Archive for: January 22, 2008

January 22, 2008

iPod nano finally comes in pink

Filed under: Review - 22 Jan 2008

Indeed, no device line-up is total if there’s no pink: Apple finally announced that they will be adding a pink-colored variation to the new Apple third generation iPod Nano. It’s just in duration as well: a pink-colored iPod Nano will be a fitting, whether not perfect Valentine’s Day gift for female…

Samsung / Sharp patent fight gets slightly more interesting, still not interesting

Filed under: Review - 22 Jan 2008

Filed under: Displays
You might remember Sharp slapping Samsung with a patent lawsuit back in August, and it looks like relations haven’t precisely improved amoung the two companies since soon after — Samsung’s just smacked back in the US by convincing the United States worldly Trade Commission to …

MacBook Air in the wild… with John Mayer

Filed under: Review - 22 Jan 2008

Filed under: Laptops
That’s right kids — the unthinkable has happened. John Mayer, electric-crooner, BlackBerry pusher, ladykiller, and all around bon vivant has gotten his hands on a real, habitable MacBook Air. certain, it’s not surprising that a celebrity millionaire who’s buddy-buddy with Jobs …

Trev the 100 mile two-seat electric car from Down Under

Filed under: Review - 22 Jan 2008

Filed under: Transportation
The Trev look might be a bit love-it-or-hate-it, but there’s no arguing with the specs: 0 to 60 in about 10 seconds, top speed of 75 mph, and a range of 100 miles per charge. Trev is being built by staff and students at the University of South Australia, and costs less th…

Realtek High Definition Audio Driver R1.85

The ALC882 series 7 1 2 Channel High Definition Audio codecs with UAA Universal Audio Architecture featuring five 24 bit stereo DACs and three 20 bit stereo ADCs are designed for high performance multimedia PC systems
The ALC882 series incorporates proprietary converter technology to achieve over 100dB Signal to Noise ratio playback quality easily meeting PC2001 requirements and also bringing PC sound quality closer to consumer electronic devices
The ALC882 series provide 10 channels of DAC that simultaneously support 7 1 sound playback plus 2 channels of independent stereo sound output multiple streaming through the Front Out Left and Front Out Right channels Flexible mixing mute and fine gain control functions provide a complete integrated audio solution for next generation multimedia PCs
Changes in Driver Package R1 85
Realtek HD Audio Driver support all of Realtek HD Audio Codec in Vista WinXP Win2000 Win2003
1 Vista WHQL Supporting ALC882 ALC883 ALC885 ALC888 ALC861VD ALC660 ALC662 ALC260 ALC262 ALC267 ALC268 ALC269
2 Windows 2000 XP WHQL Supporting ALC880 ALC882 ALC883 ALC885 ALC888 ALC861VC ALC861VD ALC660 ALC662 ALC260 ALC262 ALC267 ALC268 ALC269
3 HDMI Device WHQL Support ATI HDMI Devices
4 OS Supporting Microsoft WindowsXP Widnows2000 Vista x86 x64
5 Pack with Microsoft High Definition Audio UAAV1 0a 5013
6 Add Fix
1 Driver
1 Fix PC Beep mute issue for ALC268 ALC267
2 Fix the potential risk that system thread is still running when driver is already unloaded under Vista
3 Customizations

Realtek High Definition Audio Driver R1.85

The ALC882 series 7 1 2 Channel High Definition Audio codecs with UAA Universal Audio Architecture featuring five 24 bit stereo DACs and three 20 bit stereo ADCs are designed for high performance multimedia PC systems
The ALC882 series incorporates proprietary converter technology to achieve over 100dB Signal to Noise ratio playback quality easily meeting PC2001 requirements and also bringing PC sound quality closer to consumer electronic devices
The ALC882 series provide 10 channels of DAC that simultaneously support 7 1 sound playback plus 2 channels of independent stereo sound output multiple streaming through the Front Out Left and Front Out Right channels Flexible mixing mute and fine gain control functions provide a complete integrated audio solution for next generation multimedia PCs
Changes in Driver Package R1 85
Realtek HD Audio Driver support all of Realtek HD Audio Codec in Vista WinXP Win2000 Win2003
1 Vista WHQL Supporting ALC882 ALC883 ALC885 ALC888 ALC861VD ALC660 ALC662 ALC260 ALC262 ALC267 ALC268 ALC269
2 Windows 2000 XP WHQL Supporting ALC880 ALC882 ALC883 ALC885 ALC888 ALC861VC ALC861VD ALC660 ALC662 ALC260 ALC262 ALC267 ALC268 ALC269
3 HDMI Device WHQL Support ATI HDMI Devices
4 OS Supporting Microsoft WindowsXP Widnows2000 Vista x86 x64
5 Pack with Microsoft High Definition Audio UAAV1 0a 5013
6 Add Fix
1 Driver
1 Fix PC Beep mute issue for ALC268 ALC267
2 Fix the potential risk that system thread is still running when driver is already unloaded under Vista
3 Customizations

ConvertXToDVD v2.99.10.600

ConvertXtoDVD is a video converter software to convert and burn your videos to DVD With ConvertXtoDVD and a few clicks you can backup your movies to DVD playable on any home DVD player ConvertXtoDVD supports most popular formats such as AVI to DVD VOB Mpeg Mpeg4 MP4 AVI WMV DV and stream formats to DVD It converts your files into a compliant DVD Video set of files and burns it on a DVD media

GameJackal Pro v3.0.0.1 Beta

GameJackal is a product that has been designed to remove the need of having to always use your CD DVD to play your games I can here the cry going up quot Have you never heard of Virtual Drives quot Well yes I have The difference here though is about 700mb of disk space GameJackal make a small profile as small as 30kb up to 40mb which it uses to run the game instead of using the entire image like a virtual drive does

iPhone, Sidekick compose popular heist targets

Filed under: Review - 22 Jan 2008

In what might be irrationally described as a wave, rash, flood, or deluge, two separate cases of utter and total phone theft have cropped up that week. The first concerns $8.2-million worth of T-Mobile handsets which apparently have disappeared from one of the company’s warehouses. According to …

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Apple says WiFi-equipped iPods are the wave of the future… maybe

Filed under: Review - 22 Jan 2008

Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video
During the Apple earnings shout nowadays, the company suggested that WiFi-enabled iPods were “one” of the future directions in which Cupertino sees the media player market heading. While sticking to indistinct characterizations, a spokesperson intimated th…

Windows 7 Scheduled for 2009?

Filed under: Review - 22 Jan 2008

Rumour has it that Microsoft is pushing forward Windows 7 for a 2009 release. The first milestone build has supposedly already been shipped to choose partners, according to APCMag. They claim to have access to a roadmap for Windows 7, but whether that claim holds any water remains to be seen. The In…

Apple posts $1.58B profit, buys monocle, top hat

Filed under: Review - 22 Jan 2008

Filed under: Misc. GadgetsWell, the holidays were pretty happy down Cupertino way that year — Apple just posted its Q108 financials and they’re impressive. Spurred by sales of 2.3 million iPhones, 22 million iPods, and 2.3 million Macs, Steve and the boys raked in $9.6 billion in total revenue, whi…

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