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HP Photosmart C4588 Printer

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Hp is well known for its printing solutions, which include multifunctional devices. The HP photosmart C4588 is a new MFD inkjet aimed at home users or small businesses,but also for those who want photo quality printing.

The C4588 is a neat looking MFD with its smooth clean look. There is a one inch LCD color display on the right surrounded by buttons. The paper support tray feels a bit weak and breakable.The scanner lid didn’t feel very strong either.

HP Photosmart C4588

HP Photosmart C4588

When you power on this printer, it gives you step-by-step instructions on how to start installing the cartridges right up to print alignment-all on the LCD display itself.You do not even need to connect the printer to the computer for these initials steps.

A unique feature of this printer is the WiFi support.You can either connect the printer to a network using a router or directly to a PC or laptop using ad-hoc networking.We ran the printer through a series of tests to check the print quality and speed in two modes economy and standard. The economy mode was quite unsatisfactory with very edgy lines in a full page text document as well as for a color document. The standard mode, on the other hand, was a great improvement in terms of quality, but printing speed  took a hit. The time difference between economy and standard for the test document (text) was 10 seconds, whereas the colored document was a whole 30 seconds. The quality of the photo test turned out to be exceptionally good. It took 164 seconds for printing, which is decent. The scanning performance was average.

The HP photosmart C4588 does live up to the mark for being a really good photo MFD as photo printouts were very impressive.

Popularity: 34% [?]

Norton Internet Security 2009

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The Norton Internet Security Suite comprises all the features of Norton Antivirus with more features to protect users from threats on the internet like phishing websites, Key Loggers, etc.

The look of the Norton Internet Security sports a very modern simplistic look. There are three quick access menus for Computer, Internet and Identity which are displayed when you open the program. There are also usage meters displayed on the main screen; One for CPU usage and the other for the usage of Norton Internet Security application.

Norton Internet Security integrates into your browser as a toolbar. Firefox and Internet Explorer have toolbars, but opera isn’t supported. The toolbar gives quick access notifications for anti-phishing and also keeps security information like logins and passwords as profiles. Norton Internet Security allows users to securely store usernames and passwords as well as create identity cards which help users in quick filling of online forms.

The earlier versions of Norton Antivirus and Norton Internet Security used to use up a lot of resources which causing the PC to slow down when idle as well as during a system scan. But the Norton Internet Security 2009 has stepped up and is quite efficient when it come to resources. It used maximum of 20MB of RAM when we first installed it and while running a system scan it used about 10MB of RAM. This is definitely an improvement, as in the past the major problem with Norton was of users complaining of the amount of resources used when the antivirus was running.

Considering the All-In-One package that the Norton Internet Security offers – Antivirus, Antispyware, Phishing Filters for Internet Safety and even good performance, its a bit on the expensive side at $49 for Oner Year Single User and hence we would not recommend it as there are others out there that are cheaper. Even so, if you are a Norton user and trust no other antivirus software then this is a great bundle for you.

Requirements:
Microsoft Windows XP/Vista
300 MHz or Faster Processor
256 MB of RAM
200 MB of Available Hard Disk Space
Standard Web Browser (Firefox or Internet Explorer)

Popularity: 19% [?]

Mouseless Browsing

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In these days of Laptops, people may find it very difficult to control the cursor by touchpad specially when you are migrated from a desktop. Look at me! it took me about 6 months to get used to the touchpad and still I have some problems.

I was looking for some way where I don’t have to use the touchpad while browsing the internet. As I use Mozilla Firefox 3 (I don’t hate IE :p) for all of my browsing needs, I was looking for some solutions like an addon or plugin.

I found this on the official mozilla plugin site and find it really interesting. I though I should give it a try and installed it. It really a wonderful plugin if you get used to it (I hope, as I am still trying to learn the basic functions). What it do is fragment the entire webpage into small boxes with a unique id to each of them. If you want to navigate, you just have to type the id of the corresponding link you want to navigate and hit enter. Nice Tool, indeed.

But, it doesn’t cover the basic needs of the browser like opeing a new tab or navigate through tabs, open a new window etc. So, I was again looking for help and find some keyboard shorcuts for FireFox 3. Here are some of them which comes handy while surfing.

  1. Ctrl+N : Opens up a new Window
  2. Ctrl+T : Opens up a new Tab
  3. Alt+Tab : Navigates trough the Opened Windows
  4. Ctrl+Tab : Navigates through the Tabs in a Window
  5. Alt+D : To go to the location/address bar
  6. Ctrl+K : To go to the default search bar after opeing a new window or tab
  7. Ctrl+F : To bring out the Inpage Search box to quickly find something in the opened webpage
  8. Ctrl+D : To Bookmark a webpage
  9. F5 : To reload a page (Ctrl+F5 : To reload a page overriding the cache)

These shotcuts are really helpful for quick browsing without using mouse ot touchpad.

Popularity: 17% [?]