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[ Luofei | 9 Jun 2010 | No Comment | 36 views]
Impressions: HTC Droid Incredible review

You have seen our gallery of the HTC Droid Incredible, now read on to find out our thoughts on living with Verizon Wireless’ brand-new flagship phone.

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[ Luofei | 13 May 2010 | No Comment | 85 views]
Hands-on Gallery: HTC Droid Incredible

This is the current Google Android phone of the moment: the HTC Droid Incredible from Verizon Wireless.  The specs certainly are impressive. The Incredible packs a 1GHz Snapdragon processor, 800×480 (WVGA) 3.7″ AMOLED screen, 512 MB RAM, 1GB ROM and 8GB of flash storage, Android 2.1 with HTC’s Sense UI on top of it, and an 8-megapixel camera with dual LED flash.

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[ Luofei | 10 May 2010 | No Comment | 56 views]
Impressions: Palm Pre Plus review

We previously showed you detailed pictures of the ins and outs of the Palm Pre Plus for Verizon Wireless. Now, let us fill you in with our usual in-depth observations on what it is like to live with the Palm Pre Plus day to day.

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[ Luofei | 2 Apr 2010 | No Comment | 166 views]
Impressions: Lenovo ThinkPad Edge 13″ review

We have already given you a multi-angle perspective of the Lenovo ThinkPad Edge 13.  Now read on to find out our first-hand impressions in our in-depth review.

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[ Luofei | 23 Mar 2010 | No Comment | 16 views]
Hands-on Gallery: Palm Pre Plus

Check out the newest arrival in the JPT review labs: the Palm Pre Plus from Verizon.  Glance over some hands-on photos of Palm’s latest webOS creation and sit tight for our upcoming in depth review.

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[ Luofei | 18 Mar 2010 | One Comment | 75 views]
Share large files with File Dropper

Sometimes you need to send someone a file (or group of files) larger than the attachment limit of your email service (it is 25MB for Gmail).  Instead of splitting up the file and sending it over multiple emails, I use File Dropper.

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[ Luofei | 15 Mar 2010 | No Comment | 17 views]
Pinta brings simple image editing to all

Paint.NET is one of our favorite free image editors available for Windows.  While it does not have anywhere near the features of Adobe Photoshop, it does have many more features than Microsoft Paint.  So as a whole, we find it to be a very good (and very free) option for non-hardcore image editing.  Now there is an open-source program that seeks to mimic Paint.NET in appearance and features, while adding support for Mac OS X and Linux.

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[ Luofei | 9 Mar 2010 | No Comment | 101 views]
Featured App: KompoZer free website design editor

Creating a website is not too difficult.  Making it look nice, however, can be very time-consuming or expensive.  The default program for website design is Adobe Dreamweaver.  However, since that program costs hundreds of dollars, it is natural to look for a free alternative.  KompoZer is just that free, open-source option.

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[ Luofei | 1 Mar 2010 | No Comment | 123 views]
Featured Mac App: Seashore image editor

We have previously told about GIMP, the open-source alternative to Adobe Photoshop.  We even mentioned GIMPshop, which is GIMP skinned to look like Photoshop.  However, Mac OS X users might want to take a look at Seashore, which offers a number of advantages over GIMP for free image editing.

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[ Luofei | 17 Feb 2010 | No Comment | 13 views]
WikiReader is what it says it is, does it well

The WikiReader is exactly what it sounds like.  It puts all of Wikipedia into the palm of your hand in a dedicated touchscreen device.  While this may sound a little pointless in the age of smartphones and wireless broadband, there is more appeal to this device than meets the eye.