Archive for: August 15, 2007

August 15, 2007

iPhone port of SDL MAME in progress

Filed under: Review - 15 Aug 2007

Apple’s new hobby is being tailed by other hobbies, and the iPhone might be increasingly the gaming platform than Apple would have originally conceptualized. A search at Google cipher, a project site not very different from SourceForge, revealed a project entitled “iphone-sdl-mame,” which was create…

Yep, the Apple store is down

Filed under: Review - 15 Aug 2007

Filed under: Misc. GadgetsYep, we know the Apple store is down, so no need to continue emailing us frantically. Remember, just considering Apple takes down the store when it’s launching new products doesn’t mean that just considering store goes down new products are to be expected, ok? Read | P…

XtremeNotebooks launches quad-core Xtreme 917V laptop

Filed under: Review - 15 Aug 2007

Filed under: LaptopsAlthough being in the presence of a quad-core laptop doesn’t have the same allure it did just months ago, packin’ a Core 2 Quad processor into a 2.35-inch thick enclosure still manages to get us all hot and bothered (literally, we mean). The latest mobile gaming rig to come equip…

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Hotmail Gets Storage Limit Bump, Other Upgrades

Microsoft announced today that Hotmail would undergo some major upgrades over the next several weeks that should make the service more attractive to webmail users The most notable change is that the company is bumping the storage limit for Hotmail from 2GB for free account users to 5GB and from 4GB to 10GB for paid users This brings Hotmail 39 s storage limit above that offered by Google mdash which remains at 2 8GB for free accounts and 8 8GB for the lowest tier of paid accounts
That 39 s not the only upgrade the webmail service is getting Hotmail program manager Ellie Powers Boyle wrote on the Windows Live Blog that the team has begun adding features that the quot more advanced quot users have been asking for Some of the more general upgrades include performance and quality of service enhancements and an increase to the amount of time junk mail and deleted items are kept on the server

Hands on with the Sportster 5, SCV1 tuner, and Sonos with Sirius

Filed under: Review - 15 Aug 2007

Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video, Transportation, Wireless
Hey all you Sportster fans out there, don’t think we forgot about you in the midst of all the Stiletto 2 excitement. Sirius let us snap a few shots of that latest iteration in their popular line of dock-and-play radios, but frankl…

Yamaha’s YSP-4000 Digital Sound Projector adds HDMI upscaling

Filed under: Review - 15 Aug 2007

Filed under: Home Entertainment
Yamaha’s without unit surround sound bars have come a faraway way since the YSP-1 made its debut, and the company’s latest entry, the YSP-4000, continues to up the ante, with 1080p HDMI compatibility, analog video upscaling to 1080i / 720p, XM Neural Surround compatib…

New iMac: “design, function a fabulous combination”

Filed under: Review - 15 Aug 2007

“When it comes to marrying profile and function in computers, no one does it better than Apple Inc.,” says Ken Mingis (Computerworld). “Unboxing and setting up the iMac is a case of ease-of-use incarnate. There were the usual ooohs and aaahs in the office when I pulled it from the box — ‘Q…

Restoration Robotics invents hair transplanting robot

Filed under: Review - 15 Aug 2007

Filed under: Robots, WearablesThough some companies are more focused on getting hair off of your person, the California-based Restoration Robotics is hoping to help doctors do fairly the opposite. Reportedly, the company has just garnered some $25 million in funding, and is hoping to release its rob…

Philips to launch Ambilight successor Aurea

Filed under: Review - 15 Aug 2007

Filed under: Displays, HDTV, Home EntertainmentConsumer electronics manufacturer Philips will demo their successor to Ambilight — the ambient lighting technology that generates light effects on the sides of a television — at European expo IFA on August 30. The new technology, named Aurea, will be …

SanDisk shakes up Sansa line for the back to school celebration

Filed under: Review - 15 Aug 2007

It looks like SanDisk has decided that a few of its Sansa media players were due for a refresh, and it’s now rolled out some changes in hopes of attracting the Back to School masses. Perhaps the biggest change comes to the company’s WiFi-equipped Sansa Connect, which retains all the same specs…

Case dismissed for AllofMP3 founder Kvasov

Filed under: Review - 15 Aug 2007

It looks like AllofMP3 founder Denis Kvasov will be evading any time in the gulag, at least for the moment. whether you’ll recall, EMI, Universal, and Warner Music filed suits against the highly doubtful MP3-portal’s founder after launching a whirlwind attack resulting in Mastercard and Visa pul…

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