Archive for: January 1, 2008

January 1, 2008

Sawa SC-AH600 cleans and dries metal mask in just one minute!

Filed under: Review - 01 Jan 2008

The SC-AH600 metal mask cleaning system from Sawa Corp, Japan is capable of cleansing and drying metal mask in 1 minute. The SC-AH600 system allows a high-speed processing, which is 10 times faster than the company’s existing model. The system additionally features improved environmental p…

Xbox rumors: habitable users to get recompense and more speculation about an integrated HD DVD drive

Filed under: Review - 01 Jan 2008

Filed under: Gaming, HDTV
Not that we’d put it past Microsoft or anything, but we can already smell a rumor brewing where there is probably none regarding the long-speculated and continuously denied plans to integrate an HD DVD drive into the Xbox 360. Granted, Bill’s got to have something to talk a…

Xbox 360 speculated to get integrated HD DVD drive, as usual

Filed under: Review - 01 Jan 2008

Filed under: Gaming, HDTV
Not that we’d put it past Microsoft or anything, but we can already smell a rumor brewing where there is probably none regarding the long-speculated and continuously denied plans to integrate an HD DVD drive into the Xbox 360. Granted, Bill’s got to have something to talk a…

Wiimote weapon kit takes uselessness to dangerous new levels

Filed under: Review - 01 Jan 2008

Filed under: Gaming
Wiimote add-ons of all sorts have been flooding in virtually since the console’s debut, but when it comes to sheer uselessness and dangerousness, it’s fit to defeat that latest bundle from the folks at Dragon Electronics, which offers no less than eight ways to accessorize your W…

Mod your 4G iPod with internal Bluetooth

Filed under: Review - 01 Jan 2008

For the extreme tinkerer and iPod aficionado, we present to you what appears to be the first ever internal-Bluetooth enabled iPod. Using a flash-memory-modded 20GB 4G iPod, a Jabra A120S Bluetooth music adapter, some intelligent wiring, a little drilling, and some good old-fashioned elbow grease…

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Lenovo rolls out Olympic-themed USB drive

Filed under: Review - 01 Jan 2008

Lenovo faraway ago revealed its Olyimpic-themed laptops, but it looks like the company isn’t done with the technology tie-ins just yet, as it’s now trotted out a similarly-branded USB flash drive to go along with the laptops (or your own). As you can see, the thumb drive should at least match …

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FreeBSD 6.3-RC2 Released

Filed under: Review - 01 Jan 2008

FreeBSD 6.3-RC2 has been released. “Sorry for the delay with that phase of the 6.3 release. A few glitches were found during evaluating of the 6.3-RC2 ISOs that included pre-built packages. The 6.3-RC2 builds for amd64 and i386 should now be available on the majority of the FreeBSD reflect sites. I…

Xbox habitable outage: day 11, “up and running”, apart from not

Filed under: Review - 01 Jan 2008

Filed under: Gaming
We’re well aware the first three words on the Xbox habitable service status box are “up and running,” but those issues are continuing to persist, and whether our flooded tip jar and the Xbox habitable forums are anything to go by, they’re probably not just “intermittent”. whether…

Exclaim 0.2.0 Released

Filed under: Review - 01 Jan 2008

Version 0.2.0 of the Exclaim operating system has been released. Exclaim is a project aiming to create a lightweight, simple and easy to use operating system from scratch, with POSIX-compliance to allow existing UNIX applications to run on it. It is intended to be suitable to run on old hardware whi…

SharpOS Releases First Milestone

Filed under: Review - 01 Jan 2008

SharpOS 0.0.1 has been released. “The SharpOS project is aimed at writing an operating system in 100% C#. that originally proved to be a problem of nearly philosophical proportions considering C# is a managed language, and by nature isn’t designed for such low-level uses as developing an operating s…

Japan gets official on plans and details for world’s fastest maglev

Filed under: Review - 01 Jan 2008

We’d already heard about Central Japan Railway Company’s not-so-near-term intentions to deploy a speedy new maglev system in the country, but it looks like it’s just now getting official with things, and it’s still promising to have it up and running no sooner than 2025. By thereupon, there sh…

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Foobar2000 v0.9.5 Final

Foobar2000 is an advanced audio player for the Windows platform Some of the basic features include full unicode support ReplayGain support and native support for several popular audio formats
Key Features
Audio formats supported MP1 MP2 MP3 MP4 MPC AAC Ogg Vorbis FLAC Ogg FLAC WavPack WAV AIFF AU SND CDDA
Full unicode support
Advanced tagging capabilities
Support for transcoding all supported audio formats using the Converter component requires external commandline encoder executables for different output formats
ReplayGain support both playback and calculation
Customizable keyboard shortcuts
Open component architecture allowing third party developers to extend functionality of the player

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New Default User Interface
Allows embedding of Album List and other components in the main window
Quick setup dialog on first startup allowing easy UI customization
Theme import export support for transferring appearance related settings easily
Built in playlist view supports columns and grouping
New Playlist Search dialog
Embedded album art support
New built in spectrum visualisation
New Album List component
Updates automatically with Media Library content changes ldquo Refresh rdquo command no longer needed
Embeddable in the main window
Supports direct creation of autoplaylists from Album List tree branches
Properties dialog improvements
New commands ldquo Format from Other Fields rdquo ldquo Capitalize rdquo ldquo Clean Up rdquo
Improved ldquo Automatically Fill Values rdquo functionality
Improved Windows Clipboard interaction now you can use copy paste to transfer values between fields or between different sets of tracks
Converter component improvements
Replaced ldquo show output directory when done rdquo functionality with a new dialog showing a list of created tracks
Built in support for writing AU SND and AIFF files
Updated FLAC ...
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