Outlook 2010 cheat sheet
If you have just upgraded to Outlook 2010 from an earlier version, anticipate to see some very huge changes, most notably the ubiquity of the Ribbon interface. The Ribbon first made its appearance in Outlook 2007, but in a relatively minor way — on the main Outlook screen there is no Ribbon, but when you open or compose an email, the Ribbon appears. Now it’s everywhere. There are other significant changes in Outlook 2010 compared to earlier versions, including integration ...
Nokia Lumia 800 sports two new colors in a commercial
It looks like more colors are on the way for Nokia Lumia 800, following closely the white version, which we got to spend time with. The Windows Phone device showed up in red and green in a commercial for the Nokia BH-220 Bluetooth headset. The colors are yet to be confirmed by Nokia, as the video can’t be found in the company’s official YouTube channel. Check it out below. In case the music in the video sounds familiar, you are ...
Acer CloudMobile wins an award before its actual annoucement
Acer has found a curious way to create buzz around its upcoming CloudMobile Android smartphone. The yet to be announced handset has just won an iF design award for it looks. We know tiny about the device’s specs at this point. The Acer CloudMobile is stated to feature a 4.3″ HD screen, Dolby sound, and a body less than 10mm thick.
Toshiba may be getting excess WD disk biz
We are hearing that Toshiba is buying Western Digital’s “excess” 3.5-inch disk drive business, clearing the way to the completion of the WD’s acquisition of Hitachi GST . The Hitachi GST acquisition has been blocked by EU and Chinese regulators due to competition concerns. The EU has required WD to offload some 3.5-inch hard disk drive capacity to prevent an undue concentration of the manufacturing in the sector. According to our contacts Toshiba is getting a license for 3.5-inch nearline ...
RIM execs chewed through restraints after in-flight fracas
Two drunken RIM executives on a flight to China fought staff and then chewed through their restraints after being subdued, forcing the pilots to divert the plane. The two boarded a flight from Toronto to Beijing already drunk, according to documents obtained by CBC News, and proceeded to badger attendants for more booze once onboard before falling asleep. After a brief snooze they carried on drinking, before starting a loud argument between themselves. The duo were warned that they were ...
HP to contribute webOS to the open source community
The long silence regarding webOS has been broken but in a different way than what most people expected. Instead of shutting down the project once and for all, HP has announced that they will be contributing webOS to the open source community. This means that HP will make the underlying source code of the OS available to developers under an open source license. You can take it, customize it and use it for free as long as you give back ...
NASA: 2012 solar flares could DEVASTATE CITIES!
‘Not capable of destroying Earth’, though. Yay OMFG In an attempt to defuse world wide web hysteria regarding the purported end of the world next year as the Mayan calendar long-count completes, NASA has said that next year’s solar maximum will see solar flares which are “a problem the same way hurricanes are a problem”. That’s a very huge problem, then. As the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) will tell you, Hurricane Katrina alone devastated three major US ...
Top 10 laptops to replace your desktop PC
Unless your needs are certifiably outrageous, you will not find much in the way of compromises in these huge and strong mobile PCs (“laptop” just is not the right word). Almost to a machine (note keyword “almost”), you will find gaming-level performance, brilliant displays, and more ports than you know what to do with. Naturally, the flip side is significant heft, and desktop-class battery life. You might be hard-pressed to carry these units any farther than the local Starbucks, where ...
Anonymous takes on Fox News
Remember, remember the 5th of November. That line means something to British schoolchildren and fans of the film “V for Vendetta”; it may soon mean something to the rest of us, too, if Anonymous has its way. The extremely loose collective of geeky malcontents plans to celebrate Guy Fawkes Day in a huge way. No, not by blowing up Congress, though they might get some support on that from both sides of the aisle, given that august body’s single-digit approval ...
The rise and fall of the Windows Desktop Gadget
In a move that took many by surprise, Microsoft dropped support for new Windows Desktop Gadgets. Once hailed (or at least marketed) as a key new feature in Windows Vista, Desktop Gadgets are going the way of the dodo. In their stead? Windows 8 Metro, of course. Microsoft’s official death certificate for Windows Gadgets hawks, “With Windows Developer Preview, developers can create rich app experiences where customers focus on their important tasks.
