PEEWEE KIT turns any netbook into age-appropriate PC

Want to prevent your child from visiting naughty, inappropriate sites from any web-browser? Then, you should definitely take a quick glance at the PeeWee KIT from PeeWee PC. Heck, you can even control their netbook remotely.

PeeWee Kit features:

• USB drive.
• Security Suite: “PeeWee Patrol” and “PeeWee Privacy” for online and offline safety.
• Versions for 3 levels of students: Pre-K, Early Elementary, Upper Elementary.
• 7 fun games and educational software titles for the ultimate kid computer in minutes, including:

Dell Mini 1012 now available with T-Mobile webConnect

T-Mobile has announced at CTIA 2010 that they are now going to offer a customized Atom N450-powered Dell Mini 10 netbook – more commonly known as the Dell Mini 1012. This version is similar to the standard version but also offers the T-Mobile 3G service. It will be available at $199.99 and you will have to enroll yourself into a 2 year deal with T-Mobile.

Quick Specs – Intel Atom N450, Windows 7 Starter OS, 8h hour runtime, 3x USB ports, VGA port and 1.3MP camera.

Acer to offer Celeron-based CULV processors for its ultra-thin notebooks

Acer is very soon going to bring few changes in the type of processors being used in its Timeline thin-and-light series. For the low end models, Acer will offer Celeron-based Timelines. Until now we have encountered the 5410T and 3410T, 15.6” and 13.3”  models based on the Celeron 723 at 1.3GHz. The 13-incher is priced [...]

Tip for Firefox 3.5+ users: Hide the Tab bar when only one tab is opened

Many of us upgraded to the Firefox 3.5 immediately when it was released. Although the new version bought a lot of speed and security improvements, it also made the tab bar ‘permanently’ visible even though only tab was in use. This might not have affected the netbook users with high screen resolutions (like VAIO P), but it certainly bugged me a lot on my EEE 1000H and even more on my EEE 701, which comes with just 800 x 480 pixel screen.

Ubuntu 9.04 Netbook Remix to be available soon!

Canonical, the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, has announced the availability of Ubuntu 9.04 Netbook Remix. The newer version of ubuntu is going to be made available this coming Thursday. The newer version sports faster boot times. It also comes with an interface which lets them launch their favorite application easily and quickly. Other improvements include better power management and easier switching between networks.

Although, I really enjoyed EEEbuntu, which is actually an Ubuntu 8.10 with EEE drivers, but its long bootup time was the main turn off. That is the reason, I kept going back to Windows XP. I’m really looking forward to download the Ubuntu 9.04 Netbook Remix version. I hope the improvements are enough to make me use the Ubuntu full time.

Dell Mini 10 3G version now available in China

Dell has shaked hands with the China Mobile to let the users enjoy 3G services on the go. Not only China Mobile, Dell has teamed up with other global telecom providers including Vodafone in Europe, Australia and New Zealand, AT&T in the US, M1 and Starhub in Singapore, and Maxis in Malaysia.

It will retailed at $575 in China.

Windows XP Mainstream Support now officially retired

As planned for today, the Microsoft officially retired Windows XP mainstream support. However, extended support will continue till the year 2014. One would wonder, what are the differences between mainstream support and extended support? Well, there are not much. Both offer (free) security updates and phone/web support to the users. However, after today, any new bug-fixes or updates will require extended support contract.

Also, this effects all the versions (excluding Windows XP Embedded). Since, there are not any problems to be solved with the XP (except security holes), we do not need to worry about anything for our netbooks. However, it is encouraged to update to new version of windows (I recommend Windows 7).

Note 1: If Microsoft releases SP4 too, it will retire support for SP3.

Note 2: this deadline is also valid for Office 2003

Pocket Informant Review (version 8.5)

For many of the Pocket PC users, the feature they most frequently use is the Personal Information Management (PIM). But the Pocket Outlook has many unsolved issues. That’s where the third-party applications like Pocket Informant come really handy. INSTALLATION AND REGISTRATION Pocket Informant, like any other application can be installed on to the device through [...]