Archive for: May 27, 2008

May 27, 2008

Windows 7 Demoed: Gains System-Wide Multitouch, Dock

Filed under: Review - 27 May 2008

I personally doubted that Windows 7 would construct an actual appearance during the Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer joint interview up on stage at the D6 conference, but as it turns out, it has made an appearance. During an interview conducted by Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher about Ballmer and Gates’ …

Serv-U 7.1.0.1

Serv U is a powerful easy to use award winning FTP server created by Rob Beckers An FTP server uses the FTP protocol to share files across the Internet Serv U is not only 100 compliant with the current FTP standard but also includes numerous features unique to Serv U that make it a perfect file sharing solution for virtually everyone Flexible FTP server or Daemon for all 32 bit versions of MS Windows Windows 2000 Advanced Server 2000 Professional Windows XP Home Professional Windows Server 2003 Windows Vista It turns any PC with a network connection into an FTP site on the Internet Serv U makes a vast array of features available to the user that ensures the administrator has full control over their FTP server

UltimateDefrag 1.72

UltimateDefrag is revolutionary defrag software that not only lets you defrag but also considers a more important phenomenon and that is the placement of files and folders on your hard drive With UltimateDefrag you can place the files you want the best performance from onto the faster areas of your hard drive and also get all of your unused data right out of the way and repositioned onto the slower areas of your hard drive in order to make way for the data that you want to place in the ldquo hot rdquo sections of your hard drive where performance is greatest

UltimateDefrag lets you specify defrag routines right down to the individual file and folder level No other defragger has previously enabled you to do this to this extent and with this kind of power and flexibility

UltimateDefrag has a High Performance file section option so that you can get the best possible performance out the programs you want the best performance from whether it rsquo s a particular game program or data file You can move these programs and files ahead of other files and folders to the area of your drive that gives you the best performance

You choose the files that you want performance from and those that you don rsquo t or let UltimateDefrag do it for you ndash automatically based on file usage UltimateDefrag is very powerful yet very easy and intuitive to use Once you understand the basic concepts and issues that slow your hard drive and principles that result in increased performance you can use UltimateDefrag as a powerful tool to give you hard drive file access that will perform significantly faster than what hard drive manufacturers quote for their hard drive rsquo s performance

µTorrent 1.8 Build 10416 Beta

micro Torrent is an efficient and feature rich BitTorrent client for Windows sporting a very small footprint It was designed to use as little cpu memory and space as possible while offering all the functionality expected from advanced clients

nbsp Main Features
Multiple simultaneous downloads
Smart bandwidth usage
File level priorities
Configurable bandwidth scheduling
Global and per torrent speed limiting
Quickly resumes interrupted transfers
UPnP support WinXP only
Supports popular protocol extensions
Localized to different languages
Typical memory use less than 4 MB
Incredibly small
Change Log 2008 05 27 Version 1 8 beta build 10431
Change The deletion comfirmation dialog for torrents now shows how many are to be deleted
Change Add System Default language option to preferences
Change added a tiny amount more debugging for a very very rare bug

Live from D: Gates and Ballmer debut Windows 7

Filed under: Review - 27 May 2008

Filed under: Desktops, Laptops6:16PM PT - The joint’s filling up! Clearly no one’s on stage yet, though, so don’t go too far.Permalink | Email this | Comments

Original post by Ryan Block

Microsoft shows off “snippet” of Windows 7 at D6, reveals multi-touch support

Filed under: Review - 27 May 2008

Filed under: Desktops, Laptops
Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer got on stage at D6 with Walt and Kara to talk… Microsoft, of course. While the company is still being rather coy about Windows 7 — some have blamed loose lips early on in Vista development for saddling the OS with too high of expectation…

Cam-Trax is “coolest thing since ice,” can supply Wii-like controls with any webcam

Filed under: Review - 27 May 2008

Filed under: Digital Cameras, Gaming, Peripherals Hey, we’ve seen fairly a few gimmicky game control schemes in our day. We thought we were jaded, believed that we could no longer be moved emotionally by a few dorks in a lab, promising to revolutionize video games with their insanity. Until we saw C…

Windows 7 to be revealed tonight by Gates and Ballmer, we’ll be there

Filed under: Review - 27 May 2008

Filed under: Desktops, Laptops
Gates and Ballmer are down at the WSJ’s All Things Digital conference to talk tech with Mossberg and Swisher, and it looks like tonight they’ll be unveiling the first (official) glimpses of Vista’s successor, currently known as Windows 7. We’ll be posting habitable fro…

Tesla finally finalized its loner-speed gearbox, on track for completion in August

Filed under: Review - 27 May 2008

Filed under: Transportation
Those Tesla folks are finally (almost) out of the woods on that whole powertrain nonsense. Its original two-speed design had many “durability, efficiency and cost challenges,” but Tesla Motors decided to go with it in its first production run, and soon after swap in the n…

OLPC XO-2 to include multitouch and possibly haptic screen from PixelQi

Filed under: Review - 27 May 2008

PixelQi, an OLPC project spin-off headed by Mary Lou Jepsen, certainly has its work cut out for it with the OLPC XO-2, due in 2010. Not only is the laptop supposed to support dual touchscreens and consume a mere 1 watt of ability, but Mary Lou is plus promising better readability, multitouch, an…

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AT&T’s prorated ETF is habitable for new / renewing customers

Filed under: Review - 27 May 2008

We really, really hope you didn’t ink a contract with AT&T by the weekend. whether so, casually shut your browser and attempt to avoid that post forever. Right on cue, AT&T has implemented its consumer-friendly prorated early termination fee, which enables new and renewing subscribers to…

Orbitsound rolls out tube-based T6 iPod dock

Filed under: Review - 27 May 2008

It’s far from the first dock of its kind, but those that just can’t get decent of that warm vaccum tube sound now have a new option to consider courtesy of Orbitsound, which is set to roll out its new T6 iPod dock. that one apparently combines those tried and true tubes with Orbitsound’s trade…

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