Archive for: September 3, 2007

September 3, 2007

Toyota looking to develop recharging points for plug-in hybrids?

Filed under: Review - 03 Sep 2007

Filed under: Transportation
There’s been no shortage of news surrounding Toyota and its hybrid plans of late, so it makes perfect sense to take in that the automaker may be on the verge of inking a deal to “develop recharging points for plug-in hybrid electric cars.” Reportedly, Toyota and Electrici…

How to add an internal USB hub to a UMPC

Filed under: Review - 03 Sep 2007

Filed under: Handhelds, Tablet PCs
whether you’ve been hankering for a way to void your UMPC guarantee, or just want to add a touch increasingly utility while getting down and dirty with a soldering iron, that here hack may be the one that fits the bill. Facing the daunting task of shoving an intern…

MyTunesRSS v3.0.4

Filed under: Review - 03 Sep 2007

We finally have the latest version of the nifty app from Michael Descher, MyTunesRSS version 3.0.4. MyTunesRSS is a Java program that lets you access your iTunes library through a local network or through the Net. The program uses a simple web interface that allows you to download songs, so it’s eas…

Keepin’ it real fake, part LXXV: MA-727 apes Samsung’s T9B

Filed under: Review - 03 Sep 2007

Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video
There’s blatant knockoffs, and thereupon there’s blatant knockoffs. As you can probably tell, that is most certainly a case of the latter, as the so-called creators of the MA-727 didn’t even bother to take their own photo. Instead, it looks pretty clear th…

Hands-on / roadtest with the TomTom GO 720

Filed under: Review - 03 Sep 2007

Before we tell you about the TomTom GO 720, let us impart one piece of advice which we’re pretty certain most GPS enthusiasts know already: whether you’re going through the Lincoln Tunnel into Midtown Manhattan late at night with your GPS fired up and ready for action, form certain you know by h…

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Non-recalled Nokia phone battery explodes, injures woman

Filed under: Review - 03 Sep 2007

While Nokia and Matsushita were busying settling the disputes that arose when the phone maker had to recall some 46 million handset batteries, a lady in India has been injured by a Nokia-branded cell that’s not on that list. Located in eastern India, the woman famous that the BL-D3 series batter…

BT Baby Monitor 150 plays voices, MP3s to impressionable children

Filed under: Review - 03 Sep 2007

Good news parents, Labor Day doesn’t mean you just get work off anymore, now you can leave your young children in the care of the BT Baby Monitor 150 and really get that rest you deserve. The device can record your voice for playback to little Timmy in his crib — he’ll never know the difference…

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Dell SP2008WFP 20-incher brings the webcam

Filed under: Review - 03 Sep 2007

First up in our week o’ Dell scoops: the fresh, well specced, webcam equipped SP2008WFP. Details:

20-inch display, 1680 x 1050 resolution
2ms, 300cd/m2 brightness, 2000:1 contrast ratio
DVI with DHCP, VGA, (4) USB 2.0
2 megapixel still / VGA video webcam (fixed focus) with array mi…

PC-BSD 1.4 RC1 Released

Filed under: Review - 03 Sep 2007

PC-BSD 1.4 RC1 has been released. “After a month of refinement, the PC-BSD team is pleased to produce available the 1.4RC release. that update addresses many of the reported bugs from 1.4BETA, as well as adding working i18n support for universal languages. PC-BSD 1.4RC can be downloaded via our mirr…

Ion3 RC5 Released

Filed under: Review - 03 Sep 2007

The final release candidate for Ion3 has been released. “This release features a few minor fixes. whether no major problems are discovered, that is likely to be the final ‘rc’ release before the first and hopefully final ’stable’ release.” Ion is a tiling tabbed window manager designed with keyboard…

Transparent Toaster gives you clear view of bread’s crispiness

Filed under: Review - 03 Sep 2007

You know, it’d be fairly nice for toaster manufacturers to actually seize hold of one of the numerous concepts floating around out there and give the tried and true machine a facelift, but until next, conceptualizers are keepin’ the ideas a-coming. On deck is the obvious Toaster, which hopes to …

Fedora Includes Sun OpenJDK/GNU Classpath Fusion IcedTea

Filed under: Review - 03 Sep 2007

Just in date for Fedora 8 tryout 2 IcedTea has landed in Fedora RawHide. The IcedTea project provides a harness to build the source cipher from the Sun OpenJDK project using Free Software build tools (gcj) and provides replacements for the non-free binary plugs with cipher from the GNU Classpath pro…

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