Archive for: September 20, 2007

September 20, 2007

ViewSonic intros monitors galore for gamers, penny pinchers

Filed under: Review - 20 Sep 2007

Filed under: Displays
Not convinced with just the TV watching crowd getting their fix nowadays, ViewSonic additionally introduced a plethora of monitors for the gaming and budget-minded sets. Up first is the 19-inch VX1940w ($249), 22-inch VX2240w ($349) and 19-inch VX1932wm ($249), all of which spo…

Orbit Downloader 2.3.1

Orbit downloader is a full featured download accelerator and manager Orbit downloader integrates seamlessly into Microsoft Internet Explorer to automatically handle your downloads Using Orbit downloader you can easily download files from any remote server via HTTP HTTPS FTP RTSP MMS With Orbit downloader the downloading process will be as easy as never before Orbit downloader is a light weight powerful and easy to use application Also it is well known for its intuitive and user friendly interface

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Download Streaming Media Music Video Movie and More
Extreme download acceleration
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Support IE Firefox Maxthon Opera
Support Metalink download
Support HTTP HTTPS FTP MMS RTSP and RTMP protocols
Support Proxy server configuration
Support download pause and resume
General download management

Kaspersky Internet Security 7.0.1.220

Kaspersky Lab represents a new generation platform for creating applications specifically designated for complex protection of personal computers and workstations

Mozilla Firefox 3.0 Alpha 8

Firefox is a free open source web browser for Windows Linux and Mac OS X and is based on the Mozilla codebase It is small fast and easy to use and offers many advantages over Internet Explorer such as the ability to block pop up windows

Intel demos iPhone-like MID of the future

Filed under: Review - 20 Sep 2007

Filed under: Handhelds
Intel just keeps banging out the hits from IDF. After the handful of McCaslin “next-quarter” and “coming-soon” UMPCs we saw from the chipmaker (and associates), Intel started busting out prototypes from its forthcoming Menlow chipset, using smaller, 45nm Silverthorne CPUs, and…

Slacker inks deals with major, indie labels

Filed under: Review - 20 Sep 2007

Filed under: Portable Audio
It’s been a tick since we’ve heard any peeps from Slacker, but nowadays it announced that it not only inked a deal with a few “top indie labels,” but it managed to sign up the likes of EMI, Universal Music Group, and Warner Music Group, too. Additionally, “as part of the …

Kopin, SENSIO collaborate on new 3D eyewear

Filed under: Review - 20 Sep 2007

We’re still trying to figure out precisely who is buying up these gaudy 3D goggles, but apparently, the market is still lucrative. Consequently, Kopin and SENSIO have teamed up to deliver a new set of 3D eyewear, which “combines Kopin’s BDM-922K binocular optical engine with SENSIO’s S3D-220 dec…

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Toshiba’s Cell-derived SpursEngine chip to process video

Filed under: Review - 20 Sep 2007

Toshiba’s newfangled SpursEngine chip could soon be used to “work alongside a microprocessor to process video streams, recognize and process images, and tackle other multimedia chores,” and while we’re not precisely certain what kind of hit that will take on battery life, the prototype version i…

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Alienware laptops now sporting 640GB of storage

Filed under: Review - 20 Sep 2007

We’ve seen a couple monster laptops with internal RAID arrays before, but Alienware is the first manufacturer we’ve seen to load its machines up with two 2.5-inch 320GB drives — letting you lug around by half a terabyte of notes. “Lug” is definitely the operative word, of course — only the 17-…

Firefox Fends Off QuickTime Bug Threat

Filed under: Review - 20 Sep 2007

Firefox users had a recent impolite awakening about a vulnerability in the way Apple’s QuickTime plug-in interacts with their Web browser. Far from grumbling, however, Mozilla supporters say their patch for the vulnerability says increasingly about Mozilla’s strengths than its browser’s weak…

STriDER: Virginia Tech’s creepy, three-legged bot

Filed under: Review - 20 Sep 2007

Apparently, robot designers are worried that they’re not creating automatons that are creepy suitable, considering a team of engineers at Virgina Tech have put something together that will give even the toughest of men chills. The robot in question is the three-legged STriDER (Self-excited Tripe…

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Robot “dog” crosses obstacles, lacks head

Filed under: Review - 20 Sep 2007

To be honest, we’re not certain whether Boston Dynamics decision to not include a head on its so-called “LittleDog” makes the bot increasingly or less creepy, but it certain is pretty darn impressive either way. It’s claim to fame, and the conclusion of $1.5 million in funding from DARPA, is i…

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