Posted on February 21st, 2010 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
Something different:
The “Litl” webbook is more like a TV than a computer. It has channels and a remote control; it’s close to maintenance-free. On the Litl, everything exists in the “cloud,” another term for the Internet. As long as you have wireless access, it connects automatically, and everything you do takes place there.
Unlike the new Apple [...]
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Posted on January 30th, 2010 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
Pros and cons of iPad versus netbook or Kindle.
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Posted on December 15th, 2009 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
The Litl strikes us as the right computer for newbies. And it puts the fun back into the computing experience for old timers, since there’s nothing to go wrong.
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Posted on October 16th, 2009 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
Computers will keep speeding up for the next 75 years.
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Posted on September 2nd, 2009 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
The gScreen Spacebook can have different programs running on each screen.
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Posted on July 31st, 2009 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
Reliving the 80’s: Here’s a way to play the old games on modern machines.
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Posted on May 11th, 2009 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
Game Booster is a free program for Windows that does an amazing job of speeding up your computer through the simple procedure of turning off everything that would normally run in the background.
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Posted on April 27th, 2009 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
Is it a really cool under-$200 computer or techno-junk? Bob and Joy beg to differ.
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Posted on April 5th, 2009 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
We came a across a good new book called “Speed It Up,” from Que Publishing. The speeding up in the title refers to your computer of course.
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Posted on March 1st, 2009 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
If you think a $199 laptop is too good to be true, you’re right. Radio Shack has been offering the “Acer Aspire” for this price — with a big catch: You have to sign up for a two-year, $60-a-month 3G Internet connection. This is a very high-speed connection you can use anywhere, and some say it’s worth the price, but this contract adds $1440 to the cost of the laptop. We’ve seen netbook computers – similar to laptops — for $300 from ASUS.
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