Archive for: April 1, 2008

Filed under: Features, Portable AudioEach week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about technology, multimedia, and digital entertainment.

The Slacker Portable is the proverbial elephant being inspected by blind men. One is the crop of portable MP3 players, to which the device’s service r…

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Amanda developers released Amanda 2.6.0 nowadays. that is a meaningful update to Amanda backup software with improvements in ease of installation and configuration, safety degree, scalability and robustness. Amanda 2.6.0 is available for download (in both source and binary-package form) here.Origina…

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Filed under: Features, Laptops, Wireless
Damn, Everex clearly stepped up their game with the Cloudbook MAX. Not that we want to harsh on the original Cloudbook or anything, but that thing is definitely in a different course — and the integrated XOHM WiMAX doesn’t hurt, either. Check out some hands…

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The DivX Play Bundle gives you everything you need to start watching high quality DivX videos including DivX reg Video on Demand movies All the tools in DivX Play are also available in DivX Create

DivX Play lets you
nbsp Playback all DivX video including DivX reg media files
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Rent and purchase high quality DivX Video on Demand titles

Filed under: Cellphones
We had heard whispers about the Blackberry Curve hitting Sprint that month, and it looks like they were dead-on — say hello to RIM’s latest, the Curve 8330, all done up in black. Apart from looking way hotter than the silver version that’s made the rounds, you’re getting GPS…

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We think Creative acted pretty foolishly in forcing Daniel_K to remove his modded drivers that allowed various Creative sound cards to work up to spec under Vista — customers had already bought the hardware, after all — but Daniel seems to understand why he’s at the center of the firestorm. Sp…

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MorphOS 2.0 got an official release moment estimation now. According to the news section at the official MorphOS site a public release is estimated for Q2/2008. that release will support at least all computers by Genesi, such as the Pegasos 1 & 2, as well as the Efika.Original post by donotreply…

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Monsoon’s HAVA HD streamer doesn’t get fairly as much love as the various Slingboxes, but it’s a fine piece of kit with features Sling doesn’t have quite yet, like pause and rewind — and now it’s got one more supported client platform, as the company’s using CTIA to roll out support for Nokia’s…

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Having trouble telling the difference amidst that and a garden-variety N810? Yeah, don’t concern about it — that’s okay, and it’s actually by design. We had an opportunity to tool around with Nokia’s just-announced N810 WiMAX Edition nowadays, and it stays very true to the original N810’s formu…

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Samsung just launched the Blue Wave 3 firmware for the YP-P2 and T10 nowadays, but we’re already hearing whispers of Blue Wave 4 — check out that image that’s popped up on some forums. Apparently all you P2 owners out there can look forward to customizable (and shareable) UI skins, some new Blu…

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AnyDVD is a driver which descrambles DVD Movies automatically in the background This DVD appears unprotected and region code free for all applications and the Windows operating system as well With AnyDVD 39 s help copy tools like CloneDVD Pinnacle Instant Copy InterVideo DVD Copy etc are able to copy CSS protected Movies You can remove the RPC region code thereby making the movie region free and viewable on any DVD player and with any DVD player software With the help of AnyDVD you can watch movies with non matching region codes with every DVD Player Software you like
AnyDVD is capable of removing unwanted movie features including subtitles and prohibition messages such as copyright and FBI warnings It also allows you to launch an external application whenever you insert or remove a disc or prevent 39 PC friendly 39 software from automatically launching when you insert a video DVD AnyDVD decrypts not just DVDs AnyDVD allows you also to play copy and rip protected Audio CDs
Decryption is not all that AnyDVD offers You can control the drive speed of your DVD drive allowing you to reduce the noise level when watching movies on your PC You can even adjust the display frequency of your monitor for both NTSC and PAL displays
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Changes in version 6 4 0 6 2008 03 31
Fix DVD quot Human Trafficking quot R2 German did not copy correctly
Fix DVD quot Early Films of Peter Greenaway quot R2 German AI scanner needed to be disabled
Fix DVD Bug introduced with AnyDVD 6 4 0 4 unhandled exception in AI scanner with some discs
Some minor fixes and improvements
Updated languages
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Filed under: LaptopsWe’ve already heard about some of Intel’s future Atom plans, and heard just how little it’ll apparently cost the company to produce ‘em, but now thanks to a PDF kindly let loose by the chipmaker, we finally have some official word as to when we can actually expect to see ‘em. As …

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