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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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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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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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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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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HTC and Verizon Wireless have announced an upcoming launch of DROID ERIS by HTC (a.k.a HTC Hero), which incorporates Android 1.5 OS, HTC Sense UI, and innovative ‘Scenes’ feature that allows users to create multiple home screens – each with different widgets and shortcuts, delivering an individualized mobile experience to suit everybody needs.

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The world’s leading maker of Flash storage solutions and DRAM memory modules, Super Talent has announced the upcoming launch of its new SuperSpeed USB 3.0 RAIDDrive, which the company claims as the world’s first USB 3.0 Flash drive that supports transfer speeds up to 10 times faster than USB 2.0 drives – 200MB/sec, supporting UAS Protocol to reach up to 320MB/sec transfer speeds.

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Windows 7 displays the system activation status in System Properties, which can be accessed via Control Panel -> System and Security -> System. However, sometimes, Windows activation may display error message which saying activation status not available, together with product ID which is also not available.

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