Archive for: March 17, 2008

Filed under: Digital Cameras
Not fairly able to squeeze into a size 2 chassis before PMA, Pentax’s Optio V20 now has the runway all to itself. that 8-megapixel point-and-shoot isn’t anything spectacular, but the 5x optical zoom is a nice complement to the 3-inch LCD monitor, face recognition, blink …

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Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video
iPod cases with built-in speakers have amazingly been around the block a date or two before. We’re guessing the reason shelves aren’t flooded with ‘em nowadays has fairly a bit to do with the presumably lackluster sound quality / output potential. Neverthe…

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Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds
Considering the plethora of facilities that have opened just in the past few years to deal solely with individuals that have become undoubtedly addicted to video games, the internet and all things Hello Kitty (we jest, we jest), we’re not surprised one iota to com…

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Dutch art group Studio Roosegaarde is no stranger to interactive art installations, but it looks to really be upping its game with its latest project, which promises to change its anatomy in response to human sounds and motion, assuming it doesn’t blind them first. To do that, the installation…

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Q: I'm trying to figure out if the storage capacities listed on various devices that I use for storing digital images are effectively the same or not. If I can fit a specific number of images on a one gigabyte USB drive, will those specific images use exactly the same amount of space on a portable hard drive or on my computer's internal hard drive? Or will differences in the file systems used by the different devices result in the images taking up somewhat different amounts of space? Are there any other differences between devices that will affect the amount of space used to store identical images? - Corey Ruelas.

appscout973:http://www.appscout.com/2008/03/how_much_space_do_files_really_1.php

A: That's a very good question, and yes indeed, the same file can take a different amount of space on different disks or devices. The old DOS/Windows FAT file system used a File Allocation Table with "slots" for 64K distinct clusters. One cluster is the minimum file size on disk, and the FAT system could never address more than that number of clusters. Also, the cluster size was always a power of two kilobytes. The bigger the drive, the bigger the cluster size. Every file other than a zero-byte file takes at least one cluster, and on average, files have one-half cluster of wasted space at the end. USB drives mostly still use the FAT file system. A tiny file that takes 2KB on a small USB drive could take 32KB on a large one.

The FAT32 file system that came into play with Windows 95 ...

The short reply is yes.

The lengthy reply is that the success of the soon-to-be-released Flickr video depends largely on how much the company borrows from its photo hosting roots and innovations.

While YouTube and various other video hosts I partake in are brilliant for substance, the films man…

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Q: Excel defaults to not printing gridlines, so that you have to go to Page Setup and check the box each time you want to print with the gridlines. Is there a way to set it so that it will always print the gridlines? I looked in the Options and didn't see anything there. - Jeff Robinson.

A: You need to create or modify the default workbook template. In Excel 2007 this is found as a workbook named book.xltx in the folder C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\XLStart. For earlier versions the filename will be book.xlt and the number in "Office12" will be correspondingly lower. If no such file is present, create a blank workbook and save it with that name in that location.

Now set the workbook template so that it prints gridlines. Go ahead and set any other options that you want to be the new defaults going forward. Save and close the default template. Each new workbook will now start with the options you defined. - Neil J. Rubenking.

certain, it might not be as filling as the Skoda cakemobile, or as family oriented as Martha Stewart’s Wii cake, but do those contain the thrilling tale of The Light Beam Rider? Yeah, we thought not.

Paul: “Unfortunately the screen refresh times of ‘30-35 minutes at 350 degrees’ is just plain…

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In the me-too world of obscure DAP manufacturers, there’s one sure-fire way to manufacture certain you stand out in the crowd, and that’s codec support. Soundstream took that to heart with its new X-ITE MP28 touchscreen player, which supports MP3, WMA, ASF, WAV, FLAC, OGG, and APE for audio play…

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Ashley Alexandra Dupre has not had her fill of the media spotlight. The call girl at the center of the Elliot Spitzer scandal is reportedly annoyed that major media outlets published photos from her MySpace profile without her permission.

Dupre is not a public figure, and use of her image without permission could violate federal copyright laws, according to her lawyer, Don D. Buchwald.

Buchwald did not actually threaten to sue news outlets such as the Associated Press and New York's Daily News that used Dupre's image, but said he would take "all steps that we deem necessary or appropriate to protect Ms. Dupre from any unwarranted exploitation of her name, picture, voice or likeness for purposes of profit."

OK, fine--but if Dupre is not a public figure, why is her MySpace page public, and why is it categorized as a MySpace Music page meant to promote established and aspiring artists? And why is it still littered with the offending photos?

Though it would no doubt benefit her lawyer, going after copyright damages would probably be a lengthy (and ultimately unsuccessful?) process. Why not go after the more lucrative offers already on the table? Hustler publisher Larry Flynt told AP that he had e-mailed Dupre a $1 million offer to pose for his magazine, provided she takes it all off. ("Hustler readers don't like to compromise," he said. "They want the whole enchilada."). She has not yet responded.

Dupre has also reportedly made thousands with online sales of her single.

This is not the first time people with MySpace and Facebook profiles have found their information on the front page of newspapers. A U.K.-based watchdog group ...

Filed under: Misc. GadgetsAs we’ve seen already, algae is big business these days, and it now looks like the alternative source of fuel is getting another shot in the arm, with GreenFuel Technologies recently announcing a deal to build an “algae-to-fuel” plant in Europe. The company, as you may or m…

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“You’re about to see the mother of all flamewars on World Wide Web groups where web developers hang out. that upcoming battle will be presided by by Dean Hachamovitch, the Microsoft veteran currently running the team that’s going to bring you the next version of World Wide Web Explorer, 8.0. The IE …

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