Many have asked the question, whether they should get an eReader such as the Kindle or Nook, or go with a tablet such as the Galaxy Tab, Transformer or iPad. To be honest, there is no straight answer, but if you can answer a couple of the following questions, you might have yourself an answer by the end of this article.

Are you a heavy reader? If the answer to this is yes, you might want to take a second look at the eReader. Thanks to eLink technology, reading from the screen of an eReader is a lot easier on the eyes. Not just that, but eLink is perfectly readable under direct sunlight and even night thanks to back light. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said of most tablets.

Do you have a smartphone? If the answer is yes, getting a tablet could be overkill especially if your smartphone is Android or iOS. Companies might not want to say it, but all tablets are  actually smartphones with more screen real estate, for the most part, unless of course, your tablet happens to run Windows, Mac OSX or Linux. Of course, this is up for debate, but the tablet is no where near as versatile as the laptop, and does not seem to be the case for the near future.

Are you a college student? College students will generally benefit from a tablet more than almost any other group. They are great for note taking, reading, writing and entertainment. That said, with the Kindle and Nook app being available for both Android and iOS tablets, it is not hard to find all the popular textbooks right on a 9 or 10 inch screen.

Conclusion: Both devices are excellent. However, they are geared towards different audiences. If you are a heavy reader, an eReader will suit you better. However, if you find yourself surfing the web more often than catching up on the latest Tom Clancy novel, a tablet might be in your line of sight.

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Interface

Out of both interfaces, Pandora has the cleaner and more intuitive one. That said, Slacker offers more ways one can customize their listening experience. One of the best things about Pandora is that except for the advertisements, there is very little distraction. Not only that, but being a heavy user of the mobile apps for both services, I noticed that Pandora was the easier of the two to navigate. Not being a big fan of most radio stations, due to the fact that they play more ads than music, Pandora and Slacker are almost always on when I am driving. Pandora offers much less distraction and I can easily navigate my stations with a glance or two.

WINNER: Pandora

Music Quality

I have not noticed a significant difference in music quality. Both offer settings to increase or decrease the quality of the music. I have noticed that Pandora takes longer to buffer when the music quality is set to high, however, it is not significantly longer than Slacker.

WINNER: Tie

Listening Cap

If you are a heavy user of Pandora, you will notice those frequent emails saying you are reaching your cap. In reality, you get about 40 hours of streaming music a month for free. Anything above that requires a premium account. The account does give you unlimited skips and no ads however. Slacker, as of now, offers unlimited music listening with no caps. Pandora premium costs $39 annually. Once you have reach your cap however, you can pay $0.99 and receive unlimited music listening for the remainder of the month which works out to be cheaper than the annual subscription, though it does not include any premium features.

WINNER: Slacker

Music Selection

One of the best features of Pandora is the ability to select a song and build a station around that. Slacker on the other hand allows you to create a station around an artist/band etc. and include music from related artists. Overall I noticed that the selection of music on Slacker is much better than Pandora. Also, the repeating of songs is a lot less on Slacker vs. Pandora.

WINNER: Slacker

Conclusion

When it comes down to it all, Slacker takes the prize. It’s user interface might be a bit harder (and by a bit, I mean by a negligible amount) to navigate than Pandora, but it makes up for that in better music selection and less repetition of songs.

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Windows 7 has native support for automatically changing the wallpaper. Windows 7 also supports changing the logon screen without any third party application.

Logon Screen Rotator (Windows 7) is a great application that goes a step further and allows more functionality by allowing automatic change of the logon screen at user-defined intervals. You also have the option to revert to the default image whenever you wish to do so.

This application also provides other functions like the ability to change the username style shown in the logon screen.

If you are weary of using third party applications and don’t mind getting your hands dirty you can dive into the registry and modify the logon screen using a key.

• Open Registry Editor (type “regedit” in the Start menu) as administrator.

• Go to this key ‘HKEY-LOCAL-MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Authentication/LogonUI/Background’.

• Select the value ‘OEMBackground’, and change the value data to 1

• If the key does not exist, create a new DWORD as OEMBackground.

• Create this folder: /WINDOWS/system32/oobe/info/backgrounds

• Copy a JPG image smaller than 250kb and name it as backgroundDefault.jpg (The JPG is stretched, so you should resize it according to your aspect ratio)

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Overview

Registry Easy is a registry cleaner and PC optimizer. If you are having issues like slow speeds, sporadic freezing sessions, lack of disk space and other errors you might want to read on. Registry Easy is an economic solution to fixing much of your PC woes.

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Features

• Registry Cleaner

The main feature behind the application (based on the name of the software) is its Registry Cleaner, the Registry Cleaner hastily scans the computer and detects any invalid or orphan entries and deletes them. Having issues with your registry contributes to reduced speeds and longer startup times and getting rid of these issues should help fix your computer.

Putting the cleaner to the test, I scanned my personal computer for errors and found around 2000 of them. If you are skeptical, it provides an automatic (which can be turned off) backup feature which maintains the uncleaned version of your registry in case the clean up causes any issues.

• 1-Click Maintenance

The 1-Click Maintenance feature is a relatively new feature of the software and bundles the aforementioned Registry Cleaner with a few other maintenance tools like an Evidence Cleaner (to clean traces from your browser), Junk Files Cleaner (which scans and deletes any non-required files that just occupy space on your hard drive), Block ActiveX (protects your computer from harmful ActiveX controls), System Optimizer (general ‘under the hood’ optimization) and Uninstall Manager (clean up files left from old application uninstalls).

Running the 1-Click Maintenance tool regularly, which can be automated (see below) will ensure that your computer stays clean and error free at all times. The scan takes around 6 minutes to complete which is reasonable.

The 1-click scan found 2182 problems on my personal computer and impressively enough, I have noticed performance to be quite a bit smoother than before (mainly in the startup area).

• Backups

Registry Easy ensures that your files and computer is safe from any mishaps that occur when cleaning the system or otherwise. A collection of backup utilities have been incorporated which lets you back up your registry, files, favorites and also create restore point to roll back your computer to a past state if required.

• Optimize System

This consists of a suite of applets that make registry modifications to optimize your computer based on purpose, internet connection and also tweak memory. Putting these features to the test, while the changes may not be dramatic it visibly increases the performance of your system.

• System Fix

The System Fix suite of utilities allows you to instantly remove any minor errors, invalid registry entries and vulnerabilities within the system, fixing invalid shortcuts and file associations as well as refreshing the DLL libraries can all be done using the System Fix utilities which in turn contributes to better computer performance.

• System Tools

The system tools consist of a handy ‘toolbox’ of utilities that lets you perform actions such as recovering deleted files, joining and splitting files, recovering passwords from popular applications such as Live Messenger and Google Talk. A startup manager and also an uninstall manager.

A startup manager and uninstall manager are quite worthless IMO since they are available by default in Windows.

• IE Tools

This is another set of features I find has been included to just bloat this great software. Granted, I religiously loathe Internet Explorer for very justifiable reasons, most of the features are already available within the Internet Explorer settings. If you happen to be a fervent supporter of the browser though you might find the ‘IE Restore’ feature useful which performs numerous tweaks to optimize the browser.

Customization

The application also provides a few handy customization features, the main feature being scheduling of 1-click scans, other features include an ignore list in case any legit registry entries are being flagged by the application and a few other preferences as well.

Interface

You shouldn’t be able to find any complaints about the software’s interface. It is pretty much perfect. Pull-down menus and tabs have been incorporated to make efficient use of space and also add a touch of effects as well as striking icons makes the app a pleasure to use.

Price ($40/year)

There are literally tons of software that claim to deal with the same issues that Registry Easy fixes, in fact some free software too. In my opinion though, if you don’t mind getting your hands dirty and experimenting with different tools and digging into the system registry by yourself you might get yourself a better deal but I also think it isn’t worth the trouble.

Registry Easy is a solid piece of software, with the numerous extra tools included, for example, a file recovery tool has been incorporated as well, such tools alone are separately sold for the same price as this entire application, so I think it’s worth if you consider the entire package.

Negative Feedback

While when I tested it, the application boosted my computer’s performance, there are situations where users tend to notice the opposite. I believe this depends on the applications installed on the system. Registry Easy seems to be very merciless with junk on your system and sometimes this tends to act negatively because it removes registry entries and files required by the system. Therefore make sure you backup your system and create a restore point because there is a slight chance of this happening too. In most cases though, Registry Easy improves the conditions of your computer.

Conclusion

It’s quite hard to find any extra features that can be added to an application meant to optimize and clean up a computer so in my opinion Registry Easy quite worth a try and if you are not satisfied there is always a money back guarantee which can be requested for.

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Company – Digiarty Software
Version – 4.1.1 (free)
Operating System – Windows XP

Summary

Media converters are a dime a dozen in the software market today, thus staying afloat the competition requires something out of the ordinary, WinX DVD Ripper gives you what you would look for in a media converter, nothing innovative or out of the ordinary though.

Ratings

• Interface (7/10)
• Ease of use (9/10)
• Memory Usage (7/10)
• Features (7/10)
• Price (9/10)
• Help and Support (10/10)

Review

• Interface (7/10)

WinX DVD Ripper consists of a boring grey interface again (like CounterSpy), except that WinX DVD Ripper consists of different shades of grey making it even more dull an interface, it does not support different skins so you are stuck with it. Also the border consists of a luminous blue, I don’t know where that came from!

However, the combination of colors are easy on the eye and doesn’t really burn your eyes or anything (unlike some of the Chrome themes).

• Ease of use (9/10)

WinX DVD Ripper is quite easy to use, most of the features are pretty much self explanatory, with the minimalistic, simple interface and the use of tabs, navigating through the features and performing any feature is pretty much a walk in the park. One of the issues is the output file name cannot be configured and I fail to see how they missed that tiny feature. However apart from that the application is quite easy to use.

• Memory Usage (7/10)

WinX DVD Ripper manages memory just like most other converters, i.e. takes a LOT of memory. During conversion, multi tasking is ‘fairly’ possible which is reasonable compared to other converters.

• Features (7/10)

The review is usually based on other converters, based on this, the fact that it allows only DVD to other formats instead of cross-conversion between any format cripples the software looking at the application as a standard media converter. However WinX ‘DVD Ripper’ is developed for this purpose and fulfills it thus the conversion properties are sufficient IMO. Most of the popular media formats MP4, FLV and audio are supported (among other formats) providing quite a bit of versatility.

It also provides comprehensive details during conversion, the possibility to convert the DVD partially and completes conversion in quite an efficient speed.

• Price (9/10)

WinXDVD Ripper is available in 2 versions, a free and Platinum version, while the free version is completely sufficient providing a multitude of formats and features, for just an extra $14.95 you get support for conversion of several other formats and a few more features. The $14.95 price tag is also quite reasonable relatively.

• Help and Support (10/10)

WinX DVD Ripper is equipped with a comprehensive help file, the user friendly interface and controls already makes it convenient to use the application, the help file simplifies it further providing screenshots and explaining how to perform virtually every feature in detail.

Overall

I’d say WinX DVD Ripper is average, it provides the standard set of features you’d expect from a converter nothing that gives it an edge over its competition though, however if it is a DVD converter you are looking for, WinX DVD Ripper would be what you’d want.

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Antispyware software has taken centre stage lately with spyware becoming just as harmful a threat as viruses. Ad Aware and Spyware Doctor have established quite a name for themselves in this industry however Sunbelt Software has put together a powerful antispyware solution as well.

Review Details

• Company – Sunbelt Software
• Operating System – XP
• Version – 3.0.6

Application Ratings

• Interface – 7/10
• Ease of use – 9/10
• Memory Usage – 5/10
• Popularity – 6/10
• Price(~$20.00) – 10/10
• Speed – 4/10
• Spyware detection rate – 10/10
• Help and Support – 10/10

Review

• Interface – 7/10

CounterSpy’s interface is ok, nothing to complain about and nothing to be impressed about either, IMO the color combination is boring, it’s primary color is grey, you’d expect an antivirus/spyware program to concentrate its color scheme on a blue or green and if you look at the grey color scheme in an ‘innovative’ sense CounterSpy’s interface would score there. Also the overall combination of colors is easy on the eye, that and  the uniformity would give CounterSpy a reasonable 7/10 for interface.

• Ease of use – 9/10

CounterSpy like most other anti-malware software is quite easy to use, user-friendliness is a fundamental part of these software as they are used by virtually any computer user and CounterSpy has pretty much sorted that out too. Counterspy is separated into appropriately labeled tabs, icons and text providing a setup that any noob should be able to figure out the works for. The one thing missing would be tool-tip text to further explain any available features however the icons and labels should be sufficient for the average computer user.

• Memory Usage – 5/10

CounterSpy follows the theme that most other anti-malware products in the market tend to show when it comes to memory usage. It does a good job, on standby, realtime protection doesn’t really strain the system, the application launches in just a few seconds (you hear that Firefox?) so running CounterSpy on startup doesn’t really affect the startup time of your computer that much.

It is scanning that drains your computer off its resources. While it doesn’t really consume too much memory it uses up all the CPU almost completely crippling you of multi tasking during the scan. Thankfully they have conveniently provided the ‘pause’ feature if you need to really use your computer in the middle of a scan. This is one of the main weaknesses of the application.

• Popularity – 6/10

CounterSpy surfaced as reputed software good enough to compete with the market leaders only recently thus popularity is still in progress. With time, based on the potential it has, it should rise in popularity.

• Price(~$20) – 10/10

This is one of the main pros behind the application. CounterSpy has a price tag of $19.95 which is a lot more economical than its competition, most other antispyware solutions are in the $30-$40 range, relatively CounterSpy is a lot more cheaper giving it the edge with its competition.

• Speed – 4/10

CounterSpy takes a painfully long time to perform a full system scan, this is another drawback of the program, however long scan times are common with antispyware/virus programs and is something that needs to be addressed with the developers with most computer tasks today performed pretty much instantly.

• Spyware detection rate – 10/10

I am a heavy surfer and have used CounterSpy long enough and it has done a great job at keeping the usual tracking cookies away as well as other more harmful spyware threats. With CounterSpy you can feel quite safe online as far as spyware is concerned.

• Help and Support – 10/10

CounterSpy provides ample help and support with the product. While by default, the application is very easy to use and pretty much self explanatory already, it is packaged with a comprehensive help file, they also have a knowledge base online, a support forum and also live online help via chat so you can’t really ask for much more than that.

Overall

CounterSpy is not the best solution by any means, however with its very competitive price and very satisfactory detection rate I would still highly recommend this software.

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I moved to MediaTemple’s Grid hosting platform in the beginning of January, I think I’ve used the service enough to post a review on the service. Personally I’m very happy with the service, no complains at all in fact, good customer service, barely any downtime and fast FTP which is all you pretty much look for in a host. Below is the detailed review covering every (for the most part) aspect of the service.

• Reliability

MediaTemple’s GS hosting has been very satisfactory in terms of reliability, there’s virtually 99% uptime, I manage 7 websites on the GS server, there are occasional downtime situations (including yesterday), however this lasts for a few minutes the most. There might have been one time where downtime was around 1 hour. Apart from that the servers have been pretty fast and steady.

The GS server is mainly promoted by boasting uptime during traffic spikes and rightfully so, the server was steady with occasional traffic spikes I got from Stumbleupon maybe a couple of times.

• Ease of use

The Media Temple account management and control panel are quite straight forward and easy to use, they provide 1-click installation of popular applications, WordPress, Drupal and Zencart (they could work on the number of options here as comparatively, to similar services like the GoDaddy hosting connection which offers several more 1-click installations MediaTemple is quite far behind.) They provide several usage reports (bandwidth, GPU, Disk, visitors) to keep track of your server.

• Price

Grid hosting with Media Temple costs $20/month. This is probably one of the factors that can be improved on, since grid hosting is still a fairly new concept and not available by many web hosting providers yet, it is compared to ‘economy’ hosting of other web hosting providers which are available from $5/month depending on the host. Personally, I think the price can be reduced a notch, while I am still happy to pay the $20 a month for a server that is really secure.

• FTP

I use Filezilla to manage FTP transfers and Media Temple offers very fast transfer rates (as opposed to my previous host, Godaddy).

• Email

I use Gmail to manage my custom email domains, and I suggest you do the same with whatever hosting provider you use. MediaTemple is equipped with SquirrelMail, Atmail and RoundCube to manage your email accounts, which are all popular web mail services, you may use the one you prefer.

• Popularity

Media Temple is still appreciating in terms of popularity as more reputed brands shift towards the service, they already boast several established brands (including Sony, Adobe, Techcrunch, etc.) that host with the service so you’ll be in good company if you plan to host with Media Temple.

• Help and Customer Support

Media Temple provides great customer support, I had to mail them a couple of times (the 1-click WordPress installation creates a htaccess file that redirects your site to the Media Temple home page, wasn’t aware of it), and received a reply in just a couple of hours maybe, both times, thus very prompt customer support, also queries are to the point and not excessive or ‘indirect’ (as opposed to GoDaddy’s email support sometimes which can get a little excessive and doesn’t really solve the query. I didn’t have the need to call customer support yet (I generally would if there are several hours of downtime) but I’m pretty sure it should match the email support standards. (Any feedback on this in the comments would be appreciated).

Their knowledge base and user forums already contains a wealth of information which will probably cover all your doubts so you wouldn’t probably need customer support in the first place.

• Overall

If you’ve read the review above, it’s mostly been on a positive note, some of the factors they need to work on are probably their price and 1-click applications, apart from that, it’s a pretty neat service and I’d recommend it to anyone who can fit $20/month into their hosting budget. Any feedback on the service in the comments would be much appreciated.

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Summary

The Dell E6400 laptop has a new design compared to the older D series. It has a sleek black finish and the standard configuration is more than enough for the average user. I feel the E6400 is highly configurable, has an excellent battery, and the screen is excellent quality. The biggest reason I rank this laptop high is the battery life. I get almost 4 hours of nonstop battery out of the E6400. My old D630 got 2 hours if I was lucky. I believe the only downfall I could find is it’s a bit heavier than the D series, but still manageable.

Detailed Review

Dell D series laptops have long dominated the corporate world. While they have been good laptops, battery life has always been an issue for our employees. Even the larger extended battery wasn’t that great. That’s where the E series really stepped it up. The E6400 also boasts the new Centrino 2 platform, which probably has a lot to do with the battery life. Our units come standard with a 2.26 GHz Core 2 Duo processor, a 160 GB hard drive, and 2 GB of RAM. We also opted to get the upgraded Nvidia video card. The final price per laptop comes to about $1900 which is decent for a corporate laptop. Another upgrade that was needed for a long time was the backlit keyboard ($49 option).

The base model is around $1100 to start. Even this bare bones model is still a great buy.

A Few Other Optional Features

AT&T/Sprint/Verizon broadband antenna: $150
12 cell “Battery Slice” w/ 19 hrs of battery life: price varies
5 year extended support: $249

Most corporate laptops are not intended for gaming. We did choose the upgraded Nvidia card in preparation for Windows 7 later this year. We also choose the upgraded 7200 RPM hard drive as well. This setup is perfect for our mobile users and so far they have been very happy with the performance. In short, this laptop is well worth the money and would be a great addition to your companies’ laptop line

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To say this monitor is ultra-thin is an understatement. The panel from front to back where the DVI plugs in is about 1.5 inches at most. The monitor delivers a full 1080p HD experience. The bezel frame is almost transparent and seems to reduce glare by reducing the amount of light reflected.

The Samsung P2370L comes in Samsung’s signature “Touch of Color” design and technology similar to their line of LCD and LED TV’s. These monitors are very eco-friendly as well. They are said to consume 30% less power than their older counterparts. Also, there is no mercury or lead traces in the monitors which older ones were notorious for. This should make everyone happy – saving some money on electricity and no pollution after the monitor serves its purpose.

This monitor was noticeably sharper and brighter than the Dell G2410 LED monitor I reviewed. I hate to say it, but the transparent bezel really added some style to the monitor in contrast to the dull black stand by Dell. The monitor is equipped with white LED’s, and a huge contrast ratio of 2 million: 1.

The Samsung P2370L starting selling in retail stores in early 2009. The price is quite high at the moment – it starts around $350 while the comparable Dell sells for $100 less. Put these monitors side by side, I think you’ll opt to spend the extra money.

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NOD32 has been lately getting attention and surfacing on various ‘top 10′ lists, this has been due to NOD32′s success in doing what an antivirus is supposed to, protect you from viruses.

Review Details

• Company – ESET
• Operating System – XP
• Version – 3.0.6

Application Ratings

• Interface – 10/10
• Ease of use – 10/10
• Memory Usage – 6/10
• Popularity – 8/10
• Price(~$40.00) – 8/10
• Speed – 5/10
• Virus detection rate – 7/10
• Help and Support – 10/10

Review

• Interface – 10/10

NOD32 is packaged with a simple, minimalist interface. Using light shades of generic skin colors of a green, blue and white combination. The interface is available in 2 modes, standard and advanced. This provides more options and functionality and maybe switched based on how savvy the user is. The advanced mode has an additional ‘Tools’ section to configure more specific options.

• Ease of use – 10/10

Like most antivirus programs NOd32 is very straight forward with an easy to use self explanatory interface. The different standard and advanced mode explained above makes it more suited towards an overall audience, users with better technical know how may toggle the advanced mode while the layman computer user may stick with the standard version which is sufficient to keep the application running. All the various features within the application are appended with tool-tip text as well so figuring the functions of the software is a breeze. Installation and initial settings are also quite straight forward.

• Memory Usage – 6/10

On standby, NOD32 does great with memory usage, takes a tad of time to startup but it’s nothing to get frustrated about as the flash screen shows up and instantly the application is loaded and sits on the system tray. The 6 point score results from the heavy CPU usage during a scan, multi tasking maybe possible depending on the simultaneous task(s) you plan on performing, however to support this negative factor, it offers pausing of the scan so if you need to urgently run a task while a scan is in progress you may pause it and continue afterwards.

• Popularity – 8/10

As I stated in the summary, NOD32 has gained popularity over recent times successfully competing with several of its counterparts. While it’s still can’t compete in terms of popularity with some of the old boys like McAfee or Norton, it should eventually grab more market share as I could safely say it’s better than some of the more popular antivirus programs around.

• Price(~$40.00) – 8/10

NOD32 costs $40 for an individual 1 year license, this price is highly competitive and quite similar to most of the other antivirus programs in the market.

• Speed – 5/10

NOD32 takes forever to perform a full scan, while this is common in many antivirus programs, it’s one of the main issues that need to be addressed with in the antivirus/antispyware market, some of the antivirus software like Kaspersky handle this well though. A full scan on NOD32 takes several hours to complete.

• Virus detection rate – 7/10

NOD32 has quite a satisfactory detection rate however I’ve noticed that it’s not the most secure funnel in terms of filtering viruses. It does have a relatively high detection rate compared to other market leaders like AVG however there is indeed room for improvement.

• Help and Support – 10/10

NOD32 provides a wealth of documented support on all aspects of the program. They have an offline manual as well as an Internet database, they also provide customer care by email in case they missed any doubt you might have in their compiled documentation.

Overall (8/10)

Looking at the application as a whole, it’s a very good option for an antivirus software, from its simplicity to the detection rate and also the manageable memory usage. While there are aspects as highlighted above that has room for improvement it’s a solid antivirus program that is probably worth the price.

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