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Hanging An HDTV: It’s All About The Studs. Telecine, Prints And Ugly Blu-ray Tranfers, Top 5 Movies from Comics, Blu-Ray releases for the week of September 15th, 2009.

Livescribe Pulse 2Gb Smartpen

For those of you that are avid readers of this column it should have become obvious that whilst I am a committed computer geek – I also have a love of fine pens, paper and writing instruments. In this months column I have managed to combine both – and find a tool that is invaluable to doctors, especially when studying or at a conference. The device in question is the Livescribe Pulse Smartpen.

Home Media Solutions

The latest Samsung LCD and LED TV’s offer stunning Full HD picture quality – some also come with a bonus in the form of built in wired and network media centre supporting a wide range of file types.

Graf Von Faber Castell Perfect Pencil

I have spent the last few months being completely overwhelmed by technology having installed in our office a new central server, phone system and video conferencing suite, plus having switched telecom providers .

At the moment the last thing I want to see is another wretched computer! I thought it would be nice to have a tech break and return to the simplicity of pencil and paper – and I must confess I’m quite enjoying it. This is, of course, a gadget column though and if you are going to use a pencil – you may as well get a good one and have some style and panache!

iPhone 3GS and Snow Leopard Announced

This week has seen a swag of new goodies coming from Apple announced at the World Wide Developers Conference in San Francisco.

The one that will undoubtedly get the most attention is the new iPhone- the 3GS.

Twitter

Twitter can best be described as a cross between an IM client such as MSN Messenger, an RSS feed and SMS. Messages must be less than 140 characters and can include a link. The essential point is to answer the simple question ‘What are you doing?’ You can follow individuals’ messages or search on topics. At the time of writing, swine flu is getting a lot of play.

Digg.com

For some time now there has been an explosion in social media – MySpace and Facebook are well established and are in fact bigger than many countries in terms of membership.

Sugarsync

SugarSync is a cloud based service that can solve multiple issues. Primarily it offers easy offsite backups of your critical files and can work with multiple computers across Mac and PC environments.

Skype

Most people by now have heard of Skype which has become the defacto standard for internet telephony. However, many users only use Skype computer-to-computer and miss many of the great benefits Skype offers when using one of their excellent subscription plans.

The BeBook eReader

A new generation of eBook readers use a technology called eInk and ePaper which use power only when turning the page and have a contrast ratio similar to regular ink on paper. A typical device is similar in size to a paperback book and can carry hundreds or thousands of books, including PDF versions of medical texts available from eBooks.com.

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