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February 26th, 2008 — Gadgets
MOTORAZR2 V9 takes the sleek styling of the RAZR and makes it even slimmer. It packs powerhouse of features inside a strong stainless steel structure. Get a 2 MP camera with 8x zoom, video playback and advanced music capabilities. Listen to your favorite tunes or MP3s or tune into streaming radio for a mobile music experience. Like all other Razr phones, the Razr2 V9 has a clamshell form factor with a stainless steel frame that makes the handset durable and resilient, though a fingerprint magnet. Materials used on the phone’s body include a vacuum metal finish and a two-tone soft touch housing.
The sleeker, smarter, stronger Motorola RAZR2 V9 is an exciting evolution of the RAZR brand. With mesmerizing appearance and a new, richer multimedia experience, RAZR2 V9 is the ultimate stylish feature phone. The RAZR2 V9 defines the next trend in 3G. Its stainless steel frame make this svelte handset durable and resilient – helping to ensure an ultra-thin shape with a strong structure
The Motorola RAZR2 V9 looks almost identical to the RAZR2 V8 - it’s just a little thicker but otherwise the differences are slight. Unlike the V8, the RAZR V9 is a 3G phone with HSDPA support giving a maximum download speed of 3.6Mbps. As with the V8, the RAZR2 V9 features a very large 2.0” 240×320 pixel display with a touchscreen and haptic (tactile) feedback. This means that many of the V9’s functions can be controlled from the external display.
The RAZR2 V9 can play back a variety of audio and video formats, using the external display as a media controller. Internal memory is 45MB (a lot less than the V8) but this can be expanded by up to 2GB using microSD cards. Stereo audio playback is either via a wired headset or compatible Bluetooth accessory. The phone is designed to be tough with a stainless steel casing around an internal chassis to make it strong, and the external display has been coated to resist scratching. Please Purchase online http://www.phoneandbeyond.com/
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December 14th, 2007 — Gadgets
Does your computer seem to run like a 20 year old car? Does it seem like it’s lost most of its horsepower and is just going slower and slower every day? There is a good chance that you have been neglecting routine maintenance on your computer. Taking care of this kind of routine maintenance will make your computer a whole lot faster.
There are several things listed here below that you can do yourself even if you don’t consider yourself to be all of that literate of a computer user. For the most part they are free things that you can do yet if you took your computer to a shop they would most likely charge you $100 or more to perform these routine things. You really can do these things yourself and much much more to make your computer run faster.
If your computer is a few months old the first thing that you need to consider doing is going in to the control panel of your computer into the accessories group and running the defrag program. This defrag program will arrange the files on your hard drive in a more logical fashion so that your computer can find these files quicker when it needs them.
While the defrag program will organize the files on your hard drive in a more efficient and effective manner you should then also run the program that checks for bad sectors on your hard drive. Bad sectors on your hard drive will slow down your computer’s access to the hard drive. Running this bad sector utility will help you by repairing bad sectors or instructing the computer to work around them effectively.
Then make sure that you do not have any spyware or your computer. Spyware is computer software that unethical merchants sneak onto your computer through your Internet connection. You must take concrete steps to protect yourself from spyware. Either take advantage of the free software from Microsoft designed to protect you from spyware or increase the level of your protection by spending $30 or $40 for a corporate level anti-spyware program. A commercial version will seek out and destroy any spyware already on your computer and then prevent additional spyware from being installed on your computer in the future.
Now you want to go through your computer’s control panel and uninstall any programs that you find on your computer that you have never used or have not used for a long time. You will also find programs that the manufacturer installed. There is a high likelihood that you found them useless and never actually did anything with them. Go to your control panel, generate a list of programs in your computer and then be merciless in going through the list and uninstall any program that you have not used in the last year. This will free up even more room on your hard drive for more efficient access.
This next tip will probably cost you in the range of $50-$100 but if you spend a significant amount of time on your computer and have been frustrated at how slowly it is running then it will be a very wise decision indeed. Find out how much random access memory your computer is running with at this time. Perhaps the easiest way is simply to open up the instruction book that came with your computer. If you are a complete and total novice simply write down the name and model number of your computer and take it to your local store that stocks memory sticks. You will find many of the largest chain stores sell these memory sticks. Just ask the salesperson there to determine what kind of memory you need and how much you can add to your computer then take that memory stick home and in 10 minutes time you will discover that you can easily install it yourself.
These have been just a few of the things that you can do to make your computer run faster. These are easy things for you to do. You do not have to be a computer savvy person in order to accomplish them. And once your computer starts running faster you will be looking for additional things to do to make it run even faster still. Naturally there are lots of additional tweaks the average person can do for their computer and we can help you with that information below.
Additional free ways to make your computer faster are available here. An excellent corporate level anti-spyware program is an intelligent move.
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December 5th, 2007 — Gadgets
Did you know that thousands of movies, videos and TV shows can be accessed through your computer? Your laptop can be used as a portable television allowing TV viewing wherever you have Internet access.
By Marc Sandford
Did you know that thousands of movies, videos and TV shows can be accessed through your computer? Your laptop can be used as a portable television allowing TV viewing wherever you have Internet access.
Now imagine the mobility of your TV set if you had a wireless connection. These are just a few of the perks of being able to watch TV on the computer and this article will discuss four ways of doing this.
1) Did you know that there is a ton of free movie classics, old TV shows and documentaries available for your viewing in the public domain? The public domain contains content with expired copyrights and is totally free for your consumption.
Try looking for this material on a search engine using phrases containing ‘public domain’ plus ‘film’ or ‘video’, etc. With just a bit of persistence, some real gems can be uncovered.
2) If you wish to view the shows that your television receives on your monitor, then you may want to purchase and install a TV tuner card in your PC. Many tuner cards will also record television programs into your computer’s hard drive for later viewing.
Note that this method does not involve using the Internet since your PC is getting video signals directly off the ‘air waves’. A quality tuner card can cost you anywhere from $100 to $200 although plenty of cheaper cards exist.
3) How do you get a DVD quality image when viewing a movie on your PC? Answer: insert a DVD into your CD-ROM drive! In order to do this, you need to download the appropriate media player with this capability.
Get one free at Realplayer.com. Click on the yellow ‘Get it free’ button and follow the instructions. When you’ve installed the player, start it up, open the ‘Play’ menu at the top and click on ‘Play CD or DVD’.
4) One of the more popular ways to watch TV on the computer involves the use of software that allows you to watch satellite TV over the Internet. Since the TV shows come over the Internet, no satellite dishes or other hardware is required. All that you need is a PC and an Internet connection.
With this software, you will typically have access to more than 3000 channels all over the world . The software prices are between $40 to $100. This is a one time purchase that will set you up for life with no other recurring fees or payments.
Hopefully this article has given you an idea of what’s available to you through your PC and its connection to the Internet. The good news is that there is no end in sight to the explosion of Internet TV and video.
You really won’t know what you are missing until you take the time to check out Internet TV for yourself.
Marc Sandford is a writer and Internet TV enthusiast. More specifics on how to get TV on your PC can be found at http://www.squidoo.com/how-to-get-tv-on-your-pc/.
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October 13th, 2007 — Gadgets

Basic Specifications:
Resolution: 5.00 Megapixels
Lens: 4.00x zoom
(35-140mm eff)
Viewfinder: Optical / LCD
LCD Size: 1.8 inch
ISO: 80-800
Shutter: 15-1/2000
Max Aperture: 2.6
Mem Type: SD
Battery: 2 x AA
Dimensions: 3.6×2.5×1.7in
(90×64x43mm)
Weight: 6.0 oz
(170 g)
MSRP: $250
By Harshyt Goel
The Canon A series has proved itself to be a very reliable one even in the competitive
market of the sony coolpix and nikon…and here we have the A530…To be truthful,ive
grown quite fond of this one(not to mention that i own the same model!!).This one is for
the Wannabe photographer who cant afford to buy a full fledged pro-digicam.If you have
a budget from around 180$-200$(not high considering the features), then this one is for
you.
The Camera body is a mix of lustrious casing with a great ergonomic touch..the button
placing is easy to reach and it has a sturdy feel.The picture quality of the camera can
be compared to some higher models.eg its big brother the A540.in actuall it is almost the
same as Th 540 though lacks some sensor and some exposure control offerings, but still
offers a great deal of exposure control.It stores data in a SD/MMC slot which are fast
becoming the standard of chip storage.it also provides USB 2.0 high speed connectivity to
your comp. for lightning fast transfers.With cannons trademark picBrodge you can print pics
without a PC faster than you can say ‘Canon’!The Canon A530 also offers a range of
metering modes, including evaluative, center-weighted, and even spot metering. In its
continuous shooting mode, the Canon A530 is rated at 2.1 frames/second, good speed for
a modestly priced camera.
To conclude,:the Canon A530 should be a very strong-selling model in the popular PowerShot
line, providing not only easy use for beginners (in full-auto mode), but a nice complement
of advanced exposure and metering modes for the more experienced shooter. This is a camera
that offers novice photographers plenty of capability to grow into, and should make a great
choice for families or couples with widely varying levels of photo expertise.”..as some
people say.
Below is an Extract from a previous review of the Model(courtesy-http://www.image-resource.com/)
“Performance. The Canon A530 was always ready when I was. I did cycle the power an awful
lot for the review, but the A530 was responsive. It fired right back up quickly.
The shutter seemed quite responsive, too. I habitually half-press the shutter button
anyway, so it should have been responsive. But half-pressing is something I do just to
check focus and exposure options, too. It’s a very good habit.The A530 offers an ISO
800 setting that seems to be a new trend in digicam design. Sony has bumped the ISO
ceiling up to 1000 in this year’s Cyber-shots, obliterating the old 400 limit. This
can be something of a mixed bag, as many have pointed out. The price of higher sensitivity
is more noise. In fact, with more megapixels crammed onto the tiny sensor surface, even
ISO 400 exhibits more noise than it did in the good old days when a 3-Mp sensor was hot
stuff.
But the alternative, shooting at ISO 200 or below, guarantees blurry images from camera
shake with indoor lighting. So I’ll take the noise. I know what to do with it: reduce it.
Even Photoshop CS2’s default Noise Reduction filter does a very nice job of making the
noise in an A530’s ISO 800 shot look no worse than that in an ISO 200 shot. My point is
that you can’t do anything about a blurry shot in your image editing software, but you
can do something about noise. Sure, it would be nice to be able to shoot at ISO 800 and
not have to edit the shot later — but at least you have the shot to edit.
With the exception of the A540, the A500-series has limited movie modes, and the A530 is
included in that. You can only get 10 frames per second (fps) at 640×480, and 20 frames per
second at 320x 240, which is a far cry from the 30fps we’ve come to expect from most
digital cameras. You can zoom digitally up to 2x, but not optically. This causes some
pixelation, but it’s better than the noise you’d otherwise hear from the zoom lens.
Finally, let me point out once again the benefit of a PictBridge-compatible digicam. Like
every other Canon camera, the A530 needs only a USB cable to become a printing kiosk when
connected to any PictBridge printer. That means you can leave a set of prints behind when
you take shots at a party or just quickly get an index of your latest shoot without
bothering to fire up the computer. It’s a terrific convenience with the full range of
output options, so you really don’t give up much.”
Bundled software includes the whole Pic Solution 28.0 with Zoom browser and camera Window
with a nifty Stitch Assist, the camera sports various shooting modes from inddor to
lanscape views with a ahndy manual setting.The LCD is 2.5″ and crystal clear,the camera
also boasts of 4X Optical Zoom and 16X Digital Zoom giving great picture clarity.
With fast shutter speeds great resolution and a light pocket/wallet weight(litterally and
Metamorphically!!!)..this should be a great buy!!