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April 5th, 2010 | 
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Posted in MaximumPC, Reviews | 
Tags: 1920x1080, 23inch, 24inch, black, cache, call, color, computer, dark, dell, desk, desktop, digital, display, extreme, game, hdmi, inch, light, model, monitor, none, online, panel, plus, port, professional, ram, resolution, retail, review, Reviews, screen, sound, technology, test, time, tool, usb, ViewSonic, with I’ve recently hopped aboard the Windows 7 train, using Microsoft’s latest OS on a new PC build. Right away I found that the day I’ve long feared has arrived: Microsoft has removed all features allowing for a toolbar you can dock to the side of your screen.
I hate the start menu. It takes 3 clicks (on average) to launch any application. To say nothing of the time you spend scrolling or searching your start menu for the thing you want to launch. The desktop is better, but everybody knows the mess you can cause by stashing shortcuts there (though … [Read More...]
There are a gazillion apps to turn your iPhone into a remote control, and let you operate your computer, your Sonos home music system or even your DirecTV DVR. The problem is, they work over Wi-Fi, whereas your TV, stereo and DVD-players all swallow up infra-red light in order to follow your distant commands.
That changes with the little $50 L5 iPhone Remote, a dongle that plugs into the dock connector and allows you iPhone to become a proper universal remote, spitting invisible light at all manner of home electronics. It comes with a free companion application that lets you … [Read More...]
