How were you supposed to recover your MacBook Air when there’s no optical drive, and you do not have an external unit with you in cases of emergency? Typical manufacturers have this hidden partition in their notebooks and desktops where the recovery files are stored. This partition can be activated by pressing specific keys during POST event when you boot your computer. But now, Apple has chosen the ‘road not taken’. Read more…

Panasonic has just officially launched their latest Blu-ray recorder, which they stated as Earth’s smallest Blu-ray recorder, if there’s any in Jupiter, or Mar Sara. This fashionable Blu-ray recorder was previously introduced as a concept, and is now finally making its way into retail stores for ¥70,000 ($861) in black or white. Purchasable in Japan starting in November 15^th, so if you’re in Japan, grab it!

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Care for a Gingerbread munching this coming snowing holiday? Google might just be the Santa this year as they’re reported to drop Android 3.0 into some tablets this coming December. Yey… Just when you want to grab that sexy Galaxy Tab. Thinking twice now eh? You can thank me later. There’s some folk tale circulating that during this Christmas HTC, Samsung, and Motorola will be showing off some of their Gingerbread themed tablets to the public, and they’ll even reach retail in as early as January. But one thing to note, is that it’s very much confirmed that it’s Android 3.0 that’s coming this December, but nobody knows whether it’s Gingerbread, of the tablet-minded Honeycomb, or is it Banana-split.

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Woot, the “Back to the Mac” event really is all about Mac and software. Steve has just announced iLife 11, and yes all the iMovies and iPhotos and GarageBand will have a suffix of the 11, just good to go to welcome the year 2011. Read more…

The FaceTime for Mac will be a standalone app instead of sharing the same platform as the iChat AV. Users can use their Mac’s Address Book and make calls right from the app. Is Apple trying to kill off Skype from the Mac? The app automatically adjusts the display pending on the other end’s display, whether it’s portrait or landscape. There’s also full screen mode to go to. Try it out!

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Seemed like the first person to fool around with Microsoft’s latest Windows Phone 7 tiles is a guy from the Hobbit’s land. New Zealand sees the first person to purchase a Windows Phone 7 device, which also indicates the launch of the phone on that Kiwi Island. That’s the first region in the world to get Microsoft’s ‘blessing’. Be patient young padawan, your turn is coming.

The Dell XPS has been missing some sweet refreshment as of late, but Dell is now back to give its tried-and-true multimedia laptop some nice juice to bump. The new 14-, 15.6-, and 17-inch machines will be available across the board with NVIDIA GeForce 400M GPUs (with Optimus / 3D Play support) and Core i5 / i7 processor options. Read more…

Mushkin has been missing in the memory war for quite some time after getting very active in the DDR era. But now they’re back to give a good fight, albeit in a very weird name for their lineup. Mushkin has unveiled the new Radioactive memory kits, which are designed for the gaming and enthusiast markets. This new Radioactive Series comes with DDR3-1600 CL6 memory kits for Intel’s LGA1366 and LGA1156 platforms, as well as a 2000MHz 6GB CL8 triple kit. Read more…

I’m glad that Lenovo is sticking back to what they do best (during IBM era), that is to create products for corporate. Their latest edition for your office is the business class desktop PC, in the classical name of the ThinkCentre M75e. Read more…

Yes, ‘Back to the Mac’ event is supposed to be about software and the lion, but there’s also some room for an envelope too. Well, the MacBook Air carries the ‘Mac’ name on it too, so there’s no harm letting it get some spotlight on the huge projection of Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs says the new MacBook Air is a hooked up offspring from the old MacBook Air and the iPad. What does he mean? Read more…