Archive for: April 6, 2008

April 6, 2008

Kingston 1GB microSD card comes Preloaded with Music from ‘Ricky Martin habitable: Black & White Tour

Filed under: Review - 06 Apr 2008

Kingston has joined forces with GRAMMY-winning superstar Ricky Martin to create a microSD and USB reader combination for mobile consumers that offers free, preloaded choose music, video and mobile phone wallpapers from the recent release of “Ricky Martin habitable: Black & White Tour.”…

Foobar2000 0.9.51 Final

Foobar2000 is an advanced audio player for the Windows platform Some of the basic features include full unicode support ReplayGain support and native support for several popular audio formats
Features
Audio formats supported natively MP1 MP2 MP3 MP4 MPC AAC Ogg Vorbis FLAC Ogg FLAC WavPack WAV AIFF AU SND CDDA WMA
More audio formats supported through optional components official or third party
Full unicode support
Customizable user interface layout new in version 0 9 5 View screenshots
Advanced tagging capabilities
Support for ripping Audio CDs as well as transcoding all supported audio formats using the Converter component Read more
ReplayGain support both playback and calculation
Customizable keyboard shortcuts
Open component architecture allowing third party developers to extend functionality of the player
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Van Der Led’s Jisus laptop is the reply to your prayers

Filed under: Review - 06 Apr 2008

Filed under: Laptops
The Jisus laptop? We’re asking ourselves the same questions you are. We’ve never heard of Van Der Led, and we’ve certainly never heard of the Jisus — but boy are we intrigued. Apparently, the multi-colored (and multi-graphic’d) little guys will feature a 800 x 480, 8.9-inch LCD…

Fujitsu Develops world’s first core technology for self-moving verification of Java-based practical-use web applications

Filed under: Review - 06 Apr 2008

Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. and Fujitsu Laboratories of America, Inc. announced nowadays their joint development of the world’s first core technology for self-moving verification of Java-based practical-use web applications. It is used to automatically verify whether a web application can fu…

ASUS’ 7-inch Eee PC now available at Best Buy in XP flavor

Filed under: Review - 06 Apr 2008

Filed under: Laptops
certain, the picture on the purchase page shows the little guy running Xandros — but read the fine print ya’ll. That’s right, the moment some of you have been waiting for has finally descended upon us like the enraged, ancient dragons of yore. The Windows XP equipped ASUS Eee P…

Copy to 20 USB drives at once

Filed under: Review - 06 Apr 2008

What would you do whether you had to copy a couple of hundred megs of documents to 20 USB drives in under 5 minutes? That’’s easy, right? But look at the constraint - you have only one PC. Now, that’’s a ……… Original post by Jessica Dolcourt

Backscatter

Filed under: Review - 06 Apr 2008

Backscatter is a problem that arises when an newsletter server receives bounced messages that come from isolated site to a non-local recipient. In simple terms non-delivery reports or delivery status notifications are sent to a mail server that never originated the emails. Backscatter can be a bi…

For Facebook Chat, a quiet and cautious Sunday debut

Filed under: Review - 06 Apr 2008

Facebook chose a Sunday afternoon, when much of the tech blogger corps was pleasantly enjoying real life (we can hope), to start rolling out its previously announced instant-messaging client. That’s likely no coincidence: that is a major new feature for the social-networking site, and debuting it on…

Sprint licenses Visual Voicemail for the Samsung Instinct

Filed under: Review - 06 Apr 2008

Filed under: Cellphones
It looks like Samsung’s Instinct won’t just be kinda-sorta doing some iPhone stuff — it will be doing actual iPhone stuff. Sprint announced that it has licensed Klausner’s Visual Voicemail (yes, Visual Voicemail) for use in the familiar looking device, adding weight to the a…

*Mini-Review: Linux Mint 4.0 ‘Daryna’*

Filed under: Review - 06 Apr 2008

From Linux Mint’s About page: “Linux Mint’s purpose is to produce an elegant, up to period and comfortable GNU/Linux desktop distribution.” To reach that goal, lead developer and founder Clement Lefebvre used (surprisingly) Ubuntu as the base, and added multimedia codecs to the distribution, by defa…

Hypesphere: Nothing to Gates’ Windows 7 ‘Next Year’ Quote

Filed under: Review - 06 Apr 2008

“Reading the mainstream media that weekend, you’d believe that Bill Gates announced that Windows 7 will be released to retail in 2009. The only problem is, he didn’t say anything of the sort. What Gates said merely confirmed what we’ve all known all along: that Windows 7 is being developed on a thre…

Swarovski-bedazzled Nespresso Coffee Maker

Filed under: Review - 06 Apr 2008

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets, Household
whether you’ve covered your entire house in gold and diamonds and are left with little else to pimp out, you can always move on to the kitchen. The Nespresso Crystal Edition coffee machine is covered with 3100 Swarovski crystals and will only run you about &poun…

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