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This article was written on October 13, 2006 by CyberNet.

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How would you like to turn your desktop into a virtual, non-cluttered news center?  Just keeping up with the latest news or email on a daily basis can be quite the challenge.  This is where KlipFolio comes in.  KlipFolio is a personalized dashboard, a collection of “Klips” that are chosen and completely customizable by you, the user with a built-in alert feature.  It is also developer-friendly, so if there’s a Klip you’re wanting that’s not available, you can create it yourself! The development tools are built right in.

These Klips are mini programs that keep you up to date with just about everything imaginable from weather and news to email and RSS feeds.  They have a huge list of Klips that are already available as well as a list of some of the more popular ones like Yahoo! Mail, and Google Calendar. Some of the other popular Klips include weather, stock, news, auctions(eBay), and package tracking (FedEx and UPS). Customizing Klips is one of the features I like most.  You can move and resize Klips freely, as well as minimize them.  When you minimize a Klip, they will automatically expand when you get near them so that you can see the content.

It certainly wouldn’t be complete without RSS feed capabilities.  To add a feed, simply click on the “add feed” button in the toolbar.  A new feed viewer Klip will appear.  From there you can add as many feeds as you’d like to each feed Klip that you create.  For example, if you have 5 sites that are all related to software — you could create a “software Klip” so that you have your software related feeds in one window.  You could also create them for politics, science, etc.  the possibilities are endless, and it’s a really nice way to categorize your information. If you right click on the title bar of a feed, you can choose to dismiss the items which is equivalent to marking the items are read, something I always look for.

Additional features that I enjoy are preferences and alerts.  Of course with the preferences, there’s a variety of colors and fonts you can choose from.  They also have a selection of skins to change the look of your Klips.  There’s lots of different settings to choose from to customize it so it will look just like you want it to. There is also a built in alert feature.  You can get alerts to pop up whenever new items are added, whenever an item changes, or when a certain word appears.  For example, you could receive an alert anytime that CyberNet writes about Firefox.  You’d go into the Klip setup, select the alerts tab, and then you can add certain keywords you want to be notified of.

 The interface is small, and looks nice on your desktop without slowing down your system, and it’s an easy download from Serence Inc. It is offered in several different languages, and is pretty user friendly. If you’d like to download KlipFolio, visit KlipFolio.com.

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At a press event tonight, Acer dropped an interesting fact: they have a prototype desktop PC running the Google Android OS. This isn’t the first we’ve heard of large-form-factor devices running Android; last week there were rumors HP was toying with Android as a laptop OS.

I personally think this is an awful idea. As our editor-in-chief Lance Ulanoff said on PCMag Radio today, Android totally lacks desktop-class productivity applications – yes, it has basic document editing options, but nothing with the power laptop and desktop owners would expect. When I floated the idea to Smart Device Central editor Jamie Lendino, he responded tartly, “haven’t we already seen the HTC Advantage?” That’s a reference to a failed, overpriced sort of Windows Mobile netbook that landed with a giant thud in the marketplace in 2007.

Linux definitely has a place on netbooks and desktops. But the Android variant of Linux (because that’s what it is, really) isn’t designed for powerful devices. Never mind that Android is hard to find on the market even in phones. Acer is a smart company with a lot of Linux experience. They’re probably toying with an Android desktop to compare it to other available Linux options. I’m hoping they’ll realize it just isn’t a good fit.

Acer’s announcing a ton of new gear right now (we’re live at the event in a New Jersey IMAX theater, of all places) and the hottest new products so far are the new Aspire Timeline laptops. Hard specs are a little light at the moment, but what we do know sounds pretty great: 13.3, 14.1 and 15.6-inch LED-backlit 16:9 screens in a one-inch thick chassis, Intel ULV processors, multitouch touchpads, HDMI and S/PDIF out, and eight hours of battery life — 10 hours with an SSD. The real killer is pricing, however: $699 to $899. Ouch — poor Adamo. We’re still at the event, but we’ll be trying to get as much info on these as we can, stay tuned.

Update: We got some more detailed specs, and things are still looking good — like, built-in WiMAX good. The processors will be ULV Core 2 Duos, and the 13.3-inch model will weigh 3.5 pounds while the 15.6-incher will tip in at 5.3 pounds. RAM is DDR3 and drives top out at 500GB spinners and 64GB SSD. We’re angling for clock speeds, we’ll let you know when we go hands-on

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