Archive for: October 5, 2007

October 5, 2007

Keepin’ it real fake, Part LXXXVI: iPod nano rip-off does double duty as camera

Filed under: Review - 05 Oct 2007

Filed under: Digital Cameras, Portable Audio, Portable Video
You can tell the Chinese PMP knock-off factories are getting a little bored. They’re starting to mutate their typically staid, blatant thefts into something just a little bit increasingly exciting. Enter the UE-Technology UE-M4088, a total…

Excess wind energy to be stored underground for future use

Filed under: Review - 05 Oct 2007

We’ve seen some fairly impressive uses of wind power, but a group in Iowa is looking to actually capture and preserve excess wind energy for use when demand peaks. At the Iowa Stored Energy Park, a number of local utilities is “building a system that will steer surplus electricity generated by a…

GetRight Pro 6.3+04

GetRight works with your web browser to help you download files from the Internet It can accelerate your downloads and can recover downloads if errors occur resume downloading It has many other advanced features such as scheduling automatic dialing and file searching
GetRight Pro features uploading scripting uploads downloads act as a proxy for other programs and more
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Latest Changes
Fixed crash if tried to run a file from the History that had been deleted
Fix some text highlighting for FindFiles menus
Fix URLs added by scripts not refreshing the Download Status
Added so R click on header lets you choose Download Status columns
Fixed several things with the InnoSetup installer Uninstalling right icons digital signing
Plus several improvements from Ricardo 39 s custom GetRight installer

Windows Live Messenger 8.1.0178

Windows Live Messenger is the next generation MSN Messenger It has everything you already love about Messenger mdash your contact list emoticons and instant access to your friends via text voice and video mdash plus new ways to connect and share photos and documents effortlessly As always it 39 s free to download Messenger and use most of its features

Windows Live Messenger 8.1.0178 (10/3/2007)

Windows Live Messenger is the next generation MSN Messenger It has everything you already love about Messenger mdash your contact list emoticons and instant access to your friends via text voice and video mdash plus new ways to connect and share photos and documents effortlessly As always it 39 s free to download Messenger and use most of its features

Internet Explorer v7.0.5730.13

Internet Explorer 7 has been designed to make everyday tasks easier provide dynamic security protection and improve the development platform and manageability End user improvements include a streamlined interface tabbed browsing printing advances improved search functionality instant feeds RSS dynamic security protection and more

Internet Explorer 7 provides improved navigation through tabbed browsing web search right from the toolbar advanced printing easy discovery reading and subscription to RSS feeds and much more IE7 also provides security through a robust new architecture security features that help defend against malicious software and new ways to better protect against the theft of personal data from fraudulent websites It has improved support for cascading style sheets a rich RSS feeds platform and robust tools for deploying and managing Internet Explorer 7 in large enterprise environments

Death row inmate unable to appeal, computer troubles blamed

Filed under: Review - 05 Oct 2007

In a weird and admittedly saddening case, a death row inmate was unable to file for appeal after his lawyer’s computer began acting up. On the day in which he was to be executed, Presiding Judge Sharon Keller decided to not accept a filing for appeal after 5:00PM, even though a number of personn…

How would you change Dell’s XPS m1330?

Filed under: Review - 05 Oct 2007

Believe it or not, Dell’s sexy XPS m1330 ultraportable was unveiled to us way back in June of that year, which may not be all that notable whether the Round Rock powerhouse would’ve had these things out to keen customers in a timely fashion. As it stands, one of Dell’s most highly anticipated la…

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Know Your Rights: Why is copyright law so screwed up?

Filed under: Review - 05 Oct 2007

Know Your Rights is Engadget’s new technology law series, written by our own totally punk copyright attorney Nilay Patel. In it we’ll try to reply some fundamental tech-law questions to help you stay out of trouble in that courageous new world. Disclaimer: Although that post was written by an attorn…

Apple’s new metallic keyboard biased against Caps Lock?

Filed under: Review - 05 Oct 2007

Rather than blatantly demoting it, Apple has apparently chosen to snub the Caps Lock key on its newest metallic keyboards ever so quietly. Judging by a video taken by Jonathan Rentzsch, the wired version of the new ‘board seems to have a built-in resistance to activating the Caps Lock key. To de…

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Docstoc: Invitations to beta

Filed under: Review - 05 Oct 2007


Docstoc might just be a better source for boilerplate documents than paid services.

We covered the Docstoc community document library from the TechCrunch40 conference, and lately have been able to try it ourselves. It’s a good library of documents. The community rating and commenting system is wh…

Can a NAS device really change your life?

Filed under: Review - 05 Oct 2007

We’ve got ourselves a tall order here on Ask Engadget, Tony’s looking for basically the holy grail of domestic media gadgetry, and while we’re not certain he’s going to get all he’s asking for — or even half of it — we’re always up for a challenge. Oh, and as always, don’t be shy to send in yo…

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