Archive for September, 2008

The KeyScan KS810 looks like a standard keyboard at a glance: But there’s a sheet-fed scanner lets you insert documents for imaging into a slot in the upper right portion of the device. Documents are fed through the imaging circuitry, located secretly under your right hand, and they come out from the bottom of the device (small documents, like business cards will pop back out the top). That’s quite unique huh.

With slightly larger than a normal keyboard, the KeyScan KS810 scans media up to 8.5 inches wide and 30 inches long at a maximum resolution of 600 dpi (dot per inch). Software, including OCR capabilities, included in the box; once you setup everything installed and running you’ll have all what you need to make scans reasonably easily and with minimal difficulties. While the software lacks polish and could use some user interface help, it largely works as advertised, and can even be set to scan docs to PDF or to email without even having to push a single button. It’s quite handy, especially considering you don’t even need to go away from your keyboard to do the scanning job, and the resulting scans looked very good as they did on a flatbed multifunction printer or scanner.

Most of Internet users, all of a sudden, receiving an unacceptable amount of “bulk” email in their email account. A huge amount of the identical emails are sent each day, which probably will be deleted without opening. The question is this: Let us assume they are sent to us automatically, would there be any use in opening them and responding with a note that we’re not really interested, and that we would like for them to stop sending the mail to us. For sure, if there’s an attachment, we would not open them under any circumstance.

Firstly, here’s some slight clarification: There is outright spam and there is commercial, bulk email, junk email, and though the line can be blurry, following the right instructions can often eliminate the latter without your having to depend on your spam filter or delete button.

The big Apple’s not the only IT company out there that loves to announcing new products.

Last week, the giant IT company: Microsoft unveiled its new generation computer mouse: “BlueTrack” technology (via Engadget) that will be featured in two new upcoming mice, One the model is: Microsoft Explorer Mouse and the other is Microsoft Explorer Mini Mouse. The new BlueTrack-powered technology utilizes wide-angle “specular optics architecture” to improve the mouse’s ability to work on rough or not-so-friendly surfaces, such as wood, granite, and carpet.

But this time, we’re not entirely sure how specular optics works, but this new features/technology sounds like it will be super useful to travelers or business people.

The Explorer Mouse will be retail at $99, while the Explorer Mouse Mini will retail at $79. This might be the hit for Best Buy in November. Beside that, all of the gamers must be waiting for the gaming version of this BlueTrack mouse from Microsoft. Maybe Intellimouse Explorer 3.0: BlueTrack Edition

So, do you have any suggestion or comments to Microsoft? Wanna say goodbye to laser mouse?
Watch Microsoft BlueTrack Mouse videos here.

Sony Corporation from Japan has launched a voluntary recall for their laptops of 438,000 Sony Vaio notebooks a.k.a portable computers, this is because of a potential hazard that could cause the laptops to easily overheat and possibly catch fire/burn a user.

This is one of the biggest computer recalls since in 2006 when Dell Inc recalled a sum of 4.1 million notebook computer batteries because they could overheat and catch fire. This Sony’s laptop recall affects 72,800 computers in the United States, said a Sony representative.

So far, Sony received about 15 reports of overheating, including one of a consumer who suffered a minor burn, said U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission.