Web Talk

Oh well, after the release of Acer Aspire One many months ago, the famous Taiwan company looked like fallen to a dreamless sleep. It woke up just in time! As a matter of fact, Acer has just unveiled another nice ultraportable called Aspire One 751 sporting interesting and unique features. Continue reading »

Starting from Internet Explorer 8, the Microsoft browser is giving you the opportunity to surf anonymously, without leaving any fingerprint on the computer. This is particularly useful if what you are using is not your computer and you are afraid to leave your cookies around which could be retrieved and used by someone to restore your previous email account session. Let’s see the different ways you can turn on, open and activate the InPrivate Browsing mode in Internet Explorer 8 and become invisible to other users! Continue reading »

A couple of days ago I was contacted by the guys from Microsoft asking me to talk about their latest, interesting ISV compatibility test for Windows 7. The idea behind this product is to give companies producing software a chance to be ahead of their competitors and get the green light directly from Microsoft by producing software and applications compatible with the next Microsoft operating system, Windows 7. Basically, Microsoft wants to give companies which produce applications the ability to check the compatibility before these technologies are released to the market. The purpose of the program is to lessen incompatibility problems that final users who make the transition may face. Continue reading »

A few days after the software was leaked in the Internet, Microsoft has released the official Microsoft Security Essentials (Morro) beta version for free download. Microsoft Security Essentials is a free antivirus/antispyware software designed to replace Windows Live OneCare and Windows Defender. The software can be downloaded directly at www.microsoft.com/ security_essentials/ but according to the website, Microsoft Security Essentials is only available to customers  living in  in the United States, Israel (English only), People’s Republic of China (Simplified Chinese only) and Brazil (Brazilian Portuguese only). As a matter of fact, if you live outside such countries and try to download the software from the website, you will get the following message: “You appear to be in a country or region where the Microsoft Security Essentials Beta is unavailable”. Continue reading »

There are a lot of ways to boost and speed up your Mozilla Firefox. Yes, there are so many ways to make Firefox better that sometimes I have the feeling to write the same articles, over and over again. But that’s not true! If you do not believe me, have a look at these articles of mine on how to make your Firefox load faster at startup, how to make Firefox faster and even more faster than light! You will see that, despite their titles are almost alike, the tricks they describe are quite different. Today, I still want to talk about another way to boost Mozilla Firefox by using a trick few people know about. Continue reading »

I have to tell that I love, really love Wi-fi radios. However, the issue with them is that it looks like big companies aren’t taking them too seriously. Nevertheless I am more than sure that in a near future all radios will have wi-fi features able to stream your favorite radio stations directly from the Internet! You might want to read these articles of mine about nice Internet radios: Audiovox RCA RIR205 and MYDu@l Radio700. Today I still want to speak of another Internet radio which, in comparison to the models I previously reviewed can be considered a big jump in terms of features and technology. Let’s get acquainted with the all new Vtech IS9181 WiFi Internet Radio. Continue reading »

Kodak has recently released its new digital frame called EasyShare S730. Nothing exciting about it to tell you the truth but if you are looking for a cheap digital frame doing the job properly, Kodak EasyShare S730 is your best bet. It measures 7-inches, 1GB of memory, USB port and it is able to play music as well as videos. It’ll be available in the U.S. in September for $139.

Samsung has recently announced a new Solid State Drive (SSD) which will be able to fit into a mini-PCIe card, whose capacity can reach up to 64 GB in a form-factor nearly 80-percent smaller than a 2.5-inch drive. The new little SSD is intended not only for netbooks but as a secondary or complementary drive for regular notebooks. Samsung mini-PCIe SSD weights only 8.5g and  it can read at 200MB/s  and write at 100MB/s. It supports full-drive encryption and is shock-resistant.