By Joe Wilcox, Betanews
Joe Wilcox is switching his mum to a new computer. Her Mac is dying, and he can’t afford to replace it. Can a laptop running Chrome OS meet her needs?
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Archive for July, 2011
19 applications you might have missed this week
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By Chris Wiles
What’s that saying about Christmas in July? The month ended with a bang of updates and new releases.
Want Thunderbird 5 to be more like Outlook? Try Lightning
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By Joe Cassels
Anyone used to Microsoft Outlook might well want to add in task list management and calendar features to Thunderbird. Lightning is a free, open-source plugin that provides these features.
Wherever watch tells time in different zones
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Italian designer Denis Guidone has come up with the concept for a clever watch called Wherever, which can tell the time in multiple time zones.
The watch has an extra hour hand in a different color which shows the alternative time and is a perfect accessory for those who have family, friends or work clients in a different country, so they know when would be the best time to call them.
Read More...Drumroll, please… It’s the Mobile Media Toolkit!
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Introducing the Mobile Media Toolkit, the newest project from MobileActive.org that is all about Making Media Mobile.
The Mobile Media Toolkit helps you make sense of the growing role of mobile tech in media. The Toolkit provides how-to guides, mobile tools, and case studies on how mobile phones can (and are) being used for reporting, news broadcasting, and citizen media. We cover it all, from basic feature phones to the latest smartphone applications.
Read More...Attention SMB’s! Dell can help! [Sponsored]
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By Betanews Staff
By incorporating server management, disaster recovery and storage provisioning, Dell drives complexity out of virtualization with business-ready configurations with Intel Technology.
Apple, Samsung battle for smartphone supremacy
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By Joe Wilcox, Betanews
Nokia the smartphone king is dead. Long live Apple and Samsung. But can Apple keep its global newly-acquired crown?
Nortel completes patent liquidation to Apple, Microsoft, RIM, Sony: now what?
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Nortel has completed the sale of its 6,000 patents for $4.5 billion. This could mean future lawsuits for Google, Intel, Facebook, Twitter, and many more.
The colorful Wire Ball cable tidy
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We’re always on the look out for handy new ways to keep our desks and electronic equipment tidy. In fact we probably spend more time looking for these kinds of practical solutions than we do working!
So, we were happy to find the Wire Ball on Swiss Miss this morning, a colorful little sphere designed to hold up to 5 feet of cable, now that’s an impressive cable tidy!
Via Swiss Miss.
Read More...Cool down this summer with the USB Seat Cooler
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It’s worrying how many modern day offices don’t have adequate air conditioning facilities, so in summer a long and tiring working day becomes even more unbearable and uncomfortable than usual.
The USB Seat Cooler from Thanko has been designed to improve the situation a little by cooling your seat and lower body with the help of lots of tiny fans. You simply plug the seat cooler into your computer to power it up, or even use a USB charging adapter and hook it up to your car’s cigarette lighter.
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