Archive for: October 30, 2007

October 30, 2007

Panasonic unveils DMP-BD30 “next-gen” Blu-ray player

Filed under: Review - 30 Oct 2007

Panasonic’s new DMP-BD30 Blu-ray player serves up those HD discs additional fancy, being the first player to meet the requirements for BD-Video Final Standard Profile 1.1. That means a secondary video decoder for picture in picture (such as director’s commentary), and an additional audio decoder…

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Google launches open APIs for social networks

Filed under: Review - 30 Oct 2007

Borrowing a page from Sun’s Java playbook, Google is announcing a way for programmers to build social applications for multiple Web sites at once.

Google’s version of that “write once run anywhere” concept is called OpenSocial, a set of common application programming interfaces (APIs) that will e…

Google pitches Gphones to Verizon

Filed under: Review - 30 Oct 2007

Google is pitching its vaunted Gphone to Verizon Wireless, but the odds are still against the search giant striking a major deal with the moment largest phone company in the U.S.

The Wall Street Journal and Reuters reported Tuesday evening that Google is in “serious discussions” with Verizon Wir…

Panasonic gets official with US-bound Strada CN-GP50U navigator

Filed under: Review - 30 Oct 2007

Just when you thought that no company in its right intellect would bother entering the (way) over-saturated portable navigation market in the US now, along comes Panasonic to prove you wrong. The Strada CN-GP50U has already completed a European tour of duty, and now it’s officially heading state…

NASA unveils the Chariot “lunar truck”

Filed under: Review - 30 Oct 2007

NASA certain loves the wacky vehicles, and the agency is mighty proud of its latest effort, the Chariot lunar truck. Designed from start to finish in just a year, the Chariot features 12 wheels driven by two electric motors through a two-speed transmission, allowing it to perform in a “bulldozer…

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IE7pro 1.2.0.3 Final

IE7Pro is a must have add on for Internet Explorer which includes a lot of features and tweaks to make your IE friendlier more useful secure and customizable With IE7pro you may switch proxy set agent identification block ads and flash apply super drag drop refresh tab automatically recover session crash manage tab history view page information save image files quickly and more
IE7Pro includes Tabbed Browsing Management Spell Check Inline Search Super Drag Drop Crash Recovery Proxy Switcher Mouse Gesture Tab History Browser Web Accelerator User Agent Switcher Webpage Capturer AD Blocker Flash Block Greasemonkey like User Scripts platform User Plug ins and many more power packed features You can customize not just Internet Explorer but even your favorite website according to your need and taste using IE7Pro
IE7Pro Features
bull Enhance Internet Explorer 39 s Tabbed Browsing Capabilities
1 Double click to close tab
2 Open new tab from address bar
3 Enable disable tab browse history manager
4 Enable disable crash recovery
5 Move the IE menu bar above the address bar
6 Hide search bar
7 Modify the maxium number of parallel connections to the web server
8 Select the external program to view page source
bull Super Drag and Drop With Super Drag and Drop enabled you can open new links by simply dragging and dropping the link on the page You can also Drag and Drop to search selected words with the default search engine or save the selected photo when Shift is held down
bull Mouse Gesture allow the user to execute commonly performed tasks open close a tab go back go forward print scrolling page etc by drawing a simple symbol on the screen
bull Crash Recovery automatically ...

Yahoo! Messenger 9.0.0.797 Beta

Yahoo Messenger allows you to quickly exchange messages with your online friends Unlike e mail instant messages appear as soon they 39 re sent By downloading the application to your computer you can send instant messages Other features include voice chat file transfer mail and stock quote alerts sports scores news and much more

Pistol camera captures gunslinging action, seeks role in next Faces of Death

Filed under: Review - 30 Oct 2007

Filed under: Misc. GadgetsBarrel-mounted cameras aren’t precisely revolutionary, but it’s not everyday that you see the boys in blue sporting one on their sidearm. Nevertheless, Orange County’s sheriff’s emergency service team and the Newburgh Police area will reportedly “be the first groups to tryo…

Microsoft talks third-party Zune accessories

Filed under: Review - 30 Oct 2007

You can’t run around launching fancy new music players these days without a secondary offensive of cases and car chargers following shut behind, and Microsoft’s new Zunes have a veritable calvary behind them. In addition to the official accessories we’ve already heard about from J Allard and cre…

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Uruguay Pays Nearly Double for So-Called $100 Laptops

Filed under: Review - 30 Oct 2007

Uruguay recently became the first country to order the One Laptop Per Child Foundation’s so-called $100 Laptops, devices designed for children in developing nations. The only problem? The laptops, 100,000 of which were reportedly ordered by the nation, cost just about twice as much as the fo…

Tear found on newly-unfurled space station solar array

Filed under: Review - 30 Oct 2007


It looks like the space station’s latest solar array is causing NASA yet increasingly headaches, as a small tear was spotted by astronauts shortly after it was unfurled earlier nowadays. The first of two solar arrays installed as part of that mission did unfurl without a hitch, but the moment forc…

Satski GPS system charts adventures on the slopes

Filed under: Review - 30 Oct 2007

Filed under: GPS
Just in case your iPod-equipped helmet, head-mounted camera and Bluetooth-enabled parka weren’t abundant to distract you from actually paying attention to your fear when looking down the mile-long slope ahead, how’s about fiddling with the Satski rather than focusing on that pizza w…

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