Archive for: September 4, 2007

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Opera is known as the fastest and smallest full featured browser a first choice for people using older PCs and Windows 95 and a brilliant alternative to the default IE from Microsoft Opera first of all is client World Wide Web that is the program for extraction of the information from WWW as the documents created with help HyperText Markup Language language of a marking of hypertext HTML
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The logic was sound, we thought: NBC pulls its contract with Apple's iTunes Music store, two days after it announces that Hulu will be the name of its online video venture with News Corp.. And so who has NBC chosen to partner with? Well, obviously, it's Amazon Unbox.

Wha...? Yeah, that was our reaction as well. Until we hear back from NBC, it will have to be the final word on the subject.

Some other tidbits to hold you over until we do: beginning on September 10, Amazon Unbox customers can download for free -- in advance of their network premieres -- the pilot episodes of NBC's new shows Bionic Woman, Chuck, Journeyman and Life. The shows that will be featured on Amazon Unbox include: Monk, Battlestar Galactica, Top Chef, El Cuerpo De Deseo, and The Chicas Project.

Apple's iMovie has been hailed as the app that brought video editing to the masses, by providing a way for ordinary people at any skill level to use their own music and video to create original movies without having to resort to expensive or difficult tools. Unfortunately, iMovie is available only on the Mac, but potentially, there's a Windows alternative. Pinnacle's VideoSpin, a free, lightweight video editing suite, has started its public beta, and so far, the app looks promising.

There's a growing market for easy-to-use video-editing applications. But if you're not familiar them, tools like Final Cut Pro and Adobe Premiere can be daunting to learn. It's one thing to catch your granddaughter's birthday party on video, but it's another thing to edit the video, set it to sound, and create a DVD to send to friends and family--just because you happened to be behind the camera.

Pinnacle is hoping to help, with VideoSpin. The app's interface is simple and intuitive. On the left is your album, where you can add any video, photos, audio, or other files you like to the album, or create your own text frames and visual effects to insert between scenes. The timeline at the bottom of the screen allows you to drag and drop video and audio (something many people miss in the new iMovie) and arrange it into chapters or add cut sequences between snippets of video. VideoSpin also has a built-in preview player, so you can make sure you like your video before saving it.

VideoSpin supports most media formats, including AVI, DIVX, ...

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Osaka University have been working together to develop a device which converts sunlight into laser-light with four times the efficiency of preceding attempts. According to a report out of Tokyo, the team is working on Space-based solar capabili…

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ThinkSecret is tooting its own horn with a supposed confirmation they’ve obtained of an iPhone-sized (3.5-inch), tough drive-based, touchscreen iPod — ThinkSecret started talking up a touchscreen iPod 20 months ago, and apparently all that blind rumoring is finally paying off. that contradict…

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Those looking for a matching keyboard and mouse set now have yet another option from Logitech, which nowadays busted out its new MX5500 combo. that one includes the company’s existing MX Revolution laser mouse with its speedy metal scroll wheel, along with a new keyboard tha…

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MIT — enlarged known for winning all sorts of competitions involving contemporary technology — has entered into another heated contest which will tryout its mettle against a wide-variety of opponents… and that contest is the DARPA Urban Challenge. DARPA, who w…

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As soon as the word got out in my office about Pointless Sites, it ignited a rush of e-mails with hilarious videos and time-wasting games in them. So be warned--this site is very good at making sure you get nothing done. Pointless Sites isn't quite as pointless as the sites that it collects, but it may as well be guilty by proxy of lowering worker productivity around my office.

The people behind Pointless Sites scour the Internet to find the oddest, quirkiest, and strangest sites that apparently serve no real purpose. Once they have a solid list, they share them with the world for our time-wasting pleasure.

I think we've all seen Pinguin Extreme, the online game where you hit a penguin with a mallet to see how far you can get him to fly. But Pointless Sites also brings us gems such as Refresh My Web (a looping Flash video of an underwater scene), the first 1,000 lines of the first chromosome in the human genome, and the classic game, "Don't Shoot the Puppy."

The sites collected at Pointless Sites are broken up by category. Nearly every Web game that you've seen in e-mail forwards over the past several years is archived or linked to at Pointless Sites, and there are hundreds more that look like they haven't been viewed or updated since the mid-1990s.

Pointless Sites has its own list of favorites, and visitors can vote on their favorite ten pointless sites of the month. Additionally (assuming there are degrees of pointlessness), the site has a Completely Pointless ...

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So we snagged ourselves an Xbox 360 Messenger Kit (aka Chatpad + Chatpad headset), unboxed the hell out of it, and here’s what we think:

Blister packs suck. Microsoft, we’re sick of ‘em.
The Chatpad is a little difficult to get on and off, but once…

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Mobile devices are increasingly working their way into our everyday lives, and market research suggests that the operating systems driving these devices are often Linux-based. Technology research firm ABI Research forecasts that Linux will be the fastest growing smartphone operating system by t…

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Leaving analysts just a little baffled, Sony Ericsson president Miles Flint has stepped down after three years of fairly successful leadership. The consensus among members of the financial community seems to be that there’s absolutely no way Flint was forced out; under his command, Sony Ericss…

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Filed under: WirelessIt’s already taken aim at mandatory RFID tracking of students, and now the California state senate is looking to ban the chips from being forced upon employees of all sorts across the state. According to The Los Angeles Times, the new bill specifically bans mandatory RFID implan…

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