Tag: UPGRADES

Surely you've seen the annoying ads on television or flashing banner graphics on your favorite sites advertising applications guaranteed to take your slow-as-molasses computer and make it run like new again? Hopefully you've never taken the plunge and clicked or installed, but Slate's Farhad Manjoo did. Out of curiosity, he installed My Faster PC just to see what it would do to his computer. As ...

Oh Street View, how we love reporting on your stories. Whether you're violating peoples' privacy, making neighborhood shame international, or acting as a stage for performance art, you've always been entertaining. But useful? That question we're not so sure of, but however useful it may have been before, the aerial satellite image service is now twice-so, with Google having just doubled the ...

Instead of wading out into dingy bars for a shot at temporary stardom, karaoke enthusiasts can now just log onto their MySpace accounts from the comfort of their own homes, AFP reports. Although it has been available for six months already, MySpace's karaoke application now offers better recording quality and user friendliness, according to the social networking site's executives. The ...

Yamaha just announced the release of its new Disklavier player piano, which now comes with an 80-gigabyte (GB) hard drive and Internet capability for streaming downloads of 'live' songs to literally play in your living room (these "songs" contain the data needed to make the instruments ivories move). Ever since radio took over the limelight some 65 years ago, real instruments such as the piano ...

LinkedIn -- the social-networking site for professionals -- has announced the debut of its redesigned home page, which features a simpler overall design compared to its now old home, yet allows users to add more personalized information and feeds via movable and editable page elements called "modules." LinkedIn strives to provide more business-oriented information and networking opportunities ...

Google aficionados who are lucky enough (or dumb enough, depending on your perspective) to own an iPhone can finally stop complaining about uneven functionality with that search giant's apps: In addition to releasing yesterday's Gmail upgrade, the company created an iPhone-specific version of its home page and related services. The new page offers easy-to-access tabs for many Google services, ...

Not content to sit back and bask in the praise for Leopard, Apple has given its MacBook line a bit of a freshening. None of the specs are a huge boost, but they will bring some welcome performance increases to the slick portables, and, like so many of Apple's surprise updates, will be enough to make anyone who purchased last week wish they'd waited. All the MacBooks have moved to the Santa Rosa ...

Apple's new version of Mac OS X, version 10.5, a.k.a. "Leopard," launched last week to a good bit of fanfare ... and a strong dose of piracy, too. It's already sold more than two million copies. That said, things aren't entirely going well for the new cat. Many users are suffering from a wide range of problems when installing and configuring the new operating system (OS), ranging from random ...

Though Microsoft isn't requiring computer manufacturers to fully transition to building Windows Vista-based systems until January of next year, Dell jumped out ahead of the pack early and promised to complete the switch before the end of this past March. However, it seems the world's second-largest PC maker was a little too quick on the draw. Word is out today that after a flood of requests ...