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New Dell Adamo Laptop

dell-adamoDell has released a new laptop called Adamo (Latin for “I fall in love with”). It is a Dell subnotebook focused on design and mobility. A notebook prototype was unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show in January, 2009. The Adamo was released on March 17, 2009 in the US.

Design:

The Adamo is a laptop build from many parts aluminum. It’s decorated with three different finishes of black metal, including a classy matte grain that makes up a majority of the case, but then Dell tops all that blackness off with two more touches of black plastic (keyboard and mouse buttons) and a tempered glass (infront and behind the screen) to add a bit of gloss to the mix.

Quick Overview:

  • Slender Frame - Measuring only .65 inches, Adamo’s ultra-slim profile belies the powerful features within.
  • Inner Strength - A tough, machined-aluminum chassis is graced with elegant detail.
  • Stunning Display - The 13.4-inch 16:9 HD display with edge-to-edge glass offers an integrated 1.3 megapixel web camera.
  • Perfect Chemistry - Advanced lithium polymer technology invites you to enjoy more than 5 hours of battery life1 on a full charge.
  • Effortless Communication - Wireless N, Bluetooth, one RJ-45 port and optional mobile broadband2 help keep you in touch wherever you go.
  • Quick Wit - The blazing-fast Intel®  Core 2 Duo®  processor with Centrino®  technology works in concert with DDR3 memory to deliver outstanding performance.

Currently there is 2 releases of Adamo (Admire & Desire)

The Tweetie Mac Client

twitter-client-tweetie2It seems as though every day now there is news and now new products coming out to support Twitter. Do a search online and you will find endless applications for people’s social networking profiles such as Tweeter for Facebook.

The new Tweetie download for the desktop version of the already incredibly popular Iphone client has been eagerly awaiting all the Twitter addicts and should not disappoint! It does deliver and has lots of features that makes this $19.95 price tag seem like a real bargain!

Tweetie is a  fairly full fledged Twitter application that features a unique UI with separate sections for messages, your friend’s timelines and replies. You can easily find recent tweets and  follower/following status by clicking the user icons through conversation chains.

There are shortcuts galore with Tweetie and you can even close the main window and tweet in a separate window if you find your fellow Twitter friends too annoying.  Annoying and Twitter??

Aesthetically,  Tweetie looks super! Navigation between sections is a smooth transition and the interface looks clean. One of the best things that we like at GearYak, is that Tweetie supports multiple accounts. You can use one for your business profile and one for your personal use.

Price tag? Tweeite for Mac 1.0 has been released to you in both free and paid versions. It depends on if you mind the bothersome ads that you find on free uploads. $19.95 is well worth the price of ad free Twittering! Until May 4. you can buy Tweetie for $14.95!

Netflix coming to PS3?

netflix-logoWhile streaming Netflix videos has been a Xbox 360 exclusive for quite a while, one has to wonder when they will extend this service to other gaming platforms.

A recent job listing on Monster by Netflix, looking for an “experienced engineer to lead the gaming platform team”, suggests that they plan on extending to more gaming consoles. But which gaming consoles, the job listing doesn’t list any specific ones.

Here is a picture of the Monster job listing:

With the PS3 being very capable for something like this, already having an internet browser, and the ability to stream videos, it seems almost imminent. As far as the rumors because of the job listing, the recent Netflix survey that appeared shortly before that suggests the same idea. The survey asked subscribers whether they’d be willing to pay a one-time fee of $10 to stream video to their PS3s.

As for the question “what other gaming consoles” Netflix has in mind, the Nintendo Wii, and even the Playstation Portable (PSP) are both a possibility.

Whether or not Netflix will infact have a service for the PS3, and if they are, when will it be available, is still yet to be known.

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