Archive for: January 27, 2008

January 27, 2008

HTC Kaiser fans cough up by $5,000 for homebrew video drivers

Filed under: Review - 27 Jan 2008

Filed under: Cellphones
certain, it seemed like we’d heard the end of the story on HTC phones and the case of the missing drivers, but the cats by at the xda-developers forum have something else in intellect. There is currently a $5199.51 bounty on offer from various members of the group for a hacke…

Zoom Player 6.00 RC1

Zoom Player was originally conceived to fill a void in Multimedia playback Prior to Zoom Player playing media files on the PC was either overly simplistic for the Power User or overly cryptic to the common user Zoom Player tries to both simplify the playback experience for the common user while giving the Power Users all the tools and interfaces they may require to manipulate their playback environment to their exact specification To that end Zoom Player employs a slick and simple user interface combined with easy to access features while at the same time providing advanced control dialogs over every feature imaginable

Qtrax off track with Warner Music, UMG

Filed under: Review - 27 Jan 2008


For weeks, Qtrax, an ad-supported file-sharing site, had promised to offer free and legal music downloads from all four of the major record labels. Turns out the start-up might be forced to go back on its word.

Despite earlier reports, Qtrax’s Web site will not feature legal downloads from all th…

WiFi coming to Massachusetts commuter trains

Filed under: Review - 27 Jan 2008

Filed under: Transportation, Networking
It’s coming to planes, so it was bound to build its way onto trains. According to a report, a 45-mile commuter railroad line in Massachusetts is about to get a WiFi upgrade, bringing wireless connections to more than 18,000 passengers across 17 stations. Utili…

Puppy vs. Roboquad: the final man-machine showdown

Filed under: Review - 27 Jan 2008

Ever wondered what would happen whether you were to pit the Wowwee Roboquad against an excitable, yapping puppy? Wonder no longer, friends, as the reply to that age-old question has been captured on video — replete with NES sound effects and 8-bit scorecard. Watch the battle for final supre…

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MacBook Air in stores Tuesday, empty pocketbook in your future

Filed under: Review - 27 Jan 2008

Just in case you were really, really anxious to get your hands on the MacBook Air, word on the street is that the little slivers are already in stores, and you’ll actually be able to stroll up into the place and nab them that Tuesday. Of course, old Jobsy has already said as much (”two weeks”), …

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16-year-old converts gas truck to electric, reminds us of our wasted youth

Filed under: Review - 27 Jan 2008

We don’t know about you, but we were doing far, far less productive things than Andrew Angelloti when we were 16. The green-minded youth — a forum member by at Ecomodder — has taken his 1988 Mazda pickup truck and converted it to run solely on electricity using $6,000 he’d earned as a part-tim…

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Kommando: a Floating Panel for KDE

Filed under: Review - 27 Jan 2008

“Inspired by the command wheel in the Neverwinter Nights online game, Kommando is a floating command panel for KDE. Although Kommando’s development is nearly as slow as an official Debian release, and is only at version 0.5.2, it is already a configurable and convenient addition to the array of pane…

Comodo Memory Firewall 2.0.4.20

Comodo Memory Firewall is a buffer overflow detection and prevention tool which provides the ultimate defence against one of the most serious and common attack types on the Internet the buffer overflow attack
Comodo Memory Firewall protects against data theft computer crashes and system damage by preventing most types of buffer overflow attacks This type of attack occurs when a malicious program or script deliberately sends more data to its memory buffer than the buffer can handle It is at this point that a successful attack can create a back door to the system though which a hacker can gain access The goal of most attacks is to install malware onto the compromised PC whereby the hacker can reformat the hard drive steal sensitive user information or even install programs that transform the machine into a Zombie PC
The product is aimed for system administrators as well as desktop users to protect their systems and detects suspicious code executions in the stack or the heap portions of the memory
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‘Leopard Server: the citizens’s Unix’

Filed under: Review - 27 Jan 2008

“Apple has brought its rare type of richness and simplicity to servers. OS X Leopard Server is the fifth generation of the software half of Apple’s server platform. that duration around, Apple took what is a different and bold approach for a Unix server. Leopard Server continues the OS X Server trad…

Deliver a keynote like Steve Jobs in ten simple steps

Filed under: Review - 27 Jan 2008

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
Are you a CEO hoping to “step it up,” “knock it out of the park,” and generally “take it to the bridge” — old-school style — but you can’t seem to work the magic? Well, BusinessWeek has got just the thing for you: a ten-point plan on how to deliver a presentation like ou…

iJailBreak 0.4.1 - 1.1.3 compatible, now supports Leopard

Filed under: Review - 27 Jan 2008

 A new build is out for iJailBreak, the iPhone and iPod Touch utility that allows you to add third-party applications to your unit. iJailBreak v0.4.1 is now compatible with firmware 1.1.3 and plus features support for the Mac OS X Leopard.It must be famous that iJailBreak requires your unit to …

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