Computers

As I sit and type this post on a laptop that is hot enough to fry eggs, I could really use a set of these feets! The Cool Feet from bluelounge are rubber feet that go onto the bottom of your laptop and raise it off of the desk to get some air flow to the bottom of the laptop. As a ghetto mod I slipped a couple wine corks under the back of this laptop, and amazingly I can no longer feel the heat of the CPU through the keyboard.

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There seems to be a bunch of these type of devices running around these days, as the release of Windows Vista approaches, hardware vendors are showing off their devices that will take advantage of Vista's "sideshow" feature. The MSI Mega Player 529 is one such device, not only acting as an auxiliary display for Vista, but as a removable media player that you can take with you to listen to music or watch videos. The Mega Player features 1GB of internal memory, and a 320x240 screen.

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Phillips is joining the party with a bunch of new remotes designed to work with Vista MCE. Phillips is not a huge player in the consumer electronics game around these parts, so it will be interesting to see if these even make it out this way.

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Ricavision has released details on their new Vista MCE compatible bluetooth remote, the remote features a 2.5" LCD to show the "sideshow" technology shipping the Vista, basically a suite of gadgets that display info on whats playing etc. The remote will feature both IR and bluetooth, so it looks like it will fit in to pretty much whatever setup you have.

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Kinesis is about to release a new keyboard in their line, the Kinesis Freestyle, which is able to be re configured into three different styles depending on how you want to split your keyboard. As a big fan of ergo keyboards, I will be watching this one for a price to come out, and as long as they don't want $400, I will check one out.

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It appears that the rumour mill has spit out another one, there may be a 27" widescreen monitor in the works over at Dell, as the supplier of LCDs to Dell, Samsung, has aggreed to supply LCDs to dell in that size. I can see it now, 3 of those, a stack of pr0n and I am in heaven!

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The lite on Blue ray burner is coming, with a street price around $600 US it will be a while till these make their way into the average user's computer. The Drivefeatures a SATA interface, writes to BD-R / BD-RW media at 2X, DVD+R & DVD-R media at 12X and CD-R discs at 32X. It ships with Power DVD for playback and Power Producer and Power2Go for authoring.

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Here is a nice service, it allows you to resize images through a website, a very nice thing to have when you are away from your computer and on a restricted internet cafe type situation.

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EverythingUSB has a review of the new USB speakers from Logitech, they find they are pretty good speakers for someone that is not looking for a lot of bass, or 5.1 speakers for your porn.

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THe PortableApps Suite has launched, it is a similar idea to the U3 scheme, but the apps are all included for free, and it even includes a slick launcher. It is a great idea for bringing along with you, because inevitably you will forget your "I will not fix your computer" T-shirt, and some family member will guilt you into fixing their computer... not that I am talking from experience.

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