Archive for: April 12, 2008

April 12, 2008

LG’s touchscreen T80 media player only has 4GB

Filed under: Review - 12 Apr 2008

Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video
LG’s giving our Danish friends a little something to look forward to: the 3-inch 400 x 240 touchscreen T80, which has 4GB of storage, DVB-T and FM tuners, and OGG support (as well as the usual MP3, WMA, MPEG-4, etc.) in a chubby 0.5-inch thick package. We …

Backgammon v2.4.1

Filed under: Review - 12 Apr 2008

Homebrew fans who enjoy software on the iPhone accessible via Installer.app might want to check out Backgammon by Adikus, since a new build is out to kill a couple of bugs and prepare the game more playable. Backgammon version 2.4.1 is now available, which adds improvements to the solid portable bac…

New RFID readers from Alien distinguishes within tags

Filed under: Review - 12 Apr 2008

Filed under: WirelessFor airlines and cargo handling companies, the inability to know precisely where a specific item was located on a belt could (understandably) prove to be fairly the limitation. Thankfully, the gurus at Alien Technology are aiming to add more functionality to a few of its readers…

New York to start charging sales tax for online purchases

Filed under: Review - 12 Apr 2008

Filed under: Business, Internet, NewsYou know how whether you habitable in most states in the US you don’t have to pay sales tax on items purchased online? Yeah, that’s about to change for about 19 million residents of New York State. Legislators have approved a bill that requires large online store…

Sales cease on Dell 3008WFP 30-incher due to “technical issue”

Filed under: Review - 12 Apr 2008

Filed under: DisplaysLooks like Dell’s run into some issues with its highest end monitor, the droolworthy DisplayPort-packing 30-inch 3008WFP. We heard it’d mysteriously vanished from the site with nary a trace, so we pinged the folks in Round Rock. that is what they had to say:”The Dell 3008 monito…

Omron’s Okao Catch measures the intensity of your smile

Filed under: Review - 12 Apr 2008

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
It was inevitable, really. Not even two months after jolly researchers at Kansai University developed a machine to calculate the quantity of a person’s laughter comes a new method of measuring just how hard you’re cheesing. According to Omron’s Yasushi Kawamoto, the Okao C…

Time Capsule v0.25b1 - English, French, German, Spanish language support

Filed under: Review - 12 Apr 2008

Apple iPhone and iPod Touch users who found hc’s homebrew application day Capsule useful should get themselves ready for the latest version of that nifty app. The developer recently released the latest build of the program with day Capsule v0.25b1.For those of you not familiar with that homebrew app…

Latest Mac OS X 10.5.3 build released for examining, 31 bugs fixed

Filed under: Review - 12 Apr 2008

 

Apple’s really giving Mac OS X 10.5.3 a good workout. evaluating started late final month, and the final few weeks have seen successive releases of the latest Leopard version to developers for checking.

The build is now on version 9d19, which was released to developers yesterday. Build 9d19…

blueLounge’s The Sanctuary keeps your gadgets encased, charged

Filed under: Review - 12 Apr 2008

Filed under: Peripherals
We’ll be honest — we weren’t precisely feeling blueLounge’s grossly overpriced SpaceStation, but its boldly-named The Sanctuary actually strikes us as fairly useful. The gadget organizer allows technophiles to stuff their handhelds into that black or white container for eas…

Sony mylo 2 firmware version 1.100 adds WMV and SHOUTcast support

Filed under: Review - 12 Apr 2008

Filed under: Handhelds, Portable Audio, Portable Video
Sony’s do-everything-except-for-make-calls mylo has been updated to firmware version 1.100, and is now available at Sony’s support site as a 61MB download. considering you ran out of things to do with your mylo about, say, ten minutes after unbo…

Hide running windows with WatchCat

Filed under: Review - 12 Apr 2008

Filed under: Utilities, Windows, FreewareWatchCat is a free Windows utility that lets you hide running programs from view. It basically minimizes selected programs and removes their entries from the Windows taskbar and Alt+Tab menu. It won’t shut them; it won’t save you any RAM, but it will clear up…

Omni-directional treadmill allows individuals to sashay through virtual cities

Filed under: Review - 12 Apr 2008

Filed under: Misc. GadgetsThough not the first omni-directional treadmill we’ve ever seen, that version crafted for the EU-funded CyberWalk Project is entirely more interesting. The 6- x 6-meter device features an active walking area of 4.5- x 4.5-meters, and later that month, individuals anxious to…

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