Its funny how the actual phone was leaked, seems a little “fishy,” at least to me. Apple has been known to do some weird things in the passed that might get one of their products “leaked” to the media. The design of the phone seems like it might be more sturdy, the buttons on the site look to be more spread apart for easier use. It is also much skinnier and ’supposedly’ a little bit of a smaller screen, the better it would fit into a pocket. A draw back that I observed is that it is more ‘boxy’ and less corners, what first came into my head is “Will this feel natural in my hand having sharper edges.” Even to begin with all the other iPhone’s don’t feel “natural” in your hand this just may make it worse, but there aren’t any smart phones on the market today, that comes to mind that will ‘feel good’ in your hands. Hardware on the phone seems to be improved, rumored that the A4 chip is powering the new phone (same chip powering the iPad). The components size have all decreased to fit the new body style, except the battery which looks huge (hopefully more battery life!!!). Most people are happy to see a front facing camera. I’m not 100% sure how the markets and business will embrace this technology, but its pretty certain that you will be able to do conference calls with video, Skype is going to be happy about this one. I can imagine sitting on a plane or backseat of a car talking to a group of people in a meeting that I couldn’t make. Even taking pictures of yourself will be so much easier, obviously. I have not heard anything on the memory of if there is any increases in that department, hopefully there is with the new iPhone OS 4 that is soon to be released. That brings me to my last topic, software. iPhone OS 4 is going to be awesome, but for the current versions of the iPhone (3G & 3GS), I think they may be to slow for multitasking and running more than 1 game at a time, granted the technology is still there. The 4th Gen. I think is going to handle it fairly well, if not better than expected. We also will FINALLY get to put a background on our home screen, I am sick of looking that the black behind the icons. I thought it was coming with the capability for backgrounds after the iPad had a way to change the background (without jail breaking it). That is what I believe to be the important items to be released on the new iPhone and OS 4
Microsoft Security Essentials, I have been testing this new piece of software for I believe almost a week now. I was a little apprehensive about downloading it because that it is free, and how good can a FREE anti-virus be? My experience that I have encountered with the software is great. The ease of use is phenomenal, very few buttons, the GUI looks bright and happy, unlike avast. Scanning through your files for the first time was rather slow, It took around 1 – 2 hours for 200 GB’s worth of data. After the first time a few days later I scanned my computer again and it was 15-30 min. I have not encountered a virus with the software yet, so I’m not sure how it will react. From all the other reviews that I have read on it, it sounds that it is a good product and directly competes with Kaspersky, Trend, Nortan, etc. Sense it is free, I would almost recommend the others. Another big positive is that the resources that this product uses is minimal, even when scanning I could play games and search the web like the scan isn’t even running. I wish I could tell how accurate and thorough the scan is.
computer, obviously. On the reboot of my computer it did a full system scan, took a little longer than I wanted, but on the plus side if there were any viruses on the computer it would not hinder the results because it was outside windows. Another difference is that Avast is a “live” scanner basically what that means is that it scans everything live, so you don’t have to schedual a scan every week and what not, it is like Kaspersky’s proactive defense. I opened up Microsoft Outlook for the first time in a long time (It holds my old email address). I believe that I had around the neighborhood of 5,700 messages. When outlook started to download them I noticed that the little “a” in the task bar was going crazy because of all the messages it was scanning. About halfway through it, I heard this alarm sound, the sound reminded me of like a sinking ship alarm. The a voice said “A Virus was detected,” then a dialog box popped up if I wanted to delete it or quarnten the infected message, I obviously deleted it, this happened multible times so I learned the short cut for deleting was “D” then “E,” I believe. The ads are also starting to get annoying but its life with a free product. Possibly more to come soon.
Internet Security, ran out. I think that the next step for me is to try Avast, I talked to a co-worker and he says that it is the best this year, after a bit a research that I have done . I do see that it is one of the best, what is crazy is that it is free. Kaspersky was great, seemed to slow down my computer more then I would like but, really what can I ask for because any anti-virus program is going to slow down your computer. Possibly I will pay for it to get the “full” version then give a review on it.
Honestly, I’m not getting into the whole Google Wave phenomenon. Granted it is still in Beta 1, but it just doesn’t seems to be good at anything. If people want to have conference, they could just use Skype or any other programs along that line. The only positive I see to it is sharing pictures. What I could see in the future for Google Wave is possibly if you are wanting to show a power point, part of the browser somewhat is like remote view, were you can see the power point and the presenter typing or talking to the participants. More to come later…..
I have been looking around on multible websites and I don’t see that good of deals anywhere, maybe there are deals but not deals that I am interested in. None of the new ATI Radeon cards on sale 
. The only thing that I noticed is remotly “good” is that the IBM think pad’s are on sale. on their website. I do see that on newegg the i7 is $20.00 off, the 3.06Ghz 950.