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Updating Streams and Performance

My Taptu doesn't update content in the background (and therefore doesn't chew through VGP-BPS13 Battery your phone's battery life), but it's easy to get all your streams up to date just by gently shaking your device. You can also refresh VGP-BPS13A/B Battery content by clicking the Options button to the right of each stream. Refreshed content loaded instantly, but additional articles we scrolled right to access were slow to load over 3G. In addition, the Popular section of the StreamStore was so slow to load over VGP-BPS13A/S Battery 3G at first we thought it was supposed to be blank with a search box up top. Performance was zippier over VGP-BPS9 Battery Wi-Fi.

Heat

After streaming a Hulu video at full screen for 15 minutes, the K52Dr's touchpad warmed up to VGP-BPS8 Battery 88 degrees and the left palm rest felt warmer, particularly when the notebook was on AC power. The underside of the unit reached 98 degrees, VGP-BPS9A/B Battery which is just under our 100-degree threshold of what's considered uncomfortable. Asus boasts that its Power4Gear "automatically adjusts fan speeds for quiet computing and prolonged battery life." In action, this meant an off-putting, varying start and stop VGP-BPS9/B Battery vibration when using the touchpad or keyboard.

Verdict

Down the road Taptu will allow users to mix their own content streams, which will add much more utility. VGP-BPS9/S Battery And the company also has plans to roll out an iPad version of My Taptu. But the most important change Taptu needs to make is to VGP-BPS8A Battery get rid of its forced-branding, which the company promises will happen with the next release. Assuming My Taptu ensures that the user's voice is always heard first, we think time-crunched news hounds will find a lot to like about this VGP-BPS2 Battery app.

Design

The glossy dark brown plastic lid of the 15 x 10 x 1.4-inch Asus K52Dr is sleek eye candy. VGP-BPS2A Battery However, with continued use it gets smeared with fingerprints that would delight only the CSI team. On the front panel, visible even with the lid VGP-BPS2B Battery closed, are six pinhead-sized LED lights for AC power, battery charge, Wi-Fi, caps lock, num lock, and hard drive activity.

The black-on-black finish camouflages the touchpad recessed on the palm rest, and only the white keyboard characters (visible only in ambient light) VGP-BPS2C Battery offer any contrast. The high-tech sleekness of the K52Dr's chassis belies its 6-pound weight, though this machine is on an even vgp-bps21a/b battery keel with other notebooks in its size and price range, such as the Dell XPS 15 (6.2 pounds).

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Keyboard and Touchpad

The chiclet-style keyboard and number pad on the K52Dr was slightly mushy but not uncomfortably so. The wrist rest area has a VGP-BPS13A/B Battery ridged, fabric-like plastic surface that spreads across the touchpad. While the layout is mushy, it is also slightly slippery. There are no dedicated VGP-BPS9 Battery programmable special function keys, and the half-size FN keys may be difficult for users with larger fingers.

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The 15.6-inch glossy 1366 x 768 screen on the K52Dr displayed not-quite-crisp images hp battery for games and DVD videos, and viewing angles at 45 degrees were marred by the glossy screen reflections. Video from Hulu.com played fluidly with no noise, but dell battery again the image was slightly gauzy.

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Hasbro’s device will have plenty of new content to work with

Hasbro’s device will have plenty of new content to work with, including what’s expected from the vgp-bps21a/b battery 3D television networks of Discovery, Sony, and IMAX that are scheduled to debut next year. Also, 3D apps will be available in the App VGP-BPS13 battery Store, you may be able to find virtual travel experiences, like the one being made in collaboration with LA Inc., the Los Angeles Convention and Visitors Bureau, to create visits to the Wax Museum and the Santa Monica Pier. Whether adults want to hold up VGP-BPS13A/B Battery a viewfinder with their iPhone inside to watch these has yet to be seen

Toy giant Hasbro recently announced plans to bring 3D to iPhones and iPod touches through their VGP-BPS9 Battery new handheld device, the My3D. This binocular-shaped toy comes with a slot for sliding in your Apple device. Looking through the eye-piece VGP-BPS9/B Battery gives the viewer a 3D-like effect. Hasbro promises the device can deliver a 360-degree experience with 3D gaming, virtual travel experiences, and entertainment content for both children and VGP-BPS9/S Battery adults



Is there really a cure for information overload? Taptu hopes that its new social news aggregator app VGP-BPS9A/B Battery for iPhone and Android is the answer, which combines multiple streams of content in one place. My Taptu doesn't deliver a thinkpad r61 battery magazine-like experience like the competing Flipboard, but for now that app is limited to the iPad and you're capped at 21 sections of content. And while Pulse News Reader is available for iPad ($1.99) and iPhone (99 cents), you're limited to 60 and 20 content thinkpad t400 battery sources, respectively.

The more straightforward and free My Taptu supports at least 200 streams, and its unique mixed thinkpad t500 battery topic streams cover your favorite topics from multiple angles. Unfortunately, right now you have to make some trade-offs to get this thinkpad t61 battery convience. Are they worth it?

Streams and Mixed Content Topics

By leveraging a lot of the work Taptu has done with mobile search, this app offers single streams of content from well-known thinkpad t60 battery brands (USA Today, Wired, The Huffington Post, InStyle, etc.), which are easily accessible in the app's built-in StreamStore. If you don't see a provider thinkpad t60p battery you like, type it into the search box, and My Taptu will find it. Even if the site you're looking for doesn't have a mobile version, the app thinkpad r60 battery will optimize its content to create a stream.

One of the best features of this app (on paper) is how easy it is to share content via e-mail, Twitter, or Facebook just by clicking the thinkpad r60e battery right-facing arrow in the top portion of the screen. However, My Taptu gets a little heavy on the self-promotion here. For example, when thinkpad x60 battery sending a tweet the app uses a Taptu URL, as opposed to using a standard link shortener like bit.ly.

Worse still, when you publish a story to Facebook, My Taptu thinkpad X60S battery adds the text "Found in My Taptu" before the headline when you post the content to your news feed (see screenshot below).

What makes My Taptu stand out are the mixed topic streams that aggregate content from multiple sources. For example, when we Lenovo 3000 v100 battery visited My Taptu's StreamStore within the app and selected NFL, a stream popped up on the home screen that displayed headlines from The New Lenovo 3000 v200 battery York Times, NBC Sports, The Boston Herald, and Fox Sports. Taptu says its editorial team curates these topics with the help Lenovo 3000 n100 battery of advanced algorithms that emphasize mobile-friendly sites. Topics range from News, Sports, and Tech and Gadgets to Arts & Entertainment, Travel, and Lenovo 3000 n200 battery Celebrities

Want to change the order of streams? You'll need to tap the gear icon in the top left corner and then select Manage My Streams. Lenovo 3000 c200 battery On that screen you can drag streams wherever you like (pictured right). We'd appreciate this functionality right on the home screen, where Lenovo 3000 y410 battery you could just press and hold a stream and then move it. However, this might get unwieldy when you have a dozen or more hp compaq 6510b battery streams.

Interface

The main page of My Taptu presents a grid of tiles with headlines inside and the name of the category above each hp compaq 6710b battery stream (Tech & Gadgets, NFL, Twitter, etc.). Scrolling further to the right on any given stream while on the main page presents 25 to 30 more article hp compaq 6715b battery thumbnails you can click on, and you can keep scrolling right to load more stories. If you want to check out different streams, just scroll up and hp compaq 6715s battery down. Overall, this interface is fairly intuitive, but we sometimes scrolled across when we meant to go down.

When you click on any given story, you'll instantly see a preview of the article. You can then open the full story within the My Taptu app hp compaq 6720s battery (which uses the Safari browser) or bookmark it for later. Conveniently, Bookmarks gets its own hp compaq nx7300 battery stream.

There's no way to edit or disable this feature so everything you post to Facebook will have this hp compaq nx6125 battery obtrusive branding. Some users might avoid the app altogether for fear of lending the impression that they're spamming their friends or dell studio 17 battery followers.

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Social Streams

My Taptu's social networking functionality goes good battery beyond sharing articles. The app lets you add dedicated streams for Facebook, Twitter, and Linkedin, and if your friend or follower's post has a link embedded, My Tapu will load a preview beneath the update. Well, at least the app tries to load a preview. Over AT&T's 3G dell battery network, our iPhone 4 sometimes took 20 seconds or more to fill in the preview. Unfortunately, at least for now you can't reply to social networking posts apple battery within the app. It's for reading and sharing only.

Even those who visit Google

Even those who visit Google.com to search may be disappointed to know that you VGP-BPS13 can only see the first search result above the fold. As you can see in the screen shot above, there’s so much space taken up by auto suggestions that VGP-BPS13A/B there’s only enough room for the top entry to appear on the screen, though you can scroll down to see more results. This holds true whether you’re in landscape mode with a physical keyboard out or in portrait mode using the virtual keyboard. In landscape mode VGP-BPS13A/S with virtual keyboard, there’s no room at all for Google instant results.

With the feature enabled, users can type into the search box on the Google home page and VGP-BPS9 watch as the search box moves to the top of the screen and a set of results appears below and updates as they keep typing in the query. As VGP-BPS8 with Google instant on the desktop, you do not need to hit the Search button for results to appear.

Google Instant, the Google feature that shows search results as you type, has come to mobile. Today, the company announced VGP-BPS9A/B that uses of iOS and Android 2.2-powered devices are able to get Google instant simply by pointing their mobile web browsers to Google.com and clicking VGP-BPS9/B on the link which says “Instant (beta) is off: Turn On.”

We tested the new Google Instant for mobile on a VGP-BPS9/S Motorola Droid running Android 2.2 and found that it works as advertised, but isn’t all that convenient, because it only works from within the Google web site. If, like us, you most often enter your search queries directly into the browser’s address bar or into the VGP-BPS8A search box that appears when you hit the magnifying glass button, you won’t see this new feature.

Targeted squarely at the highly mobile, Acer's new 11.6-inch Aspire TimelineX 1830T-68U118 has a VGP-BPS2 lot of punch for its size. Though a little on the pricey side compared to its tiny netbook cousins, the $899 1830T comes well equipped with a VGP-BPS2A much faster processor than the 11-inch MacBook Air (a 1.4-GHz Intel Core 2 Duo) and gobs more storage space for $100 less. It also lasts longer on a charge, providing more than 6 hours of runtime. Best of all, you get all this goodness in a trim and attractive business-casual VGP-BPS2B design that will look equally at home in the conference room or the student library. Still, is this svelte performer worth the premium over other 11-inch VGP-BPS2C Windows ultraportables?

Heat

The 1830T was one relatively cool customer on our VGP-BPS21A/B heat tests. After playing a Hulu video for 15 minutes, we measured 85 and 87 degrees at the Aspire's touchpad and between the G and H keys respectively. That said, we recorded a higher 95-degree temperature at the center of the undercarriage. Still, that didn't quite trigger VGP-BPS21A our heat alarms, since we consider anything over 100 degrees to be toasty.

Design

Weighing in at a featherweight 3 pounds (the same as its predecessor), this newly refreshed 1830T is also just VGP-BPS21B over an inch thick. That's beefier than the 11-inch MacBook Air (.11 to .68 inches), but it's a breeze to slip this machine into a bag and tote around town. The 1830T vgp-bps21a shares other design accoutrements with its forerunner. You'll find a similar fingerprint-resistant black cover featuring a texturized surface, making for a better grip by damp hands between tense meetings and lectures.

Flipping open the 1830T reveals its glossy black vgp-bps21b battery bezel, which is unfortunately prone to prints, and its matte black keyboard set in brushed gun-metal gray aluminum. Though it boasts a sizeable six-cell battery, the power source doesn't protrude behind the laptop and won't prove to be a hindrance or snag vgp-bps21 stray cords.

The Aspire's 1.3-megapixel webcam is standard fare. Colors looked a bit washed out but pa3535u-1brs battery video performance was adequate. The bundled Acer Crystal Eye software does allow you to change the resolution, shoot video, snap dell studio 17 battery quick pics, and alter various video processing vectors such as contrast, gamma, and hue.

Ports and Webcam

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Keyboard and Touchpad

Almost identical to the previous 1830T, this refresh sports the same flat square-style keys crafted with a deliberately rough VGP-BPS9 surface for additional texture. Even so, this does not make up for the somewhat shallow key travel and mushy feel when typing. Also,VGP-BPS10 the keyboard layout, while close to full-size and an accomplishment for a laptop of this small stature, feels a bit cramped. Still, both left and right shift keys are large enough and you can use the 1830T pound out larger hp battery documents when necessary.

The touchpad is on the petite side at 2.5 x 1.3 inches. sony battery Compounding the problem of tiny input area, the pad appears virtually invisible against the brushed-metal styling of the wrist rest. Fingers also don't slide well against its textured surface. This resulted in a number of uncertain swipes and scrolling errors on good battery our part. Even so, the touchpad supports multi-gesture pinch and zoom motions, which comes in especially handy apple battery when web surfing.

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Video Hands-On With The New Froyo-Powered Archos Tablets

I dropped by the Archos booth at IFA today to get a look at their VGP-BPS9 new family of media players/tablets (the ones we told you about earlier this week). I’m an Archos fan going way back to the media player days and I even came to love the Archos 5 Internet

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Ever since the advent of Android lovers of the mobile OS have been eager Lenovo/IBM Thinkpad T61 Battery to have it not just on their mobile phones, but large-screen devices as well. The open-source, Wild West aura of the platform spurred many early attempts and a slew of commercial products ranging from netbooks to eReaders to tablets. And it’s in this last category that geeks like myself have placed all their hope in non-phone Android awesomeness. And it’s in this category that devices have so often let us down.

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We’ve seen 7-inch Android tablets before, right? What usually stops them from being awesome is sluggish performance, terrible screens, older versions of the OS, and a lack of apps from the manufacturer plus the conspicuous absence of the Google Market. The Galaxy Tab has none of these issues.

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As far as accessories go, Samsung has a few in the works. A keyboard, naturally, though it’s a dock Dell Studio 1535 Battery rather than a wireless one. A regular dock, stylus, data cables (including one for TV-Out via RCA), leather and plastic covers, and a car dock.

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Full Specs:

•Network: 2.5G (GSM/ GPRS/ EDGE) : 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 MHz; 3G (HSUPA 5.76Mbps, HSDPA 7.2Mbps) : 900 / 1900 / 2100 MHz

•OS: Android 2.2 (Froyo)

•Display: 7.0 inch TFT-LCD, WSVGA (1024 x 600)

•Processor: Cortex A8 1.0GHz Application Processor with PowerVR SGX540

•Camera (Back): 3MP Camera with Auto-Focus and LED Flash

•Camera (Front): 1.3MP front camera for Video Telephony

•Media: Adobe Flash 10.1 player support; Full HD video playback.

•Connectivity: 30 pin connector

•Wireless: 802.11n / Bluetooth 3.0

•Sensor: Gyroscope sensor, Geo-magnetic sensor, Accelerometer, Light sensor

•Internal Memory: 16GB / 32GB internal memory with up to 32GB external memory slot

•RAM: 512 MB

•Size/Weight: 190.09 x 120.45 x 11.98mm, 380g

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