Tag: COMPUTERS

No longer just a rumor or speculation, the newest version of the Macbook hit the Apple Store yesterday. According to Engadget, the laptop boasts a 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo processor, an NVIDIA GeForce 320M graphics card and, best of all, a 10-hour battery life -- a full three hours longer than those of older MacBook incarnations. And that's not to mention that this bad boy is priced at $999, making it a ...

The latest and greatest Wi-Fi standard, 802.11n, promises to reach download speeds of up to 600 Megabits per second as the technology matures. It was only finalized in 2009, and before the seal on its certification has even had a chance to dry, the industry is talking up its successor -- developed in part by WiGig. The Wi-Fi Alliance, the body in charge of wireless networking standards, has ...

We said they were coming yesterday and here they are, brand new MacBook Pros. The entire line has been given at least a slight boost, but the 15-inch and 17-inch models are where the real fun is. Both the of the larger models have been given shiny new Intel Core i5 and i7 CPUs, as well as NVIDIA GeForce 330M graphics chips equipped with the battery-saving Optimus switching feature. The RAM has ...

If there's one universal opinion about the series of Microsoft ads featuring Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld, it's that they were confusing as all get out. If Microsoft marketing strategist David Weber is to be believed, that was the whole point. In an interview with TechFlash, Weber explained, "We figured that that sort of obscure nature of the communications would make people lean in a ...

Share Once, there were ink-stained Moleskins and typewriter ribbons unfurled, but today's authors and documentarians, even at their most technophobic, keep discs or drives filled with their electronic scribblings. That's even the case for Salman Rushdie, an ingenious author whose work spans nearly four decades, one religious death threat, and several hemispheres. At Emory University's recent ...

Dog owners in Britain might soon have extra incentive to keep their canines on a short leash. According to an Associated Press report posted on Huffington Post, government officials want a microchip installed in every dog in the U.K. In addition, the owners of the dogs would be required to purchase insurance on the animals. The argument being that cheap microchips, costing between $15 and $52 ...

You may still not have acquired a taste for Celery, but chances are your grandparents have, or they will have if they have a fax machine. Confused? Celery is a way to allow those without computer smarts to e-mail and Twitter via paper, as 80-year-old Dorothy Miller demonstrates to WTEN News 10. Celery has been around for a while, but Twitter integration is new. To use it, the person simply ...

Residents of Kelowna, British Columbia were shocked and appalled when, in early June, thieves pilfered dozens of computer screens from a resident's driveway, according to The Province. Kelowna General Hospital had donated the monitors to Trinity Baptist Church, and had planned to then distribute the screens to impoverished hospitals in Cameroon, Africa. As a church volunteer loaded the monitors ...

Computers, reports the BBC this morning, are dangerous to children. Not because of online predators, brain rot, or decreasing attention spans, but, according to a new study appearing in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, because of kids physically hurting themselves near their home offices. In what seems to be painfully obvious, researchers at Nationwide Children's Hospital Center for ...

If you still think a server is someone who brings you your tea when you're taking-in a nice Earlybird special, boy have we got the video from you. It's called 'Surfing for Seniors,' and it's one of the more demeaning videos we've seen on the Internet. When it came out in 1997, it was intended to teach older folks how to use computers, but we're not entirely sure the carnival game metaphor is ...

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 ...

Remember that major flaw announced earlier this month in DNS, the Domain Name System responsible for getting your browser from a URL like www.switched.com to the actual computer that hosts it? Well, fixes were released for the problem before the details of the issue were widely known, and the hope had been to keep those details under wraps for another month or so to give time for Internet ...

How many computer screens is too many? We ask ourselves this question all the time, and apparently other bloggers do too. Royal Pingdom just did a piece on this very subject, featuring photos of the real computer workstations with the most screens. Al Gore kicks off the lineup with a modest three screens (after all, he loves the environment), but his setup pales in comparison to the ...

People can get awfully paranoid when it comes to their jobs. Some people can't help but think that everyone is out to get them, which seems to be the case for Marie Cooley of Jacksonville, Florida. Cooley is currently in jail after confessing to deleting files worth an estimated $2.5 million at her former employer, all because she thought she was about to get fired. As it turns out, she wasn't ...

The fact that Intel has started using a 45-nanometer manufacturing process may not mean much to you. In fact there's a chance you're staring at your computer screen right now, head titled, with a perplexed look on your face. But it's ok, we at Switched are here to help clear up what the new processors mean for you. 45 nanometers refers to the smallest possible features a processor can have. This ...