ARM Provides Initial Information on Eagle Architecture for Future Smartphones

November 8th, 2009

ARM based processor has been monopolizing smartphone market and may soon be entering much power hungry MID (Mobile Internet Device) and even entry level notebook market. As some of you may wonder what secret weapon other than the 2GHz Duo-core Cortex-A9 based architecture that will be used as a new entrance to the market being monopolized by Intel Atom and other X86 based processors, the recent presentation during Globalfoundries fab tour by its president, Tudor Brown has disclosed some initial details of next generation Eagle architecture that is expected to hit the market by 2013.

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Ionic Battery Technology Breakthrough with Higher Energy Density Targeted for Future Electric Vehicles

November 8th, 2009

We have just mentioned about Zinc-Air as the potential next generation battery technology replacing Lithium-Ion, now seems that there is another competing technology known as Ionic batteries that is claimed to be able to last even longer with up to 11 times of energy density as compared to typical Lithium battery.

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Interactive Real Time Photo Sharing via Vizit Photo Frame

November 7th, 2009

Have you ever wished that you could share the precious moment you are experiencing with loved ones? While taking photos enable you to share it with others, the poignancy and significance of the moment cannot usually be conveyed as photos are not viewed in real time. Isabella Products is set to change all that. The recent announcement of its partnership with AT&T will pioneer the way for the first two-way touchscreen fully interactive photo frame.

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Awesome 18-Button OpenOfficeMouse

November 7th, 2009

You may be familiar with a golf course with 18 holes, but a mouse with 18 buttons might sound rather awesome and make you wonder what it is all about. In collaboration with OpenOffice.org community and based on users’ feedback, WarMouse has announced the release of an “awesome” mouse which comes with 18 programmable buttons designed particularly for the open-source office productivity suite. The OpenOfficeMouse includes default profiles for the five main OpenOffice.org applications.

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Lenovo Adds BIOS Option to Configure Ctrl and Fn Key Functions in Future ThinkPad Notebooks

November 6th, 2009

Typically, conventional keyboard buttons are arranged in such as way that Ctrl (Control) button stays at the most bottom left end with Fn (Function) button on its right. But Lenovo has designed it slightly different with both of their positions swapped and this small change may actually cause trouble for users especially those that being exposed to other brands before transitioning to Lenovo machine. So instead of trying to lock the computer using Ctrl + Alt + Delete buttons, you may mistakenly type Fn + Alt + Delete that activates nothing, that may cause inconvenience and inefficiency of your daily life. Good news now, the company hears consumers’ feedback and is currently working on BIOS fix that will add an option to allow users configuring both the buttons as inverted functions while keeping its keyboard buttons unchanged.

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Download Folder Vanity Remover to Remove and Clean Up Empty Folders from Windows System

November 6th, 2009

Previously we mentioned about Fast Empty Folder Finder that can help to clean up empty folders in your desktop system, but in case you are not truly satisfied with it and needs a relatively simple one, here is an alternative utility that you can try. Named as Folder Vanity Remover, it scans and detects any empty folders that occupy your local drives and removes them all within seconds or minutes depending on the directories capacity and folders quantity.

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Download YouTube Comment Snob to Filter Bad Language or Hate Mail

November 6th, 2009

Four-letter words can really colour your speech when you are passing comments in YouTube but they are not particularly suitable for kids who will pick up the bad habit. Yet one can’t throw away the good with the bad, and more to the point, banning your kids from YouTube is like confining him or her to Siberia. Parents who want to filter profane language and protect their kids from the seedy side of YouTube can install the YouTube Comment Snob for FireFox which will help to block some of the hate mail, profanity or bad language coming their child’s way.

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BlackBerry Curve 8530 Coming To Verizon Wireless Starting November 20

November 6th, 2009

RIM and Verizon Wireless have announced the upcoming availability of BlackBerry Curve 8530 smartphone, which combines full QWERTY keyboard, touch-sensitive trackpad, Wi-Fi, 3G connectivity and external multimedia buttons in a single device, running new BlackBerry OS 5.0 that brings a variety of improvements.

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