Do you ever feel like your cell phone battery runs on low to nill all the time?  There’s now the Motorola P790 that may charge your battery to full within 1 hour.  You don’t need to plug it into the wall.  It already provides the full capacity to charge your cell phone to full.  This is handy if you are on the go and don’t have your regular charger with you, or if you are not near an outlet. 

The one caveat is that you need a mini-USB port on your phone for this charger to be compatible.  This is typically not difficult to find on a Blackberry, Motorola, Treo, and many other phones.  However, some phones do not contain this specific port.

At $30 retail, this mini charger could prove to be a life saver!  You may check out more of the Motorola P790’s specs here. 

Over time, your Windows XP computer might take a while to shut down.  Is this because of old age?  Well, sort of.  What happens is your computer develops a paging file, or memory of your temporary files and data over time.  When your system shuts down, it clears your temporary files and data to ensure that unencrypted passwords are not in your computer’s paging file.  This is an extra layer of security from Windows to ensure the utmost security.

With any type of extra security, there is patience or delays that come along with it, almost similar to airline security.  With passwords and anti-virus, this paging storage is not so critical or necessary.  So, if you can do without this extra security, you may tweak the registry so that your computer doesn’t take the extra time to remove the paging files’ contents:

Click Start -> Run -> then type regedit and hit return.

Navigate to and left click on: 

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management
Then, change the value of the ClearPageFileAtShutdown to 0.  Close the Registry and restart the computer.

Now, your computer should shut down quicker than before since it won’t take the extra time to clear the paging file.

The new Curve from Blackberry has been touted as the best blackberry to date.  It combines the Pearl sleekness along with a full keyboard.  The Pearl has 1 key for 2 letters which can get annoying especially since it contains Smart Type which tries to guess which words you’re typing.  The Curve has a key for every letter, but still weighs less and is smaller than the traditional full keyboard blackberry. 

Now, for the cool specs:

• speaker & auto-adjusting volume
• polyphonic and rich tones
• bluetooth for headphones - for talk and music
• Gtalk chatting
• 4 hours of talk time and 17 days of standby
• 2 megapixel camera

The phone is coming out in a few weeks and will be offered by Cingular/AT&T first and Verizon offers the phone in a corporate version that removes the camera.

We typically rate digital cameras by the number of megapixels they have.  A typical conversation is: ” I just got the new Kodak 6 mega pixel camera.”  “Oh yeah, well check out my 10 megapixel Canon digital camera!”

In general, the more megapixels you have, the better the resolution is.  Specifically, a mega pixel, or a million pixels, is a unit of image sensing capacity in a digital camera.  In other words, the larger the print you need, the more megapixels are required.  For instance, a 1.3 megapixel camera is needed for print a good quality 4 x 3 inch print photo at 300 dpi (dots per inch).  But, if you want to print an 8 x 10, you’ll need at least a 4-megapixel camera to produce a crisp print.

This is good to keep in mind because if you simply use your digital camera to print out 4 x 6 photos, getting a 8 or 10-megapixel camera is overkill.  A good 4 or 6-megapixel digital camera will do the trick in producing quality 4 x 6 photos or wallet-sized prints.

So, next time somebody tells you how many megapixels their camera has, just tell them: “Ok, so you can print out large photos.  But, how is the anti-glare, anti-shake, and auto-focus?!”

Do you find yourself going to the same websites over and over? How do you get there? Do you type the site name in? Or is it in your favorites?

Well, there’s a quicker way to get to your favorite site. You can get there by clicking a key on your keyboard. All you have to do is assign a specific key to your favorite site and your life will be much easier getting to your daily page. Here’s how to do it:

1. If you’re using Internet Explorer, right-click on an empty area of your favorite web site. Then, click “Create Shortcut.”

2. Once the shortcut has been created on your desktop, locate your shortcut and right-click and view the properties of the shortcut.

3. Finally, assign a new shortcut key and click “OK.”  If you hit one letter like “b” in the shortcut field, your shortcut will be hold down CTRL, ALT and the letter “b.”
Every time you want to go to your site, all you have to do is hit your shortcut key. You can be anywhere on your computer and your shortcut key will bring up your site.

Are you looking for movie-qualities videos?  Now, you can take family videos and view them like you would a DVD.  The Sony Handcam HDR-SR7 will play back videos in a wide screen format with the purest of quality.  It’s truly like being in the movie theatre, but instead of watching Tom Cruise or Angelina Jolie, you are watching your Mom, Dad, or the family!

The Sony camcorder records to a hard drive so you have up to 5 hours of recording time.  No more switching out little tapes or memory cards.  The battery time is only 2 hours, but that will improve with longer batteries in the future. 

For $1,300, the Sony camcorder has a high price tag.  But, the quality makes up for it.  This camera is also a great substitute for high-end professional video camcorders.  This is one of the first portable camcorders that match up with those bulky video cameras that the news stations use.