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Excerpt: Contact management is a modern way of managing your contacts. However, it’s not just an electronic address book that lists out your contacts such as phone numbers and addresses and appointments for the day. All this personal information can be integrated with e-mails and saved at one place so that you don’t have to waste time searching. You can store history of the interactions with contacts and keep track of all activities related to them. All this information can be kept absolutely confidential by using a password. Contact management system can be of two types – a separate software product installed…

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Excerpt: How To Tweak Your Windows Startup Procedure. The word Tweaking simply means to fine tune.You want to fine tune your computer so that it will boot up faster.Tweaking your computer so that it will run at peek performance will cause you to enjoy your computer like you never imaged. There are procedures you can perform that will speed up the operating system boot-up.When tweaking your startup process,take care not to allow your computer to boot up too fast.Too fast booting will cause your PC to miss valuable data and not check all peripherals it needs to allow the computer to run…

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Excerpt: Much of the internal specifications of the BACKFLIP are things we’ve seen before from Motorola. Up front there’s a 3.1-inch HVGA capacitive touchscreen (swimming in a bezel sea), while embedded into the left side of the QWERTY keyboard is a 5-megapixel autofocus camera with LED flash. Inside the same processor as in the CLIQ runs Android 1.5 complete with Motorola’s MOTOBLUR social networking integration. There’s triband 7.2Mbps WCDMA (850/1900/2100) and quadband GSM/EDGE, along with WiFi b/g and Bluetooth, and a 3.5mm headphone jack. Storage is via microSD, with a 2GB card in the box and up to 32GB supported. Of course,…

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Excerpt: Once considered the top manufacturer in everything electronic, Sony is still a big fish, but in a much, much larger pond. The company continues to produce high quality, industry-leading products, and its latest generation of HDTVs is no exception. At $2,799.99 (direct), the 52-inch Sony Bravia KDL-52NX800 LED-sidelit HDTV may seem pricey for a non-3D set—and its picture quality isn’t perfect—but a slick design and thoughtful features, such as built-in cord management and integrated Wi-Fi, might just help this set justify its price. Brilliant Design Measuring approximately 32 by 50 by 16 inches (HWD) with its glossy silver plastic pedestal attached, the…

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Excerpt: Samsung’s N210 continues the company’s tradition of creating solid netbooks with good keyboards, excellent displays, and above average audio. What makes this $379 system stand out is its distinctive, scratch-resistant finish and an instant-on feature with a cool widget-based interface. However, the competition from Acer and ASUS is heating up, with both manufacturers offering long-lasting netbooks under $300. We mostly like this machine, but is it worth the relatively high price tag? Design The 2.8-pound N210 has a similar design to previous N series netbooks but with some welcome aesthetic flourishes. A textured pattern of small rectangles with rounded edges embedded in…

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Excerpt: If you think open-source server technologies are limited to Linux distributions, think again. Although these software projects pair well with Linux, it isn’t an integral part of any of the 10 listed. Open-source software no longer refers to a Linux-only environment. In fact, open source now crosses all operating system boundaries, so much so, that Microsoft launched its own open-source laboratory called Port 25, and it is a platinum-level sponsor of the Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco. To introduce you to 10 hot server-oriented open-source technologies you need to know, I compiled a diverse list of projects and…

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Excerpt: Have you spent too much time waiting for large files to crawl between a computer and an external hard drive? Don’t fret — USB 3.0 has arrived. Not only can it move data faster and provide more power, but it’s compatible with USB 2.0 devices. Developed by the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF), USB 3.0’s SuperSpeed specification promises a theoretical top speed of 5Gbit/sec. versus USB 2.0’s 480Mbit/sec. The key to blending old and new is NEC’s µPD720200 controller chip. It has the circuitry for USB 2.0 and 3.0 transfers inside and can use either, depending on what’s plugged in. Right now, it’s…