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Current Crop of E-Readers Compared: iPad vs. the Rest
February 1st, 2010 | 
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Current Crop of E-Readers Compared: iPad vs. the Rest
Developer and blogger Darren Beckett rounds up a crop of five e-readers and gives them a short price and feature comparison with the newly released iPad—and rolled the results into an eye-friendly infographic.
(Click the image above for a closer look.)
We may have our problems with the iPad, but that doesn’t mean people aren’t interested in buying it. This comparison pits the iPad against other similar devices, highlighting price, screen size and type, ..read more
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Tags: Beckett, Blogger, Bottom Of The Barrel, Closer Look, Convergence Devices, Cost Of Ownership, Current, Developer, E Reader, Enthusiasts, Feature Comparison, Fi, Functionality, Image, Ipad, Joojoo, Mdash, Original Source, Smartphones, Swallow, Type Storage | 
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Namebench Helps You Find the Fastest DNS Server for Your Computer
Namebench Helps You Find the Fastest DNS Server for Your Computer
Windows/Mac/Linux: Last week Google announced a free DNS service designed to speed up your browsing, but just because Google wants to be fast doesn’t actually mean they’re the best option for you. Namebench finds the fastest DNS server for your connection.
After you download and fire up namebench, just click the Start Benchmark button to test out a handful of free public DNS services, from Google Public DNS to OpenDNS to ..read more
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Tags: Benchmark, Closer Look, Computer Downloads, Computer Windows, Default Settings, Dns Server, Dns Services, Downloads Mac, Fastest Dns, Free Dns Service, Free Open Source, Google, Handful, Handy Charts, Image, Linux, Mac Linux, Mac Os X, Original Source, Os X, Public Dns, Windows Linux |
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Google Now Translates Uploaded Documents
Google Now Translates Uploaded Documents
The image associated with this post is best viewed using a browser.Google Translate could previously take pasted text or web URLs for translation, and the Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer was offering on-the-fly translation. Now Google’s made it easy to put desktop documents through its multi-language processing.
Hit “Upload a document” on the Translate main page, and you’ll be prompted to upload Word documents, PowerPoint presentation files, PDFs, HTML files, or straight-up text files. All of them ..read more
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Tags: Browser, Desktop Documents, Fly, Foreign Language, Formatting, Google, Google Image, Google Toolbar, Grasp, Html Files, Image, Internet Explorer, Language Processing, Operating System, Original Source, Powerpoint Presentation, Presentation Files, Translation, Translations, Upload Files, Web Urls, Word Documents |
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Speed Up Slow Firefox 3.5 Windows Start-Ups
Speed Up Slow Firefox 3.5 Windows Start-Ups
Firefox 3.5 pulls data from certain file locations for randomized security purposes. Sometimes, though, that can lead to annoying slow start-ups in Windows. You can speed things up by cleaning out certain folder locations.
For whatever reason, having too many temporary, history, or recent document files sitting in your Windows locations slows down Firefox 3.5’s data generation processes, as has been reported as a bug. The Mozilla Links blog recommends cleaning out these folders to ..read more
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Tags: Accumulation, Browser, C Documents, Document Files, Documents And Settings, Firefox, Folders, Generation Processes, History C, Image, Internet Explorer, Local Settings, Mozilla, Original Source, Recent Documents, Security Purposes, Slow Startups, Start Ups, Temporary Files, Temporary Internet Files, Tip Speed, Ups, Vista |
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