the computer is 2.5 inches. The screen is in 16:9 format at 13.3 inches, and offers a resolution of 1366 x 768 pixels. The keyboard is nice to write on and the trackpad is no objection. A third mouse had to be desired, though there are not many laptops that have it.
Since this is an ultraportable PC, Lenovo has opted to compromise away the optical drive. Thus, there is no CD / DVD in your computer. Some users will of course miss the point, but I personally do not remember when I last used my optical drive in addition to installing Windows 7. It can of course get an external unit that connects via USB.
Good with HDMI for movies
If we look at the ports that are offered, there are three USB ports, audio in and out, card reader, network port, VGA connector and HDMI port. The latter I think is appreciated. I tried to connect the computer to my TV and it went quickly and smoothly. In Windows 7, I configured the TV as extended viewing area, and then chose the sound settings in Control Panel to use the TV as a sound device. Then it was just to pull off a movie in Windows Media Player on the expanded screen space.
Lenovo IdeaPad U350 Strömsnål den användas Intel ULV (Ultra Low Voltage) Core 2 Solo SU3500 processor som. Jag hade på 1.3 GHz testmaskinen Internminnet vid kop kan välja, och hade min modell 3 GB minne. Harddisk kommer med upp till 500 GB lagringsutrymme.
Can also be mentioned that the IdeaPad U350 has a wireless network with support for 802.11.b/g/n and Bluetooth. The wireless network card thought I had good reception when it was just a bit better connectivity than most other notebooks I've tested on my wireless router.
The performance is not cool
So how does the computer in their everyday work? As expected, I can say. With a ULV processor and graphics chips Intel (Mobile GMA 4500), you can not expect to be able to run some heavy games like. It flows so well for better than a mini computer, and I have not experienced the U350 has a dull computer when I used it normally. To play the movie went as I said, smoothly.
The screen I give thumbs up to. I like the 16:9 format and high-glossy LED screenhas good color and perfectly okay sting. The viewing angle is like that. When I was sitting high and looking diagonally down the screen brightness right was hard. Quite looking straight at the screen to get the best picture.
You can get IdeaPad U350 with battery at either 4 or 8 cells. The former gives you up to five hours of battery life, while the 8-celliga battery will support up to ten hours. In practice, the time somewhat less than that, especially if you use the wireless LAN and Bluetooth.
Should I add up the computer, I think it's been a nice friendship. IdeaPad U350 is a sleek and smooth ultraportable that has worked fine. It's not a monster machine, but it is directed against those who primarily use your computer to run Microsoft Office, surf, send e-mail and do everyday things.
Lenovo IdeaPad U350 is the time of writing, a price tag of more than 6300 crowns as PriceSpy. Below, they see the daily price information.
Acer has a couple of years back had a collaboration with Ferriari, and has developed powerful sleek laptops with Ferrari logo on it. Now the mini-computer Acer Ferrari One.
With Acer Ferrari One take the computer manufacturer's Ferrari-series in the segment of mini-computers. But it is so clearly not on the usual specifications of an Intel Atom processor, for it does not work in a real red Ferrari ...
Instead, Acer has chosen to use the processor AMD Athlon X2 L310 ticking in 1.2 GHz. If you notice that the Intel Atom 1.6 GHz tend to have, I'll remind you that this speed is hardly means anything anymore. It can not be measured directly by Intel and AMD to determine which one is fastest. AMD processor is in this case faster than the Atom model.
Furthermore, Acer Ferrari One sensible graphics from the integrated circuits ATI Radeon 3200. The screen measures 11.2 inches and delivers a resolution of 1366 x 768 pixels - A notch up from the usual 1024 × 600, which tend to be common in minicomputers.
The computer comes with a wireless card and internal 3G modem Optional. The battery is six cells, which should give good battery life. Unfortunately, on this task are not. Price ports on 499 Euro when the computer launched in late October.
Now, the popular image editing program Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 , together with video editing tool Adobe Premiere Elements 8. The programs target the home user.
Adobe is behind the best graphics software on the market. Most famous is of coursePhotoshop , but the problem with Photoshop is that it is a tad too complex and too expensive for home users. Therefore, the company launched a few years ago Adobe Photoshop Elements . It is a version of Photoshop that is aimed at home users.
The differences between Photoshop and Photoshop Elements is the standard Photoshop features to work for real publications, and the interface of Elements is moreuser-friendly and often built with explanatory guides while in the standard Photoshop do most of the settings manually.
I tested all the early versions and Photoshop Elements and have been impressed at how good it actually is. It has developed into a very powerful image editing toolsthat most users, except for graphics professionals, can do good with. Especially good is it if you want to work with digital photos . Elements include: an organizer that helps you manage and organize digital photos .
Now it's time for Photoshop Elements 8, and the Swedish translation is launched in November. Organizer for digital photos and video footage should have been improved, and now has a Face Detection function that can learn faces gradually. Using it you can filter out images of specific people. The image editor noticeable featurePhotomerge Exposure that lets you merge multiple photos of the same motives, to create a new better image.
Photoshop Elements 8 will cost 1075 crowns , and purchase it together with the Premiere Elements 8, you pay 1625 dollars.
Samsung puts super speed in the computer with 24 SSD
Samsung has a view of the PR campaign has shown what one can accomplish by connecting the 24 SSDs in RAID to a computer, and install Windows on it. It runs like a greased lightning ...
One can not help but congratulate Samsung for a smart implemented PR campaign. An awful lot of IT sites and bloggers have noticed this little "hack" where you took a computer and installed all 24 SSDs in RAID . SSD replaces the standard hard drive with flash memory, which in many circumstances for better performance. RAID is a technology to connect multiple hard drives and get them to work together.
The 24 units were on each of 256 GB, giving a total storage capacity of six terabytes, writes gHacks :
24 drives equals a total storage of 6 terabytes. The Other system specs ARE as impressive. They added a combi nation of two 3.2GHz Intel QX9775 quad-core CPU, two ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 cards, 4GB of 800MHz FB-DIMM DDR2 SDRAM, two Corsair HX1000W power supply units, an Adaptec Series 5 RAID card, an Areca 1680ix- 24 RAID card and of course the 24 256GB MLC Solid State Drives.
So, okay, how was the speed? Well, thanks, it was apparently pretty good ... I tried to open all programs in Microsoft Office, which took half a second ! Compare that to what it takes on your own computer, so you realize how fast it is. To copy a DVD rip of 700 MB took 0.8 seconds.
Samsung has recorded a film about the project, as the time of writing has been about 700000 times on YouTube. In just over four minutes long video you will see how it fitted everything together and started the program.
Personally, I had not refused to receive the computer. Did you?
My mother got an iPod Nano for my birthday, which she also use to listen to audio books. When I checked the web for information on transferring audio books on CD to your iPod , I realized that there should be an easier way.
The guide, which most are related to the availability blog , but even if this guide is very good and clear, it includes the Twelve Steps and many procedures. I thought that was a tad too much for my limited technical mother. It was even too much for me to cope convert an audiobook on CD to your iPod . Therefore I looked at alternative solutions.
What I describe here, is not the ultimate solution.But it is among the simplest . To implement this, you need an iPod, you have connected to your computer and you need to run iTunes version 8.0 or later. You also need, of course, an audio book on CDs.
The solution is to import your CDs into iTunesand create a play list of audio book. If you select the advanced way described in the above link, your audio book to fall short menu of books on the iPod, but in this case end up in the playlists.
One problem that I understand may occur, is that the iPod can not remember exactly where you were somewhere where you turn off and then will continue to listen. On my new iPod Nano does not occur this problem, but I guess it can mess up on older versions of iPods.
Sandberg Mini Wifi Dongle is a handy little USB adapter that gives you access to wireless networks at speeds up to 150 Mbit / s. The advantages of a USB-based WiFi adapter, mini-can of course be questioned in the current situation so that all portable Computers still have built-in WiFi support. Despite the adapter's small size of about 3 cm so is its acknowledgment of good opportunities, at least on paper. The installation of the drivers takes a few minutes with the included CD.
I did the quick test in my hemlägenhet of how many networks wifi dongle could find.By comparison, I had my notebook Acer Aspire One, which is pretty good wifi chipset and discover many more networks than my HP laptop machine does. While your computer's built-in wifi card found 13 networks in the area, found Sandberg's wifi dongle 14 pcs. There is no overwhelming difference and the signal strength of the found networks was roughly equivalent regardless of the WiFi chip I used.
Are you looking for a real powerful wifi adapter to your laptop to connect to wireless networks in really bad conditions, this is therefore probably not the right adapter to buy.
All the better to make that case adapter on a standard desktop computer, which after all is all the more unusual with wifi support so far. According to the manufacturer to the adapter function of up to 100 meters indoors and up to 300 meters outdoors - numbers that I could not test myself because of the small apartment and a prevailing snowstorm. True figures, it is more than enough for most users.
The card supports speeds of up to 150 Mbps and support for IEEE 802.11n . Up to128-bit encryption is supported through WEP , WPA and WPA2 . Signal strength is between 13-18 dBm. The adapter costs 459 SEK to buy from the manufacturer's website.
