After entering basic information including name, password, and e-mail address, Sony VGP-BPS9A/B Battery new users have the option to connect their Facebook and Twitter accounts to Foursquare. If check-ins are pushed to your Facebook account,Sony VGP-BPS9/B Battery the name of the visited venue and a message is shared in that service's Places tool. If check-ins Thinkpad T410 Battery are pushed to Twitter, the venue name and any accompanying message are tweeted to Sony VGP-BPS9/S Battery followers.

Strangers cannot see your check-in history. In order for a user to see another user's Sony VGP-BPS9 Battery history, they must first request friendship, and then have that friendship confirmed. So if you don't accept Foursquare friendship requests from Sony VGP-BPS8A Battery unknown users, those unknowns cannot access your profile or see the record of places you've been.

You can control how many personal details appear on your profile page, aside from your check-ins, your telephone number, Sony VGP-BPS8 Battery and e-mail. When I signed up, I chose to make that information available while browsing Users Settings. It made it easier for friends to Sony VGP-BPS2 Battery contact me if they wanted to chat about my involvement with Foursquare.

Next up: Finding friends with Foursquare Sony VGP-BPS2A Battery accounts. At your request, the service can search your e-mail contacts, Twitter followers, and Facebook friends for those with preexisting Foursquare accounts. Once found, friends are automatically sent an e-mail alerting them to a new Foursquare Sony VGP-BPS2B Battery presence. If they choose, your friends can follow you so that you have access to each other's check-in history.

When I signed up, I was happy to see that several friends and acquaintances in my Gmail Sony VGP-BPS2C Battery and Twitter contacts were already avid Foursquarers.

Privacy is a common concern for anyone new to Sony VGP-BPS13 Battery Foursquare. The question of whether it is dangerous to share your location isn't cut and dry, though.

Design
With a glossy black front and soft-touch back, the MiFi 2372 is somewhat bulkier than the MiFi devices available for Sprint Sony VGP-BPS13A/Q Battery and Verizon. It measures 3.9 x 2.4 x 0.6 inches and weighs 2.9 ounces, compared to 3.5 x 2.3 x 0.4 and 2.1 ounces for the earlier EV-DO Sony VGP-BPS13A/B Battery version. The chrome accents around the sides are nice, but the device feels less sturdy than the Verizon and Sprint MiFis. Plus, we noticed that the Sony VGP-BPS13/B Battery AT&T logo started to rub off after a week of testing.

The top of the MiFi 2372 houses the power button, and there's a Wi-Fi indicator up front that tells you when the Sony VGP-BPS13B/B Battery device is ready to connect. It blinks once you're connected. Unlike the Sprint Overdrive, Sony VGP-BPS13B/Q Battery the 2372 doesn't display the signal strength or battery meter on the hardware itself, though that would add extra bulk. Around back you'll find a microSD card slot for sharing files (more on that below) and a microUSB port for Sony VGP-BPS13A/S Battery charging.

Setup
As with earlier MiFi devices, getting connected to the MiFi 2372 was a cinch. You just turn Sony VGP-BPS13/Q Battery it on, and then you'll see the hotspot show up in your laptop's (other gadget's) list of wireless networks. Enter the password and Sony VGP-BPS21A/B Battery off you go. You'll just have to be patient if you're powering the MiFi 2372 on before connecting. The device took about 50 seconds to establish a connection from a cold start.

The next level of privacy involves "shouts," where you check into a location while simultaneously making a comment or leaving a tip Sony VGP-BPS21/S Battery for Foursquare friends, Twitter followers, and/or Facebook friends. Before each check-in, users may select whether to share with Sony VGP-BPS21 Battery Facebook and Twitter. You don't have to share the details of check-ins at all, not even with the people you've granted access Sony VGP-BPS21A Battery to Foursquare. (See p. 73 for more details on Off the Grid check-ins.)

Now that you can use a smart phone as a hotspot, it's natural to wonder why you would carry a dedicated gadget just for that Sony VGP-BPS21B Battery purpose. Novatel's MiFi 2372 makes a pretty good case for the category's staying power. This compact modem ($49 with a two-year contract) good battery not only lets you share AT&T's 3G data with up to five Wi-Fi enabled devices; you can easily see your signal strength and battery life right in your toshiba akku browser, as well as access a handful of widgets and applications powered by Novatel's MiFi OS. Besides, AT&T doesn't offer any smart phones yet with a hotspot app. So how good is the MiFi 2372's speed? And how well do Novatel's apps and widgets dell akku work? Get the full scoop below.

MiFi OS
What makes this modem unique is the MiFi OS, which allows you to access a home page saus akku for the device (http://attmifi) that displays the battery life and signal strength right up top. Having this information always available is really convenient. This acer akku page also provides access to widgets for seeing how many devices are connected, sending and receiving text messages, and checking your data usage. A weather widget displays the current conditions based on your location (if you have the GPS setting enabled), hp akku as well as the forecast--but just for two days.

File Sharing
The MiFi 2732 has a microSD card slot for a reason. You can use it to share files, whether it's apple akku documents, photos, or music. To access a microSD card's contents inserted in this mobile hotspot, you have to type file://///192.168.1.1/mifi in fushitsu akku the browser, something we wouldn't have known unless we visited AT&T's online tutorials. Once we did that on our laptop, we could see the card and drill down into various folders. Accessing these folders took longer than we'd like, as we noticed a delay of a few seconds dell batteryor more with each click. The MiFi 2732 would probably be more responsive if it had an 802.11n connection instead of 802.11g, but this lag could also toshiba battery be a function of the device's CPU.

While PC makers initially targeted laptops with 3D displays and glasses at gamers, Acer saus battery is hoping to widen their appeal to all sorts of entertainment seekers. Priced at $999, the Aspire 5745DG is the least expensive 3D notebook we've sony battery tested that uses Nvidia's impressive 3D Vision technology. Powered by a Core i5 processor, this 15.6-inch system can also output 3D content to a compatible TV via its HDMI connection. So is this multimedia machine really a apple battery bargain?

There's even a local search widget, powered by Google, acer battery that leverages the MiFi 2372's GPS capability. The MiFi 2732 found our location in New Jersey within a few seconds, and we were able to search for a local Starbucks and then get directions (though a separate browser window opened at that point). fushitsu akku Strangely, refreshing this widget caused it to go blank, and only refreshing the entire page forced it to come back.

We also successfully loaded the MiFi's landing page from an iPhone after we connected to hp akku the 2372 from that handset. The widgets took longer to load than they did on our notebook, but it's nice to know that they display on mobile devices. dell akku In order to see your text messages and access the MiFi's settings, you need to sign in each time you connect, which is annoying. Novatel promises a software update in March that will fix this saus akku issue.

Design
There's nothing really remarkable about the 5745DG's design. Its glossy black lid picks up fingerprints, sony battery but a subtle striped metallic pattern adds some visual flair. The rest of the somewhat boxy chassis is a gray plastic, and the palm rest is made to look like ibm akku brushed aluminum.

While not as large as a desktop replacement, the size and bulk of the 5745DG means it's not going to travel much. It tips apple akku the scales at 6.2 pounds, around the average for a 15-inch system. Its 9-cell battery protrudes out the bottom towards the rear, and while it angles the system acer akku towards you--making typing more comfortable, it raises the height of the notebook to 2.3 inches.

Heat
Having a spacious underside means that the 5745DG stayed fushistu battery fairly cool. After playing a Hulu video at full screen for 15 minutes, the touchpad and the G and H keys reached 92 degrees, but the middle of the bottom stayed a cool 85 hp battery degrees.

Keyboard and Touchpad
The 5745DG uses the same FineTip keyboard that's become standard on all Acer notebooks. dell battery The keys are flat on top and separated from each other, and a full number pad sits to the right. We found the typing experience fairly comfortable toshiba battery but certainly not best in class.

Above and to the right of the keyboard is a programmable quick-launch button and an eject button. Considering saus battery that the system is geared toward entertainment, we would have appreciated dedicated media keys, or at least ones to control the sony battery volume.

Still, it was neat to be able to stream photos and music from the MiFi to our notebook. Videos ibm battery are another story. When we tried to play a 720p WMV file on our notebook, both the picture and audio stuttered so much the clip was apple battery unwatchable.

Sadly, our iPhone 4G couldn't even access the above URL for file sharing on the MiFi 2372. Our iPhone acer battery returned an error message that said: "Safari cannot open the page because it is a local file."