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There are thousands and thousands of new computer peripherals and accessories that are still undiscovered by most of us. The reason is that either they were not advertised well or they were just too expensive for anyone of us to buy.

10 Most Expensive Computer Keyboards

All of my readers know that I have this never ending love for new gadgets and computer accessories. The love continues and finally today I have something for you that you have probably never seen before. I have made a list of the most expensive computer keyboards ranging from a few hundred dollars to thousands of dollars. Thanks a lot to my friend Cold-Fire for helping me out in making this list.

1. Happy Hacking HP Keyboard Japan

This computer keyboard has a sweet price of US $4,400 and is coated many times using a special brush made from the hairs of virgins, and then powdered with gold dust.

2. Stealth Computer Keyboard

The cool looking Stealth Computer Keyboard has a price of US $2,200 and it comes enclosed in non-corrosive stainless steel with an optical isolated barrier.

3. TouchStream LP

This keyboard surely looks one piece of hardware innovation and it costs only for US $,1500.

4. Excutive Keyboard

This keyboard by Maltron was made with made with Perspex, Stainless-Steel and Polycarbonate key-tops to give relief to your fingers, wrists and arms while typing. It costs £550.

5. Dual Handed Ergonomic 3D

This is a unique 3D keyboard worth £375. The letter keys are angled inwards to match natural finger movements and the keys for the longer fingers are recessed. Getting a trackball on your crazy 3d keyboard will cost you an extra £65.

6. Professional II Datahand

The $675 beauty has been designed such that it can be dynamically adjusted to fit the size and shape of a person’s hands.

7. Keyless Ergonomic Keyboard

The orbiTouch Keyless ergonomic Keyboard creates a keystroke when you slide the two domes into one of their eight respective positions. It has a price of US $399.

8. Comfort Keyboad

As the name says this is the ultimate comfort keyboard. The Comfort Keyboard is separated into three sections, which can be adjusted easily and locked into place. It costs $349.

9. Wireless Entertainment Desktop 8000

This is one keyboard made by Microsoft and with a reasonable price of $249. The media keyboard is also known as the Ultimate keyboard. An aluminum finish makes this keyboard quite attractive.

10. Optimus Keyboard

This is so far a virtual or concept keyboard which has been just rendered in 3D and has no physical existence. The expected price for this keyboard is said to be very high and it is so far assumed to be a very expensive keyboard.

Hello Everyone! This is Haris from SizzledCore and I am having the honor to Guest Blog at Sizlopedia. I would like to share some of my best picks related to P2P File sharing applications. For more tips and tricks and other internet and software walkthroughs please visit my blog.

Best P2P File Sharing Applications

Recently I downloaded many free P2P (Peer-to-Peer) sharing applications and gave them a try to see which was best for me. Some of them were good, I got nice speeds, but some were extremely slow. Here I bring you the list of the best of P2P applications available for free and can be used to download music, movies etc.

1. Limewire

LimeWire is a peer-to-peer file sharing client for the Java Platform, which uses the Gnutella network to locate and transfer files. Released under the GNU General Public License, Limewire is free software. It also encourages the user to pay a fee, which will then give the user access to LimeWire Pro. The Pro version allows you to download at very fast speeds, the search results are optimized, and the Pro version has its own unique skin.

2. Shareaza

Shareaza is a peer-to-peer file sharing client which supports the Gnutella, Gnutella2, EDonkey Network, BitTorrent, FTP and HTTP network protocols and which can handle magnet links, ed2k links, Piolet links, and the now deprecated Gnutella links. It is available in 27 languages. It has loads of features and download speeds are also impressive.

3. Kazaa

Kazaa Media Desktop is a peer-to-peer file sharing application using the FastTrack protocol. Kazaa is owned by Sharman Networks and is infamous for the alleged high number of computer viruses, trojans and worms it helped to propagate. Kazaa is commonly used to exchange MP3 music files over the Internet. However it can also be used to exchange other file types, such as videos, applications, and documents. The official Kazaa client can be downloaded free of charge, bundled with adware and spyware, although there are “No spyware” claims found on Kazaa’s website. Throughout the past few years, Kazaa’s developing company has been the target of many copyright-related lawsuits. For some reason, I hate Kazaa and don’t like it. Once I download an audio file and my PC got infected with hundreds of bugs and viruses.

4. iMesh

iMesh is a file sharing and online social network. It uses a proprietary, centralized, P2P protocol. iMesh is owned by an American company iMesh, Inc. and maintains a development center in Israel. iMesh was the first company to introduce “swarming” - the ability to download one file from multiple sources, increasing download speed. Not better though. Limewire still stays at the top of the list!

5. BearShare

BearShare is a peer-to-peer file sharing application originally created by Free Peers, Inc. for Microsoft Windows and currently sold by MusicLab, LLC. They have given file-sharing a new meaning. With this, you can do the usuals like downloading music, movies plus you can even see other users’ profiles, photos etc. You can chat with your friends and meet many new people there. And it support hundreds on MP3 players.

Hello Everyone ! This is Madhur of Whoismadhur.com. I would like to thanks Dj for giving me an opportunity to Guest Blog at Sizlopedia . Today in this post i am going to review a Web 2.0 service Yourminis. For more tech, gaming related content, you can check out my blog .

Widgetize Yourself with Yourminis

Yourminis is a Flash based website which gives you a page that you can modify with you choice of widgets . The widgets range from RSS Feeds, Sports, Clock, Videos etc .

The website has been completely done in Flash . You can sign up at the site, log in and have the entire widgets at your disposal, you can even create and upload your own widgets if you want . When you first log in to Yourminis, you will be greeted with a page that contains categorically arranged widgets on the left hand side . They are called minis and they can be placed on the browser’s screen.

How To Use Yourminis Widgets

Once you put them in the main area, you can drag, drop, close, modify them like you are working in Desktop . You can also make changes to the appearance of the minis . If you want to create multiple pages, you can do so by creating different tabs for different pages . After working with your tabs, you can even publish them so that they can be shared with friends . For example I have a news tab which tracks news from BBC, ESPN, Mashable, Soccer etc . I have a general tab which contains Weather news, Calender, YouTube videos, my site’s feed etc .

The site has got a good collection of minis .There are minis such as Calculator, clock, notepad, weather indicator . There is also a games mini which lets you play a few small Java games, the mp3 mini gives you access to Streaming audio . There are minis for email services like Hotmail , Gmail and Yahoo mail . There is also a POP3 mini for those who use a different mail service . There is also an inbuilt RSS reader which lets you subscribe to various feeds . You also have an option to open the posts in external browser or an inbuilt browser provided by Yourminis .

It also offers Desktop Integration using Adobe’s Apollo Technology . You need to install the Apollo runtime plugin along with Yourminis Apollo plug-in on your PC . After that you can select any widget, click on “Add to Desktop” to add it to your Windows Desktop . In the desktop, you can drag them around, change there colors, appearance and settings . It is very much similar to Yahoo Widgets or Google Desktop . One drawback is that the widgets take up a lot of memory and they may not perform well with Firefox or Opera .

The title of this post definitely seems cheesy no? Perhaps this is one of my most unusual posts ever but lets just say I am one of those horny computer geeks too who would love to type on a USB Keyboard Bra. Yes thats right! Angel Kitty from Japan have designed a USB Keyboard that a girl can wear as her bra lol. Finally I think its time when technology meets fashion.

The USB Keyboard Bra For Geeks

The USB Keyboard Bra has been made using soft silicone material with beautiful pink lace stitched to its sides. This is definitely the best choice for those Geek guys and Geek Husbands who want to have a day of romance and pleasure with their desperate girlfriends and wives. I think you should definitely try this out (on your girlfriends that is) lol.

The cost of this unusual sizzling computer gadget is ¥15,750 which makes nearly $130 US Dollars. This USB Keyboard Bra does seem appealing and attractive but may not be the best choice for those geeks who want to do serious work on their computers. However if you are in some mood for fun I think this is perhaps the best geek choice.

[Source: InventorSpot]

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How Safe is Your Computer?

Security Facts about an average computer user

• 70% users Install a lot of softwares or games which he finds interesting.
• 80%of the user are not ready to update their system with latest patches.
• 60% of the user don’t know if there system is secure.
• 70% user don’t know how to find if the system is really secure

So how do you find if your system is secure and patched with latest patches and updates. Security System Analyzer (SSA) is a tool designed to check your system for the latest security updates. This tool can scan your system and find out the vulnerabilities about the missing patches and updates and provide you a link from where to get.

Features of SSA

1. Finds security vulnerabilities and the missing patches for windows.
2. Gives a direct link to possible patches to be used to remove the security hole.
3. Supports Windows 2000, XP, Vista.
4. One click to get the information about latest security vulnerabilities and others.
5. Generates HTML reports which makes view easy and can be exported.

Open Vulnerability and Assessment Language (OVAL) is an international, information security, community standard to promote open and publicly available security content, and to standardize the transfer of this information across the entire spectrum of security tools and services. OVAL includes a language used to encode system details, and an assortment of content repositories held throughout the community.

How SSA works?

This software completes the whole process in 3 steps:

1. Representing configuration information of systems for testing;
2. Analyzing the system for the presence of the specified machine state (vulnerability, configuration, patch state, etc.)
3. Reporting the results of this assessment

Resources

• Download: ssa-setup.exe (9.9 MB)
• Documentation: ssa-manual.pdf

This tool has an excellent feedback and does not require any user to be geeky. You just need to run the tool and find out whats not secured.

So how you keep track of your PC security? Do share with us in comments and we can discuss.

My readers would have definitely known by now the extent to which I love all those computer gadgets and especially computer keyboards. Even though I do not want to write about every single keyboard out there but the emotion is so strong that I really can’t help it. Recently Geekalerts featured a unique keyboard on their site which was simply off the hook. The keyboard is not a gizmo-type keyboard (means it does not have any unique functionaly) but actually it were the looks that drove me crazy.

Color LED Keyboard

This is probably the most amazing computer keyboard you will ever see. The Korean keyboard is made by luxeed and the special thing about this keyboard is that it has LED’s fixed separately inside each key which glow as you type on it. There are two versions namely white and black. The white one costs for $127 and the black one has an amazing price of $134.

There comes a software with the LED keyboard package which allows you to customize and change the settings of how the LEDs behave when a finger comes in contact with a key. You can define custom patterns or even set how indivisual LEDs will respond to a touch action. You can view full live demonstration of the LED keyboard in the YouTube video below.

Gadgets Gadgets and again Gadgets! I can bet all of my readers must be wondering why am I in love with gadgets so much. First the keyboard hype and now computer mouse reviews (Yeah! you probably think I am going insane aren’t you?) but the truth is that I love gadgets because I do not have a girl friend (Ok lol now that was a sweet joke)

Rotino Sigma: The Smallest Computer Mouse Ever

This tiny little sweet and cute mouse that you see in the picture above is called Rotino Sigma (now thats one sexy name) and it is popular because it is known to be the smallest travel mouse ever made. The mouse is really unique and is made by a Japanese company (as usual). It is an optical laser mouse with a retractable USB cable and a very light body. This is perhaps the best choice for those people who travel a lot and want a sort of portable mouse (It will fit smoothly in your pocket) which they can easily use anywhere at any time.

Rotino Sigma: Product Specifications

Though there are not much product specifications for this mouse but I will still elaborate the ones I can. For me, personally speaking, I think my palm can easily cover the whole mouse (oops! no place left for left and right click buttons)

• Light weight measuring only 40-grams
• Sleek dimensions 30 x 70 x 20-mm
• Adjustable sensitivity 1000 dpi-2000 dpi

and it costs for only $25 (now that is really sweet)

Rotino Sigma Colors

This mouse basically comes in 3 different colors namely black, blue and red. You have already seen the black one and here is a preview of blue and red one.

so who is planning to buy one ?

I am back with a review of another cool gadget by Microsoft and its again one of those computer mouse. Back in July I reviewed Microsoft Habu which is a computer mouse that combines Microsoft technology with Razer precision to bring you the best gaming experience but now it has a competitor in line and it is none other than the Microsoft SideWinder.

Microsoft SideWinder Mouse

Microsoft SideWinder is a revolutionary computer mouse designed to provide you with unprecedented performance, handling, and adaptability. The mouse comes with advanced software and accessories that help you adjust the mouse and customize it according to your own gaming taste. Use the first ever LCD display on a gaming mouse for macro recording and DPI settings to reduce on-screen interference during game play.

Microsoft SideWinder Features

• Shaped designed for better handling
• On the fly DPI switching
• First ever LCD display on a mouse
• Five programmable main buttons
• Advanced gaming software and accessories
• Engineered for optimized speed
• Adjustable Mouse weights

This new mouse is definitely for the computer gadget lovers. It costs $80

Don’t forget to take a look at Microsoft SideWinder Product Review at the official site and a shout out to Madhur for a great review of Microsoft SideWinder.