The Lenovo Ideapad Y330 is a 13-inch laptop which features a Core 2 Duo processor, a slot load DVD writer, HDMI, and Dolby sound.

The Ideapad Y series notebooks are branded by Lenovo as for “Family Entertainment”. The Y series notebooks focus on multimedia features to be able to deliver superb home entertainment. Let’s take a look at how the Lenovo Ideapad Y330 fares.

I’ve seen two kinds of Lenovo Y330 laptops available at stores. Both have the same specs but with differences on the processor, video card, and hard disk capacity. The more common Lenovo Y330 (since I see it more often), has a Core 2 Duo T5900 processor (2.2GHz, 2MB L2 Cache, 800MHz FSB), 320GB hard disk, and has no dedicated video – equipped only with the onboard Intel GMA x4500.

The less common Lenovo Y330 is equipped with a slightly slower processor – a Core 2 Duo T5800 (2.0GHz, 2MB L2 Cache, 800MHz FSB), a smaller hard disk capacity with 250GB, but has a dedicated video card – an ATI Radeon HD3450 with 256MB memory.

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Avira once again proves that the Avira Antivir 9 Personal Edition is one of the best free anti-virus available today anti-spyware and other important features.

Avira Antivir Personal Edition is one of the best (if not the best) free anti-virus software available today. It was my top pick for 2008 as the best anti-virus software.

Now Avira Antivir Personal Edition has upgraded to version 9, Avira has really proved that they are more than willing to give. They have now included an anti-spyware feature, which was only available to paid users before.

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With the extreme portability the Netbook like the EEE PC has given, is this portable DVD writer which runs only through USB connection (no AC adaptor required) worth our look?

External DVD and CD writers have been here quite a while now. However, I haven’t really been taking notice of them as I saw no reason why to get them. Although some of them were quite small already (most of them were big), they really weren’t portable as you had to lug around an AC adaptor which was sometimes, heavier than the gadget itself.

The only time I took notice, was when I saw the LG GP08-LU10 Slim External Super Multi DVD Rewriter. It attracted my attention as it claimed to be AC Adapter-less. It can run by just using the USB cable!

Let’s take a look first at its specs.

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The Olympus FE-320 Camera is a feature rich, easy to use camera which takes very good pictures – The perfect gift for my mom.

My mother’s birthday was last October but I’m writing this article/review on the gift I bought for her only now as I wanted to be sure that I wasn’t just justifying my purchase. I bought her an Olympus FE-320 Camera and she’s been using it for more than a month now. If you and I look at its specs/highlights:

8.0 Megapixel
3x Optical Zoom
2.7 inch LCD Display
Digital Image Stabilization
Face Detection
Can Record Videos with Sound
Proprietary Li-Ion Rechargeable Battery
Weighs only 96g
Expandable Memory through Olympus xD-Picture Card

Now mind you I only bought this for $150 USD (7,500 Pesos in our country).

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After a month’s usage of the Asus Eee PC 1000H UMPC (Ultra Mobile PC), what can be said about this new UMPC or Netbook by ASUS?

I haven’t really been much of a fan of laptops as they were still hard to carry. I have a laptop but I still go by the train and ride the bus every so often and the weight of the laptop still bothers me.

With the release of the recent Netbooks and UMPCs (with the first release by ASUS), I was really excited as they beat what traditional laptops were trying to boast since their existence – portability. However, the UMPC’s capacity was still small and their performance was still not very good.

With the arrival of the Asus Eee PC 1000h, it has become a reality to see the power of a laptop, and the portability of a Netbook. Or has it really?

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Eva is a friend who writes on one of our local group publications. Below is her article about the Kodak DX7590 which she bought online.

My Kodak DX7590

A digital camera is a phenomenal gadget that’s a must have nowadays to us explorers, wannabe photographers, trendsetters, businessmen, students, etc.

I started to love photography when I started traveling with friends to various amazing places. I felt the need for a handy digital camera and felt guilty not being able to take a shot of never before seen beauty of nature (at least for me). Although my cell phone helped me capture photos, it sadly wasn’t up to the task and couldn’t give me a perfect still shot.

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What is this new browser apparently made by Google? How does it compare to the other big browsers like Firefox and IE in terms of the average user?

I recently just found out about Google Chrome three days ago. I saw it advertised in one of Google’s pages and it immediately caught my eye. A new browser made by Google? I had to check it out.

After viewing the videos and reading the comics interpretation on the technology behind Google Chrome in the official Google Chrome homepage, I immediately downloaded it and gave it a try. I was excited on the many claims and features of the Google Chrome.

After three days of using the browser (where I didn’t use any other browser), here are my takes on the new browser by Google.

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How fast has technology been improving? I remember the time in high school when only one of my classmates had a mobile phone. Then, the Nokia 5110 was the center of attention. It was so pricey that only rich people were able to afford it. It was also considered one of the high tech gadgets then, being capable of SMS and being very portable. After that came one of the hottest gadgets of its time, the Nokia 3210.

The first mobile phone I had was a Maxxon 3204. It’s funny that I was only six counts from having the “in” phone in 3210 then.

I remember having to imagine then MP3 capabilities of mobile phones. I thought it would be something we can only imagine. But just two years hence, Siemens released phones capable of playing MP3s. Today, mobile phones play full-length movies and are capable of video calling. Only Biomen (the japanese show during the 80’s and 90’s) were capable of doing video calls then.

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