Tech News May 2005

 

Steelpad Qck+ Mouse Pad Mini-Review at TechIMO
Techimo :: Friday, May 27, 2005

Michael Hoffman serves up commentary on current events in the tech industry, plus delivers a mini-review of Steelpad’s popular cloth mouse pad. Excerpt: sPeople often ask me which mouse pad I would recommend using for LAN parties. After playing on the QcK+, this is certainly the pad that I would recommend. It is a cloth pad that can be folded or crumpled and tossed inside of a bag quickly.

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D-Link DGL-4300 Wireless 108G Gaming Router Review @ MODTHEBOX.COM
MODTHEBOX! :: Friday, May 27, 2005

“The highlight of the DGL-4300 Wireless 108G Gaming Router is the

inclusion of D-Link’s GameFuel technology. GameFuel is essentially a QoS (Quality of Service) feature that refers to a broad collection of networking technologies and techniques. The goal of GameFuel is the prioritization of network traffic; in this specific case network traffic in reference to gaming. Consumers can define specific gaming rules that will allow a single or multiple gaming PC’s to have top priority on the network when compared to standard applications such as e-mail, chat clients or web browsers.”

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Logitech Cordless Desktop LX500 and LX700 Showdown @ CoolTechZone
CoolTechZone :: Friday, May 27, 2005

“Logitech is one of the most well known makers of computer peripherals. Founded in 1981 in Switzerland, this company has grown to near 7,000 employees and have their products sold in more than 100 countries worldwide. Here in North America they have achieved an extremely deep market penetration, evidenced by their presence in nearly every electronic retailer in the country. If you walk in any Best Buy or Fry’s Electronic you will see Logitech keyboards and mice for sale.”

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Digital Photo 101 – The Digital Darkroom @ The Tech Zone
The Tech Zone :: Wednesday, May 18, 2005
“In the last three weeks, I have heard from four professional photographers who used to work exclusively in film. Two of them have added digital to their shooting arsenal and two have made a total switch to digital capture. All of these people have national reputations. All of them are nervous about switching. And all of them e-mailed me this week and asked pretty much the same questions. “How do I make the move from the wet darkroom to the digital darkroom? How do I get started with Photoshop? What is a workflow?”

It occurred to me that there must be others out there who have recently made the switch or who are about to make the switch to digital. If you too are making the switch, here’s what you need to know”

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