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I bought a Mobile Core Duo laptop (Acer Travelmate 8204) 7 months back. Core Duo just came to the market at that time and the performance review was pretty good. I’m using it for the past 7 months and it’s pretty good. I would have preferred an AMD processor, but AMD had not proven itself [...]

Google Talk is a free instant messaging service. To use Google Talk, he or she needs to have a GMail account. It’s not true any more. Anyone can now signup for Google talk with your existing email address. You don’t need a GMail account. However some features like chat histories and mail notifications will work [...]

Ubuntu has released Edgy Eft beta, their next version of Ubuntu Linux. Some of the new features include
New Bootup Splash

Gnome 2.16
Tomboy
Evolution 2.8
Firefox 2.0
Open Office 2.0.4 RC2
Gaim 2.0.3.1 beta
New login screen
and much more.

IBM and Lenovo announced today that they are recalling 526,000 laptop batteries made by Sony corporation. This follows the earlier recalls from Apple and Dell. Lenovo will offer customers free-of-charge replacement batteries for all recalled batteries.
IBM and Lenovo sold these Sony batteries in systems listed below between February 2005 and September 2006.

ThinkPad R [...]

Sharp Corporation of Japan said on Wednesday that they have developed World’s first triple vision LCD panel that allows you to view three different images on one screen, all at the same time. Sharp already had unveiled LCD panel last year allowing you to view two different images.

Technorati tags: Sharp Corporation, LCD Panel

Microsoft has released a new beta version (version 1.0.141) of Windows Live Writer. The new beta contains:

Tagging support - You can see insert tag button on the right side
Categories are now sorted
Better startup - much faster than the previous version
Better style detection
Insert Hyperlink option in the context menu [...]

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Canadian scientists using laser and infrared scans to produce a 3D image of the painting have suggested that the famous smile on Mona Lisa could be because she was pregnant or she just had a baby. Using the laser and infrared scans allowed details beneath layers of paint to be seen - including a gauzy [...]

I don’t like the way Microsoft and it’s softwares work, but that shouldn’t stop me from appreciating Windows Live Writer (beta). It’s a pretty neat product from Microsoft, which is a surprise. It’s simple, easy to use with quite a good number of useful features especially for handling images. I’m using this to post my [...]

Mozilla’s Mike Connor had told Debian not to use Firefox name and logo in it’s distributions as it violates trademark policy. He wrote that “
Firefox (the name) is equally protected and controlled by the same
trademark policy and legal requirements as the Firefox logo. You’re
free to use any other name for the browser bits, but [...]