Cool gadgets and new gizmos – news and reviews

Users that are unwilling to spend a fortune on an Office suite have available free alternatives (both online and offline). Google offers users the Google docks suite online, while Microsoft launched an online suite with Office 2010 called Microsoft Office Web Applications.If in the case of usual users there are solutions the same cannot be said about the enterprise segment. Here Google has a package dedicated to business but it is minimal. Mi...

Lenovo announced last week the launch of a new laptop and tablet, both titled X220. After buying the ThinkPad from IBM, Chinese producer Lenovo has been constantly hunting down top brands in the market. They are known for their sturdy, reliable devices which, though lacking in the looks, shininess and flashiness department, make excellent money-value for the responsible consumer.This time, Lenovo is out to impress with one of the lengthiest a...

In a world dominated by IT dangers using antivirus software on your personal computer has become essential for it to properly work. This kind of software is installed immediately after the operating system.However a lot of less experimented users face a diversity of problems. They are either unwilling to pay for the license, or use the pirated versions that expire after a year, or do not understand how useful such a software is. A lot of this...

Initially launched as a simple search engine Google has become a company with increasingly diverse activities during the last decade. All this because Google wanted to win as much money as possible and dominate as many markets as possible.Even so sometimes Google proved it can provide us with interesting and useful things. The Art Project is one of those things.Many of us wish they had the possibility to visit touristic locations from all...

It seems that Electronic Arts are not sleeping too much. I say this because this year they have launched the Need for Speed World free MMO (Massively Multiplayer Online) game and Need For Speed Hot Pursuit the sequel to a very well-known game from 1998, and during the first part of 2011 it is expected that the Need for Speed Shift 2 Unleashed game will be launched. The chosen studio in which the EA game will be developed is Slightly Mad Studios w...

World of Warcraft represents an incredible phenomenon in the world of games that is starting to become more and more popular in our country. This is also highlighted by the local events organized with the occasion of the World of Warcraft: Cataclysm official launch. WoW Cataclysm is the third expansion pack of this massively multiplayer online role playing game.World of Warcraft: Cataclysm tends to be much more than an expansion due to the nu...

After Colin McRae: DiRT was launched at the end of 2007 and DiRT 2 in 2009 Codemasters has decided that next year a new game in this series will appear. Taking in consideration the fact that Dirt 3 was announced in 2010 but will only appear in 2011 we lack information about the product and know few details about it.On the internet you will only be able to find a few images from the new game and a trailer which you can also see below. DiRT 3 w...

Computer technology has a long and colorful history. New innovations don't come along by the year, they come along by the month, sometimes even the week. Around 1998, a series of companies began toying with the idea of all of the power of a personal computer put into a thin, portable machine. On top of this, a responsive touchscreen would be necessary to navigate through software and programs. Birthed from these ideas, which had been in dev...

Nokia continues to create confusions between mobile phone users by launching the new model from the C5 series that practically has no common features with its brothers. The new model is the Nokia C5-03, a touch screen phone that has medium technical specs and price and offers nothing special compared to other models from the same company or the phones produced by rivals.The main flaw of the phone is the Symbian OS v9.4, Series 60 rel. 5, oper...

Microsoft is trying to revive the Internet Explorer for quite some time, after the success of the Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome browsers. Even if it represented a major evolution IE8 did not stand up to expectations reason for which Microsoft accelerated the development of the new software and has launched a beta version of the Internet Explorer 9 a few months ago.Generally things look much better, but Microsoft has remained last at 2 asp...