Archive for: February 7, 2008

Yahoo tonight dropped a new service on the world: the livestreaming service Yahoo Live. Conceptually it’s very much like uStream and other livestream products. Anyone can set up a channel and embed the habitable player (though, rarely, not the text chat that goes with it) on their own page.

One…

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The über crypto-geeks in the house just raised all kinds of eyebrows with the announcement of Toshiba’s new physical random-number generator, which can pump out 2 megabits per moment of random output in a 1,200 square micron circuit size. You’re a different kind of pe…

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Although we have hope that the format war is shuddering to a shut, it’s probably still wise to hedge your bets just a little — and Plextor’s got you covered with two new SATA Blu-ray / HD DVD combo drives. The new PX-B920SA writes to BD-R at 4x speeds, DVDs at 16x, and CD-Rs at…

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QuickTime 7 is Apple 39 s cutting edge digital media software for both Mac and Windows based computers delivers unparalleled quality for creating playing and streaming audio and video content over the Internet Besides playing MPEG 4 and MP3 content it supports timecode tracks as well as MIDI standards such as the Roland Sound Canvas and GS format extensions It also supports key standards for web streaming including HTTP RTP and RTSP Plus it supports every major file format for images including JPEG BMP PICT PNG and GIF QuickTime 7 features an ultra efficient new H 264 video codec delivering stunning quality at remarkably low data rates from 3G to iChat AV to HD

Kaspersky Lab represents a new generation platform for creating applications specifically designated for complex protection of personal computers and workstations

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While browsing the ‘net recently, we came across three separate DIY / mod articles (all stemming from our friends at Make) related to musical instruments, and realized that whether combined… it’s nearly a band (or at least the White Stripes). The first is a step-by-step …

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Filed under: Portable AudioAs the recent action in the 700MHz auction has shows, wireless spectrum is a valuable commodity — which is why it looks like the NAB and Clear Channcel might drop their lawsuit against the Sirius / XM merger whether the two companies agree to give up a chunk of the airwav…

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that one’s really bringing us back to eighth grade. apart from, you know, replace dinosaurs with terrorists, and replace a real-live-working volcano with a PS3. Other than that it’s precisely the same. Chris: “PlayStation Park, Las Vegas’ latest theme hotel, has left much of the…

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Our tip jar, it overfloweth — tons of you have written in to say that Dell’s stopped selling AMD-powered machines in its online store. That means any of you looking for a Latitude D531, Vostro 1000 or OptiPlex 740 will have to truck it out to Best Buy, Staples, or Wal-Mart to get your low-end t…

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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

In my other life, I do a lot of corporate purchasing. I get detailed quotes from our company's vendors, often pages and pages long, and often in PDF format. That wouldn't be a problem if I didn't have to generate a purchase order using an archaic system that required me to copy and paste the contents of the quote into the system. With heavily customized PDF documents, simple copying/pasting of text or using Acrobat's "Save as Text" feature results in a horribly formatted mess of ascii characters.

PDF Text Online can help. Upload your PDF document and the service will present it to you in text format, allow you to change some formatting elements like the font, and page layout of the text. In the end, you get a text document that you can save for later or just text your can copy and paste without having to worry about the formatting.

If you work with PDF documents a lot and need to copy and paste the text into other locations, you know that using Acrobat to do the job can be a hassle. There are other tools and plug-ins designed to help you extract unformatted text from your PDF documents, but they're somewhat difficult to find and use. If you don't have Acrobat Professional, you're in even worse shape, and might have to buy the full version just to get your work done.

The developers of PDFTextOnline wanted to get around that problem entirely. They developed an application called PDFTextStream, which they've incorporated into the PDFTextOnline Web app. The app uses Ajax to smoothly upload your document, strip ...

You might remember how excited we were to send Veronica Belmont by to eCoupled’s booth at CES for a demo of the company’s wireless Foreman grill, only to be bitterly disappointed when the reps claimed to have “power problems” and didn’t really demo anything at all. Well, as it turns out, there w…

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