Archive for: February 9, 2008

February 9, 2008

Apple QuickTime 7.4.1 for Leopard, Tiger, Panther, Windows

Filed under: Review - 09 Feb 2008

Apple has released QuickTime 7.4.1 for users of Mac OS X 10.4.9 Tiger, Mac OS X 10. 3.9 Panther, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Windows XP SP2, and Windows Vista. that release is a recommended defense update that patches a vulnerability that could cause arbitrary cipher execution or an unexpected terminatio…

iWave dice, the personal portable microwave

Filed under: Review - 09 Feb 2008

Filed under: Household
There comes the day in every young person’s life where they decide to graduate from the microwave to the stove. And fail miserably. Now instead of retreating dejectedly back to the kitchen microwave, where the rest of the appliances can point and manufacture fun, you can hide …

SiRFprima GPS receiver platform boosts sensitivity, adds 3D acceleration

Filed under: Review - 09 Feb 2008

Filed under: GPSIf you’ve bought a GPS unit in the past year or two there are decent odds it’s based on the SiRFstar III chipset, which has been about as good as it gets since it arrived on the scene a few years ago. Now there’s a new chip on the block, SiRFprima, which could have GPS aficionados ki…

Yellow Dog Linux 6.0 Released

Filed under: Review - 09 Feb 2008

Terra Soft has announced the release of Yellow Dog Linux 6.0 for Sony PlayStation 3, Apple G4/G5, and IBM System p, a CentOS and Fedora-based specialist distribution designed for the capability architecture.Original post by donotreply@osnews.com (Eugenia Loli-Queru)

Ubuntu’s Upstart Event-Based Init Daemon

Filed under: Review - 09 Feb 2008

“Because the traditional System V init daemon (SysVinit) does not deal well with contemporary hardware, including hotplug devices, USB tough and flash drives, and network-mounted filesystems, Ubuntu replaced it with the Upstart init daemon. Several other replacements for SysVinit are additionally av…

Nikon’s S600 rounds out the new Coolpix lineup

Filed under: Review - 09 Feb 2008

We’re not how it slipped by before, but Nikon’s got one more in its new S-series Coolpix cameras, the S600. The 10 megapixel camera bests the recently-announced S550 with a 2.7-inch LCD, 3200 ISO and optical image stabilization, but cuts the zoom to 4x and jacks the price to $299. The camera wil…

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NASA’s wiring guide — only the most demanding geeks need apply

Filed under: Review - 09 Feb 2008

In our opinion, the best rigs are the ones held together with duct tape and wired up with leftover speaker cable, but whether you’re looking to lesson things up — and avoid any number of potential fire issues — NASA’s got you covered with the agency’s official Workmanship Standards Pictorial R…

Microsoft already trimming Windows 7 features, DirectX 11 on the outs?

Filed under: Review - 09 Feb 2008

Filed under: Desktops, Gaming, Laptops
It might be a bit early for us to be talking Windows 7 feature cuts, but that said, isn’t it a bit early for Microsoft to be talking Windows 7 feature cuts? whether The Inquirer’s “reliable sources” are to be believed, Microsoft is giving DirectX 11 the boot fr…

New Knee Device Can Juice Up Your Mobile Gear

Filed under: Review - 09 Feb 2008

According to an composition in that month’s Science Journal, researchers at Simon Frasier University in British Columbia have developed a new technology to generate electricity from the natural motion of walking. Assistant professor of kinesiology Max Donelan and other team members say their biomech…

Yahoo! not so hot for Microsoft’s initial tender, plans to reject

Filed under: Review - 09 Feb 2008

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
We’re fairly undoubtful we haven’t heard the final of that Microsoft offer to buy Yahoo! — or Google’s plans to intervene — but it looks like round one has Yahoo! saying “no thanks” to Microsoft’s $44.6 billion buyout offer. Apparently some of the number crunchers inside…

Photonic desktop application: Flickr client for Mac OS X Leopard

Filed under: Review - 09 Feb 2008

One of the problems with today’s data technology is having to organize all that data. that is particularly true for the Net, where data is virtually bursting at the seams.Probably one of the more difficult things to organize is photos (another is music, but that’s for another day). Flickr, one of th…

Yahoo Said Rejecting Microsoft

Filed under: Review - 09 Feb 2008

Yahoo Inc’s board believes Microsoft Corp’s unsolicited tender of USD 44.6 billion to acquire Yahoo ‘massively undervalues’ the company and directors are set to reject the offer, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday, citing an unnamed source. Microsoft’s USD 31 per share offer fails to take …

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