If with your Mac you use both a trackpad and an optical mouse, you have probably notched that there’s no way you can have the cursor speed and acceleration of the mouse and trackpad, different from each others. Thankfully someone else noticed it and made a simple but very useful app that allows you to [...]
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Set mouse and Trackpad to different speeds with free SmoothCursor
HP TouchPad coming to Best Buy for $149 on November 1 but…
October 29, 2011
Do you remember the crazy HP TouchPad FireSale at the beginning of September that saw the tablets 16GB and 32GB getting sold for $99 and $149? Well guess what…Best Buy will stock again the TouchPad beginning on November 1. Don’t get too excited though because this time there’s a catch: the 32GB model will be [...]
HP employees given opportunity to buy $99 and $149 TouchPads Sept 28th
September 19, 2011
Stephen Dewitt, Senior VP & GM for HP webOS Global Business Unit, has written a letter to all HP employees in the U.S., announcing that the company will have the $99 and $149 HP TouchPad tablets back in stock and available at the company’s EPP (Employee Purchase Program) on September 28th at exactly 9:00 a.m. PDT. [...]
Apple’s iPad 3 only in 2012: other tablets performing poorly
September 16, 2011
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Despite rumors speculating Apple may be releasing an iPad 3 before year’s end, J.P. Morgan analysts believe that the due to the poor performances of the iPad rivals, Apple is in no rush to release the next-generation iPad. “We do not expect a launch of the iPad 3 this year, but there’s no rush. In [...]
Gartner to cut PC market view prompted by Tablet boom
September 13, 2011
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Gartner has cut its global PC market growth forecast this year, down from 9.3 percent to 3.8 percent. The research firm cited the slow down in the U.S. and Western European economies, along with the current media tablet boom as the reasons. The incredible Apple iPad success has put a sizable dent in demand for [...]
HP emailing TouchPad buyers, 6 to 8 week for orders
September 8, 2011
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It probably comes as no surprise to anyone, the HP TouchPad brouhaha has stopped almost immediately after things settled down in regards to the webOS powered tablet PC. As everyone knows by now, things got just a little crazy when HP made the decision to cut its price dramatically, all the way down to $99.99. [...]
Amazon revamps website before new tablet offering
September 5, 2011
Amazon.com is redesigning its website in preparation for its new $250 tablet debut intended to rival the Apple iPad. The differences in Amazon’s online store compared to its previous design “practically scream ‘tablet-optimized‘,” Sarah Perez, a TechCrunch blogger, wrote this weekend after her site reported seeing a prototype of Amazon’s new device. The updated web pages [...]
February 7, 2012
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