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You might’ve seen the Adamo XPS cameo on this month’s Engadget Show, or viewed our unboxing, but in case you’re averse to the long form, really want to dive deep, or perhaps just use some other trite phrase to describe yourself, we’ve done an in-depth video hands-on with the world’s slimmest laptop. The verdict? Well, it’s a well-made machine with a significant issue of a price to performance imbalance. Check out the video after the break to see if all this sexiness can win you over.

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Adamo XPS hands-on impressions originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Welcome to the Engadget Holiday Gift Guide! The team here is well aware of the heartbreaking difficulties of the seasonal shopping experience, and we want to help you sort through the trash and come up with the treasures this year. Below is today’s bevy of hand curated picks, and you can head back to the Gift Guide hub to see the rest of the product guides as they’re added throughout the holiday season.

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Engadget’s Holiday Gift Guide: Toys originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This article was written on August 25, 2007 by CyberNet.

I’ve never been a big fan of splitting and joining files because the entire process is normally tedious. A lot of times it requires the receiver of the split files to have a specialized application installed in order to join them back into one single file. It’s an almost impossible chore for anyone that isn’t tech savvy.

One of our readers, "s", tipped us off on a free Windows application called GSplit. As expected, it splits and joins files together, but the receiver doesn’t have to worry about installing an application to unite the files. GSplit automatically includes a standalone combiner when the files are split, and it is extremely lightweight (about 70KB). For example, I split a 1.32MB file into 15-pieces, and the resulting files totaled 1.40MB which included the built-in combiner.

Note: GSplit does require installation in order to split files.

Here are some of the features GSplit has to offer:

• Generates a Self-Uniting program to restore your split files professionally. GSplit is then not required in order to restore the split file.
• Store file properties and restore them: file’s date, attributes are not lost contrary to batch files.
• Detect file corruption using size, offset, CRC32. When a piece is corrupted, you are notified about it, so you just need to get a new copy of that piece, not the whole set.
• Split very large files (bigger than 4 GB).
• Customize piece files according to your needs (size, filenames, title, author…), leave additional space on disks, create pieces without headers (useful for text-based files like large server log files).
• Split multiple files back-to-back in one time, include batch (automating) and command line options.
• Show you elapsed and estimated times during the splitting & uniting operations. You can also pause/resume the splitting operation.
• Store settings into profiles and let you use these settings for different files, remember MRU files and folders, automatically try to find out the best splitting settings…
• Integrate into Windows Explorer to let you split your files directly from the context menu.

Here is a screenshot of the standalone file joiner:

GSplit Homepage
Kudos to "s" for the tip!

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How-to: get music, videos, and photos off your iPod or iPhone originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It’s been a year of milestones for Android in the U.S. The number of handsets with the Google-developed software has grown from one to eight. Three of the four major national carriers, including Verizon Wireless, the country’s largest, now offer Android phones. HTC’s Hero and Motorola’s CLIQ have shown how Android supports customization by manufacturers. And the Motorola Droid has marked the debut of Android 2.0.

When the T-Mobile G1 was launched, Switched On discussed Google’s growing rivalry with Apple. But now Google itself an even more formidable threat to the Android than Apple or even Microsoft. Growing out of the group that created the Chrome browser, Google’s Chrome OS creates a relatively lightweight layer of hardware management code primarily for the purpose of running one native app, the Chrome browser. While Chrome OS can take advantage of local processing and resources, the OS foregoes local applications, citing a need to preserve speed, security and simplicity.

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Switched On: Chrome’s shine could blind Android originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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