Yesterday i bought the Canon’s new digital camera, PowerShot SX130IS, great cam wit really great features with a really good price tag! I got it for around 14,000 INR. At first glance the Canon PowerShot SX130IS appears to be a piece of art in itself rather than simply a vehicle to creating art. Its sleek, [...]
Ever go home for the holidays and find your parents asking you to help them with “techie tasks” like uploading photos to the Internet? You’re not alone. A bunch of folks over at Google find themselves in this situation nearly every time they visit their families around this time of year. That’s why they’ve launched TeachParentsTech.org, a “tech support [...]
The latest Android release, Gingerbread, is coming soon to phones, but we can peek at it in the software developer’s kit. Here’s what’s new and notable in Android 2.3: better typing, darker looks, detailed battery and memory reports, and more. Google has “launched” Gingerbread, which, for them, means that users of the Android SDK can [...]
Most of us are comfortable using BitTorrent to download files, but the popular file-sharing protocol is also a great tool for sharing your own stuff with family, friends, or the world at large. Here’s the basics of creating your own torrent. Proven by the popularity of BitTorrent sites, torrents offer a well-known method of peer-to-peer [...]
Every milliwatt of battery power is precious. That’s why some shy away from fast-starting, but seemingly battery-draining, “Sleep” or “Suspend” modes on laptops. We measured the actual drain on MacBooks, Windows laptops, and netbooks to determine when sleep makes sense over shutdown.
Google demoed its upcoming Chrome OS this morning, giving us a closer look into how it’s actually going to work on real-world devices—including their pilot program hardware. Here’s what to expect.