Archive for: March 5, 2008

Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds
So it seems the X1 being shown off at CeBIT following its MWC debut final month is equipped with a particularly curious panel in its software load. Anyone care to take a guess? No cheating and looking at the one we’ve circled now. Yeah, okay, it’s that big AT&T…

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Filed under: Misc. Gadgets, Wireless
We’re not certain why Mariah Carey keeps putting nerdy dudes in her videos — remember Jerry O’Connell showing up in Heartbreaker? (Don’t ask how we knew that.) — but her latest, Touch My Body, stars Jack McBrayer of 30 Rock fame, and takes it to the the next do…

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Filed under: Desktops, Gaming
Believe it or not, Alienware’s Aurora ALX rig was boasting quad SLI support two whole years ago. After yesterday’s official launch of ATI’s CrossFireX technology, now the ALX has another partner in quad GPU crime. Dubbed the Area-51 ALX CFX, that rig features a 3.0GHz C…

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Filed under: Cellphones
Well, would you look at that? Not fairly a year after we got some pretty strong whiffs of the SGH-F110 fitness phone, the rumor has at faraway final become a reality. Heck, even the model name stayed the same. Slated to launch in the UK next month, the Samsung / Adidas F110 …

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This question from reader Steven came in for PC Magazine lead analyst Neil Rubenking:

How do I set my Outlook 2003 to receive an exe file? Outlook automatically blocks this out. Our Family sends a lot of e-cards which have an exe extension.

Neil's answer, after the jump.

You can roll back to an earlier Outlook behavior. It still will force you to save the file to disk before launching, but it will let you save it to disk. This tweak is well buried and requires a minor Registry tweak. Here's what you do:

Make sure Outlook is not running. Click Start, click Run, enter REGEDIT. Navigate the Registry key tree at left just as you would the folder tree in Windows Explorer. Your goal is the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Security. If you're using Office 2007, substitute 12.0 for 11.0. With this key highlighted right-click in the right-hand pane and choose New | String value. Name the new value Level1Remove. Double-click it to change its data. Enter a list of extensions you want to unblock, separated by semicolons, with no spaces. For example ".exe;.url" (no quotes). Click OK and shut down REGEDIT.

You'll sometimes see advice to backup the Registry (overkill) or backup the key that you're changing, so you can undo your changes later. In this case, undoing your changes is a simple matter of deleting the Level1Remove key, so backup isn't necessary.

Keep in mind that this restriction exists for security reasons. Even if an e-mail seems to come from a family member, it could have been sent by a virus. Or the family member's computer could be ...

We’ve seen some pretty shady dealings from disgruntled ex-employees in the past, but that one has just skyrocketed into the upper echelon of corporate tales. Apparently, a 49-year old (known only as Jeong) felt the need to copy by 1,182 top secret plasma files onto his personal HDD before waltzi…

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Filed under: Displays, HDTV
We’ve seen some pretty shady dealings from disgruntled ex-employees in the past, but that one may have skyrocketed into the upper echelon of tales of corporate deceit. As the story goes, a 49-year old man known only as Jeong felt the need to copy by some 1,182 top secret…

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The ALC882 series 7 1 2 Channel High Definition Audio codecs with UAA Universal Audio Architecture featuring five 24 bit stereo DACs and three 20 bit stereo ADCs are designed for high performance multimedia PC systems
The ALC882 series incorporates proprietary converter technology to achieve over 100dB Signal to Noise ratio playback quality easily meeting PC2001 requirements and also bringing PC sound quality closer to consumer electronic devices
The ALC882 series provide 10 channels of DAC that simultaneously support 7 1 sound playback plus 2 channels of independent stereo sound output multiple streaming through the Front Out Left and Front Out Right channels Flexible mixing mute and fine gain control functions provide a complete integrated audio solution for next generation multimedia PCs

The ALC882 series 7 1 2 Channel High Definition Audio codecs with UAA Universal Audio Architecture featuring five 24 bit stereo DACs and three 20 bit stereo ADCs are designed for high performance multimedia PC systems
The ALC882 series incorporates proprietary converter technology to achieve over 100dB Signal to Noise ratio playback quality easily meeting PC2001 requirements and also bringing PC sound quality closer to consumer electronic devices
The ALC882 series provide 10 channels of DAC that simultaneously support 7 1 sound playback plus 2 channels of independent stereo sound output multiple streaming through the Front Out Left and Front Out Right channels Flexible mixing mute and fine gain control functions provide a complete integrated audio solution for next generation multimedia PCs

Toshiba’s A and K series Gigashot HD camcorders already boast 100GB and 80GB of built-in storage, respectively, but whether you want to keep some of that space free, you’ll soon be able to do so with Toshiba’s new tailor-made DVD burner, which will apparently let you both off-load documents or…

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Microsoft kicked off its seventh annual TechFest this week in Redmond, where the company's research teams emerge from the labs to display their latest technologies. Here's a look at just a few of the technologies demoed at the conference:

Music Steering Project
Researchers Frank Seide and Lie Liu previewed their Music Steering Project, a music application that analyzes audio content to build a playlist of similar music for MP3 devices. Internet radio station Pandora has a similar service, but music steering differs from Pandora's offering in that it uses software to analyze songs, whereas Pandora has a "large army of music specialists that listen to every song and create attributes," Seide said in a Microsoft video.

Collaborative Search
Collaborative search allows you to collaborate with friends, family or co-workers while searching the Web. The offering has three components: search together; split search; and peeking, Microsoft's Merrie Morris told Channel 9. With search together, users logged into Windows Live Messenger can share searches. Morris and her mother shared search information they found on diabetes-friendly recipes, which were displayed on a side menu under the photos. She also searched for hybrid car information with her husband, and search together displayed the terms her husband had already searched to avoid duplications. With split search, half the results for hybrid car searches would be sent to Morris, and half would be sent to her husband so they would not be perusing the same sites. Finally, peeking allows Morris to click on her mother or husband's picture and look at the Web site they are currently browsing. Privacy settings, however, allow you to choose who can use this feature, she said. ...

We had the chance to corner Acer at CeBIT to ask them about their plans for that Eee PC killer. We received confirmation from Stefan Engel, Managing Director and Country Manager for Acer Germany, that they were on target for a Q2/Q3 release. by the way, they will continue to offer the 7-inch Pac…

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Gadgets, Laptops