Buying a new laptop is often confusing for many of us if we’re not tech savvy enough to understand all the jargon or just plain don’t know the requirements we are looking for. With that in mind we’ve put together a brief guide to choosing yourself a laptop which should make it easier for you to end up with the right model for you. Defining your usage This is the most important step in buying a laptop as many people buy laptops that either exceed or do not meet their requirements. Buying a poor quality laptop will end up costing you more in the long run and buying too high a quality laptop is simply a waste of money. So you need to determine your usage. If you mainly use your laptop for work, email etc then you can get by with a very low end computer as you don’t require a lot of memory or performance based hardware. If you want a laptop for digital design or gaming then you will need a much higher performance, a good graphics card and a lot of memory. If you use your computer as your primary media device then you will also want a good quality sound card and a high quality screen. If you determine your usage in this way you should be able to have a much better idea of what you need. Secondly you need to determine how mobile you want your laptop to be. If you intend to travel with it extensively for work or require something with a long battery life for extended trips away then you need to analyse these requirements. Generally this information will be clear but always minus a few hours from the battery life as this tends to be a best case figure. Sacrificing size for battery life or vice versa is worth considering depending on your needs. ...

Ok. This one is a big leak! Earlier today, pictures and video of Nokia’s first man, CEO Stephen Elop announcing first Windows Phone to the company’s employees surfaced the blogosphere. And here is the important part of the video - Thanks

The much awaited project which is already live in 27 countries and recently announced project in Bangalore – Google Street View is now in trouble. The city commissioner issued a notice to the firm asking them to stop capturing pictures for this project. On 27 May, 2011, Google announced that it will start capturing images using special equipment for their innovative Street View. This lets you explore places around the world through 360 degree level imagery. Google uses cars, trikes, snowmobile and more equipment to capture these interesting places and then turn photos into Street View. ...

Soon after approving .XXX top-level domains for adult websites earlier this year, ICANN today has approved a plan to usher in one of the biggest changes over the Internet’s Doman Name System. The new program will significantly allow companies, organizations and cities to register their own brands. You can soon think of .FACEBOOK, .TWITTER, .HOTEL, .APPLE and even .ANYTHINGYOULIKE !! According to the official message, the board vote was 13 approving, 1 opposed, and 2 abstaining. The Board approved a plan to dramatically increase the number of Internet domain name endings – called generic top-level domains (gTLDs) – from the current 22, which includes such familiar domains as .com, .org and .net. Applications for new gTLDs will be accepted from 12 January 2012 to 12 April 2012. ...

Wow! I can’t believe you’re ONE already! Its officially the one year birthday of www.cosmoGeek.info and I can’t tell you how excited I am to have made it this far. I’ve loved every minute of this tech blogging covering the most excited happening around Microsoft, Google, Apple, Facebook, Twitter, and so on. With 19,282 Pageviews, 11,605 visits, and more than 290 posts – this one year, I’ve enjoyed the support of every tech blogger around the globe. ...

Having to sync all your music between devices is a bit annoying stuff. Few days ago, Google launched a new music service Google Music that lets you upload your personal music collection to the cloud from which you can play them from anywhere directly on computer and Android devices. This service is now in beta mode and invitation based for the United States users only. I managed to get the invitation yesterday night and uploaded around 330 songs from my library. This article gives a sneak peak of this next generation cloud service. ...

In the latest unusual rhetoric dispute, Apple says that Samsung “attempts to harass” it and that Samsung’s demands are not made in good faith in one of its most recent filings. For some background history, Samsung demanded Apple to provide it with the samples of its next generation iPhone and iPad prototypes. Earlier, Apple sued Samsung over Galaxy series plagiarism. These incidents are unusual considering that Samsung is one of the Apple’s key suppliers, probably the largest one. ...

The rumours were true now! You can now officially buy an unlocked iPhone 4 from Apple Retails US Stores. Apple is selling the 16 GB version of unlocked GSM iPhone 4 for $649 and 32 GB for $749 while the locked versions are still available for $199 and $299 respectively. Interestingly, these unlocked iPhones will work on supported GSM carrier networks around the world. Because the unlocked iPhone is sold without a contract commitment, you can establish service and use a micro-SIM card from a local carrier at your destination. ...

Are you one of the users who tired of waiting software based unlock to unlock your iPhone 4 ? You may already heard of this hardware based unlock method – Gevey SIM Interposer, a Turbo SIM like piggy back sim card that allows you to unlock any iPhone 4 (all basebands up to 04.11.04 including iOS 5 beta) and does not even require to jailbreak your device. This method is still questionable in terms of its legal issues and readers are encouraged to try at their own risk. ...

Facebook introduced facial recognition feature few days ago which lets an option to tag a picture automatically. This automatic photo tagging feature might be good for some of you but it may get creeper nevertheless. Click ‘Edit Settings’ and change the option to ‘Disabled’ if you don’t want Facebook to work in that fashion This auto facial recognition feature basically uses a comparison of photos you’re tagged in to suggest that friends tag you in new photos. ...