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Lifestyle Computing
Questions and AnswersVote for: What is the best tablet PC?
tablet pc roundup | Jun 10th, 2010 | by Owen Ferguson

| Notion Ink Adam |

| HP EliteBook 2730p - Core 2 Duo 1.86 GHz |

| Fujitsu LifeBook T4410 Tablet PC - Core 2 Duo 2.2 GHz |

| ASUS Eee PC T91 - Atom 1.33 GHz - 8.9 " - 1 GB Ram - 16 GB HDD |

| Panasonic Toughbook 19 Tablet PC version - Core 2 Duo 1.2 GHz |
A good tablet PC is a great way to get more involved in computer art and animation. The stylus-based drawing packages incorporated into some of todays modern tablet PCs allow your budding artist to create all manner of wonderful artistic creations as you push the limits of your own technological free expression. Which of these tablet PC solutions do you like the best?
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Vote for: Which online backup service is the best place to backup your files online?
storage | Apr 16th, 2010 | by Owen Ferguson
As bandwidth increases and storage gets cheaper by the gigabyte, online backup solutions are stating to make more sense. Which one is the most reliable?
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Vote for: What is the best tablet computer?
tablets | Aug 22nd, 2010 | by Owen Ferguson

| Notion Ink Adam |

| HP EliteBook 2730p - Core 2 |

| Fujitsu LifeBook T900 Tablet PC |

| HP Compaq Tablet PC TC1100 |

| Lenovo ThinkPad X61 Tablet |
The tablet is an increasingly popular form factor for portable computing devices. There are many different models of tablet computer available for purchase these days. They allow the user to directly interact with data on the screen using finger tips or a stylus. Which of these tablet computers do you like the best for your interactive data visualization needs?
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Vote for: Will you continue to buy Apple products if their workers keep dying?
apple | May 26th, 2010 | by Owen Ferguson

| Yes. They've done what they can to mitigate employee stress. |

| No way. That's no way to treat human resources. |
Within half a year, there have been nine suicides attempts with seven confirmed deaths at Foxconn's Shenzhen factory. In the last month, that number suddenly increased to 30 new suicide attempts, prompting the company to hire counselors and even Buddhist monks to free the souls of the suicidal from purgatory. Foxconn is one of Apple's main manufacturer contractors. Thousands of Mac minis, iPods, iPhones and iPads are assembled daily in the Shenzhen factory, which runs 24/7. Will you keep buying Apple products if they don't shape up?
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Vote for: What is the best online image editing software?
image editing | Apr 16th, 2010 | by Owen Ferguson
Cloud computing allows many applications that used to be resident on the desktop to exist as online applications on web pages. Which of these online image editing suites is the easiest to use?
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Vote for: What is the best Lifestyle app to buy for the new Notion Ink Adam?
andriod apps | Sep 15th, 2010 | by Owen Ferguson
The new Adam tablet from Notion Ink operates using the Android platform, which means that many great applications already available for other mobile devices will easily run. The existing Android Marketplace is a great location to source both free and paid applications. Which of these paid programs would you most likely use to increase your Adam's functionality?
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Vote for: Which tablet PC is the best?
pc | May 27th, 2010 | by Owen Ferguson
A tablet PC allows the user to escape from the monotony of using the keyboard and mouse to enter text and interact with the virtual world. Touch screens and portable form factors allow computing to become more seamlessly integrated with day to day life. Which of these tablet format computers do you like the best?
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Vote for: What is the best device that uses the Android OS?
android os | Jun 16th, 2010 | by Owen Ferguson
Google's new open Android operating system is a wonderful OS to run on mobile computing platforms. However, there's much contention over which of these OS capable devices offers the best environment from which to extract the full potential of Android. Which of these Android-capable devices do you consider to be the best portable computing platform, in terms of hardware?
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Vote for: Would you wear a portable Life Recorder?
ideas | Apr 19th, 2010 | by Owen Ferguson

| Yes, if it can be made small enough to wear on my body |

| Yes, if it can be made small enough to wear on my wrist |

| Yes, if I can buy it as licensed sci-fi costuming accessories |

| No, feel secure with just a human body. |
Gadget visionary Bruce Schneier proposes the creation of a portable technology for life recording. His blog describes the device as capable of storing 200 gigabytes/year of audio and 700 gigabytes/year of video, constantly recording for security purposes. Would you wear such a device?
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Vote for: What is the best 4GB video card?
video cards | Sep 29th, 2010 | by Owen Ferguson

| PNY NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800 Graphics adapter - 4 GB - GDDR3 SDRAM |

| ASUS ARES/2DIS/4GD5 Radeon 5870 4GB PCIe-A Video Card |

| Sapphire Radeon HD5970 TOXIC 4 GB DDR5 2DVI/Mini-DisplayPort PCI- ... |

| HP-Compaq 506904-001 Multimedia Graphics Card 4GB |

| NVIDIA Tesla C1060 GPU computing processor - 4 GB - GDDR3 SDRAM |
Getting the most out of today's hottest computer games requires some serious horsepower on your graphics card. These great models with four gigabytes of available VRAM allow your computer to quickly render even the most complicated video game scene with little to no processor overhead. Which of these 4GB monsters do you like the best for serving your eyes the streaking hot pixels they desire?
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