Archive for January, 2009
Finally, a disk encryption standard
Posted on January 30, 2009 - Filed Under Computers, News | Leave a Comment
Wish they figured it out sooner. On Engadget today:
We’ve seen quite a few hardware-encrypted disks hit the scene lately, but to be honest, we’ve always thought they were a risky investment, since all the systems were proprietary — we wouldn’t want to store our encryption-worthy data on a disk that can’t be read at all [...]
Study forecasts explosive growth in netbook shipments
Posted on January 29, 2009 - Filed Under Netbooks, News | Leave a Comment
Various firms have come out with their predictions for the coming year, including the continued strong momentum for netbooks. The most conservative estimate comes from Gartner, which forecasts a mere 8 million unit shipments for 2009. IDC Corp., meanwhile thinks the figure is going to be around the 21 million mark. However, the most optimistic [...]
Amazon’s Top 10 Bestselling Laptops
Posted on January 27, 2009 - Filed Under Netbooks, News, Notebooks | Leave a Comment
Just a quick check on the current top sellers in Amazon. A few months ago, the Acer Aspire One was on top. Today, Asus has knocked them of the spot with the EEE PC 1000HA. It’s followed by variants of the Samsung NC10, Acer Aspire One, Asus EEE PC 900HA, and the MSI Wind U100. [...]
Review: LaCie External DVD Writer with Lightscribe
Posted on January 26, 2009 - Filed Under Reviews | Leave a Comment
I’ve had this LaCie DVD writer for about two weeks now and have burned over 100GB worth of data. This is my personal review of the unit as per my experience.
Build Quality
My first impression of the design was, “that’s it?” For all the hype of this model being design by “world-famous Sam Hecht”, I expected [...]
eTrike: Pinoy public service in the 21st century
Posted on January 23, 2009 - Filed Under News | Leave a Comment
I just wanted to share with you a report I first saw on GMAnews.tv. It was about an innovative project for enriching students’ computer education. We all know how under-funded and ill-equipped our public schools are. Well, five young scholars from Manila decided to do something about it. They’re giving back to the community by [...]
Windows 7 Beta 1: Installation and musings
Posted on January 22, 2009 - Filed Under software | Leave a Comment
With all the good reviews bloggers have given Windows 7, I couldn’t pass up the chance to have a look at it myself. I downloaded a copy of Windows 7 Beta 1 (Build 7000) for two laptops in order to test the rumor that it works well on netbooks and older systems (unlike the much [...]
Asus T91 netbook tablet demo video
Posted on January 21, 2009 - Filed Under Netbooks | Leave a Comment
As part of its campaign to tease us all into submission, Asus has just released a preview of what its new T91 and T101H “netvertibles” can do. This demo runs on Windows XP, but on top of it is a shell specially designed by Asus to make the touchscreen more finger-friendly - big icons, simple [...]
Warning: Seagate Barracuda 1TB hard drive multiple failures reported
Posted on January 17, 2009 - Filed Under News | 4 Comments
A word of caution for would-be buyers. Tom’s Hardware has just posted news on alarming Seagate hard drive failures for those with model number ST31000340AS, more popularly known as the 1TB Barracuda 7200.11. The issue has reached the Seagate support forums where it’s been gaining considerable attention.
As expected, news like this drove people into [...]
Nokia 5800 Xpress Music review roundup
Posted on January 16, 2009 - Filed Under Phones | Leave a Comment
Image courtesy of Yugatech
The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic was announced as early as October 2008, but it wasn’t officially launched in the Philippines until about a week ago. It’s Nokia’s new flagship handset, with a huge touchscreen interface that you know was set to rival the iPhone. The difference is, Nokia managed to create a great [...]
What’s the best phone under P10,000?
Posted on January 15, 2009 - Filed Under Phones | Leave a Comment
A lot of those who answered this blog’s poll on cellphone purchase limit voted for P10,000. It seems to be a reasonable price point, and one that probably has some psychological underpinnings. Whatever the case, for those who plan to buy a cellphone within the next few months, I’ve compiled a few of the better [...]
Loading ...