HP Mini 1101: yet another new netbook

HP Mini 1101: yet another new netbook

Hewlett-Packard is serious about the netbook market, announcing three new HP Minis running XP, Linux, and Vista…and including an option for 1080p video playback.


Hewlett-Packard is serious about the netbook business, and has announced three new additions to its HP Mini line. The HP Mini 1101 will be available with a user’s choice of XP or Vista, the 110 Mi will sport Linux, and the 110 XP will offer Windows XP and be available with an optional video accelerator the company claims can handle 1080p video content.

“With these new HP Minis, we’re enhancing the customer experience by adding compelling features that allow users to interact with their Mini in a fun way,” said HP’s VP and general manager for consumer notebooks Kevin Frost, in a statement. “Our broad portfolio of mini companion PCs truly offers customers choices to fit every need and every personality.”

All three models will be powered by either a 1.6 Ghz or 1.66 GHz Intel Atom N270 or N280 processor, with the Mini 110 and Mini 1101 offering a number of built-to-order options. All models feature a 5-in0-1 media card reader and VGA output.

The HP Mini 110 XP will support up to 1 GB of memory and will be available with either a 160 GB hard drive or a 32 GB SSD; available options will include WWAN support for mobile connectivity and an optional Broadcomm Crystal HD Enhanced Video Accelerator HP says enables the Mini 100 XP to handle 1080p video content. Meanwhile, the Mini 1101 will be available with either XP Home, XP Pro, or Windows Vista and will be available with either 3- or 6-cell batteries, along with an HP Mobile Broadband option. The Mini 110 Mi will run a Linux operating system and will support up to 20 GB of RAM and a 250 GB hard drive.

The Mini 110 XP and Mini 110 Mi should be available in the U.S. on June 10 in a “black swirl” design for $329.99 and $279.99, respectively; pink and white editions of the Mini 110 XP should land in early July, although pricing hasn’t been set. The Mini 1101 will be available in high-gloss black on June 1 for $329.

Source: Digitaltrends

One Laptop Per Child with Windows XP

One Laptop Per Child with Windows XP

Microsoft has joined forces with the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) project in a bid to provide inexpensive portable PCs to schoolchildren in developing countries. The announcement means that the XO notebook will run Windows as well as the OLPC’s home grown Linux-based operating system. OLPC will be hoping that the partnership with Microsoft will help kick-start demand from education ministers for its XO laptop, which has thus far received orders for just 600,000 systems. The project has also struggled to drive down the price of its laptop to the highly publicised $100 mark; the current version is priced at $188.

OLPC and Microsoft said in a joint statement that trials of laptops loaded with Windows will begin in “four to five” countries from next month, with a broader release in August or September. “Transforming education is a fundamental goal of Microsoft Unlimited Potential, our ambitious effort to bring sustained social and economic opportunity to people who do not currently enjoy the benefits of technology,” said Craig Mundie, chief research and strategy officer at Microsoft. “By supporting a wide variety of affordable computing solutions for education that includes OLPC’s XO laptop, we aim to make technology more relevant, accessible and affordable for students everywhere.”

Source: Vnunet

Adobe Launches New Version of Acrobat.com

Adobe launches New Version of Acrobat.com

Adobe Systems Inc. is launching a new version of its document sharing software Acrobat on Monday, and this time it can package videos. Acrobat allows users to package documents so they can be read across different hardware and operating systems. Acrobat 9 comes with Adobe’s video-enabling software Flash. Users can include Flash-based videos when they create and share documents with the portable document format, commonly known as PDF. With a professional version of Acrobat 9, for example, users could package a Power Point presentation not just with images, but also with an audio of the presenter’s voice.

“You can now send someone a presentation that speaks on its own all through a PDF,” said Adobe spokesman Kevin M. Lynch, who is not related to the company’s chief technology officer with the same name. Adobe also launched Acrobat.com, which will host Web-based software services to support document creation and sharing. The San Jose-based software maker hasn’t launched a new version of Acrobat since November 2006, almost a year after it purchased Macromedia Inc., the creator of Flash software. Users have expected to see Flash integrated into Acrobat since that purchase, Lynch said.

Source: AP

Styling iGoogle with iGoogle Theme

Styling iGoogle with iGoogle Theme

If you've make an iGoogle as your homepage or starting page, you can now customize or stlye your iGoogle with iGoogle Theme. My resources for getting great iGoogle theme is at InThemes.Com. All the themes are simply great. All you have to do is to pick one for your iGoogle.

Here's some of the themes screenshot :-



You can check the rest at InThemes.Com

Source: Thanks to Nirmal for blogging about this..

Yudu Freedom - Publish Your Documents Online for Free

Yudu Freedom - Publish Your Documents Online for Free

Yudu Freedom (Yudu) is a free service that lets users publish any of their documents online. Basically, Yudu takes your PDF documents that you have on your hard drive and lets you host them online for free. Yudu says the reason their service is free is because they “want to everyone to experience the possibilities and enjoy the benefits of online publishing and online reading.”

Once you have published your documents you will get an interactive, easy to navigate through publication online that can be used for whatever you want. If you got a site or blog it is very easy to add the pdfs you have hosted on Yudu to them, and since Yudu says they will host them free forever, you don’t have to worry about broken pages(hopefully).

Here are other advantages that Yudu has listed for their service:

* Get it noticed online… YUDU publications are search engine friendly!
* Includes live web links to click to other sites.
* Readers can add their own ‘Bookmarks’ and ‘Notes’ to your publication.
* All publications are carbon neutral and family friendly.
* Multiple views & zoom for easy reading.
* Uses high resolution images and crisp vector text.

So, if you have some documents you would like to get hosted online then you might want to give Yudu a shot. It’s free, so it can’t hurt. Let me know what you guys think.

Source: [[ Webware ]]

25 Top Blogs According to Time.Com

25 Top Blogs According to Time.Com

Based on Time Magazine’s list, here is the full list of the top 25 and the 5 over rated blogs. They are money making blogs, and some of them are the usual ones and some are very interesting blogs which seem to have a huge following. Going to the Time magazine link would give you more information on each ranking, but here you just have the rank.

Top 25 Blogs
1. The Huffington Post | 2. Lifehacker | 3. Metafilter | 4. TreeHugger
5. PostSecret | 6. Blog di Beppe Grillo | 7. Engadget | 8. Freakonomics | 9. Gigazine
10. Ace of Spades HQ | 11. Radosh.net | 12. Gawker | 13. Andrew Sullivan |14. Velveteen Rabbi
15. Boing Boing | 16. TechCrunch | 17. Web 2.Oh…really? | 18. The Sartorialist | 19. Daily Kos
20. The Consumerist | 21. Indexed | 22. Threat Level | 23. The Dullest Blog in the World
24. Bad Jocks | 25. The Reverse Cowgirl

The 5 Most Overrated Blogs
1.Slashdot
2. Jim Cramer Blog on Realmoney.com
3. Ars Technica
4. Nicholas Kristof On the Ground
5. I can has cheezburger

[ via : Valleywag.Com ]

WPdesigner.Com(PR 7) SOLD for $66,000 ?

WPdesigner.Com(PR 7) SOLD for $66,000 ?

Hi again.I got a few blogs that using wordpress instead of blogspot and WPdesigner.Com has become my resources for finding a good quality of Free Wordpress Themes and also a few great tutorials regarding wordpress.

What is WPdesigner.Com ?

WPDesigner.com (currently PR7) is a blog about wordpress themes, blog design and web development and the owner of this site, Small Potato has decided to sell his blog, WPDesigner.com due to his personal reasons. Otherwise, it wouldn't make sense for him to sell at all.Mainly, he will be traveling abroad for the rest of the years and don't have time to keep on growing this site.


Revenue Potentials ?

It's making about $890/month from the theme club itself,no other revenue. So, the new owner can easily further monetize this blog with :-

• - Private banners
• - Text link ads (can get between $150 - $250 per link )
• - Sponsored reviews
• - Consultation service
• - WordPress development service

Current Bid At SitePoint

Wow !! Current bid at SitePoint right now is really high, it's $66,000. And auction ends in 5 days and 3 hours. But, when I scroll down,reading the last message posted by Small Tomato gues what ? "SITE HAS BEEN SOLD"

So, who's the new owner of WPdesigner.Com ?