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Why go for the Samsung Go

thelibrarygeek November 27, 2009 Gadgets 0

In a previous post, I mentioned that I was in the market for a netbook and was looking at what Samsung has to offer. I read through  several reviews that are almost unanimous in their praise of Samsung netbook’s superior …

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E-book Readers everywhere

thelibrarygeek November 1, 2009 Gadgets 2

Not quite. Although 2010 might shape up as the year when e-book reader become more than just a niche device. There are now several generations of Amazon’s Kindle device and it is now available not only in the US but …

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Here comes Android 2.0

thelibrarygeek November 1, 2009 Gadgets 0

Right at the heels of Android 1.6, codenamed Doughnut, Google and the Android team announced the availability of Android 2.0 codenamed Eclair to developers with a new phone to be released in a few days, Motorola’s Droid, already running Android …

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Snow Leopard clean install

thelibrarygeek October 29, 2009 Gadgets 0

I have not been a long-time Apple Computer user. I got my first and current 20″ iMac a few weeks before the release of Leopard which was about October 2007 and took advantage of the $10 upgrade price for that …

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Windows 7 Whopper

thelibrarygeek October 22, 2009 Gadgets 0

It looks like everyone wants to board the Windows 7 publicity train as Akihabara News and Crunch Gear reports that Burger King in Japan introduced a Windows 7 Whopper as Microsoft launches their new OS in that country. 777 yen …

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