Kmart Pre Black Friday Sales: Thanksgiving Day 2009
November 23, 2009
Filed under News
Since the start of November, Kmart has been a store that pushed the deals early on this month to drive up sales. Back at the start of November we saw a long list of Kmart Black Friday 2009 deals leaked, since then the store promoted Saturday sales every week. Read more
Sony on Black Friday 2009: Ads show great deals
November 22, 2009
Filed under News
There are not many hours left in this day, which means that we are one step closer to Black Friday 2009. Retailers and consumers are not the only ones hoping for good things during the sales, manufactures are too, such as Sony. There are so many Sony deals to be had, so we thought we would do some searching around to see what will be popular. Read more
Kingston DataTraveler Locker+: Secure Flash Drive
These days a flash drive with a large capacity is not always enough, many users want re-assurance that there data is secure, therefore the new Kingston DataTraveler Locker+ may be the perfect answer. Read more
Sony Micro Vault Flash Drives: Compatible with Windows 7
November 18, 2009
Filed under Accessories, Electronics
Sony has just announced the launch of their brand new lineup of Micro Vault flash drives. The new models will be available in ranging capacities and will be available to buy from retailers and online in January. Read more
Walmart Pre Black Friday Sales 2009: Value Bundles
November 15, 2009
Filed under News
Walmart recently released a new set of Pre Black Friday value bundles for this year’s 2009 sales. These deals have been available online at Walmart all over the weekend on games, toys, electronics, video games, home items and much more. Read more
G.Skill’s new Falcon II Solid State Drives
G.Skill International Co. Ltd have recently announced their latest range of SSD’s, these SSD’s are called the Falcon II SATA II 2.5” solid state drives. Read more
Centon Electronics Licensed Major League Baseball Flash Drives
Centon Electronics have recently unveiled their latest range of flash drives, these drives are licensed to feature your favorite Major League Baseball teams logo on its casing. Read more
Limited Edition Sony VAIO Nebula FW laptop
There have been a number of Limited Edition laptops from Sony’s “Signature Collection” in the past, but the consumer electronics maker seems especially excited about its latest offering, the Sony VAIO Nebula FW laptop, so what is the big deal. Read more
Hands-on Review: Corsair P64 64GB SSD
SlashGear have recently been putting Corsair’s P64 64GB SSD’s through their paces, during these tests they used two of the P64’s configured for RAID 0 using Corsair’s P64-RAID-PK1 dual-drive kit. Read more
Netgear’s new Rangemax Wireless-N Gigabit Router
October 5, 2009
Filed under Computers, Networking
Netgear have recently revealed a new router, the router is called the “Rangemax Wireless-N Gigabit Router with USB WNR3500L”, this router is compliant wit the IEEE’s recently unveiled 802.11n standard. Read more
USB 3.0: Broad release by 2012
September 21, 2009
Filed under Computers, Input Devices
There has been a recent study by In-Stat that the new USB 3.0 technology will have a broad release by 2012. Not all PCs and peripherals will have the latest USB ports, but around 70 percent of external hard drives, desktops and notebooks will. Read more
Mozilla: Firefox Flash Player check helps 10 million update
Following on from the recent update to Mozilla Firefox which advised people to update their flash player, it has been revealed that around 30% of users with an old version of flash, updated to the latest version. Read more
Windows 7 Readyboost: Better Than Vista
When we were first introduced into Windows Vista Readyboost many of us were extremely excited at the possibility of increased performance for a relatively low cost, however when we finally saw the technology in use it left many (including me) extremely disappointed. Read more
Windows 7’s XP Mode final RC goes live
Well with the official Windows 7 release date just a few months away (October the 22nd to be precise), everything seems to finally be coming together ready for the launch date, and that includes the finished launch version of the Windows 7 XP compatibility mode which has had vast improvements on features, performance and reliability than it had when in BETA earlier this year. Read more
Intel Cuts Price of SSDs: Result of 34-nanometer Manufacturing Process
Intel has finally launched its next-generation of SSDs and the amazing thing is the new solid-state drives are 42 percent cheaper than previous models. The reason for the price drop is due to its new 34-nanometer manufacturing process of NAND flash memory. Read more
LG GC900 Viewty Smart Full Hands-on Review and Specs
July 13, 2009
Filed under Hands On
The LG Viewty Smart GC900 or Viewty 2 as some people are now calling it is an upgraded version of the LG Viewty. The new handset has a number of design and hardware features as the LG Arena, but the Viewty Smart has that awesome 8-megapixel camera. I owned the first Viewty for over a year so was looking forward to getting my hands on the new model. Read more
Axxis Fingerprint Door Lock
July 10, 2009
Filed under Gadgets
With biometric security becoming more and more affordable it is no surprise that we are starting to see household devices utilizing this technology.
Axxis have created a new door lock which requires both PIN and fingerprint identification, the device allows customizable access times for different users which can be programmed easily via a customized flash drive. Read more
Windows 7: Family Pack To Be Released
There are rumors emerging that state that Microsoft will offer a multi-license ‘family pack’ version of their Windows 7 Operating System. Apparently if you read the EULA (End User License Agreement) there are references mentioning the previously unannounced family pack. Read more
A-DATA’s new flash drive for Windows 7 32-bit and 64-bit
July 2, 2009
Filed under Computer Hardware, Computers
Computer hardware manufacturers A-Data have revealed they are releasing what they call “the first flash drive compatible with Windows 7 (32-bit and 64-bit)”. The confusing thing about this is that all pen drives I’ve used with Windows 7 Beta have been compatible. Read more
ASUS USB 2.0 Blu-ray drive
June 30, 2009
Filed under Computer Hardware, Computers
Asus have recently been developing a new USB external Blu-ray player, while it looks like a device suitable or space travel internally it is just another basic Blu-ray player.
The Blu-ray player is compatible with Windows but not OS X, as for Linux support it is not mentioned so it will likely not be compatible. The drive connects via USB 2.0 and reads Blu-ray discs at a maximum of 4.8x and burns DVDs at a maximum of 8x. The rest of the design is aesthetic not at all functionality based, it even has a bright blue ‘X’ that flashes on the side of the drive, and you can use an App to control its brightness. Read more
