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New Vista Key, but Where Will it Go?
One of the most eye-catching features in Windows Vista is the 3D Flip task switcher, where you scroll through a stack of open windows using the Winkey + Tab key combo. It surely won’t take long for keyboard manufacturer’s to…
Review: Nokia N73 multimedia phone
The Propaganda The N73 is billed by Nokia as the complete multimedia phone. It comes with a 3.2 megapixel camera, including a Carl Zeiss lens, an MP3 player and radio which play out of integrated stereo speakers with 3D…
Windows Vista Launch Plans 'Confirmed'
The somewhat ‘flexible’ launch schedule for Windows Vista is now looking a lot more certain with Microsoft insiders claiming that the first shipments to business users will almost certainly take place as expected in November, followed by the consumer…
Prolong the Life of your Laptop Battery
Thanks to some unfortunate manufacturing flaws laptop batteries have been in the news recently, however, for the most part these unsung heroes of portable computing lead rather dull and uneventful lives, until they start to wear out (or catch…
New Screens Make Better Blues
According to a report in New Scientist researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology have developed a new polymer screen technology that can generate the full spectrum of colours in visible white light. Existing display technologies cannot produce…
Improve Legibility on Larger Displays
You may have noticed that larger screens and higher resolutions can make things harder to read. One of the more obvious problems is typing in web addresses in Internet Explorer; the text is so small that it’s easy to…
Review: Optoma DV10 MovieTime projector
The Propaganda The MovieTime DV10 from Optoma is a projector aimed at those who occasionally want a massive screen, without the commitment of having a projector installed. It's one stop shop solution, which means that you've got a DVD player…
Free Energy Claim Challenge to Scientists
No doubt it will happen one day but we’ve been down the free energy route several times before, remember cold fusion and electricity generated by nuclear power that would be too cheap to meter? Anyway, this might be the one,…
Folder Size Display For Windows Explorer
One of the Windows Explorer’s many small and niggling annoyances is the way it displays the size of a file, but not the size of a folder, which is handy to know if you are looking for the programs…
One Minute Preview: Samsung X830 mobile
We wrote about the new Samsung X830 earlier today, and yesterday I got my hands on it for a brief look, in a very noisy hall. Check out the video below….