Sandisk Sansa TakeTV: Video, from PC to TV, Easily

Posted by newbie Friday, November 30, 2007 0 comments
SanDisk is offering what might be the easiest way to watch videos from your PC on your TV. The Sansa Take TV - a USB drive- plugs into a dock that in turn connects to your television. Put the video on the device by dragging and dropping your own files, or download content from Fanfare.com, SanDisk’s source for video. I loaded the TakeTV with files and started watching videos on my TV in minutes. You can forget about HD, surround sound, or a ton of storage space: The TakeTV lacks a hard drive and...

T-Mobile Sidekick LX Review: Easy on the Eyes-And Fingers

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The limousine of messaging devices, T-Mobile’s huge new Sidekick comes with a luxurious keyboard and a big, bright screen that makes e-mails and IMs fun to write and easy to read.The Side kick LX’s best features is its keyboard. The well-spaced, raised buttons make typing easier on the LX than on almost any other handheld device I’ve tested. The keyboard also ties into the excellent IM client, backed up with both SMS and MMS support. You have full access to AIM, MSN, and Yahoo! Mail buddy list,...

HP Photosmart A626 Compact Photo Printer: Photo Printing With Style

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If hauling yourself to the local drugstore to print photos is too long a trek, here’s a stay-at-home solution. HP’s Photosmart A626 Compact Photo Printer offers a 4.8-inch touch screen that turns the unit into a kind of mini photo kiosk.The A626 weighs only 3.2 pounds, plus an extra 8 ounces for the included battery. HP says the printer can churn out 75 4-by-6 photos on a full charge. The A626 can also produce standard-format photos at up to 5 by 7 inches and panoramas up to 4 by 12 inches.After...

Linksys NAS200: Home NAS on a Budget

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Linksys enters the home network-attached storage (NAS) device market with the budget-conscious and bluntly named NAS200. You purchase the box as just that-an empty box-for about $135 (street). Adding storage can bring up the cost to anywhere from $200 to $600, depending on what capacity eSATA drives you purchase.The NAS200 has room for two drives, configurable separately or together, the last in shared or mirrored mode. You’ll also find all the usual NAS features, including backup (via third-party...

Toshiba Qosmio G45-AV680 Review: Heavyweight Laptop Contender

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Although you may want to move this laptop around, you probably wouldn’t take it with you on a cross-country trek. Toshiba’s newest Qosmio, the G45-AV680, is a great hulking laptop, weighing in at a hefty 9.9 pounds, with a glorious 17-inch 1080p widescreen. The system was given a much-needed design overhaul; in particular, it’s the first laptop with an HD DVD-R writable drive. Unfortunately, its high price tag is likely to scare off most would-be buyers.The Qosmio’s high-definition experience is...

Maxtor OneTouch 4 Mini: Disaster Recovery to Go

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The market is filled with portable USB “pocket” drives with capacities up to 250GB. The Maxtor OneTouch 4 Mini, a 160GB drive, stands out as one of the few that provide disaster recovery as well as data backup.The OneTouch 4 Mini uses Maxtor’s OneTouch data backup program and its SafetyDrill utility, which copies an image of your C: drive onto the Mini. In case of computer catastrophe you can use the recovery boot CD to restore your PC (even if you need to replace your C: drive) - provided that...

HP w2408: A Brilliant Widescreen Display

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Although the HP w2408 has a vastly different design from last year’s HP LP2465, both share an impressive image quality and feature set. The w2408 is a 24-inch widescreen monitor with a brilliant screen that allows for flexible viewing options. Its panel boasts a 1,920-by-1,200 resolution and a very wide (92 percent) NTSC color gamut (the range of colors a monitor can show) for a consumer display. This makes for much bolder and sharper colors, and a brighter image, than are found in the model it...

Netgear ReadyNAS NV+: The Top Small-Office NAS

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Beyond the usual features, this stylish NAS box adds some innovations and can manage both office and home duties. The combination of that with smoking performance (up to 30 MBps!) for general data transfers and media streaming earns the ReadyNAS NV+ our Editors’ Choice award for best small-business NAS device.The ReadyNAS NV+ can certainly play in a home environment, too, but it’s specifically equipped with business muscle. For one, it’s consists of a four-disk enclosure that supports hot swapping-...

Samsung SCH-i760 Review: Maximize Your Mobile Productivity

Posted by newbie Thursday, November 29, 2007 0 comments
Verizon’s best Windows Mobile phone to date has the hottest form factor going right now: the dual keypad, with both a traditional number pad and a full QWERTY keyboard for typing messages. The Samsung SCH-i760 also packs plenty of power and offers rock-solid call quality.Slid closed, the i760 looks like a thick candy bar-style phone. Opening the device rotates the screen and exposes the QWERTY keyboard. The 400-MHz processor lets Windows Mobile shine. Long e-mails open relatively quickly, and the...

Gateway XHD3000: The Videophile’s Grand Display

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Until recently 30-inch display, while offering high native resolution and excellent image quality, fell short in terms of video processing (the ability to scale videos at other resolutions to fit). All that has changed with the XHD3000, Gateway’s newest 30- inch display.Although most PC displays have a video processor built in, before the XHD3000, none were able to scale content properly to 2,560-by-1,600 for 30 inch displays. Instead, this function was handled by the PC’s graphics card. The XHD3000...

Lenovo ThinkPad X61: Lenovo Raises the Tablet PC Bar

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These days convertible tablet PCs are becoming more than just a niche of the mobile PC market, and Lenovo has been leading the way. With the best keyboard in the industry, very good performance scores, and a sturdy design, the ThinkPad X61 Tablet earns itself an Editors’ Choice nod.Lenovo stuck with the same tried-and-true design elements for the X61. The magnesium-alloy-backed frame, which protects the system against wear and tear, and its pitch-black ID are identical to those of the rest of the...

Creative Zen: More Flash for Less Cash

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Creative has abandoned hard drive-based devices, and the new ZEN is the company’s first shot at a flash-based music and video player. It has larger screen and more features (including an FM radio and a voice recorder) than its comparably priced competitor, the iPod nano. The Zen also offers a roomy 16GB version, which rings up at $150 less than the same-capacity iPod touch. In addition, the ZEN has an SD memory card slot, so the player’s capacity is expandable.Audio file support for the ZEN is fairly...

Canon EOS-1D Mark III: Fastest D-SLR Camera

Posted by newbie Wednesday, November 28, 2007 0 comments
Unbelievable innovation! It’s the correct word aim to Canon EOS 1D Mark III. This D-SLR camera with CMOS 10,1 megapixel sensor is can shot till 10 fps (frame per second). The user of this magnesium alloy body camera can take 110 burst shots in JPEG Large format, or 30 shots RAW format. Fast performance of the camera supported by Dual DIGIC III processor that makes this EOS series can present 14-bit picture processing.The camera with different menu from its predecessor, 1D Mark II, of course has...

HP Pavilion dv9000 Review: Grand Notebook

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If most exquisite and luxury piano called as grand piano, hence HP Pavilion dv9000 can be called as grand notebook. There are many reasons to equalize both. Which most noticeable, dv9000 is a big notebook. Its monitor size is 17,2 inchs, so that the dimension reaching 28,5x39,6x3 cm with 3,56 kgs weight.Pavilion this dv9000 also looks like piano in slippery material and flash applied. This material makes it seen elegan, though latter we discover s(he very susceptible of fingerprint. Though has tried...

Creative Prodikeys DM Value

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Just try to stop working and take your time to playing music. Two activities can be done easily with Creative Prodikeys DM Value. This gadget is keyboard PC at the same time integrated keyboard MIDI, so gives multiple functions.For playing music, MIDI button in the tuts keyboard appearance with 3 octave scale there is in board underside. On the left there is hotkeys to implement music program and a wheel which functioning as volume control and pitch bend. In order not to bother when do typing, close...

Selphy CP750: Printer with Red-Eye Removal

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The colour is white and grey, with aluminum color cover. A 2,4 inch LCD seen in upper panel, surrounded by seven buttons at both sides, and a 4-direction button. In fromt panel there is three memory card slots, ready to receive almost all memory card types except SmartMedia which has seldom be used.Hidden behind rubber seal of left side front panel is PictBridge cable which able to pulled in for connection to the camera carrying PictBridge. If having Bluetooth or infra red adapter, you may print...

Christmas Gadget (Part II: High Tech Gift)

Posted by newbie Tuesday, November 27, 2007 0 comments
Toshiba TDP-FF1AU Mobile Projector$699 directwww.toshiba.comA portable powerhouse, the TDP-FF1AU weighs only 1.7 pounds; it combines DLP technology with an LED light source for a great picture in a tiny package. Unlike other projectors in its class, it has a portable screen.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------Logitech Harmony 1000$499 directwww.logitech.comThis state-of-art remote control will connect you to all of your electronics with a beautiful, bright,...

Christmas Gadget (Part I: Dirty Job)

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iRobot Looj 150$169.99 directwww.irobot.comThis gutter-cleaning gizmo, from the makers of the Roomba, will keep you off the roof and out of harm’s way. The Looj crawls through gutters and churns out muck and debris with an auger, spinning at roughly 500 rpm. Its hard plastic fins and bristle brushes will finish this dirty job in no time.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------Nokia Vertu Signature Rose Gold Pink Diamond Edition$73.000 listwww.vertu.comEvery gift...

Cowon Q5W: Super-Portable Media Player

Posted by newbie Monday, November 26, 2007 0 comments
Still remember at Cowon? This is the South Korean electronic company which produce iAudio MP3 player with Swing Touch unique navigation system.Recently Cowon launchs super-portable media player (PMP), which already displayed in Consumer Electronics Show, Las Vegas, United States, in the beginning of this year.The PMP is Cowon Q5W, which is already launched in America and Asian only. In Korea, the PMP had been launched at May, by Cowon Q5 name. The difference, Q5W already equipped by Wi-Fi Wi-Fi...

Neuros OSD: Connecting All

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While Nokia carries “Connecting People” motto, Neuros OSD it’s good to called as “Connecting Devices”. This small gadget can connect all home entertainment gear with your personal computer.This is the first based on Linux media center in world made in Neuros Technology, audio/video peripheral company which based in Chicago, United States. This open source operating system makes it can implement the third party application easily.This equipment can be connected with television, home cinema, and functioning...

Creative HQ-2300D: Home Theater on Your Ear

Posted by newbie Sunday, November 25, 2007 0 comments
From the beginning of we must said that Creative HQ-300D is an excellent product. All of it can be posible due to a decoder which supporting Dolby Digital technology. By using two Alkaline AA batteries, this gear give pleasant to your ear when enjoying film, listens music, even plays game console.First of all, we are tested the headset with car machine whir in race-tracks and ammo bang in a world war II at game PC. When Dolby headphones or Dolby Pro Logic II function is activated, output voices...

Altina GBT-709 Bluetooth GPS Receiver

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“Easy Way Easy Going”, said slogan that is described at packaging of Altine GBT-709 Bluetooth GPS Receiver. This product of course made to facilitate you when go to foreign place but refuse to being lost. The light weight and its user friendly feature is 2 thing which making Altina as on the way friend.Inside Altina there is GPS SiRF Star III signal receiver chipset. With this chipset, Altina promises good GPS signal receiving though operated at full barrier place. We also vexed to try explores...

Compaq Presario V3502TU Review: Great Performance with Class Design

Posted by newbie Friday, November 23, 2007 0 comments
Along promotion of the new logo, HP starts clearly positions its Compaq series notebook. If HP Pavilion series positioned as upper class notebook, hence Compaq Presario series is more positioned as notebook for segment below its.Compaq Presario V3502 which we tested is the first notebook in new era of Compaq. This Notebook has applied Intel Centrino platform Santa Rosa generation. Operating System of this notebook has applied Windows Vista, even only Home Basic version.We call it “only” because...

Creative Zen Vision: M: iPod Video Great Competitor

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Looks like iPod? The difference is laying on the front display. iPod touch pad is in circle (in consequence is called as click wheel), while Creative makes it is vertical (and more wide) which felt more comfortable. To explore the menu just use you forefinger from the top downwards, and taps out to choose one of them.Left and right side of each touch pad functioned as Next/Fast Forward and Anevious/Rewind button. This touch still is flanked by four other controller buttons (Shortcut - can be program...

PowerShot G9 Review: Pocket Camera Metamorphosis

Posted by newbie Thursday, November 22, 2007 0 comments
Canon which succeeded with its semi professional camera in PowerShot G, likely wish to return to satisfy pocket camera mid-end market by presenting PowerShot G9. Camera which is first launched in Europe has many new feature, but still not forget the comfort to use side for common user and also professional.From its physique, G9 clearly has significant difference compared to its previous product. Change at grip and thumb rest design is intentionally done by Canon so G9 can be steadier to grab. But...

Holux GPSlim 240 Wireless Bluetooth GPS Receiver

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Holux brand in GPS market is not popular like Garmin or Magellan. But its ability as explorer friend is properly considered. Its mini form and user friendy is excellence of Holux compared to other brand.Besides its mini size, Holux weight also pertained light (34 grams) so not impossible if you pockets up this peripheral when applied. In pocket does this peripheral still able to receivel GPS signa? The answer is yes it can. Because SiRF Star III chipset which planted by Holux, this peripheral able...