Intel Targets All-day Battery Life for Netbooks
The target, a sure-fire way to praise from road warriors, is more easily said than done. Most of today's laptops offer between three and five hours on a standard three-cell battery and close to double that on a six-cell battery. But the longer-life batteries are bulkier and heavier, and that negates a lot of the reason for having a slim and lightweight machine.
Update: Microsoft to leave SmartBooks to Google
Microsoft doesn't plan to offer a version of Windows for so-called "smartbooks," leaving the space open to Linux, Google's Android and other operating systems. Smartbooks are a new class of device built around ARM-based chips from companies like Qualcomm, Freescale, and Texas Instruments. A number of PC makers are working on smartbook designs, which are targeted at the space between smartphones and netbooks
Yahoo Mail Filters Your Inbox by Contacts and Connections
Yahoo's email service rolled out an interesting new feature today that filters your inbox to show only emails from contacts or "connections" to help you get to your most important emails first.
Apple Faithful: Arrogance Is Not a Virtue, and Why I Will Never Buy a Mac
People have often characterized me as an “Apple hater” but this is actually a simplistic assessment of what I feel about the company and its products, since arguably my entire history with personal computing began with Apple.
FileHamster - Free software download
FileHamster is a version tracking application designed with content creators in mind. It provides real-time backup and archiving of your files while you work. It enables you to monitor specific files on your hard drive and automatically create incremental backups whenever those files are modified.
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