Monthly Archives: February 2009

Windows 7 Upgrades

With the different versions of the much awaited Windows 7 from Microsoft, it makes simple Windows users like us wonder what we’d have to go through just to be able to take that step of a supposedly much better OS. After all, Microsoft has been pushing us to tag along the upgrade train, like when [...]

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Motorola’s Eco-phone: Renew

Motorola’s green phone is called “Renew”, and it’s generally got a lot of nice features included. Of course, this is one of the first of its kind, being a phone designed to carry an aura of environmental friendliness to it, so it has its ups and downs to it. But when it came to eco-friendliness, [...]

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Samsung’s Solar Powered Phone

Talk about an earth-friendly phone – Samsung wasn’t kidding about it when they made the “Blue Earth”. While Motorola was able to make the first phone from recycled water bottles, the Blue Earth is the first ever solar-powered touch screen handset. This little green gizmo, like its Motorola counterpart, is literally made out of the [...]

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$250,000 Reward for Conficker Author

Microsoft has pulled out the big bucks and announced a 250 thousand dollar reward for the person or persons who can lead international authorities to the arrest and conviction of the authors of the infamous Conficker (Downadaup) worm. The worm which is known to affect all versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system has even [...]

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Apple: Mac can be prone to viruses

Many people have been getting the Mac lately, and so far people have been giving them their thumbs up. But if you plan to get a Mac because people say it’s almost immune to the kind of viruses that Windows users suffer from, then you might reconsider. Apple has actually pointed out that viruses might [...]

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Nokia N97: Coming Soon

It’s almost the end of the year but some companies just won’t stop giving away brand new toys to play with. Nokia is one of them, and they’ve recently announced that the brand new N97 is coming out this 2009. This will be the second release from Nokia that takes a shot at the touch [...]

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iStylophone brings music making to the iPhone

If you’re the kind of person who wants to make music so bad but just stays listening to the tunes on your iPhone, then there’s a really big chance that you’ve never heard of the iStylophone before. Created by Very Cool Software Company, the Dübreq iStylophone is a software made for the iPhone and iPod [...]

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The Home Music: Nokia’s Wi-Fi Radio

Along with all the great phone models that Nokia has announced t be releasing come next yet, the mobile phone manufacturer had also brought news regarding the making of what they refer to as “The Home Music”. This new Nokia gadget – possibly the first of its kind – is said to be a radio [...]

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The Latest Archos 5

After manufacturing a series of portable media payer way back before stuff like the iPod came out, Archos has come up with what looks like a product of years of manufacturing experience – the Archos 5 Media Tablet. This unique portable media player stands out with its 4.8 inch high resolution display on a crystal [...]

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The Sylvania ECOlight

The shower is often the part of the bathroom which suffers from a lack of adequate lighting. The reasons for this are many, and range from thick shower curtains, to the placement of the shower stall itself, and can even be relates to safety factors, because we all know that light comes from electricity and [...]

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