ThinkPad’s Quad-Core Laptop Line Makes Digital Content Creators Smile

If you work in graphics or digital photography you may be a little more excited than most about ThinkPad’s new Quad Core laptops. With solid graphics and data crunching capabilities, the notebook includes the ThinkPad W500, and offers three optional hard drives, boasting capacities of 320G bytes apiece, plug into different slots to bring the storage capacity close to 1T byte.
The W700 is powered by an Intel Core 2 Extreme quad-core mobile processor that runs at a frequency of 2.53GHz and includes 12M bytes of L2 cache. It supports up to 8G bytes of RAM.

The laptop comes with a 17-inch screen that displays video at a 1920-by-1200 pixel resolution, higher than a high-definition display of 1920 by 1080 pixels and comes with an Nvidia Quadro FX graphics card. An optional digitizer and color calibrator is also available and is useful in photo optimizing for printing.

Prices start at US$2,980

I Spy with My Eye-Fi

It is like out of a James Bond movie, a wireless SD card that sends your pictures to your computer at home! It’s much faster than emailing pictures from your cell phone. All Eye-Fi Cards come with everything needed to set up and connect to your home Wi-Fi network, then insert the card into your digital camera and start capturing memories. It stores pictures like a regular SD card and as soon as you come into your wireless network your camera automatically downloads your pictures onto your computer at home.

Eye-Fi Card works with 802.11g, 802.11b and backwards-compatible 802.11n wireless networks
Eye-Fi software works with Windows XP, Windows Vista, Mac OS X (10.4 and 10.5)
Eye-Fi software works with Internet Explorer 6 and 7 (Windows only), Firefox 2.0 (Windows and OS X) and Safari 3 ( OS X 10.4 -10.5)
Eye-Fi card requires an Internet connection for setup and a wireless router with DHCP enabled for wireless transfers
Eye-Fi Card works with virtually all digital cameras that accept SD memory cards.

Here is a list of compatible >cameras

Easy download is not the only feature, it also has crime fighting features! A lady who was vacationing in Florida was devastated when her camera bag was stolen from a restaurant when she accidentally left it behind. When she got home she not only received her vacation pictures but also the pictures of the thieves who actually worked at the restaurant!
While the SD cards run about $100.00 a piece, as a photographer myself I can appreciate being able to download my pictures from a shoot location to my computer at home. It could mean not carrying extra SD cards, providing unlimited picture taking. Not to mention that if stolen my camera could eventually find its way back home.

New Eco Friendly Intel Xeon Chips Are Due for Release on September 15th

Computer chip manufacturer Intel has announced the release of its four new halogen-free Xeon processors. The energy-efficient technology achieved through new Xeon quad-core processors having as high a speed as 3.4GHz and the low-voltage version using only 50 watts of power. The chips cost will be between $562 and $1493 in lots of 1,000.

Hologen is part of the packaging that they used to use for fire proofing. This type of chemical made recycling difficult as it releases toxin when incenerated

With the power saving energy and the less Ozone dmaging packaging it is good to know that Intel is doing their part to take care of our planet

Reigning King of Search Engines Joins in Browser Wars

Millions of people use the Google search engine every day. They search the web for recipes, musicians, actors and even the migration pattern of the Alaskan Caribou; but now the web world’s favorite search engine is launching a new web browser.

The Google Chrome Web Browser is now available for beta download and promises a list of special features such as special tabs that if the browser stalls on one tab it doesn’t affect the other tabs that are open. There is also auto completion for your favorite topics and high ranked suggested pages.

An incognito feature keeps your login and computer information private. Other features include an updated list of harmful websites and a special default home page that keeps your favorite subjects and most frequently visited websites within reach.

I have had Google as my home page for years because I am always looking stuff up and I was thrilled when IGoogle came out and I could customize by setting up gadgets pertaining to my interests. Now I can have a browser that has all my favorite features on IGoogle plus?! I was really excited so I downloaded it and it set up with ease but during the set up I had to save my options twice, which could have been user error, but as I set up my gadgets on my homepage the blogger dashboard (which is a gadget created by Google) it crashed the browser twice. Well, every new program has a few bugs… right?

Over all I am excited that we have a new browser in the running, and if Google gets all the little bugs worked out, then I think Explorer might have some real competition. But hey give Chrome a try and let me know what you think, and enjoy a new experience in shopping, banking, paying bills and even checking in on the Caribou.