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There’s a reason most cheap in-ear headphones sound that way: They only use one driver in each ear, which limits the audio range. If you want more life, more spaciousness and more oomph out of your favorite
tracks, upgrade to some dual-driver earbuds.

On these models, each earpiece contains two separate speakers— one to handle the high and mid frequencies, and one to handle the bass. This separation creates a more rich and filled-out sound that makes
any kind of music sound better. A dual-driver design is also especially good for listening to high-quality audio from lossless … [Read More...]

Don’t worry about the cold and rainy weather sweeping through parts of the country, it’s okay to bust out your open source swimming trunks anyway. Canonical today invites you to dive into Linux with the release of Ubuntu 11.04, otherwise known as Natty Narwhal. This latest Linux distro, which has been in beta form for about the past month, supports laptops, desktops, and netbooks, and supersedes Ubuntu Netbook Edition for all PC netbooks, Canonical says.

“11.04 continues Ubuntu’s proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality easy-to-use Linux distribution,” Canonical said in a press … [Read More...]

We remember a time when “back up” meant hitting the “clone drive” button—and that was about as hard as it got. Unfortunately, things have changed. Now that we measure our digital lives in terabytes instead of megabytes, it’s just impractical to copy the entire contents of one drive over to another as part of a routine backup schedule.

That’s why we like 2BrightSparks’ SyncBack program. With but a few clicks of a mouse you can ensure that only the files you care about most are either backed up on a regular basis or, better yet, automatically synchronized between two locations … [Read More...]

If you’re the owner of a shiny new HTC Thunderbolt or LTE modem on Verizon Wireless, you’re probably wondering where that extra G went. Big Red has reportedly been experiencing an outage in its nationwide 4G network for most of the day. Users have had no choice but to drop down to 3G connectivity. What is this, 2008?

Some unfortunate users have also been reporting issues with their 3G connectivity, but Verizon has not confirmed that. They have confirmed the LTE issues, though. As of about 4PM Pacific the Verizon Twitter account claimed the cause had been identified, and they … [Read More...]

Congratulations to Teresa Stump for winning the Hotmail Sweep Photo Contest! Teresa’s photo of her desk comes with a rather sad story. As a 10 year chronic pain sufferer, she is hindered in her ability to do many of the things she loves (like clean!).

I am an over 10 year chronic pain sufferer. I had a badly failed neck fusion (by a rather inept Dr) and then had to have 2 more surgeries a few years later to TRY and fix what the original Dr  (and I use the term Dr here loosely)did. My life is pretty much like … [Read More...]

Say what you will about Twitter, but it’s ubiquity is startling. Consider the following statistics:

•    An average of a billion tweets are sent each week. That amounts to approximately 140 million tweets per day. Per day!

•    When Michael Jackson died back in June 2009, Twitter saw 456 tweets per second. Almost two years later, the record stands at6,939 tweets per second. (That occurred in Japan on New Year’s day.)

•    Twitter is seeing almost half a million accounts being created each day.

The most interesting thing about Twitter is that it’s simultaneously entertaining, informative, connective, distracting, and (potentially) … [Read More...]

Windows Forums member, Uvais, shares a skin pack made by DeviantArt user ~hameddanger. The package is designed to work with Windows 7 SP1 (download Service Pack 1–SP1–for Windows 7) and will work with both the 32 bit and 64 bit version.

Note: Before installing this skin pack, create a system restore point.

Here’s what it looks like on my PC (click to enlarge):

To install the skin pack, download it here, extract it, and double click on 8 Skin Pack 1.0.exe.

Click through the installation process to install the theme and, when installed, reboot your PC.

To uninstall the theme, … [Read More...]

In perhaps another sign the economy is recovering, popular internet brand Yelp is looking to make an initial public offering (IPO). CEO Jeremy Stoppelman told the Wall Street Journal in an interview the an IPO was back on the table. Stoppelman didn’t say when the company would make the move, but indicated they were looking to bring a new CFO on board before moving forward.

Back in late 2009 Google was in talks to buy the user reviews company for somewhere around $500 million. The deal fell apart, and Yelp fell back on private funding. At the time, the word … [Read More...]

Connected TVs made up 20 percent of all television shipments in 2010, according to market research firm DisplaySearch. But the best is yet to come as it expects their shipments to grow at a 30 percent compound annual rate through 2014 to reach 123 million units.

A lot of the category’s growth momentum is coming from emerging markets like Eastern Europe and China. According to the firm’s forecast, Internet-connected TVs will account for 33 percent of all TVs sold in China in 2013. Similarly, shipments in Eastern Europe are expected to top 10 million units in 2014, a four-fold increase … [Read More...]

According to the Forrsights Workforce Employee Survey for Q1 2011 from Forrester Research Inc., March 2011, “overall, 13% of employees who use a laptop at the office report that they chose their own “work” laptop and paid for all of it themselves.” That means their PC needs to work great at home and at work. And according to IDC’s Worldwide Windows Client Operating Environment 2011 – 2015 Forecast: Maturity with Renewed Potential for Disruption report, 9 out of every 10 newly acquired PCs are running Windows. We’ve talked a lot about features in Windows 7 that allow you to do … [Read More...]

Last week our colleagues in the UK launched The Collection, a hand-picked group of best-in-class Windows 7 PCs. The Collection is a way for customers in the UK to find the perfect PC, regardless of what they love to do or how much they’re looking to spend. There’s a great online tool to help you choose at The Collection’s homepage (we have a similar tool here in the US, called Windows PC Scout, that’s an interactive and fun way to find your next PC), and if you’re in the UK, you’ll be able to find Collection PCs at PC World, … [Read More...]

I found this both humorous and stereotypically true:

This is about as simple as the stereotypes get.

How to fix any computer | The Oatmeal

This article was written by Windows Guides (Source)… [Read More...]

If Google is one of the most prominent Linux stalwarts around, Android is undoubtedly the public face of its love affair with the open source operating system. But its Linux affection runs deeper than that as the Internet behemoth uses the OS on everything from back-end servers to employee machines. Now, that deep-rooted love is beginning to cost Google, for a jury has fined it $5 million for infringing on a patent (U.S. Patent No. 5,893,120) held by Texas-bases patent troll Bedrock Computer Technologies.

Google was not the only company sued by Bedrock for the infringement of the said patent, … [Read More...]

From January 4th through April 7th, Windows asked filmmakers from around the world to show off what Windows 7 and Windows Live could do. The contestants were asked to submit a short video that spoke directly to students with the chance to win over 20,000 in prizes. The Grand Prize was huge: a trip to the Tribeca Film Festival in NYC for 2, a special screening of their film and $8,000. With these stakes on the line, videos flooded in and in took an agonizing few days to choose the top finalists and one grand-prize winner.

Grand Prize: Detention by … [Read More...]

The following blog post is from Janelle Manuel who is a member of the Windows UCrew. As a member of the UCrew, she spreads awareness about Windows products at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. She is a Film & Digital Media major who will graduate this May. Originally from Dallas, Texas her love of Windows is surpassed only by her love of shoes. She considers herself an addict.

Janelle Manuel is a participant in Microsoft’s UCrew program, and receives Microsoft software, hardware, and financial compensation as part of her participation in the program.

After a less than spacious plane … [Read More...]

At long last, a Sandy Bridge notebook!

By now, Intel’s Sandy Bridge CPUs need no introduction. Since their debut late last year, the procs have been on the hot list of every red-blooded power user. But getting at them hasn’t been easy. Particularly the mobile parts, which hadn’t even hit the market in new notebooks before the now-infamous SATA 3Gb/s port issue brought product flow to a grinding halt.
 
Thanks to AVADirect, however, our days of waiting and wanting are over. The company’s 15-inch Clevo P150HM features a shiny new 2.2GHz Core i7-2720QM. It’s not the fastest proc in … [Read More...]