Archive for: February 24, 2008

February 24, 2008

Sony’s PSP navigates the floors of GDC 2008

Filed under: Review - 24 Feb 2008

Filed under: Gaming, GPS, Handhelds
Well, well — what have we here? Apparently, that PSP (developer’s edition, we’re told) was spotted at the Game Developers Conference in California attempting to showcase how well the gaming handheld could handle navigation. Unfortunately, the underground nature o…

Attack on computer memory reveals vulnerability

Filed under: Review - 24 Feb 2008

A team of academic, industry and independent scientists has demonstrated a new course of computer attacks that compromise the contents of secure memory systems, particularly in laptops. The attacks overcome a broad set of shield measures called disk encryption, which are meant to secure info store…

ZoneAlarm Security Suite 7.0.467.000 Beta

ZoneAlarm protects your sensitive personal and financial data from hacker attacks It keeps your private information safe from the outside world and can even track the source of intrusion attempts and map their whereabouts instantly without exposing your identity or location For iron clad firewall protection choose ZoneAlarm

µTorrent 1.8 Alpha 8680

micro Torrent is an efficient and feature rich BitTorrent client for Windows sporting a very small footprint It was designed to use as little cpu memory and space as possible while offering all the functionality expected from advanced clients
Changelog
Feature support 39 failure reason 39 in scrape response
Feature optional piece progress bar
Change yet another new installation dialog
Change More informative error message for misc autoupdate errors
Change Return to 1 7 style RSS errors
Change remove 1000 files warning in create torrent
Change Turn off sparse files and turn on compact allocation by default on Vista because it has a nbsp nbsp terrible bug
Change don not enable a feed when Update Feed is selected
Change send rejects to FAST extension peers that request the same piece again before it 39 s sent
Change grey out Update Feed when feed is disabled
Change change Toggle Feed to Enable Disable Feed
Change update free space on focus change in create torrent
Change some RSS speed optimizations for large history and feed item counts
Fix Tab order issues in Add Feed dialog
Fix magnet URI download directory is now default download directoy
Fix Display of quot amp quot characters in title of folder browsing dialog on Windows versions less then Vista and give Vista version a title
Fix Preferences tab order
Fix Longstanding bug where dialogs that inside tab controls did not have the proper background when using XP themes
Fix Issue where it would stay as admin user after autoupdating through a normal user
Fix element not found and 99 cpu bug with partfiles
Fix piece picker bug that would cause it to start ...

Samsung P10 laptop battery “melts” in South Korea

Filed under: Review - 24 Feb 2008

Filed under: LaptopsMerely days after LG put the brakes on sales of its Z1-AE007 laptop due to suspicions of a faulty battery within, yet another lappie in South Korea is making headlines for its overheating, er, abilities. Reportedly, the battery in a P10 computer, produced in 2002, “melted” after …

Blogged.com launches blog directory and reviews

Filed under: Review - 24 Feb 2008


Blogged.com, a new blog rating service, officially launches Monday. The service has a decent catalog of blogs in its archive, and could be a useful tool whether you’re looking for blogs on a specific topic, or looking for yet more blogs to read.

There are two types of blog search sites. whether yo…

The Atari 2600 cake, mascarpone cartridges sold separately

Filed under: Review - 24 Feb 2008

What can really say about that? It’s simply the most delicious looking 8-bit console we’ve ever laid eyes on. Now, whether someone could just whip up an Xbox 360 hot-fudge sundae or Genesis-brûlée. Hey — possibly for our next birthday?

[Via technabob]

Original post by Joshua Topolsky

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Wubi Arrives: a Look at Ubuntu 8.04 Alpha 5

Filed under: Review - 24 Feb 2008

“The Ubuntu development community has announced that the fifth Ubuntu 8.04 prerelease is now available for checking. Ubuntu 8.04 alpha 5 adds additional polish and reliability as well as a few intriguing new features. The official release of Ubuntu 8.04, codenamed Hardy Heron, is scheduled for late …

Asus’ Eee PC gets torture tested on video

Filed under: Review - 24 Feb 2008

For those that had no qualms kicking Teddy to the curb and cuddling with Asus’ Eee PC all through the night just as soon as it was released, you may want to utilize your scroll wheel right about now. For those with a fit stomach and a perverse appetite for destruction, you can most definitel…

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Adobe Pushes DRM for Flash

Filed under: Review - 24 Feb 2008

“The immense popularity of sites like YouTube has unexpectedly turned Flash Video into one of the de facto standards for World Wide Web video. The proliferation of sites using FLV has been a boon for remix culture, as creators made their own versions of posted videos. And thus far there has been no …

Class Action Suit Against Microsoft Gets Green Light

Filed under: Review - 24 Feb 2008

A federal judge said Friday that consumers may go ahead with a course action lawsuit against Microsoft by the way it advertised computers loaded with Windows XP as capable of running the Vista operating system. The lawsuit said Microsoft’s labeling of some PCs as ‘Windows Vista Capable’ was mislead…

Weekend Webware: Turn pictures into letters with Ascii Cam

Filed under: Review - 24 Feb 2008


Man of letters

Check out the Amazing Instant Ascii Cam.

There’s no use for that that I can see, but it’s fun whether you’re old adequate to remember printing out ASCII artwork on yellow ASR-33 roll paper. that contemporary ASCII portrait generator uses your Webcam to invent a habitable image of…

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