Egnyte makes cloud storage a business
Posted by Kathleen Maher on December 11th 2011 | Discuss (0)
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Dropbox, Sugar Sync, OpenDrive, Mozy, Egnyte ... there are quite a few options for cloud storage services, but Egnyte hopes to stand out with security and management as well as competitive pricing.
Testing Vellamo
Posted by Webmaster on September 24th 2011 | Permalink
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Vellamo is a mobile Web benchmark that evaluates browser performance on Android devices and provides a holistic view into browser performance. It also evaluates networking, JavaScript, rendering, and user experience incorporating industry standard and custom tests. The test was developed by Qualcomm. We ran Vellamo on a couple of Android tablets and a few android phones to see how they compared. There was a mixture of operating systems and service providers as shown in the table. The tablets, with larger more powerful SoCs clearly got the best scores, while most of the phones were in the same range. Brand Model Specifications…
AnTuTu mobile device benchmark
Posted by Jon Peddie on July 28th 2011 | Permalink
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The AnTuTu System Benchmark by Beijing Zhirui is an Android benchmarking tool that can run a full test of a mobile devices’ processor through a series of test for easy comparison.
The tablet is a blank slate - Review ArtRage for Apple iPad
Posted by Kathleen Maher on July 1st 2011 | Permalink
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Steve Jobs is not always right and in fact, he was totally wrong when he dismissed the idea of a stylus for his devices because among all the other things the iPad does well — remote control, movie player, presentation platform, and best friend on a lonely Saturday night — the iPad is turning out to be a really great piece of paper. We have downloaded several drawing program for the iPad and every single one of them is good. Just the current list of drawing tools on my computer includes Brushes, by Steve Sprang: $7.99; Autodesk SketchBook Pro: $4.99; Adobe…
Corel Video Studio Pro Review
Posted by Kathleen Maher on March 25th 2011 | Permalink
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Corel has introduced their latest version of VideoStudio and this product displays the considerable effort that has gone into streamlining the interface on the frontside and under the hood, Corel has tuned the software to take advantage of GPUs and one of the major features of VideoStudio is the ability to export videos to almost any imaginable format. Transcoding is something GPUs pride themselves on and VideoStudio has done a good job. Exporting videos is painless. But exporting comes at the end, VideoStudio has a new look right from the start. The interface is arranged around an easy One-Two-Three tab system:…
Review Cyberlink’s MediaEspresso
Posted by Jon Peddie on January 13th 2011 | Permalink
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Ultra fast universal media converter CyberLink has impressed us almost since day one with their courage, cleverness, and consistency. One of the first companies to offer a suite, innovative with their attempt to auto edit video for action scenes (they called it "emotional"), and really good looking and easy to use UIs. MediaEspresso has been cut from that same cloth, and version 6.5 is the best yet. The program can convert video with its batch function.. You import files or complete folders, and let MediaEspresso handle the video conversion process, no need to sit by your computer till the end. The…
The Sandy Bridge Review
Posted by Robert Dow & Jon Peddie on January 12th 2011 | Permalink
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CES is over and the hope, promise, and promise of Intel’s Sandy Bridge CPU with embedded processor graphics (EPG) has been revealed. There is rejoicing through the press and the webosphere. We’ve been testing and using a 4-core version Sandy Bridge Core i5-2500k running at 3.3 GHz. We ran a variety of tests and compared the Sandy Bridge against the previous generation, Clarkdale. As you might expect, Sandy Bridge, code named “SNB,” is a “Tock,” and considerably faster in all the operations we tested, including CPU tests, and graphics. Intel's new Sandy Bridge desktop processor architecture has a lot going on,…
Futuremark’s 3DMark 11 Review
Posted by Robert Dow on December 8th 2010 | Permalink
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First look at new benchmark DirectX 11 has been with us since Windows 7 was introduced in late October 2009, almost 14 months ago. And it’s not as if no one didn’t know it was coming, or no major OEM or game developer didn’t know what the specifications were, and even have access to some of the tools. So it’s hard to understand why so few games are available that support DirectX 11 other than they are cheap console ports and were never designed for DirectX 11. OK, that explains the lazy PC hating game developers, but not a company whose…
Review of Trainz—A railroad simulator
Posted by Jon Peddie on December 8th 2010 | Permalink
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Simulators for airplanes, ships, cars, and even spaceships are what people usually think of first when the word sim is mentioned. But for folks who like trains, a railroad simulator is a fabulous entertainment tool. When I was younger and seemed to have unlimited time I built model railroads. And then when my son was old enough to appreciate them, we built one together. Model railroads have one major problem, available space. Clever schemes of hanging the platform from the ceiling or folding up sections into the wall to reclaim the space when not in use are the stories of legends.…
Review: OnLive games in the cloud
Posted by Alex Garovi on September 28th 2010 | Permalink
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As PC games become more and more demanding, gamers are often left behind, unable to play the games they want without spending a good amount of money on new computers and/or graphics boards. What it is OnLive, an online gaming service launched in March 2009 is trying to make this frustrating element of PC gaming a thing of the past. Founded by entrepreneur Steve Perlman, OnLive is attempting to change the traditional PC gaming experience, by allowing users to play games via cloud computing on any computer that meets the client’s lenient system requirements. All you need is a dual core…