Top 10 Laptops for Web and Graphic Designers

We all have different preferences when it comes to laptops. Folks who travel a lot usually go for a small and light model – maybe even a tiny ultraportable like the Asus Eee PC. The problem with tiny laptops is that you can’t squeeze in a lot of performance in such a small frame. From a web designer’s perspective, they are nigh on impossible to work with because of the limited screen resolution.

To get a resolution of 1440×900, you need to step up to at least a 14-inch laptop, and above that, 15 inches or more. It’s usually worth the portability tradeoff however, if you want to work with the laptop comfortably for any longer periods. Of course, if you have gotten used to working with dual 22-inch high-resolution screens, no laptop will feel very comfortable by comparison, but the desktop replacement segment is possibly the best choice for web designers because of the larger screens and better ergonomics. But I digress, on to the Top List:

10. Acer Ferrari 5005

Acer is a company known primarily for its cheap, lower-end laptops, but the Ferrari series is a notable exception. This one is a 15.4-inch laptop with a very pleasing 1680×1050 resolution – comparable to a standard 22-inch desktop LCD. It also has a decent dedicated graphics card from ATI and a 2GHz AMD Turion processor. Unfortunately, AMD’s Turion CPU is not nearly as fast as Intel’s Core 2 Duo, and the Ferrari models are usually overpriced.
Official Homepage: Acer Ferrari 5005 Homepage.

9. Apple MacBook Air

Apple’s MacBook Air is probably not you first choice for developing web content, but it’s a really nice-looking piece of hardware and I couldn’t help including it. It fits in a standard interoffice envelope but is still a relatively capable 13-inch (1280×800) laptop thanks to its unique Core 2 Duo processor, not to mention the new OS X. However, even though Apple recently made some price cuts on its MacBook laptops, it’s still expensive.
Official Homepage: Apple MacBook Air Home.

8. Lenovo ThinkPad R61

It’s quite the opposite of the MacBook Air, but possibly in a good way. Lenovo builds rugged and trustworthy notebooks that last. They may look (very) uninspiring, but if you’re looking for a workhorse with a solid build, Lenovo is one of the best alternatives. The R61 is a 15-inch laptop with a decent 1440×900 resolution. If you’re no Windows fanboy, you can also get this one with Novell’s SUSE Linux distribution preinstalled.

7. Fujitsu Lifebook 8410

This is another office workhorse with a solid build plus lots of ports and connectivity. Just like the Lenovo, it’s not a lot of fun to look at, but neither will it break when you look at it, as you expect some cheap laptops to. The aluminum LCD cover provides protection, but also some extra weight. Unlike the aforementioned Lenovo, it’s built on the latest Intel Core 2 Duo platform, and you can get it with a dedicated GPU, but a shortcoming of the Lifebook is the screen resolution – 1280×800 is barely acceptable for a professional 15.4-inch laptop.
Official Homepage: Fujitsu Lifebook 8410.

6. Alienware m15x

Alienware claims that its m15x is the “fastest notebook ever,” and they are probably right. It’s primarily aimed at gamers, but it will naturally perform any other task with ease as well. You can configure it with the fastest components in the world, and if you want it all you’ll have to fork over about $5,000, which of course is just ridiculous. It starts at $1,500, however, and you can configure it with a 1900×1200 screen, which is really impressive for a 15.4-inch laptop.
Official Homepage: Alienware m15x.

5. Dell Inspiron 1525

It’s obviously a major step down from the (also Dell-owned) Alienware, but in terms of value and affordability, the Inspiron 1525 gets an A+. In its basic $499 configuration it’s not much to look at, but for just another $100 you get a dual-core 15-inch laptop with a 1680×1050 screen. Another plus is that you get to choose your own color or pattern. The build is solid enough and it’s not as much of an eyesore as Dell’s laptops used to be. The only major downside is that you can’t configure it with a discrete GPU.
Official Homepage: Dell Inspiron 1525.

4. Asus C90

Asus’ C90 series is a different approach to laptop computers. For example, it uses standard desktop Core 2 Duo CPU’s that can be overclocked all the way up to 2.93GHz with the help of included “Turbo Gear” technology – something you rarely, if ever, find in anything but Asus laptops. The 15.4-inch display is powered by a quite capable Nvidia 8600M GT GPU and offers 1680×1050 resolution, and it’s all very reasonably priced. The drawback of using desktop components is power consumption and battery life. Don’t expect to use it on long travels, at least not for long.
Official Homepage: Asus C90.

3. Sony Vaio VGN-AR590E

The Vaio laptop with the sexy name VGN-AR590E is absolutely gorgeous and a fine addition to any web designer’s desktop. Its 17-inch screen puts it firmly in the desktop replacement segment or “luggable” segment if you will; it weighs just over 8 pounds, so in other words you’ll probably not feel like bringing it along on your daily commute. There’s no lack of added features – it sports a Blu-Ray drive and an 8600M GPU from Nvidia, plus Sony’s patented xbrite screen. As you’d expect, it’s also quite expensive. Sony laptops usually are, but that’s somehow justified by the excellent 1920×1200 resolution screen, which looks stunning.
Official Homepage: Sony Vaio VGN-AR590E.

2. Asus m70sa

Another Asus laptop, but this one is built from the ground up with mobile components, and powerful ones at that. At its heart is a 45nm Intel Core 2 Duo T9300, from the latest generation. The screen is 17 inches and 1920×1200, backed by an ATI GD3650 GPU with 1GB of dedicated video memory. It’s also fitted with 4GB of system RAM to keep those Photoshop sessions fast and efficient. Another nice feature is the full terabyte of hard drive space care of the dual 500GB hard drives. If it’s a desktop replacement you’re looking for, there is little not to like about the Asus M70.
Official Homepage: Asus m70sa.

1. Apple MacBook Pro

With excellent performance, a long battery life and a completely flawless design, Apple’s MacBook Pro still holds the throne as the most user-friendly and powerful laptop for web designers, or just about anyone to be frank. It’s available with either a 15-inch 1440×900 screen or a 17-inch with the full 1920×1200 resolution. With the new OS X Leopard, Apple’s Multi Touch touchpad, plus the latest Intel Core 2 Duo CPU’s, you get a laptop computer that can rival or surpass most desktop computers.
Official Homepage: Apple MacBook Pro.
Tech Specs: 2.0 GHz Intel Core Duo ; 667MHz frontside bus and main memory ; PCI Express architecture ; 100GB 5400 Serial ATA hard drive ; ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 with 256MB memory on 16-lane PCI Express ; ExpressCard/34 slot ; Dual-link DVI, VGA adapter included ; One FireWire 400 port, two USB 2.0 ports ; Optical digital and analogue audio I/O, built-in microphone and stereo speakers ; Slot-loading SuperDrive ; Illuminated keyboard, scrolling TrackPad ; Built-in AirPort Extreme (802.11g), Bluetooth 2.0+EDR, and Gigabit Ethernet ; Mac OS X Tiger with iLife ’06, featuring iWeb.

SOURCE 

Nokia C7 Review (Nokia C7-00)

NOKIA C7:

The Nokia C7 could well be described as the less outlandish sibling of the N8: a more sober design, more mainstream camera and more affordable price tag, for what’s the second Symbian^3 smartphone from the company. Alternatively, it could be a business bargain. First impressions at Nokia World 2010 were solid, but does the day to day experience live up to the sturdy chassis? Check out the full SlashGear review after the cut.

Nokia C7 (C7-00)

Hardware

We’ve always had a soft-spot for Nokia’s high-end smartphone design, and while the C7 may not initially stand out quite so well from the crowd as the N8 or E7, it’s a surprisingly pleasing device in the hand. Slimmer than the N8, at 10.5mm thick, it’s a narrow slice of glass, metal and high-quality plastics that feels easily up to being dropped into a pocket without the benefit of a case. There are three color variants on offer: a silver “frosty metal”, metallic brown “mocha” and, like our review unit, “charcoal black”.
Nokia C7 Unboxing & Demo:
Up front is a 3.5-inch AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, running at 640 x 360 resolution and capable of 16.7m colors. It’s not the highest resolution around, but the image quality is excellent and viewing angles superb. We had no issues with touch responsiveness, either. Inside, Nokia has again used its woefully-underpublicized pentaband WCDMA radio (850/900/1700/1900/2100) capable of 3G speeds on European, T-Mobile USA and AT&T networks. There’s also quadband GSM/EDGE, Bluetooth 3.0, WiFi b/g/n and both an FM radio and FM transmitter. GPS, A-GPS and Nokia’s proprietary – and speedy – WiFi network positioning system are also present. Any other company would be screaming features like these from the rooftops, and yet Nokia seems reluctant to talk about the C7′s hardware prowess.

Nokia C7 (C7-00)

On the back is an 8-megapixel camera (“full focus” rather than autofocus) with a dual-LED flash and flanked by stereo speakers, while a second, VGA camera faces forward for 3G video calls. On the top edge there’s a microUSB port (under a flap) for charging or synchronizing, together with a 3.5mm headphone jack and power button. On the right side there are volume buttons flanking a shortcut key, together with a camera shortcut, while on the left is a 2.5mm Nokia charging port. The microphone is on the underside. Curiously, while the SIM card slot is accessible under the battery cover, without removing the battery itself, the same can’t be said for the microSD card slot (that augments 8GB of internal storage).
Nokia doesn’t include the adapter in the box (unlike with the N8), but the C7 will work with their USB Host dongle to hook up external storage or peripherals. As we found with the N8, however, the effectiveness depends on what power requirements the external drive has; too hungry, and the C7 can’t supply enough juice. Unfortunately there’s no HDMI output.

Software

Symbian^3 is likely to be the stumbling block for most people, with a reputation that’s proving difficult for Nokia to shed as it attempts to promote the platform’s relevance. We’ve covered it comprehensively in our Nokia N8 review, and the build on the C7 is identical. That means you get three homescreen panes which can be filled with up to six widget-bars each, together with rudimentary social networking integration. The latter falls short of what, say, HTC has achieved with Sense on Android devices, basically amounting to Twitter and Facebook updates pulled down and your own status changes supported.
You do get threaded SMS conversations, and there’s support for a single Exchange account and multiple POP/IMAP accounts, all of which worked as you’d expect. Multi-tasking is also convenient, with a long-press of the single menu key pulling up a graphical switcher from which you can also end programs; we still prefer this to iOS and Android’s icon-based task-switcher. Nokia has promised an update to Symbian’s on-screen keyboards in early 2011, and to be honest they can’t come soon enough. Swype is preloaded, but there’s no portrait-orientation QWERTY keyboard, only T9/multitap, and you actually enter text into a different, separate text box that pops up when you tap. Both are due to be changed, but until then text input can be frustrating.

Nokia C7 (C7-00)

Nokia’s browser is also due an update in 2011, with greater speed and stability promised (which will also have an impact on third-party apps that use the same underlying engine). Until then, the default C7 browser is a passable affair, supporting multitouch gestures and Flash playback, but proving sluggish at times when trying to handle the latter. It works, but it lacks the slick swiftness of, say, the iPhone 4. Of course, there are third-party options available through Nokia’s Ovi Store that provide an alternative, and it’s worth digging out Opera Mobile 10 and Opera Mini; you lose Flash support, but gain a portrait QWERTY keyboard and windowed browsing.
Ovi Maps may require some UI acclimatisation to those used to Google Maps, but after that it’s a solid GPS app with some useful third-party extras. Unlike Google, full offline navigation is supported (you can download select maps to the C7′s memory, and then turn off the data connection), and unlike HTC’s latest Sense offline mapping you don’t have to pay for the navigation functionality. We’d like to have seen a car kit in the box to make the most of that, but unfortunately it’s an optional accessory.

Camera

Nokia’s 12-megapixel camera on the N8 has been rightly lauded, and happily the C7′s 8-megapixel unit is another strong performer. The lack of true autofocus means shots are quick to take, snapping as soon as you hit the dedicated camera key, and while there’s no Xenon flash, you can at least use the bright dual-LEDs for a video light during 720p HD recording.

Nokia C7 (C7-00)

Stills are impressive, with plenty of detail and minimal noise, together with rich, well-balanced colors that look great on the C7′s AMOLED display and on bigger screens. Unfortunately sharing them is made a little trickier than on rival devices; you can email them, but there’s no native Twitter or Facebook uploading.
Video, meanwhile, is similarly strong (and, again, we wish there was a way to upload it from the C7 to YouTube or other sharing sites). Colors are rich and there’s plenty of detail, though fast pans – like with most cameraphones – could lead to jags or blur. Still, you’re getting a fair chunk of the N8′s overall image abilities in a more pocketable device.
Nokia C7 720p HD video sample:

Phone & Battery

Nokia has a reputation for solid phone performance, and the C7 is no different. There are dedicated call keys on the front panel, both with pleasantly solid tactile feedback to let you know you’ve hit them, and earpiece clarity is high. The speakerphone is also loud and clear.
Battery life, too, is impressive when compared to other smartphones. We easily managed two days of solid use, with push-email turned on and a mixture of calls, browsing and photography. Considering most smartphones demand a nightly recharge (or more), that’s impressive stuff. The average user could probably squeeze out a third day, too, with little compromise.

Nokia C7 (C7-00)

Wrap-Up

The Nokia C7 suffers from the same problems as the N8: the hardware is some of the best around, especially when it comes to connectivity, but the software is a tougher sell. Symbian has many strengths – and many users – and Nokia’s plans for cross-platform compatibility with Qt should mean the OS isn’t left behind when MeeGo devices begin to take the smartphone top spots, but the Finns are less successful at convincing people that the platform is more than UI deep. 2011′s interface and browser changes should go some way to addressing that, but until then Symbian^3 simply lacks the out-of-the-box user friendliness of Android, webOS and iOS.
Priced at £359 or free on a £20 per month agreement in the UK (the C7 is yet to show up at Nokia USA’s online store) the C7 undercuts the N8 by £70 (or £120 over the course of a two-year subsidy). For your money you’re getting strong camera performance and excellent “core” abilities – phone, battery and connectivity – but less endearing browsing, social networking and text-input than from other manufacturers. It’s certainly not a bad smartphone, but Symbian still needs work if it’s to successfully take on Android and iOS devices on all fronts.
Orginal: http://www.slashgear.com/nokia-c7-review-18114903/

Download bejeweled 3

 

bejeweled 3 

Bejeweled 3 :


About the Game:

The biggest, brightest Bejeweled ever!

Discover all-new ways to play the world’s #1 puzzle game. Find your perfect match with 8 breathtaking game modes that meet all your moods — ease into Classic Bejeweled for cascades of fun, journey through 40 challenging Quest puzzles, charge into the electrifying Lightning for non-stop action, and tailor your experience in Zen for a revolutionary new way to relax.

Enjoy the amazing sights and sounds and engage in endless gem-matching fun, and earn flashy achievement badges as you soar to dazzling new heights!

Features:

• 8 ways to play: With so many new ways to play, you’ll find a perfect match for every mood!
• Classic mode: Play the most popular puzzle game of the century, with powerful new gems and new ultra-smooth gameplay
• Quest mode: Journey through 40 magical puzzles in this multifaceted Bejeweled challenge!
• Zen mode: Tailor your experience with sights, sounds and binaural beats to create your own relaxing retreat
• Lightning mode: Charge up with a challenging timed game of heart-pounding, gem-blasting fun!
• Secret modes: Unlock 4 all-new games as you play
• Badges: Earn up to 65 badges to prove your multifaceted skills
• High-definition graphics: Amazing sights and sounds — Bejeweled is more sparkling than ever before!
• Ultra-smooth action: Make multiple matches while new gems fall into place

PC System Requirements

• OS: Windows XP SP2/Vista/7
• Processor: 1.2+GHz processor
• Memory: 1+GB of RAM
• Graphics: 128+MB of video memory (256+MB recommended)
• DirectX®: 9.0c or higher
• Hard Drive: 320+MB of free hard drive space
• Sound: DirectX 9.0c or higher sound

Mac System Requirements

• OS: OS X version Leopard 10.5.8, Snow Leopard 10.6.3, or later.
• Processor: Intel Core Duo 1.66GHz or better processor
• Memory: 1+GB of RAM
• Graphics: 128+MB of video memory (256+MB recommended)
• Hard Drive: 320+MB of free hard drive space

 Free Download This bejeweled 3:  Coming soon

Nokia N8 Cumming soon in Jordan..

 

Nokia N8 Cumming soon in Jordan.. Talked to me one of the companies responsible for the marketing of Nokia Corporation in Jordan that will be offered Nokia N8 Jules Jordan current week end.

iPhone 4.0 HD photo

iPhone 4G: is this it?

 

Source

 

 

iPhone OS4 first Look [Video]

First Look iPhone OS 4.0

First Look iPhone OS 4.0 (MultiTask):

First Look iPhone OS 4.0 (iAd:

Offers:

OtterBox Impact Case for iPhone 3G, 3G S (Black)

Apple iPod touch 8 GB (3rd Generation) NEWEST MODEL

Apple Car Charger for iPod iPhone 3G 3GS (White)

YouTube ReDesign launched today

YouTube finally launched its video page redesign this week, only for the site to go down replaced by the words: "Sorry, something went wrong. A team of highly trained monkeys has been dispatched to deal with this situation."

Once it was back up and running, the new, simplified design was revealed. The main changes are to with the video controls, the rating system and new save options.

It's now easier to choose the size you want to view your video at, with YouTube saying it will optimise the quality of the video depending on the size you choose.

There is also an extra button to make the video wider if you so wish.

Biggest ever redesign

As we have explained before, the five-star rating system has been ditched in favour of a Facebook-style Like/Don't Like.

It is also easier to save videos to your favourites and send them on to others. This is because YouTube has added the following options: Save to Favourites, Save to an existing Playlist, Create a new Playlist to save to.

"This new video page makeover is one of the biggest redesigns in YouTube history – and we're excited to make YouTube a better place for you and your content," said YouTube about the makeover.

One thing it has also announced is new for April and is a 'Textp' quality option. This converts videos to text, saving the site $1 a minute in bandwidth.

You would have to be a Fool not to try it out.

>> See this video in new design

See photo for new design:

 Original Post by tr