Coosh earphones Best Design

To make a long story short, the Coosh earphones are a worthy buy at $20.

For starters, our first impressions regarding the comfort-level lasted. Again, since there’s padding on the actual earphones themselves, covering the usually sharp seam between the metal grill and the earphone plastic, these earphones can spend the whole day in your ears.

On top of that, the soft plastic “arms” that wrap around your outer ears, so again the earphones can spend the whole day in your ears, because they’re securely fastened. Another feature we like was the bent earphone jack. Aside from being another opportunity for brand showcasing, this construction means you won’t have earphone jacks sticking out the side of your gadget.

The earphones are nowhere close to the audio quality of full-fledged headphones, especially in the bass department. But Coosh’s offering do a decent job. At the very least, you aren’t stuck with tin cans in your ears!

The only issue we have with the Coosh earphones is how those arms make you more visible than usual, especially in public. People will probably notice the white supports around your ears and do a double-take. This unfortunately may include thieves scoping out for a mark. Perhaps Coosh could make future versions have transparent arms?

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Razer Pro Type™ Keyboard

Razer Pro|Type™ Keyboard
The World’s First Keyboard With An Integrated iPod Dock

The Razer Pro|Type™ is the first professional keyboard to feature an integrated docking station for the popular iPod. It is also highly customizable and has quick access media keys for convenience. Developed by a specialized team of professionals, the Razer Pro|Type™ delivers a superb innovation in functionality and ergonomics to take your efficiency and productivity to greater heights.


iPod Dock:
Synchronize and charge your iPod easily

10 Customizable Profiles:
Configure keyboard profiles according to
your needs

10 Programmable Keys:
Switch Profiles and launch applications with a touch of a button

Ultra Touch-sensitive keys:
For enhanced and more precise key response

On-the-Fly Profile Switching:
Auto swap keyboard profiles upon program detection

Multimedia Hub:
Includes line-out and 2 USB ports for convenient connection to your peripherals

Media Hot Keys:
Provide one-touch access to media programs

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Asus Eee PC 701 Becomes Cheaper

Asus Eee PC 701 become cheaper. The netbook market is certainly one of the most dynamic segments of the IT industry. As a direct consequence of that, each day brings more details about freshly released netbooks and other netbook-related products. We, as regular consumers, can only attempt to stay up to date with the advances in the field by keeping an eye out for everything new that comes along.

Currently, netbook fans can choose from several such devices coming from a significant number of manufacturers. ASUS is probably one of the most successful vendors on the market, thanks to its vast Eee PC lineup, which currently counts no less than 12 models. Furthermore, users can get their Eee PC netbooks in various form factors, ranging from 7-inch to 10-inch. However, the 7-inch model can pride itself with being the very first of its kind, having been released back in the days when most users didn't even know of Intel's Atom.


Currently, the Eee PC 701 is the cheapest Eee PC you can find on the market. Although it doesn't come with the same technical specifications as its 9-inch and 10-inch counterparts, this ultra-portable computer system can certainly provide you with the basics in computing technology. For a price tag of approximately $280 (for the 4GB version running on Linux), you will be able to surf the Internet, listen to music, check your emails, and more. This offer is available over at Expansys so, if you are interested in it, you should turn to its website for shipping details, as well as to order it.


In other news, from now on, MSI's U100 Wind netbook will be available with a bigger hard drive, providing users with an impressive 120GB of storage space. Just as a reminder, the Wind U100 is the company's first netbook system, and it sports a 10-inch display. The U90 model will continue to ship with the 80GB hard drive.


However, if MSI's 10-inch Wind is not the thing for you, then maybe you’d be interested in Medion’s offer, which brings you the Akoya netbook, also sporting a 10-inch display. Good news is, it’s now shipping in the UK. Unlike the Wind netbook, the Akoya will only provide its users with a maximum 80GB of storage space. Aside from that, the netbook's tech specs are similar to the ones on the Wind netbook.

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Web Browser Google Chrome

Google has presented, during a media event lasting nearly an hour, its latest, highly acclaimed product. Probably anyone on the planet with an Internet connection is already familiar with Google Chrome, the first open source web browser.


During the conference, Google officials presented the capabilities of the product that has already generated a lot of stir, along with some behind-the-scenes development stories. The main “lecturer” was Sundar Pichai, Google product management vice president, who started by saying that the team working on Chrome tried to emulate the technologies and the user experience from behind Google's most successful product, the search engine used by nearly two thirds of the planet.

Pichai underscored that the main aspect that differentiated the browser from its competitors was that it didn’t stand out, and was as unobtrusive as possible. “The motto in the whole team was how do we minimize Chrome. We used to call it “content, not Chrome” [...]. Our view is that the browser is just an application, is just a tool for people to interact with the sites and applications they care about. So browsers should not be self important.”


“In Chrome, we do not interrupt users at all. There are no dialogs which pop-up in front of you and ask you to do something. So our goal is that the user should enjoy surfing the web and the browser should stay out of the way.” added the Google official.


The Google rep highlighted the three significant features that actually distinguished Chrome from anything else on the market – the rendering engine, the multiprocess technology and V8, a JavaScript engine that developers have built from scratch. Rendering is based on the same engine that powers Safari, which enables at least some of the web developers to easily adapt their webpages to fit the browser. Multiprocessing has the main function of increasing the speed of the browser, but also of avoiding the crashing of the entire browser when a tab malfunctions. The V8 JavaScript engine speeds up even more the reactions of Chrome, whenever users employ it to do something in particular.


While Sundar Pichai held a speech focused mostly on technical facts, Larry Page, one of Google's co-founders, joked about the fact that he usually ruled over his team with an iron fist, but that the people who worked on Chrome did a really good job. “I've been using Chrome for quite a while actually and I've really enjoyed using it. I used it on a slow, old computer on purpose to really force them to make it fast without a lot of memory and on slower computer.” said Page.

Meanwhile, Software Engineer at the company Amanda Walker announced that the Mac and Linux versions were under development, although no one could estimate the exact date of release. Pichai also tackled this topic for the journalists gathered at the official release event, saying that the internal need for the two versions of the browser (since many Googlers - the company staff - also use Linux and Mac OS X platforms) should make development pick up the pace.

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Google Browser Chrome

On September 2, 2008 Google released its own breed of open source browser, a marriage between Apple's Safari and Mozilla's Firefox, dubbed Google Chrome. Of course, Google Chrome is first and foremost a new competitor for Internet Explorer on the browser market. But in Google's own perspective, it is so much more than a potential IE killer. It is actually a Windows killer. Google has in fact not been shy about positioning Chrome against both Internet Explorer and Windows, as items of prey.

"What we really needed was not just a browser, but also a modern platform for web pages and applications, and that's what we set out to build," revealed Sundar Pichai, VP Product Management, and Linus Upson engineering director, on the occasion of the first official announcement of Google Chrome.


With the exception of the platform reference from Pichai and Upson, Google was careful to avoid the subject. Of course, not all of the Mountain View-based search giant representatives followed suit. Google co-founder Sergey Brin in fact indicated that Chrome was gunning down for Windows, not only Internet Explorer.


"I think operating systems are kind of an old way to think of the world," Brin stated according to Yahoo Finance. "They have become kind of bulky, they have to do lots and lots of different legacy things. Web users want a very lightweight, fast engine for running applications. The kind of things you want to have running standalone on a computer are shrinking."


Since Google's portfolio of services is situated completely into the cloud, the Mountain View-company needs only a browser to let end users access its products. In this context, the only actual piece of software anchored on the desktop that Google needs to control is the browser. The operating system in general, and Windows in particular, although it is currently one of the main intermediaries controlling access to Google along with IE, can be circumvented completely. In this context a future where the Google Chrome browser would boot straight on top of the hardware, perhaps with a minimalist hypervisor layer at the basis, but no Windows, or any operating system in sight, is a threat that Microsoft can not afford to ignore.


"We believe that open source works not only because it allows people to join us and improve our products, but also (and more importantly) because it means other projects are able to use the code we've developed. Where we've developed innovative new technology, we hope that other projects can use it to make their products better, just as we've been able to adopt code from other open source projects to make our product better," revealed Ben Goodger, Google software engineer.

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Aspire 5920G-832G32Mn

The T5750 Core Due Processor gives blistering performance, especially for this price range. 4GB of DDR2 RAM and an impressive 250GB hard drive will help ensure that the included Windows Vista Home Premium will offer users the ultimate experience.

On a laptop, monitor performance is a huge deal. If you’re not happy with the display you receive then there’s very ltitle you can do about it but fortunately the 15.4” widescreen monitor utilises Acer’s CrystalBrite technology to give clear and accurate display images.

Acer Aspire 5920g - New Design For The Aspire SeriesThe Blu-Ray combo drive is a superb addition enabling owners to watch the latest high definition movies. The Acer Aspire 5920g also includes an ATi Mobility Radeon HD3470 graphics card with 256MB of dedicated RAM so whether you want to use your laptop for multimedia or for some fairly serious PC gaming, it has the capability.

Multimedia keys can be found at the sides of the keyboard, enabling you one touch access to the Internet, your email, and the built in media player. 4 USB and 1 Firewire connections provide a good degree of connectivity for any user.

Laptop computers are the ideal machine for multi-purpose use. The convenience of the Acer Aspire 5920g ensures that users can sit down to watch high quality, High Definition Blu Ray movies, create their own multimedia, surf the web, and (if absolutely necessary) do a little work as well. For the mid price budget range, the BMW styled design and rich features make the Acer Aspire 5920 a desirable product indeed.

Platform Notebook PC with Intel Centrino Duo Technology
Processor Type Intel Core 2 Duo Processor
Processor Onboard Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor T8300 (2.4 GHz, FSB 800, Cache 3 MB)
Chipset Intel 965PM
Standard Memory 2 GB (2x 1 GB) DDR2 SDRAM PC-5300
Max. Memory 4 GB (2 DIMMs)
Video Type NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT 256 MB
Display Size 15.4" WXGA TFT
Display Max. Resolution 1280 x 800
Display Technology CrystalBrite TFT
Audio Type Integrated
Speakers Type Integrated
Floppy Drive Optional
Hard Drive Type 320 GB Serial ATA 5400 RPM
Optical Drive Type DVD±RW
Modem Optional
Networking Optional
Network Speed Optional
Wireless Network Type Intel PRO/Wireless 4965AGN
Wireless Network Protocol IEEE 802.11a, IEEE 802.11b, IEEE 802.11g
Wireless Bluetooth Integrated
Keyboard Type Ergonomics 88 keys
Input Device Type Touch Pad
Slot Provided ExpressCard/ 54
Card Reader Provided SD, MMC, Memory Stick / Stick PRO, xD-Picture Card
Interface Provided 4x USB 2.0, Firewire, VGA, LAN, Audio
O/S Provided Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium
Battery Type Rechargeable Lithium-ion Battery
Power Supply External AC Adapter
Dimension (WHD) 364 x 43 x 270 mm
Weight 3 kg
Standard Warranty 1-year Limited Warranty by Authorized Distributor
Bundled Peripherals Carrying Case
Others Integrated Acer Crystal Eye webcam supporting Acer PrimaLite™ technology

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Samsung LE32A556P 32″ HD Review

The 32” HD Ready Samsung LE32A556P may not have the snappiest of names, but it does provide an extremely rich colour, dark blacks, and superb features as well as offering full HD ready capability with 1080p resolution. Because sound is as important to the viewing experience as picture quality is, the Samsung LE32 uses SRS Trusurround to provide equally excellent sound quality.

High definition television quality is usually marked by the richness of blacks as well as the crispness of colours. The Samsung delivers true deep blacks as well as crisp colours with a 15000 contrast so that pictures look and feel more realistic. It even includes Wide Colour Enhancer2 technology to provide richer colours and a better viewing experience.

Samsung LE32A556P 32Three HDMI sockets, 2 SCART, and 1 Component Cable input socket provide owners with a more than adequate range of inputs. What’s more, the Samsung LE32A556P 32” HD Ready 1080p Digital LCD TV also has a built in digital TV receiver saving you the socket that you would normally use for your freeview box.

The Samsung LE32A556P 32” HD digital TV is ideal for watching High Definition television channels, viewing Blu-Ray movies, or playing high definition next generation games.

Full Specifications:

* Picture Enhancement - DNIe Plus
* Contrast - 15000 : 1
* Sound type - SRS Trusurround
* Inputs - 3xHDMI, 2xSCART, 1x Component
* Visible Screen Size - 31.5″
* Digital TV receiver - For extra channels
* Wide Colour enhance 2 - Truer colours
* Also available in - 37,40,46,52 screen size

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Free Microsoft Prototype Prioritizes Emails

A new Microsoft prototype offered as a free download is designed to assess incoming emails and prioritize them according to their importance. The tool is a Microsoft Office Labs project set up to integrate exclusively with Office Outlook 2007. Email Prioritizer runs on Exchange Server and represents a taste of an email overload management utility. But just a taste since
it is nothing more than a prototype, not even in Beta stage.

"We understand that email overload is a challenge: today, many people get too much email and have a hard time keeping up with it. Not only do people receive a high volume of mail, the mail may arrive at inconvenient times. There are a lot of good ideas about how to help people with email overload and we’re testing a few of those ideas in Office Labs," revealed a member of Office Labs.

Email Prioritizer does bring interesting functionality to the table, enabling end users to essentially filter the most important pieces of email out of all the mundane items that end up in their box. The tool enables users to pause all incoming emails for a period of time anywhere from 10 minutes to 4 hours. At the same time, Microsoft has integrated a set of criteria into Email Prioritizer based on which the add-in is able to rate email. The company informed that the collection of priorities can be controlled and adjusted by the users.

Email Prioritizer features "a "Do Not Disturb" button that stops incoming mail delivery so you can work without interruptions. Email priorities are assigned to incoming mail so you can focus on the most important mail first. With a "0-3 stars" ranking system, you can focus on email messages that are most important to you. These priorities are based on algorithms from Microsoft Research," the Office Labs representative added.

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