Archive for: November 22, 2007

November 22, 2007

Black Friday Giveaways (part 1): Neruos OSD

Filed under: Review - 22 Nov 2007

Filed under: Home Entertainment
Whether you’ve found yourself camped out in a line that early winter wee hours or just up late to see what we’re giving absent on Engadget, we’d like to welcome you to our Black Friday giveaways. We’ve got by a dozen gadgets we’re giving absent nowadays, so be certain…

Rotaliana MultiBook diguises your chargers as a hardcover book

Filed under: Review - 22 Nov 2007

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
We were already fans of the Rottaliana MultiPot, which disguised a device-charging station and a lamp as a flowerpot, but we tend to charge our devices in the bedroom — which means the company’s new MultiBook is even increasingly useful. Appearing at first to be just anot…

The Mindstorms NXT gramophone, or, whether Edison played with LEGOs

Filed under: Review - 22 Nov 2007

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets, RobotsLying somewhere amoung the roboflusher and LEGO car-producing LEGO factory on the practicality scale, José Pino’s Mindstorms NXT gramophone brings together all the fun and tinny sound of that antiquated music system with today’s contemporary DIY sensibilities…

Rock Band drum kit hacked for Windows

Filed under: Review - 22 Nov 2007

Not that it comes as much of a surprise after past Guitar Hero hacks, but it seems that the Rock Band drum kit has now found its way into PC land as well, with it at least one enterprising individual having hacked it for use with Windows. To do that yourself, you’ll have to either follow some …

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Realtek High Definition Audio for Vista/2000/XP/2003 v1.82

Realtek High Definition Audio drivers for Vista 2000 XP 2003

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Visual Studio 2008 Express Edition All-in-One DVD Final

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AnyDVD & AnyDVD HD v6.2.0.2 Beta

AnyDVD works in the background to automatically remove the copy protection of a DVD movie as soon as it 39 s inserted into the drive allowing you then to backup the movie using a DVD backup tool such as CloneDVD and CloneDVD mobile You can also remove the RPC region code thereby making the movie region free and viewable on any DVD player and with any DVD player software

AnyDVD is capable of removing unwanted movie features including subtitles and prohibition messages such as copyright and FBI warnings It also allows you to launch an external application whenever you insert or remove a disc or prevent 39 PC friendly 39 software from automatically launching when you insert a video DVD

Decryption is not all that AnyDVD offers You can control the drive speed of your DVD drive allowing you to reduce the noise level when watching movies on your PC You can even adjust the display frequency of your monitor for both NTSC and PAL displays

But AnyDVD doesn 39 t just stop at DVDs It also decrypts protected audio CDs to allow you to copy them
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6 2 0 2 2007 11 21 ChangeLogs
Fix HD DVD Black screen with re release of quot Planet Earth quot series
Fix DVD Although CloneDVD2 worked with quot Hairspray quot US AnyDVD
ripper aborted with a quot VobSet 1 quot error This is fixed now

Sony denies the PlayStation Phone, as usual

Filed under: Review - 22 Nov 2007

Filed under: Cellphones, GamingWell, that didn’t take enlarged. Just shortly after Sony Computer Entertainment co-chief operating officer Jim Ryan opened his mouth and rekindled rumors of a PlayStation Phone, Sony has now shot back and flatly denied that any such device is in the works. According to…

Final Optimus Maximus box design revealed

Filed under: Review - 22 Nov 2007

Filed under: Peripherals
Well, it looks like Art Lebedev’s slow drip of info about its Optimus Maximus keyboard even extends to the product’s packaging, as it now turns out that last box we saw wasn’t the final version — the one above is, supposedly. Not that it likely prepare a bit of difference t…

Xbox 360 returned, critical components not included

Filed under: Review - 22 Nov 2007

Filed under: Gaming
While we’ve certainly seen a few items get returned without, shall we say, everything in tact, that example just might take the cake. Details are fairly light, but the expanded and short of it is that some sly customer managed to return an Xbox 360 and get a full refund, but the …

T-Mobile replacing faulty Sidekick Slide with Sidekick LX

Filed under: Review - 22 Nov 2007

Filed under: Cellphones
While we can’t help but feel all warm and fuzzy inside whenever a manufacturer owns up to defects that originated on its end, it’s even better when affected customers are looked after for their troubles. According to GigaOM, users dealing with a malfunctioning Sidekick Slide …

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