Bodhi Linux is a light-weight operating system based on Ubuntu. It’s highly customizable and ships with a fraction of the pre-loaded apps you’ll find in Ubuntu. But the key difference between Bodhi and the main branch of Ubuntu is that Bodhi Linux uses the Enlightenment desktop manager and offers a choice of environments suitable for […]
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Experimental Kindle Fire bootloader dual boots 2 operating systems
The Amazon Kindle Fire may only have 8GB of storage space, but when properly partitioned that’s plenty of room for more than one operating system. In fact it’s possible to dual boot CyanogenMod 7 and CyanogenMod 9 on the tablet, letting you choose between Android 2.3 and Android 4.0. The only problem is that most […]
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Acer Iconia Tab A510 quad-core tablet launches in the US, Canada
The Acer Iconia Tab A510 is a 10 inch tablet with Android 4.0 and an NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core processor. First unveiled at CES in January, the tablet goes up for pre-order today in the US and Canada. Prices start at $449.99 for a model with 32GB of storage. The model Acer is selling in […]
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Windows 8 to support higher resolution displays… but will apps?
The Apple iPad may squeeze a 2048 x 1536 pixel display into a 9.7 inch display, but most Windows laptops with 15.6 inch or smaller screens have 1366 x 768 pixels. In fact, good luck finding a desktop PC monitor with a higher resolution than 1920 x 1080. But it looks like that could change […]
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Auraslate 1026 tablet dissected, proves hacker-friendly
Auraslate is positioning it’s 7 and 10 inch Android tablets as hacker-friendly devices with open source software. In fact you even get a disc with the source code when you buy one of the company’s tablets. But just how easy is it for an independent developer to work with one of these tablets? Pretty easy, it […]
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Budget 7 inch Toshiba LT170 tablet takes Italy by surprise
Toshiba has been showing off a range of new tablets recently, including the super-thin Toshiba Excite X10, a 7 inch Thrive tablet, a 7.7 inch prototype, and a range of other devices with unusual screen sizes. But you know what Toshiba hasn’t officially announced? A 7 inch tablet with a Freescale processor. But that’s just […]
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Deals of the Day (3-21-2012)
The Samsung Galaxy Nexus is the latest Google Android flagship phone. It’s designed to run Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, has a 4.65 inch, 1280 x 720 pixel display, 16GB of storage, and a 1.2 GHz TI OMAP 4460 dual core processor. Normally a contract-free Galaxy Nexus costs around $650, but today Daily Steals is […]
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Zinio brings hundreds of magazines to the BlackBerry PlayBook
Zinio is one of the top apps in the digital periodical game. It offers popular apps for iPad and Android that let users subscribe to hundreds of magazines or buy individual issues. If you bought a tablet and wanted  the eco-friendly route and ditch your dead-tree subscriptions, it’s well worth checking out. And now, those […]
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Le Pan III tablet slips through the FCC
Le Pan products a handful of Android tablets which are relatively popular among bargain hunters. Now the company’s third tablet is on the way. The Le Pan III showed up at the FCC website this week. The first Le Pan tablet featured a 1 GHz processor, 9.7 inch display, Android 2.2 software, and a $200 […]
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Deals of the Day (3-20-2012)
The Motorola XOOM was the first Android tablet approved by Google when it launched a little over a year ago. At the time you couldn’t find one for less than $499, but today you can snag a Verizion 4G capable model with 32GB of storage for just $290 if you don’t mind buying refurbished. The […]