DXG HD Luxury Camcorders Are Perfect For That Woman In Your Life

If you’ve ever wanted to get something for your that girl in your life, who loves gadgets, the DXG camcorders would be a great gift. DXG HD camcorders are available in the Luxe Collection with a designer look and feel to it. Specs to follow.

These things can record upto 8 hours of 720p HD video. The camcorder also takes 8 MP cameras. For $149, these camcorders are not a bad deal at all. If you’ve been thinking about giving a thoughtful gift with a “girly” touch to it, then the DXG HD Camcorders is a nice choice.

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Apps Are Better, Faster and Easier Than Using Websites on Computers

I’ve always been a proponent of the latest technology and am usually one of the first to buy a gadget when it’s first released. It’s just how I am and believe that some gadgets make things easier for us. In the past few years, smartphones have been that gadget. While many are still getting used to using a smartphone (my parents and cousins still don’t know how to use one), they’re extremely useful once you get the hang of it.

Take for example the new influx of apps across every smartphone operating system. Apps are designed to make the user experience easier and lately it seems like it’s made it so easy, using the version on my computer’s browser has become confusing.

The one app I’m going to use as an example is the new Facebook app for the iPhone, Android and other platforms (it sucks on WebOS but that’s another story). The app is extremely simple to use and gets you the info you want right away, without multiple clicks. It’s become so easy to use, I’ve preferred the Facebook app on my iPhone over the website on my browser. Here’s why.

Yesterday, I was uploading and tagging pictures from my phone to Facebook using the app. Once I was finished, I realized I had not tagged two pictures. At the same time I was on my laptop chatting with a few friends when I realized. I logged into Facebook to make the change but it was taking forever (about 2-3 minutes for the page to load to make the change and in some instances, the page not even showing up). At first I thought it was my internet, they realized every other website was working, so something was wrong with Facebook. After waiting for about 5 minutes, I went back to the app and tagged the pictures, and that only took about 10 secs. This seems to be the case for many other apps like eBay and Amazon, where you can shop faster right from the app without any problems, ads, and loading time.

As apps become more developed and smartphones reach more people, it’ll get easier for people to shop, follow friends and interact. It may come to the point where using a computer may hinder rather than help users.

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Apple To Offer Matte Screen Option On Macs Soon?

Are your eyes ready to implode when you look at your Macbook or iMac? Well, good thing Apple is considering switching from glossy displays to an anti-glare screens on most of the Macs in their Macbook and iMac family.

Apple moved to glossy screens last October and featured it on the iMac and later on the 13-inch and 15-inch Macbook Pro, with only the 17-inch Macbook Pro offering an anti-glare screen. According to AppleInsider, the group of computers that are most likely to receive the anti-glare will be the 13-inch and 15-inch laptops. This is great news considering that Apple is slowly perfecting their products and willing to listen to their customers.

Perfect example was when Apple removed Firewire from the aluminum Macbook released in October 2008. Many customers were angered after the release, but in June they released the 13-inch Macbook Pro (rebranded as the pro) with Firewire.

Having a matte option for the Macbooks will only increase sales of the very popular 13-Inch Macbook Pro and the iMac.

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Mac OS Faster Than Windows 7

In comparison tests run by CNET, Mac OS X Snow Leopard was found to be faster that Windows 7 at running common tasks. They ran all the tests on a 2.53Ghz MacBook Pro presumably dual booted with both Windows and Mac.

They found that Mac is faster in multitasking with media applications, faster starting up and shutting down and faster with Apple’s own applications like iTunes. They also find that battery life was better in Mac OS with it lat 111 minutes during a stress test instead of 77 in Windows.

Mac was found to be slower in games like Call of Duty 4 and Cinebench R10 benchmarking because of its weak graphics performance. Elecronista thinks that Mac is overall better because of Grand Central Dispatch that helps multitasking on multicore computers.

I can’t say these tests are definitive since both tests involved running different software on different platforms. They do show that the average user will probably have a better time with Mac OS.

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Bing Proposes Exclusive Alliance With News Corp, Wants To Change Internet Search Business For Good

Yesterday, the New York Times ran an article that may end up being a watershed moment in online history. According to the report, Microsoft is hoping to create an alliance with News Corp, one of the biggest news conglomerates in the world, to remove news links from Google and bring them over to Bing.

Essentially it’ll make Bing the only search engine to offer any news stories from News Corp sites. The story highlights a few advantages and disadvantages of the move from the perspective of Rupert Murdoch, who controls News Corp, Google and Microsoft. We break them down for you.

For Microsoft, this is a step in a whole new direction for their search engine. They’ll be the exclusive provider of News Corp content through searches and have deep pockets to make this deal happen. They already have similar deals with online giant eBay, where customers get discounts on items on eBay if they search and find it using Bing.

For News Corp, this is the latest in their move to charge for all online content. Rupert Murdoch has made it clear that he wants users to pay for content and in the NY Times article said he’d rather have less readers as long as they’re willing to pay for the content.

Google doesn’t seem to be too worried. They control over 65% of the search market in the United States and says they’re Google News site pushes over 100,000 clicks per minute to news sites. But if Microsoft continues to push to create exclusive deal for search content, Google will make its own push as well. They too have deep pockets and while they’ve recently been acquiring advertising companies, AdMob for $750 million and Teracent for an undisclosed amount, they won’t sit back and let Microsoft cut deals to take away from their search engine hits.

From a consumer stand point, Microsoft’s attempt to create exclusive deals creates a completely different internet. The whole point of the internet is to search freely for whatever content I like on any given search engine but with deals, like the one Microsoft is proposing, it’ll force me to search on engines that I prefer not to use. No consumer should be forced to use a specific search engine for content if they don’t want to. In the internet world, it just seems wrong and if it does happen, it’ll be a new kind of business, a first for the World Wide Web.

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Dell Adamo XPS to be Only 10mm thick

The Macbook Air should be getting ready to brace itself against some serious competition. Dell is getting ready to release their new Adamo XPS line. The computers are less than 10 millimeters thick which is about 0.39 inches. This comes as a surprise because the first Adamo ended up weighing four pounds, a pound and a half more than what people expected.

Pricing and availability for the new Adamo line won’t be released until all of the teaser ads get their fifteen minutes of fame. Hopefully, it doesn’t use Intel CULV processors, the one that every PC manufacturer abuses. NVIDIA Ion is probably out of the question for Dell. They’re probably waiting for Asus or Acer to do it first. How Adamo XPS will hold up is for us to find out. The first one kind of disappeared after it was introduced.

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Microsoft Courier and Apple Tablet Rumors Are Heating Up

The rumored Apple tablet will be getting a lot of competition from Microsoft’s new Courier tablet PC, if it should ever get released. In the video from Gizmodo (also after the break), you can see all of the features of the new double screened courier tablet and how each of them operates.

The leaked video also focuses on one of the main features of the Courier, the “infinite journal”. The infinite journal is a note taking app that is essentially endless and which resembles that of the iPhone notetaking app. You can type and add as much information as you can onto the device and it will be able to store it, allowing the user to later publish it straight to a site or a PowerPoint.

The device also features a content management feature that is very similar to a Delicious library and looks like a cross between Apple’s CoverFlow and Top Sites. Many sites including ZDNet say that the Courier tablet is using software that is based off of Windows 7 and will be very similar in terms of usage.

Along with the release of Microsoft’s Courier, Apple may release their own, the iTablet. The iTablet has been rumored for release for some time and was even expected at Apple’s September event. After no appearance at the September 9 event, sources say it will be available early 2010. This time, with what is hopefully a true rumor, sources say that Apple has settled on a 10.7 inch screen, bigger than the previously rumored 7 inches. It is also rumored that the iTablet will have a multi-touch display like the iPhone, will carry 6x the resolution as the iPhone (almost 720p HD), and will run a stripped version of the iPhone OS, instead of running full Mac OS. The tablet will be announced at an Apple event no later than January, 19 2010 and will be released in retail stores in May or June of 2010.

These two devices will have lots of competition between them, but Apple’s tablet may be sure to win, since, its rumors have been swirling around for a while. The Courier will be costly with its two screens (No word on ebooks, music or video). However, the Apple tablet may cost less than the Macbook or Macbook Pro and probably be running a lighter version of Snow Leopard, after the discovery of the soft keyboard built into its OS.

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Dell Looking To Baseball And Nail Polish To Sell Laptops

Dell seems to be in the tech spotlight today, focusing especially on design rather than functionality. First with the press release of their new Adamo and now their designer laptops with designs ranging from baseball to nail polish. Dell has cut deals with the MLB association and OPI, an international nail polish and fashion company to create nail polish and baseball oriented designer laptops.

This is all part of the Dell Design Studio, which allows you to add on anything on your laptop that’s related to baseball or nail polish. Dell’s event had no mention of any specs today, instead focusing all on design, which seemed to be the theme of the event. As you can see in the image (Dell Laptop with Swarovski crystals), there is no limit in the imagination of the user, they can put whatever Dell has available right on the lid of your laptop. Check out more images of Dell’s crazy designer creations after the break.

While I like the idea that Dell is thinking about design and creativity, they’re going away from what used to make them great, solid hardware. Now they’re tryign these gimmicks to make money. Hopefully it works out for them, if not then it’s just another setback for a company trying to stop to maintain their ranking atop the computer manufacturing world.

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