After abandoning the slow Office 2004 in favour of Apple’s iWork, I could hardly wait to get my hands on Office 2008. But the new Office performance is not where I have imagined it would be. It is slow, very very slow to lanch, and during the normal operation it feels somewhat faster than its [...]

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After reviewing the Best Skins Ever skin for iPod touch, I thought it would be only fair to review the Invisible Shield iPod touch skin as well. The folks from ZAGG Inc were kind enough to supply a free sample skin, as well as a few strips of material for the review.

The skin arrived in [...]

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The two Best Skins Ever (BSE) sets for our two iPods have finally arrived today. There is no retail package, each skin comes on two sheets in the envelope, with an invoice and the URL to “How to install” page on BSE website. There is also a warning not to store them face to face, [...]

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With quite a few reviewers giving iMovie 08 bad notes, I was really curious to figure out if Apple really stuffed it up so badly this time. I decided to spend some time with my new best friend - iMovie 08, and here is the review. OK, not really a review, rather notes from the [...]

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“Podcasts and YouTube and streaming Internet radio may be the latest trend, but there’s still a lot of good content on the old AM/FM radio. The problem with it is that we are often not actively tuning in to the radio to catch a program, but rather leave the radio on in the background.
The [...]

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One thing I always hated on my MacBook Pro was the absence of any feet that would raise the back of the computer, making it easier to type.
Thankfully Cool Feet (by Bluelounge) come to the rescue. Cool Feet is a set of medium-hard rubber feet that lifts your laptop on the back and the front, [...]

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