Many people can spend hours every day on email or messenger, but they just can’t find some time to read a book. A new website, Dailylit, is now offering to send classic books in bite-size installments to your PDA or handheld device or email everyday. You can read some famous classic books such as “Around the World in 80 Days”, “Anna Karenina”, etc everyday via […]
In Windows Vista, Microsoft incorporates new TCP/IP stack which features Auto Tuning capability. The Auto Tuning function able to adjust and optimize TCP/IP connection based on network utilization in order to increase the transfer rate throughput. In theory the new stack suppose to do so, however, in practical, Auto Tuning feature may not work correctly to bring better performance for network downloading and web surfing.
Japan consumer electronics giant, Sony has introduced the new DAV-IS10 micro home theater system recently. The 5.1 channel home-theater-in-a-box system features five small and stylish speakers. Although each speaker is just about the size of an orange but they puts out a total of 450 watts (satellite speakers 50W x 5, plus 2-way subwoofer 100W x 2), not bad for micro home system, right? This […]
We first got a glimpse and preview of floating 3D user account picture which can swing or rotate sideway in Windows “Longhorn” Server build 4xxx (now officially named Windows Server 2008). The feature allows the static user photo on top of the Start Menu to become a 3D rotating image as demonstrated in the in Windows Server 2008 build 4xxx instead of simple fading effect […]
Accidentally remove and delete U3 LaunchPad that is preinstalled on your U3 smart drive? Or have decided to uninstall U3 Launchpad software from the USB flash drive but now want to restore and install the U3 Launchpad? It’s possible to revert the uninstallation process and reinstall U3 Launchpad into the USB flash smart drive.
Gmail has doubled up the maximum attachment size from 10MB to 20MB, allowing users to send larger files of up to 20 MB (probably a bit less than that due to encoding) especially those space hungry pictures, photos, images, MP3s, musics, songs, videos and other multimedia contents. 20 MB attachment in each email is also a faster way to fill up 2.8GB Gmail provided, which […]
If you can believe a list of new 7 Wonders of the World created by a for-profit company which trying to earn money by all means, including allowing buying extra votes with money, then you probably want to participate in the global exercise to vote for the new Seven Wonders of the World.
According to ABC News.com, the Tennessee Highway Patrol has suspended a state trooper who allegedly received a sexual favor from a porn star and recorded the act with a camera from his cruiser in return for ignoring her possession of illegal painkillers. The woman, who goes by the stage name Barbie Cummings, said that at a traffic stop on May 7, trooper James Randy Moss […]
Tired of changing your laptop IP address while moving from office to home or when traveling around? Or even more frequent when you are setting up in the lab that required to change the laptop network configuration. Here is a simple solution for you. You can pre-configure 6 different sets of IP address, DNS server, domain, workgroup and etc and apply it to your laptop […]
TVAnts users who frequently watch television channels online know that the viewing experience may not be always smooth. TVAnts a P2PTV application which utilizes P2P to transmit streaming TV signal may have slow transfer rate sometimes. For this reason, in TVAnts, at Channels tab and Progress Details, viewers can actually monitor the streaming quality of the channel video by monitoring the Buffer progress bar.
Ever wonder how your mouse connects to the cursor and moves it around your screen? Believe it or not, I found a website that explains this technical process clearly thanks to a giant digital magnifying glass.
The MagicMouse is not the standard mouse that we use everyday but the three-dimensional (3D) mouse that is worn like a ring. This unique design is the result of a group of undergraduate students as their design project. In addition, the 3D MagicMouse also wins one of 10 Invention Awards from Popular Science. With MagicMouse on your finger, you can control a cursor by simply […]
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