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Winner of the 2TB HDD GiveawayAnalysts all say that the doubled price of harddrive caused by Thailand’s flood won’t recover till next year, so some free 2TB wouldn’t hurt for now, eh? Especially when it’s the world’s best-selling external harddrive:
We have 381 entrants this time, but only 1 winner. And the winner is… Introducing 3-Port HDMI Switch with 1.5ft Cable
This little new HDMI switch has exactly the same HDMI switching functions as our previous models, except that now it includes a built-in HDMI cable on the output end, which can connect to your HDTV directly. One less cable needed. A quick snapshot of its features:
All that for just $15.99. Read more: Is Win8 worth it?Win8 does have some goodies, but if you’re someone who values stability, functionality and simplicity, then the following picture summarizes our opinions quite well:
Not convinced? Check out these reviews: Windows 8 Consumer Preview: A Quick Look at Battery Life; This Is What Using Windows 8 Actually Looks and Feels Like. Tell us your thoughts below. Smartphone Nokia 808 has 41m pixel for camera
To compare, iPhone 4S has 8m, so is Samsung Galaxy S II; a latest click-n-shoot camera usually has 10-12m, Canon’s flagship DSLR 1DX has 18.1m, Nikon’s flagship D3X has 24.5m, but damn it this hard-as-rock, indestructible Nokia cellphone has 41m! Check out some of its amazing sample images. One thing is for sure, if you have this phone, there’s absolutely not a single point to carry a click-n-shoot camera. Perhaps a DSLR still has its way, but why carrying a click-n-shoot camera when your cellphone has way better image quality and the ability to share photos instantly? Next time when Tim Cook introduces iPhone 5, his voice will go down and skip quickly when mentioning its resolution, and you’ll go “meh”; people will boo when Samsung Galaxy S III is released with an 8m camera. I don’t even know how click-n-shoot camera companies have enough self-respect to release anything if they don’t at least enter into a similar ball-park figure. The questions now are: is Nokia going too far on this resolution thing? Will customers buy it just because it has superior photographic function? Will there be enough customers to even know or care about this? (Ask your friends what resolutions their cellphones have, many of them probably don’t know or aren’t sure of it). What do you think? Let us know below. Reeder for Chrome: Beautify your Google Reader in Chrome
If you are an RSS addict and you happen to have an iPhone or iPad, Reeder is a must-have. It syncs Google Reader and present it in such a beautiful way that makes reading so much easier, peaceful background, beautiful fonts, exquisite white space position, and easy operations. For Mac users, they are lucky to get a Reeder for OSX, but there’s no Reeder for Windows. We introduced you an add-on on Firefox, called PureReader, which mimicks Reeder’s user-interface and things were good for a couple of month. Until last week Google pushed its new design of Google Reader, and everything is broken in PureReader. Switching back to Google Reader’s original Web UI hurts my eyes so badly that I stopped reading RSS for a week. With 3000+ feeds stacking up, I’m almost desperate enough to spent $999 on a Macbook Air plus another $9.99 for Reeder. Then came this Reeder for Chrome out of the blue, which is an add-on for Chrome that installs a theme close to the original Reeder for OSX, and it’s free. What a relief! Check it out! Now let me read some feeds and be back later. See ya! iPhone 4S, Meh
Sure the chip inside is faster, the memory is larger, the battery lasts longer, but nothing exciting, nothing makes you wow. It’s been 3 months plus a year since iPhone 4, with all the anticipating, Apple delivers only a mediocre update, even Apple knows it can’t be called iPhone 5, so there goes 4S, as in S for “Same”? The good thing is that, you can sneak around and secretly upgrade to iPhone 4S without your good wife/gf or husband/bf knowing about it and whining for too much money wasted. Oh well, before you get bored, here’s some iOS 5 Gold Master builds for fun: [Breaking] Steve Jobs resigned.
We all knew it’s a matter of time, but I never thought it would be this early, not before iPhone 5 is rumored to be released next month. Steve Jobs has always been seen as the sole reason of Apple’s current success, and his health condition or resignation will no longer guarantee Apple’s long-term advantage over its competitors, and tomorrow’s stock price on AAPL will likely reflect that. With Apple being one the hottest and most profitable compan and Steve Jobs being a charismatic idol among fans, the only reason for his resignation is his health condition. And I wish all the best to Steve Jobs, after all, money and fame come and go, as long as we have health, one can always come back. Steve published his letter:
Read full press release after the break: Beautiful Google Reader Addon: Pure Reader for Safari and Firefox
If you’re a frequent Google Reader user or an RSS reader in general, you know how reading (or just scanning through) hundreds of pieces of news every day can be stressful (but addicting), on iOS, luckily we have Reeder, absolutely the best in function, speed and GUI design. As a Mac user, you can purchase Reeder for Mac, but PC and Linux users are not left in the dark: if you use Firefox, try Pure Reader for Firefox, it’s a resign of Google Reader’s default UI, and once installed, you get a pretty interface with larger and prettier fonts, larger white space, smaller other things less important and less ads. I’m not sure if it’s related to Reeder, as the UI are quite close. Grab it for free: Download. It is actually ported by by Jimmy Ti of the original Pure Reader for Safari: Download, by Na’ Design. Canadian PM Stephen Harper Shows Off His Cute Kitty on Google+
I thought Stephen Harper, as a Prime Minister of Canada, would have been busier with things like, running the nation. But sure he can be addicted to online social media like Google+ and cute kitties as well, who wouldn’t be, right? Besides this being remotely related to Google+, why is this a gadget news? Oh well, remember how people in Canada always say how Harper is a robot? There you go. |
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