58 posts tagged air drives

Filed under: Misc. GadgetsApparently HP’s gotten so desperate to connect with the youth market that they’ve actually hired on a “teen council” to help design a new line of products — likeliest PCs — from top to bottom.

Apple screen savers are pretty much just Quartz Compositions (graphics created via Quartz Composer, a node based visual programming language), and, while there are some nice ones that come pre-installed, they get old rather quickly.

whether you haven’t tried yet, but are interested in running a server, now is your chance to get some free training about Mac OS X Server. Apple assures that whether you don’t have a committed IT staff, you can still run a server with their wicked easy-to-use Leopard Server.

The two newest kids on the block, Pixelmator and Acorn, have both been updated to version 1.2, each carrying increased stability and new features. Ars Technica’s Infinite Loop blog has a post covering some new features - including Curves, Rulers, and more - clearly planned to keep pushing at the market currently dominated by Adobe Photoshop.

Filed under: Laptops With its minute keyboard, the Eee PC can be unbreakable to use in the dark. Imagine, soon after, whether yours had a backlit keyboard. The folks at Popsci have come up with — and explained — a way to add one of your own. And get that: you can do it in 3 hours for just $13.50.

I guess those rumors about NBC and Apple working things out aren’t going that well. Tonight on The Office, instead of Michael browsing the iTunes Store for music to form a mix cd for the new HR girl, Michael was browsing the Amazon MP3 store. Guess there won’t be a happy makeup amoung Apple and NBC.

Filed under: Digital Cameras Like pretty much every other Digital ELPH preceding it, Canon’s flagship SD1100 IS garnered nothing but the utmost praise in a recent Imaging-Resource review. Okay, so perhaps critics did kvetch about slight noise at ISO 800, a somewhat confusing interface, and a

Filed under: Peripherals Considering that you’ve already spent way too much on that totally over-hyped Killer NIC, why not humor yourself further by snagging a sound card with Johnathan Wendel’s prints on it.

Filed under: Gaming, Peripherals Brilliant, just brilliant. As whether Rock Band wasn’t living room clutter abundant, Activision is busting out a drumset for Guitar Hero IV, and now Konami is getting in on the “pretending to play music” meme with its very own Rock Revolution title.

Filed under: Cellphones Nothing new to report on the Touch Diamond’s tech here, but wow, look how fun the box is! Of course, we know you’re all waiting to see what they stuffed in the wedge-shaped package, and the reply is a charger, headset, USB cable, a manual or two, and the software.