On this episode Steve takes us on an Apple adventure. First he introduces us to the slender Mac Book Air, a laptop so thin it fits in a manila envelope. The new notebook features a full-size keyboard and a backlit LED 13.3-inch display. It also ships with a built-in iSight camera, a solid-state drive, and a new larger track pad which supports multi-touch gestures. This means that just like the iPhone, you'll be able to pan around your photos, pinch to zoom in or out, and rotate with only two fingers!
This week brought the much anticipated MacBook Air into the Dotto Tech studios for our first look at the somewhat controversial new notebook from Apple. Once again Apple is leading the way in innovation with a new class of notebook.
It is not really a subnotebook and it is definitely not a full sized notebook. The MacBook Air is ultra light - only 3 lbs - but it still has a large 13” screen and a full sized keyboard. Thin is in, and as the TV commercials pay testament to, the Air will slide nicely into a manila envelope.
As they did with the first iMacs, Apple has eschewed removable storage on the Air. There is no optical drive - the Air is designed to be fully self-contained - and in fact there is only a single USB port and a headphone jack, plus a mini DVI video output to allow peripheral connections.
Original Air Date: February 2, 2008
Steve explains how you can use the Internet as our telephone service using VOIP, or voice over IP. If you haven’t thought of using the Internet as your telephone provider, this show might make you think again. Steve looks at services offered by Vonage, and shows you that you can have all the features of your current telephone provider, plus have all the freedom of checking your messages online from anywhere you have an Internet connection. With Vonage, you can also have a local number anywhere in Canada, United States or Over Seas.
Original Airdate: November 10 ,2007
In this show Steve looks at the Epson R1800 and R2400 Printers. These are high end printers designed primarily for the serious photographer. Steve also looks at the Alienware laptop and desktop computers that are custom built for the serious gamer. If you’re about to or just got a new computer then you’ll want to pay close attention to Steve’s demo of PC Mover by Laplink where he shows you how easy it is to move the contents from your old computer to your new one. On Tech Toys Caroline looks at Trackstick, a GPS logging gadget that keeps track of where you’ve been so you can have a virtual record of your journeys.
Steve lets you peer into his new .Mac account to see how it can expand your work & entertainment territory over the internet. iDisk offers convenience and security -the virtual drive protects your automatically backed up data and allows you to access it from any computer. Also, MacBook laptops, and iPod cases for the active set.
Steve lets you peer into his new .Mac account to see how it can expand your work & entertainment territory over the internet. iDisk offers convenience and security -the virtual drive protects your automatically backed up data and allows you to access it from any computer. Also, MacBook laptops, and iPod cases for the active set.
We’ll show you the best new technologies for small business, such as HP’s Officejet Pro K550 printer. Steve introduces us to Vonage, a new kind of phone company that uses the internet to make and receive calls from anywhere in the world with just a regular telephone and adapter. He also shows us how to turn your computer into atelephone using Vonage’s SoftPhone.
Nothing gets Steve’s blood boiling like time wasted wading through spam. With Norton Internet Security 2006 you can efficiently deal with this annoying safety threat. And Caroline shows you how you can finally import all your contacts that are trapped on paper into your email program, with the Targus Mini Business Card Scanner.
This week's show is called back to basics because with the low, low prices of computers these days there are a lot of people out there either buying their first computer, or their first computer in this millenium! We are going to give you a little primer and try and simplify all the numbers that you are going to see in the store.
This season starts off with a familiar topic with a new twist. It is back to school time, but we are going to look at a few of the things older students are going to need. First up is a versatile notebook that you can style your dorm room around. We are going to look at HPs Pavillion DV4170 Wide Screen Notebook. The first thing we noticed about this baby is the amazing display, very high resolution and ultra-bright!