Archive for: October 23, 2007

October 23, 2007

Hasselblad discontinues the H2 product line

Filed under: Review - 23 Oct 2007

Filed under: Digital Cameras
We don’t foresee too many tears being shed by that news, but the Hasselblad faithful will probably want to know that the tried and true H2 product line has been nixed. Not surprisingly, the company reported that “demand simply no longer justified the committed manufactur…

Mozilla Firefox Portable Edition 2.0.0.8

Mozilla Firefox Portable Edition is a fully functional package of Firefox optimized for use on a USB key drive It has some specially selected optimizations to make it perform faster and extend the life of your USB key as well as a specialized launcher that will allow most of your favorite extensions to work as you switch computers It will also work from a CDRW drive in packet mode ZIP drives external hard drives some MP3 players flash RAM cards and more

FreeBSD 7.0 Beta 1

FreeBSD offers advanced networking performance security and compatibility features today which are still missing in other operating systems even some of the best commercial ones
The quality of FreeBSD combined with today 39 s low cost high speed PC hardware makes FreeBSD a very economical alternative to commercial UNIX workstations It is well suited for a great number of both desktop and server applications

Dell’s XPS One leaked: watch out, Gateway

Filed under: Review - 23 Oct 2007

Filed under: Desktops
You all laugh at us for religiously trawling the FCC site during our rare free moments, and yet every once in awhile those countless hours of tedium pay off big date: meet Dell’s unannounced all-in-one XPS One. What we’re seeing here is a 22-inch WSXGA (1,680 x 1,050) display f…

Linksys ships the WRT600N router and WPC600N notebook adapter

Filed under: Review - 23 Oct 2007

It’s been nearly a year since we first peeped the Linksys WRT600N, and although the company missed that estimated CES ship day, it’s finally released the ominous-looking box for an MSRP of $279. As hinted by the model number, the router features 802.11n, but implements it simultaneously by both …

Garmin looses pink nuvi 200 / 250 GPS systems on Europe

Filed under: Review - 23 Oct 2007

Europeans that just so happen to be in the market for a new GPS system and consider pink their favorite color can uncork that bottle of Champagne, as Garmin truly is coming through and delivering not one, but two pink navigators to your homeland. Both the nuvi 200 and nuvi 250 are set to hit Eur…

SanDisk prepping a 32GB Sansa View?

Filed under: Review - 23 Oct 2007

The Sansa View might have just hit, but it looks like SanDisk’s already looking ahead — the specs link on the View page lists 8, 16, and 32GB capacities with a top-end price of $330. Of course, there’s no indication when that naughty boy might come out, but those of you who had just gotten comf…

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Apple halts Boot Camp downloads ahead of Leopard’s release

Filed under: Review - 23 Oct 2007

With just three days to go before Leopard hits the scene, Apple’s gone ahead and made Boot Camp unavailable to download — a move that shouldn’t surprise anyone, considering we knew it was coming the day Leopard was announced. Tiger users with Boot Camp partitions who aren’t ready to manufacture…

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Massive balloon takes solar telescope sky high

Filed under: Review - 23 Oct 2007

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
whether you’ve been strangely itching to get a closer look at the Sun without totally ruining your eyesight, you can color yourself fairly lucky. The aptly-named dawn project is an universal collaboration involving a number of institutions that have successfully sent a jum…

SlingCatcher box reveals codec support: why hello, XviD

Filed under: Review - 23 Oct 2007

Filed under: Home Entertainment
We honestly can’t wait for Sling’s SlingCatcher media streamer to be released, so we’ll take any little scrap of info we can — and these shots of the box are pretty tasty scraps indeed, considering it looks like Sling’s latest will have some sweet codec support: WMV…

Verizon rolls out “super-fast” 20/20 FiOS World Wide Web service

Filed under: Review - 23 Oct 2007

Filed under: NetworkingWell, it looks like Verizon might be out to put those rumors of it running out of bandwidth to rest, with it nowadays announcing its new symmetrical 20/20 FiOS service that it says “redefines fast.” While we’re normally skeptical of such hyperbole, Verizon does look to have a …

Sharp develops “world’s thinnest” 2.2-inch QVGA mobile LCD

Filed under: Review - 23 Oct 2007

We’ve already seen Hitachi launch the “world’s slimmest” LCD TV nowadays, so it’s rather fitting that Sharp comes through and delivers what it calls the “industry’s thinnest” mobile display. Granted, we’ve known that ultrathin 2.2-inch wonder was coming since April, but it’s always reassuring to…

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