Dell Vostro 1710

Dell Vostro 1710 Core 2 Duo 2GHz 17in Laptop (3GB/320GB/8-Cell/Vista Biz + XP Pro) $599 Free Shipping, Jan. 8 5 AM

Dell Small Business has the Dell Vostro 1710 Intel Core 2 Duo T5870 17" Notebook Computer w/ Vista Business + XP Pro for a low $599.00 Free Shipping. Tax in most.

Dell Vostro laptops feature magnesium alloy chassis, mylar sealed keyboard, and NO PRE-INSTALLED TRIALWARE.

6.5lbs; 17.0"; Intel Core 2 Duo T5870 @ 2.0GHz; 3GB RAM; 320GB HDD; DVD burner; 802.11b/g; Vista Business + XP Professional; 8-cell battery; 1yr warranty

For Dell Small Business, remember you can just use your own name when it asks for your business name.

Source: http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/vostronb_1710?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd

What's new in Itune 8

Take a look at new features that will make iTunes 8 your favorite iTunes yet.

High-quality, DRM-free music.
iTunes Plus is the new standard on iTunes.

Now, you can choose from millions of iTunes Plus songs from all four major music labels and thousands of independents. With iTunes Plus, you get high-quality, 256-Kbps AAC encoding. All free of burn limits and digital rights management (DRM). So iTunes Plus music will play on iPod, Apple TV, all Mac and Windows computers, and many other digital music players. It’s also easy to upgrade your iTunes library to iTunes Plus. You don’t have to buy the song or album again. Just pay the 30¢ per song upgrade price. (Music video upgrades are 60¢ and entire albums can be upgraded for 30 percent of the album price.)

Genius Playlists

How Genius Works

Meet Genius: a brilliant way to create perfect playlists. Play a song, click the Genius button, and iTunes creates a playlist of other songs from your library that go great together. Genius playlists help you discover songs in your library you never knew you had — and rediscover forgotten favorites.

Genius Sidebar

While you reacquaint yourself with the music you already own, let Genius introduce you to new music you’ll love. As you select songs in your library, the Genius sidebar displays songs from the iTunes Store that go great with it. The Genius sidebar won’t recommend songs already in your library, and you can preview and buy recommended songs directly from the sidebar.

Grid View

See your iTunes library in a new way. Select Albums in Grid View and iTunes 8 displays your entire music library using cover art. Select Artists, Genres, or Composers and iTunes automatically creates groups of albums based on your selection. Simply skim across a group to see the albums inside, and start playing an album with a single click. Movies, TV shows, podcasts, and audiobooks look great in Grid View, too.

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HD TV Shows

Purchase select episodes of your favorite TV shows in high definition for just $2.99. Or get the whole season in HD with a Season Pass. And when you buy HD, iTunes doubles your viewing pleasure: You also get an iPod-ready version with a file size and resolution that's ideal for smaller screens.

Enhanced Accessibility

iTunes 8 is now screen reader friendly on both Mac and PC. Manage your iTunes library using VoiceOver in Mac OS X Leopard or Window-Eyes for Windows XP and Windows Vista. Or use your screen reader to purchase or download content from the iTunes Store — including iTunes U.

New Visualizer

Turn on the new Visualizer and lose yourself in a 3D-scape of spheres, ribbons, and lights that pulsate to the beat and tempo of the song you’re playing.

Source: http://www.apple.com

CES 2009

CES 2009, the Consumer Electronics Show is in full effect. Already, our loyal group of Trend Hunters is reporting back the hottest gadgets from the first day of the show.

My favorite post: The Star Wars-Inspired Camera.

This list clusters together the Top 19 CES 2009 gadgets… Enjoy and stay tuned for more techy innovations!

US Modular introduces the Stik & Stor as a new storage device for mobile phones

As competition heats up in memory card industry, US Modular introduced the Stik & Stor as an alternative storage device to regular memory cards. The Stik & Stor is an external storage device that can be attached to a regular mobile phone or any other device with a Trasflash/microSD slot. It somehow plugs into the mobile phone’s slot and links it to a larger storage cell that sits outside the mobile phone. Then the external storage cell sticks to the mobile phone’s external surface.

The US Modular’s Stik & Stor line includes 1 GB, 2 GB, 4 GB and 8 GB versions, which are available for the price of $79, $99, $149 and $199 respectively. The new storage device can also be found in different colours.

Source: http://www.allmemorycards.com/news/category/new-memory-cards/

SDXC specification announced; 2TB memory cards with read/write speeds of up to 104 megabytes per second are coming!

During the CES, SD Association — the folks behind the popular SD flash memory card standards — have announced a new memory card specification called SDXC, where the last two letters stand for “eXtended Capacity.” The idea is, of course, to prepare a groundwork for the upcoming consumer needs when more storage capacity and faster access to data will be needed. In that sense, the new SDXC specification provides up to 2 terabytes storage capacity and accelerates SD interface read/write speeds to 104 megabytes per second this year, with a road map to 300 megabytes per second.

The SDXC specification, developed by the SD Association, leapfrogs memory card interface speeds while retaining the world-leading SD interface. Specifications for the open standard will be released in the first quarter of 2009. SDHC, Embedded SD and SDIO specifications will also benefit from the new SD interface speeds.

The SDXC relies on Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT)’s exFAT file system to support its large capacity and interoperability in a broad range of devices. The exFAT system was designed for increased compatibility with flash media, from portability of data to interoperability with multiple platforms and devices on removable media.

Finally, to put the numbers in a perspective. A 2TB SDXC memory card can store 100 HD movies, 60 hours of HD recording or 17,000 fine-grade photos. Wow!!!

Source: http://www.intomobile.com/2009/01/08/sdxc-specification-announced-2tb-memory-cards-with-readwrite-speeds-of-up-to-104-megabytes-per-second-are-coming.html