Archive for: January 30, 2008

January 30, 2008

Lenovo selling off cellphone commerce you never heard of

Filed under: Review - 30 Jan 2008

Filed under: Cellphones
Believe it or not Lenovo makes cellphones, too — they just happen to be crappy ones you probably didn’t pay much attention to since they were mostly targeted at the Chinese market. Like many before it, the company is getting out of the absurdly competitive handset market by …

Sony upgrades CS1 geotagger for video, drops some printers, nothing big

Filed under: Review - 30 Jan 2008

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets, GPS
Geotaggers, take note: with PMA nowadays Sony is upgrading its CS1 GPS unit to support geotagging video footage through new versions of its Picture Motion Browser and Image Tracker software, giving it an armband, and renaming the whole thing GPS-CS1KASP. (It’s out aga…

Pasen F10 PMP rips off both the iTunes and WMP icons

Filed under: Review - 30 Jan 2008

Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video
Normally we’d let run-of-the-mill PMPs like Pasen’s F10 pass on by, but we just had to stop and shout out the blatant use of both the iTunes and WMP icons here — even given Pasen’s history, that’s just a little much. Come on guys, the F10 looks like a sol…

MACalc v0.1.6 - RPN calculation at your iPhone fingertips

Filed under: Review - 30 Jan 2008

Seven, five, minus. Now pop it. That’s what I say whenever I get into RPN calculation, short for Reverse Polish Notation calculation, considering I’m sequence challenged. Sometimes. MACalc from Apple iPhone homebrew developer may have its own rare effect on you, being a shut mimic of such input meth…

Slacker Portable available tomorrow

Filed under: Review - 30 Jan 2008

Filed under: Portable Audio
We’d heard that that Slacker Portable wireless PMP was due to be released tomorrow at CES, and now Laptop’s gone and confirmed it for us. Slacker’s marketing VP says that 2008 is about expanding the Slacker service, with additional products, including some from Logitech, …

Kodak intros EasyShare Z1012 IS: 10-megapixels, 12x zoomer

Filed under: Review - 30 Jan 2008

Filed under: Digital Cameras
Yeah, Kodak’s being a little slow with its pre-PMA goods, but barely early is better than nothin’, right? Here we have the firm’s newest megazoom, the EasyShare Z1012 IS, which steps it up by the CES-announced Z1085 IS by housing a 10-megapixel sensor and a full 12x opti…

Hands-on with the Garmin nuvifone

Filed under: Review - 30 Jan 2008

Filed under: Cellphones, Features, GPS
digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/gadgets/Hands_on_with_the_Garmin_nuvifone’; Well, ask and ye shall get. We wrangled some of the Garmin folks to get a better view of the nuvifone, and wouldn’t you know it… we did! Check the gallery below for some close-up action w…

Hands-off with Garmin’s nuvifone

Filed under: Review - 30 Jan 2008

We’re not certain it was a real great concept on Garmin’s part to put its new smartphone / GPS / iPhone wannabe in a darkly lit room, on a bright pole, with a shiny globe around it… but hey, it’s not our company. Needless to say, it was pretty difficult to get a shot of that thing, and impossi…

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Garmin gets official with its nuvifone

Filed under: Review - 30 Jan 2008

Filed under: Cellphones, GPS
We know, it’s not like the nüvifone is a total surprise any longer, but just in case you tend to rest easier after digesting info straight from the source, here goes. Garmin’s recently (and abruptly) announced handset obviously marks the firm’s first solo foray into…

Geotate service geared to ease geotagging

Filed under: Review - 30 Jan 2008

LAS VEGAS–A company called Geotate hopes to use an World Wide Web service to lower a meaningful barrier to the technologically challenging practice of geotagging.

Geotagging, which uses a global positioning system to attach location notes to photos to build in more descriptive documents, is at pr…

Garmin announces the nuvifone

Filed under: Review - 30 Jan 2008

Filed under: Cellphones, GPS digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/gadgets/Garmin_announces_the_Nuviphone’;
That’s right folks — Garmin has just announced its new iPhone-like smartphone, the nüvifone. The device features full browsing, PIM, phone and of course, GPS functions galore. It’s an HSDPA, qu…

FlashFXP 3.6 RC4 (3.5.3 Build 1230) Full

FlashFXP is a powerful and popular FTP amp FXP Client loaded with features for the power user FlashFXP has an intuitive and full featured user interface allowing you to do all the common tasks with just a few clicks It also support full drag amp drop so you can transfer files synchronize folders find files and schedule tasks with just one click Using the FTP protocol you can transfer files from remote servers to your computer or even to another remote server It makes it easy to update your Web site download files from the company server or even download files from the internet that always seem to fail using your Web browser It allows you to transfer files between two sites FXP resume incomplete downloads synchronize directories schedule multiple tasks and more
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Changes since FlashFXP v3 4 0 1145
New Features
bull Added 39 Activate Synchronize Browsing on Connect 39 per site option
bull Added approvessl command line param this is used for automation to always accept the SSL certifcate Use with care
bull Added support for MLSD machine formatted directory lists
bull Added support for UTF8 iso 8859 1 Latin 1
bull Added parsing of host port when pasting into the host field of the proxy dialog
bull Added drag drop support between the local browser and external applications
bull Added support for custom commands in the right click menu in the FTP File Search Dialog
bull Added move to the right click menu in the FTP File Search Dialog
Changes
bull Upgraded Zlib component to 1 23
bull Upgraded the folder browse dialog to use the BIF_USENEWUI flag which gives the dialog ...
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