A 16:10 monitor will only stretch the size of movies to fit the screen if you set it to do that (media players and TVs have options to stretch the image, along with cropping it to fit). I prefer leaving the aspect ratio alone. The letterboxing isn't too bad for 16:9 content on a 16:10 screen. In reply to: "Gateway's FHD2402 trades in pixel count for 16:9"
August 19, 2009
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If you go to the control panel and search for "view installed updates", you can uninstall IE8 and go back to IE7. In reply to: "Hands-on with IE 8: A giant step for Microsoft"
March 20, 2009
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I think you may have the wrong article :p In reply to: "Would you buy an Intel smartphone?"
March 16, 2009
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Did anyone else notice that the google updater that you have to download to install Google Earth forces you to install Chrome? In reply to: "Hands on: Google Earth 5 delightful but imperfect"
February 8, 2009
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What about Maddox (thebestpageintheuniverse)? In reply to: "How to be the most hated person on the Internet: Five role models"
January 27, 2009
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So, is this the laptop that will "change the way you think about laptops. Forever."? (There was an article on Cnet about a web site that was breifly on) In reply to: "Getting hands-on with the Sony Vaio Lifestyle PC"
January 9, 2009
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You can turn off the sidebar by clicking the arrow on the far bottom-right of the itunes window. In reply to: "Ridiculously slow, freezes with large library of tunes."
January 1, 2009
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Do you use AdBlock plus? That could be the problem, because it blocks the ad at the beginning of some of the videos. In reply to: "Prizefight: Battle of the browsers"
November 2, 2008
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Well, I the main reason I only use Firefox if for the add-on Adblock plus. It really does make web pages look so much nicer ;) In reply to: "Prizefight: Battle of the browsers"
November 2, 2008
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Yes, I have similar problems. In reply to: "Prizefight: Battle of the browsers"
November 2, 2008
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