Archive for: February 18, 2008

February 18, 2008

DVDFab Platinum 4.0.6.5 Beta

DVDFab Platinum is all you need to backup DVDs DVDFab Platinum 3 is brand new is completely rewritten is based on 5 years of DVD copy software development
DVDFab is simply the easiest way to copy a DVD movie Just insert the movie and a blank DVD then press Start Your entire movie including menus trailers and special features is copied to a single DVD with just one click and everything happens automatically
Backup your entire DVD including menus trailers and special features onto one or multiple discs
Changes in DVDFab Platinum 4 0 6 5 Beta Feb 18 2008
New Improved compatibility with DVD Shrink for DVDs like quot 3 10 to Yuma quot
New Improved DVD structure cleaning module to remove ending fake title set
New Improved quot Jump to main title when disc inserted quot to select correct angle if it 39 s multi angle title
Fix A playback problem on some DVD recorders players for quot Split quot mode finally
Fix A warning message quot Failure to initialize burn engine quot when choosing ImgBurn burning engine in certain cases
Fix A warning message quot Unable to lock volume for exclusive access quot for ImgBurn 2 4 0 0

Swinxs lures your children external, tricks them into “moving around”

Filed under: Review - 18 Feb 2008

Filed under: Gaming
We saw a few intelligent products at Toy Fair 2008 designed to get kids up and active, but none so nefarious — and cute — as Swinxs. The “toy” is basically a talking computer with an RFID reader, that guides kids through different pre-loaded games or stories. The kids wear RFID…

Fix coming for HTC’s drivergate, sort of

Filed under: Review - 18 Feb 2008

Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds
When CEO Peter Chou himself declares that there’s a fix en route for the video problems plaguing several of his company’s devices, that’s a pretty good sign — there are a couple of catches, though. One, we still don’t know which devices will be patched, and two, i…

Nintendo’s DS Lite retrofitted into MacBook Air ad

Filed under: Review - 18 Feb 2008

It’s tough to deny that Apple’s MacBook Air advertisement is pretty catchy, and while the DS Lite doesn’t precisely pull off the whole envelope exit fairly as elegantly as Cupertino’s latest lappie, it doesn’t do a half not good job representin’. In the spoof waiting for you after the jump, you’…

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Photoshop Elements 6: A Good Friend for iPhoto to Have

Filed under: Review - 18 Feb 2008

The arrival final month of Adobe’s Photoshop Elements 6 for Mac, list price $90, poses a question: Why would a Mac user want that software, particularly since Apple’s $80 iLife offers its own photo program, iPhoto? There are several potential answers. There are citizens, including those who …

Chinese Web Site Sued by Film Piracy

Filed under: Review - 18 Feb 2008

A Hollywood group said Friday it is suing a popular Chinese Web site by film piracy, expanding a legal battle by use of the Net by China’s thriving industry in product copying.

The Motion Picture organization accused Xunlei Networking Technology Co. of allowing users of its file-sharing service to …

Mobile-Phone Startups Shine in Barcelona

Filed under: Review - 18 Feb 2008

Away from the mating dance of tech titans and the hubbub of industry pronouncements, sometimes the most interesting technologies at the annual Mobile World Congress in Barcelona are tucked absent in the corners of the huge exhibition halls where startups show their wares.

Indeed, scores of little-k…

HP rumored to be prepping UMPC “lifestyle accessory”

Filed under: Review - 18 Feb 2008

Details are pretty light on that one but, according to Crave, HP recently dropped word in an “informal chit-chat” that it is now prepping its very first UMPC, which apparently could hit the market as early as late spring of that year. Most interestingly, HP reportedly said that “you won’t even n…

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Chinese Cell grade Makes U.S. Debut

Filed under: Review - 18 Feb 2008

ZTE isn’t precisely a household name in the U.S., but the Chinese company’s cell phones are well known in its domestic country and India. Now ZTE is giving the U.S. market a try with a phone called the C88. Though a pretty basic flip phone, the C88 may supply insight into ZTE’s design and market phi…

Mtron announces a 1.8-inch 128GB SSD

Filed under: Review - 18 Feb 2008

We’ve already seen a couple 2.5-inch SSDs hit 128GB, but Mtron, our new favorite crazy storage vendor, has just announced plans a 1.8-inch 128GB SSD. That’s the same size as the drives in the MacBook Air, Latitude XT, and Lenovo X300 — and since drive height isn’t as closely related to storage …

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Microsoft job posting hints at “totally new Xbox habitable experience”

Filed under: Review - 18 Feb 2008

manufacture no mistake, we’ve seen curious job postings lead to changes in our favorite gizmos before, and hopefully, a recent ad on Microsoft’s website is no different. A listing seeking a Program Manager explicitly states that it’s looking for someone to “be involved in the next release of Xbo…

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Hiren’s BootCD v9.4 incl keyboard patch

HIREN acute S BOOTCD 9 4 nbsp
All in one Dos Bootable CD which has all these utilities
Partition ToolsPartition Magic Pro 8 05 Best software to partition hard drive
Acronis Disk Director Suite 9 0 554 Popular disk management functions in a single suite
Paragon Partition Manager 7 0 1274 Universal tool for partitions
Partition Commander 9 01 The safe way to partition your hard drive with undo feature
Ranish Partition Manager 2 44 a boot manager and hard disk partitioner
The Partition Resizer 1 3 4 move and resize your partitions in one step and more
Smart Fdisk 2 05 a simple harddisk partition manager
SPecial Fdisk 2000 03t SPFDISK a partition tool
eXtended Fdisk 0 9 3 XFDISK allows easy partition creation and edition
GDisk 1 1 1 Complete replacement for the DOS FDISK utility and more
Super Fdisk 1 0 Create delete format partitions drives without destroying data Disk Clone ToolsImageCenter 5 6 Drive Image 2002 Best software to clone hard drive
Norton Ghost 11 0 1 Similar to Drive Image with usb scsi support
Acronis True Image 8 1 945 Create an exact disk image for complete system backup and disk cloning
Partition Saving 3 50 A tool to backup restore partitions SavePart exe
COPYR DMA Build013 A Tool for making copies of hard disks with bad sectorsAntivirus ToolsF Prot Antivirus 3 16f 1602 Very good virus scanner with ntfs support and easy to use menu
McAfee Antivirus 4 4 50 1602 a virus scanner with ntfs support and easy to use menu Recovery ToolsActive Partition Recovery 3 0 To Recover a Deleted partition
Active Uneraser 3 0 To recover deleted files and folders on FAT and NTFS systems
Ontrack Easy Recovery Pro 6 ...
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