Thanks to our new friends at BudgetGadgets, I have been given the opportunity to review good quality products listed on their website. They have a wide range of items on offer, from Garden things to Electronics at very low prices (Which is handy due to the *cough* recession). They have kindly offered me a Mini Keychain Universal TV Remote Control to test and play with.
As some of you know, the Asus EeePC 701 was reviewed a few months back by TechRant’s own Linux Geek. Now you may think that all Netbooks are practically the same, but they are very different. Since the OLPC program was launched and the EeePC released to children in developing countries (via the Give 1 Get One Program), several manufacturers have tried to grab their share of the market by releasing notebooks in various sizes and colours.
Though similar in size ranging from 7″ models to 10.2″, they have different hardware specs (though a majority are similar). The Samsung NC10 runs on the newly developed Intel atom architecture boasting a clock speed of 1.6GHz of Hyper-threading goodness. The EeePC 701 has a Celeron M 353 under its hood clocking at 0.9GHz.
Memory wise, the NC10 has a 1GB of RAM as standard whereas the EeePC has only half of that. Both netbooks come with XP preinstalled (Though a linux version is available for the EeePC, but to make things fair, I will compare the XP versions). Having only half a gig of RAM may make the netbook rather sluggish at running multiple applications though luckily RAM is user upgradable on both netbooks.
Google’s slogan has always been, “Do no evil”, and I have to say, they’ve lived up to their slogan in the 3 years I’ve been a fan of their work. Their web applications have blown me away just as much as their desktop applications. Of course, not many of you would believe me if I told you about my theory that Google are secretly just planning to take over the world. Trust me! In a couple of decades, Google will be amongst the World-Leaders in part of the International Government. I can’t wait for the television ads; “Search your Brain for your deepest and fondest memories! Coming soon!”. Meh.. I digress.
So, let’s talk about Google’s latest step towards global-domination; Google Chrome. That’s right, Google have decided that having most of the Internet at their beck-and-call isn’t enough anymore, they’ve released their own special Browser for you to use it with!
Of course, Google can’t just throw a browser out there which can be comparable to Firefox.. Right?! Well, it’s a matter of taste, actually…
Earlier this year, I had the fortune to obtain an Asus EeePC 701 and, after initially getting it as a ‘useful school machine’ it gradually became apparent that it was considerably more powerful than I had originally expected it to be.
Initially I was surprised when I installed EeeBuntu on it (a variation of Ubuntu Linux which includes all necessary drivers and some Eee friendly modifications) that it ran compiz even more smoothly than my desktop does (although this could be attributed to the very low resolution, 800×480, at which the graphics are running — still impressive though). (more…)
Those of you who know me personally know that I am utterly useless with directions. I’ve lived in Eastbourne for about 16 years but if you ask me to take you somewhere local I’d just sit there staring at you blankly. So to save myself embarrassment, I’ve bought myself a shiny Satnav.
This is the TomTom Go520 and for its price and size, it has a lot of features packed into it. Costing you around £160 which I say is a fair price for what you get. Firstly you get a simple to use device that gets you from A to B in the way you tell it to (e.g. Fastest Route, Shortest Route, Walking Route etc.) though this doesn’t make it unique its the other features that make a TomTom what it is. One of these is the IQ routing. This clever feature takes time of day, time of year, speed limits, motorways, back-routes puts it into this magical formula and out comes the fastest routes, so you avoid traffic jams that occur at specific times of day on certain roads. The other feature is called Advanced Lane Guidance.
