Beta Buzz Network » Beta Review http://www.betabuzznetwork.com Fri, 25 Jun 2010 00:46:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Logitech Touch Mouse Server for iPhone/iPod Touch http://www.betabuzznetwork.com/2010/02/logitech-touch-mouse-server-for-iphoneipod-touch/ http://www.betabuzznetwork.com/2010/02/logitech-touch-mouse-server-for-iphoneipod-touch/#comments Sat, 06 Feb 2010 06:45:44 +0000 Betabuzz http://www.betabuzznetwork.com/?p=630

Logitech has added to the iPhone app craze. They introduce an excellent app to go along with a media center pc.  Logitech Touch Mouse Server allow you to take control of you computer via wireless.  It comes with a basic mouse interface along with keyboard pop up.  I haven’t use the tool much, but I think I just avoided purchasing a wireless keyboard kit for my Media PC. (Running Boxee!)  Works with Windows XP, Vista, 7 and Mac.

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]]> http://www.betabuzznetwork.com/2010/02/logitech-touch-mouse-server-for-iphoneipod-touch/feed/ 0 Windows 7 first freeze http://www.betabuzznetwork.com/2009/01/windows-7-first-freeze/ http://www.betabuzznetwork.com/2009/01/windows-7-first-freeze/#comments Sun, 11 Jan 2009 04:29:02 +0000 Betabuzz http://betabuzz.wordpress.com/?p=223 Well it was too good to be true. I experienced my first Windows 7 freeze. I downloaded IM client Digsby (great Adium alternative for windows) with Firefox and while it was installing Firefox got not responding. I was unable to end task through task manager. Instead when I accessed task manager W7 all together froze. Had to do a force quit and restart.

Stay tuned for more posts on Windows 7 beta reviews, All month long.

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Paint enhancements:
Multiple of brush stokes and ability add shapes.

Wordpad enhancements:
More font options

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Firefox 3 has a new look that fits well with Windows Vista.
Pledge to download firefox 3 when available to set world record

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Microsoft release Virtual Server 2005 R2 beta version was release a while back. It has a nice web interface which allows to access all your virtual systems on the server. You can test drive it yourself at Microsoft. Virtual Server is more flexible then Virtual PC 2004. You have the ability to create a larger virtual hard disk up to 127 GB. A big upgrade from the 16 GB that was offered in VPC 2004. A new addition to the Virtual Server website is downloading virtual Hard drives from their website. This will save the time of creating a virtual machine from scratch. There is also the addition of creating virtual network enabling you to put virtual machines on that network. Virtual server is great addition to the Microsoft Line up and should work well with a Windows server 2003. This is an important release for me while majority of my tested beta version are done on a virtual PC. I really like the web server interface and allowing me to take remote control right from the site. But even with my 2 GB’s of ram I felt Virtual Server lag a bit more then using VMServer. Which is available for free.

Verdict: Definitely worth testing out Virtual Server since the recent addition of down-loadable virtual hard disks.

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