Disc-burning tips for Windows 7
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« Canopy Financial Accused Of Serious Financial Fraud, Investors Burned Burn music, pictures, videos, and more to CD or DVD Burning files to CD or DVD is a great way to store and share them. But it can be a little intimidating because there are so many different types of CDs and DVDs and different ways to burn them. It’s easy to wonder: How do I just get the job done? In this column, I’ll share a few of my favorite ways to burn videos, pictures, music, and other types of files... Read Full Story
Large Hadron Collider smashes its first protons
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« HTC HD2 tweak enables WiFi N support Think back over the last 24 hours or so – did you feel a shimmer in the fabric of the universe?  If not, you’re obviously not tuned into CERN, who powered up the Large Hadron Collider and fired two proton beams simultaneously for the first time yesterday.  While the first collisions have already been spotted, it’s still early days for Higgs boson spotting overall: the scientists in charge of the LHC still have to ramp up the proton speed... Read Full Story
HTC HD2 tweak enables WiFi N support
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« Lenovo gets nature paint job Large Hadron Collider smashes its first protons » As if the HTC HD2 needed any more hyperbole, it’s now emerged that the Windows Phone can actually be coaxed to use WiFi 802.11n networks rather than just the advertised b/g support.  The tweak was identified over at xda-developers and requires a registry hack; however some users have reported significant increases in battery consumption when the higher-speed wireless is switched on. That’s... Read Full Story
Lenovo gets nature paint job
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« Core i7 iMac DOA and cracked-screen woes reported HTC HD2 tweak enables WiFi N support » Only yesterday, we see that Dell had gone all arty with the Inspiron Mini with artwork by Deane Cheuk for $390. Now it seem that Lenovo had the same idea with the S10-2 Nature has been given a green look with a grass type graphic all around the computer on sale at Amazon for just under $350. Product Features 1.6GHz Intel N270 Atom Processor 1GB (200-Pin) DDR2 SO-DIMM Memory 160GB... Read Full Story
Core i7 iMac DOA and cracked-screen woes reported
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Apple’s 27-inch iMac did the Cupertino company proud when we reviewed the Core 2 Duo model last month, but trouble is afoot with the freshly-shipping Core i7 models.  Various Apple support forum threads are suggesting that not only are some Core i7 iMacs turning up DOA and refusing to power on, others have hit desktops only for their eager buyers to discover the glass screen has cracked . Neither of those is a particularly happy situation when you’ve just spent in excess of $2,000 on a... Read Full Story
Canopy Financial Accused Of Serious Financial Fraud, Investors Burned
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Something really, really bad went down at high flying startup Canopy Financial . This is one of the high flying startups that had a lot of buzz the last couple of years. They’ve raised at least $85 million in venture capital with the help of an investment bank, Financial Technology Partners . Their most recent round, a reported $62.5 million, was funded by Spectrum Equity Investors . Canopy debuted on the 2009 Inc. 500 List at #12 in terms of the fastest growing private companies in... Read Full Story
Large Hadron Collider reboots, makes first protonic bang!
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Yes, ladies and gentlemen, that most epic triumph of human engineering and physics research has finally taken place, and strangely enough our planet’s still in one piece too. The search for the Higgs boson particle resumed yesterday, somewhere under the Franco-Swiss border, with the CERN research team successfully executing what the LHC was built to do — accelerating proton beams to nearly the speed of light, then filming the wreckage as they crash into each other. Having encountered a number... Read Full Story
Creative Vado HD camcorder boosts low-light performance
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Creative’s latest point-and-shoot camcorder has emerged , and though the feature list isn’t exactly overwhelming it’s a decent update over the second-gen version .  The new Creative Vado HD still grabs 720p high-definition footage but now the company are claiming improved low-light and bright-light performance together with out-of-the-box compatibility with both PCs and Macs. There’s also more choice in terms of connectivity, with a freshly added stereo microphone port and headphones... Read Full Story
Convert slides and negatives to digital
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It was not that long when taking a photo meant using a film such as 35mm, but now digital is king and film processing is almost non existent. However, some people still have those old slides and negatives, but have nothing to do with them. Yet with this device and a laptop, you become your own film processor as all of those slides and film negatives can be turned into digital images. Features – Slides and negatives are placed into a tray that aligns each properly; at the press of a... Read Full Story
Nokia X6 arrives in UK this Friday
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« Nokia 6700 Slide and 7230 budget cameraphones outed Convert slides and negatives to digital » Nokia UK have finally announced launch and pricing details for the Nokia X6 , the company’s new Comes With Music flagship media phone.  Packing a 3.2-inch capacitive touchscreen, 32GB of integrated storage and a 5-megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, the Nokia X6 will arrive at UK retailer Phones4U on Friday November 27th, free with a £35 ($58) per month agreement. Video demo... Read Full Story