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Logic Wireless released the first Pico projector embedded inside a phone last week at CES 2009.

At first glance, Logic’s Bolt (no relation to Usain) seems to present a dilemma for the early advocates of the Picos, like myself. Do they dump their cool new accessory, as well as their favorite phone, in favor of the super-integrated phone or should they wait until a bigger phone maker gets in on the game?

For now, the answer should be fairly easy. Keep your Nokia or iPhone and keep using the new Picos for entertainment purposes. If you want to use a projector for office presentations, get one of the slightly larger, non-pico projectors. Buying a new phone with Windows Mobile just because it has a projector is not a good enough reason to spend $600 on it (though it is $100 with a two-year contract.)

Plus, the larger companies will probably come out with their own embedded Pico versions by next year.

But if keeping all of your devices to a minimum is most important to you, the Logic Bolt offers plenty of attractive options in one package and it deserves an good look. It works with a variety of GSM networks and comes with a 3 megapixel camera, Bluetooth, and a GPS receiver. The phone also has a responsive 2.4-inch LCD touch screen (at 240 × 320 pixels) with a slide keyboard, and most relevant in regards to the projector’s idea as an office assistant, is packed with Windows Mobile software with PowerPoint, Excel, and Word.

The projector itself pushes out images up to 64-inches, though previous experience tells us that even with its 640 × 480 VGA resolution, it’s likely to show up a bit faded.

Still, no other phone can claim all of these features into a phone at the moment and it should receive plenty of attention for that reason alone.

If you’ve been keeping up with my monitor blog posts from CES 2009, there’s one term you’ve probably heard tossed around more any other: “Full HD.”

Samsung's LED-based 2370L is more than a little easy on the eyes.

(Credit: Eric Franklin/CBS Interactive)

Yes, Full …

Originally posted at CES 2009

All things considered, this year’s CES had a surprising amount of innovative–or at least interesting–tech for cameras and camcorders, beyond the usual bigger/faster/cheaper we’ve come to expect from the show.

Though each manufacturer took a different approach to pumping up its HD camcorder lines, they all …

Originally posted at CES 2009

This article was written on October 12, 2006 by CyberNet.

Back in May I talked about Taskbar Shuffle as the program that lets you rearrange the items that are in your Windows Taskbar. It is as simple as dragging and dropping them around until you have everything exactly where you want it. The newest version 2.0 has been running great for me and even works like a champ on Windows Vista.

All you have to do is click on a Taskbar item and start to drag it wherever you want it to be. Then you will see a gray bar (as pointed to in the picture) that indicates the position for which the Taskbar item will be relocated.

Here is a list of what’s new in Taskbar Shuffle 2:

• added: sweet visualization when dragging a button in XP (updated look for Win2K)
• added: full support for XP button grouping — this was so annoying and took quite a bit of effort.. hooray for me
• fixed: too much CPU getting eaten while dragging
• fixed: should now restart if explorer crashes
• added: option to middle mouse click on a Taskbar button/group to close it
• added: new options window with some cool grouping options, if you’re into that
• fixed: auto-check for updates shouldn’t give errors anymore
• fixed: few memory leaks plugged up
• added: new icon!  never really liked the original one

One of my favorite things with this program is the ability to hide the system tray icon so that I can completely forget that it is running except for when I want to use it. You’ll probably even forget that it isn’t a built-in feature with Windows if you set it to start when your system boots, hide the splash screen, and hide the system tray icon. Then you almost start to take it for granted.

Download Taskbar Shuffle 2.0

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Well, it looks like MSI isn’t about to wait around for Intel to deliver those new high-end, lower-cost processors for ultrathin laptops, as the company has just announced that it’s planning to offer “high-powered” Pentium processors in its line of X-Slim laptops. That will apparently push the Pentium-equipped models past the $1,000 mark (as opposed to the $800 the Atom-based models will demand), although MSI apparently isn’t ready to get more specific than that. The company also doesn’t seem to have had much to say about any other potential spec-changes, with it only divulging that the Pentium-based models would will loaded with Vista.

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