Archive for: February 29, 2008

February 29, 2008

ZiPhone v2.5

Filed under: Review - 29 Feb 2008

 

I’ve you’ve been keeping up with the latest iPhone firmware news, you’d have read about the final version of Zibri’s ZiPhone being able to jailbreak it successfully. that was even with Zibri recommending users to not risk it.  Now, there’s no need to distress, as the Apple iPhone homebrew dev…

Movie Gadget Friday: TRON

Filed under: Review - 29 Feb 2008

Ariel Waldman contributes Movie Gadget Friday, where she highlights the lovable and lame gadgets from the world of cinema.

Previously on film Gadget Friday, we traveled across war-torn galaxies in the 1978 version of Battlestar Gallatica. Moving forward a few years to 1982, we’ll take a look insi…

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Google Desktop 5.7.802.22438

Google Desktop Search provides full text search over your email computer files chats and the web pages you 39 ve viewed By making your computer searchable it puts your information easily within your reach and frees you from having to manually organize your files emails and bookmarks

IE7pro 2.1 RC2

IE7pro is an add on for IE 7 which adds lots of features and extras that make your IE easier more useful secure and customizable With IE7pro you may switch proxy set agent identification block ads and flash apply super drag drop refresh tab automatically recover session crash manage tab history view page information save image files quickly and more

Sega Toys’ Body Trainer headset coaxes you into working out

Filed under: Review - 29 Feb 2008

Filed under: Wearables
Oh certain, we’ve seen gadgets used as motivational tools before, but Sega Toys is apparently banking on you not being a hothead. Otherwise, you just might fling its Body Trainer headset from your dome as soon as you take in “please exercise a little bit harder” by your incess…

Everest Ultimate Edition v4.20.1307 Beta

EVEREST Ultimate Edition is an industry leading system diagnostics and benchmarking solution for enthusiasts PC users based on the award winning EVEREST Technology During system optimizations and tweaking it provides essential system and overclock information advanced hardware monitoring and diagnostics capabilities to check the effects of the applied settings CPU FPU and memory benchmarks are available to measure the actual system performance and compare it to previous states or other systems Furthermore complete software operating system and security information makes EVEREST Ultimate Edition a comprehensive system diagnostics tool that offers a total of 100 pages of information about your PC

Apple “actively courting” Sony for slot-loading Blu-ray drives?

Filed under: Review - 29 Feb 2008

We know, we’re getting tired of Apple Blu-ray rumors as well — they’re right up there with refreshed Cinema Displays in terms of rumor persistence — but until Steve and the gang actually shove a drive into a machine we’re stuck with them. The latest says that Apple is actively urgent Sony for …

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Love To Talk Jawbone headsets construct your other ear jealous

Filed under: Review - 29 Feb 2008

fairly frankly, the traditional Jawbone headset is pretty stylish as is. Nevertheless, Yves Behar has somehow managed to build it even sexier with the creation of the Love To Talk family. that trio, which will reportedly be made available “in a very limited quantity,” consists of a gold Sweet Ta…

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Google Sites: Not so pretty in the morning

Filed under: Review - 29 Feb 2008

My first review of Google Sites was positive. I even chose to miss some weird display issues as early beta bugs (every 1.0 product I review has them) that other reviewers, such as ZDNet’s Dennis Howlett, were not so kind about. I thought that, overall, it was a strong and useful collaboration produc…

How would you change Apple’s Penryn-based MacBook Pro?

Filed under: Review - 29 Feb 2008

While everyone and their moment cousin third removed had something to say about Apple’s ultra-sexy, ultra-hamstrung MacBook Air, we’ve a sneaking suspicion that folks previously keen about that week’s MacBook Pro updates will be equally vocal. For whatever reason, Cupertino faithful had February…

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Tweaking YouTube’s resolution settings the easy way

Filed under: Review - 29 Feb 2008

Higher resolutions or not, YouTube still tweaks the quality of its videos for users depending on what kind of connection they’ve got. So how about a workaround to compose certain you’re getting the best of the best? Bayme of the VideoHelp.com forums seems to have found a way to tweak the URL of some…

Judge Relents, Restores Wikileaks as Master of Its Domain

Filed under: Review - 29 Feb 2008

Wikileaks.org won a reprieve Friday from a judge’s order that had shut down its U.S. site for a week. U.S. District Court Judge Jeffrey White lifted the injunction he had previously imposed to keep the site from spreading possible trade secrets. He issued the new ruling after he heard a fres…

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