Create a dualband wireless network to share high-speed Internet access with computers, game consoles, or media players from greater distances around your home or office.

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Recently, a local computer magazine (PCM) had a promotion which I can get Microsoft Wireless Laser Desktop 7000 for 500HKD (around $60) (original price is 100HKD, around $120). I took the promotion, and brought it back home. This article is going to be a quick review of this keyboard set.

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After Core 2 Duo and Atom, Intel has released another CPU Structure – Core i7. We are going to talk about its new features and how it has improved from the older structures in this post.

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Okay, fine. I admit it, I am not a Linux nerd at all. Just take today as an example, I spent my whole day trying to figure out how to get my wireless card working.

I have an Acer Aspire 4520, with an AR424x wireless adapter. Right after installation, I went on googling about installing wireless cards drivers. From my past experience, I downloaded ndiswrapper right from the start, installed the windows driver, but no go. There are no signs of “wlan0″, “ath0″ or any other names regarding the wireless cards

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With the recent trend of touchscreen devices emerging like rabbits, there was an attention that has managed to catch my eye.

The HP Touchsmart is a desktop that integrates a touch UI on top of vista. It claims to integrate seamlessly to multimedia functions and works quite similarly to an iPhone. However, I do not see any potential of using such a UI that integrates on top of vista, as this means that it will most likely work only with a select group of apps you would use everyday. Not to mention that using this gimmick would probably tire your arms out. I do not see any potential of this pc being very popular, until almost all applications have a built in touch capability to make it feasible.