Review: Amazon Kindle for Mac

Amazon just released Kindle for Mac, an application that allows Amazon customers to read more than 450,000 books on their MacBooks. Anyone with a U.S. Amazon.com account can sample and buy books with kindle for Mac, even if they don’t own an Amazon Kindle.  This application is technically in beta despite being released to the [...]

Sony Vaio W Eco Series Review

At CES 2010 Sony announced a refresh of its Vaio W notebooks and included in the new lineup is the Sony Vaio W Series Eco Netbook, or as Sony likes to call it a “mini-notebook”. The model we have is the Sony Vaio W Eco Series VPCW212AX.

The new “green“ mini-notebook from Sony isn’t just calling [...]

First Look at the Eclipse TouchMouse with Gestures

Today we had the chance to open up the new TouchMouse from Eclipse that includes gestures for websurfing as well as a scroll pad built into the middle mouse button.

First off, this mouse looks sleek, and if you’ll allow me even sexy. The brushed aluminum top and the shiny caps on the battery portion give [...]

Google Voice Reviewed: Why Google is my Phone Company and Should Be Yours

A lot of my friends and family have been asking me questions about my weird new phone number that I’ve asked them to use instead of the phone number I’ve had for over 14 years. My new number is the axis of my Google Voice account and it’s changed the way I communicate.
Google Voice [...]

Lenovo Edge 13 Review

For the past 2 months I’ve been putting the Lenovo Edge 13 Notebook to the test in a tour de force that covered the normal home to office beat as well a roundtrip high intensity trip to CES and back that really tested the power — and the portability– of the 13″ notebook.
The ThinkPad Edge [...]

Gelaskin Review – Protection With Expression

It’s great that notebooks are no longer confined to a single color top, but a drawback to the new swirly shiny covers is that the glossy surface is a fingerprint and scratch magnet. Case in point the Lenovo ThinkPad Edge that I am currently reviewing. This 13 inch notebook is light and pretty slim which [...]

First Impressions of the Sony Vaio W – Green Netbook

At CES 2010 Sony announced the new Sony Vaio W netbook, which adds a green focus to the netbook and how it’s shipped. I’ve had the chance to use the Sony Vaio W series netbook for a week now and wanted to share my first impressions of the new green netbook. Overall I have found [...]

Novatel MiFi Review: Easy On The Go Connectivity

While we were in Vegas covering CES this month connectivity was an issue. While the connections inside the blogger lounge were in general pretty fast, but the room filled up quicker than the Speck booth – and they had an open bar. Once you were in the hallway the press and blogger connections failed to [...]

HP Mini 311 Review

The HP Mini 311 is HP’s first netbook that is equipped with Nvidia ION, which is a video accelerator that allows the Mini 311 to support smooth playback of high quality video (even up to HD resolutions). The 311 is part of HP’s line of “Mini” computers which is their low-cost series, or what many [...]

Google Nexus One Review Roundup

In case you haven’t heard, Google launched their own Android powered smartphone yesterday called the Google Nexus One and it has been getting wide coverage, even being hailed as a super phone by some. While the inclusion of a 1GHz Snapdragon processor and a shiny upgrade to Android 2.1 make it one of the most [...]