Archive for: June 20, 2008

June 20, 2008

Psystar puffs out its chest, introduces off-license OS X servers

Filed under: Review - 20 Jun 2008

Filed under: Desktops
Apple hasn’t sued Psystar yet, so it’s no surprise the company is pushing the envelope as far as it can — it’s just introduced two rackmount servers that come with OS X Server pre-installed. The OpenServ 1100 and 2400 are both configurable with 2.5 GHz Xeon processors and up t…

Microsoft loses appeal, owes Alcatel-Lucent $512M in patent damages

Filed under: Review - 20 Jun 2008

Filed under: Misc. GadgetsSorting out the various Microsoft / Alcatel-Lucent patent infringement cases isn’t precisely fun or easy, but here’s another Post-It for that chart we know you’re keeping at domestic: US District Judge Marilyn Huff has just upheld an earlier $368M damages ruling against Mic…

Ringtones for dogs coming to Japanese cellphones

Filed under: Review - 20 Jun 2008

Filed under: Cellphones
Just when you think you’ve given your dog everything it could ever want (gold plated water dish, rhinestone collar, a copy of Tegan and Sara’s “The Con” on vinyl) the Japanese go and one up you. A Tokyo-based substance provider named Dwango announced nowadays that it would st…

SoundCloud is one of the coolest music apps around (invites)

Filed under: Review - 20 Jun 2008

SoundCloud is a service for musicians to distribute their music to one another, and eventually the public. It’s not a marketplace like iTunes or Amazon though; instead it’s a sharing network for musicians looking to peddle their demos and get feedback on early tracks. You might be saying to yourself…

Nokia: leaks cause us major problems. Us: so get your act together.

Filed under: Review - 20 Jun 2008

Filed under: CellphonesNow here’s something you don’t see every day: a manufacturer openly complaining about its own product leaks on their corporate blog. Charlie from Nokia would “like to ask folks to do less peddling in [their] trade secrets,” and lays out the myriad ways in which products get le…

Auslogics Disk Defrag 1.4.16.307

Filed under: Review, My choice, games_entertainment, music, free_downloads, utilities - 20 Jun 2008
Disk fragmentation leads to system slowdowns PC crashes slow startup and shutdown and sometimes to system failures Auslogics Disk Defrag is designed for fast optimization of today 39 s modern hard disks Get the maximum performance out of your expensive hardware investments It works on Windows XP 2000 2003 and Vista

Download Accelerator Plus 8.6.6.3 Beta

Filed under: Review, My choice, games_entertainment, music, free_downloads, utilities - 20 Jun 2008
Download Accelerator Plus is a file download accelerator manager Up to 300 Faster Multi Server connections for best performance It can also recover from lost connections computer shutdowns and other errors The program can also search for mirror sites to maximize your download performance It is fully integrated into the browsers supports proxy servers auto hang up after download completion and much more

How would you change Alienware’s Area-51 m15x / m17x laptops?

Filed under: Review - 20 Jun 2008

Filed under: Laptops
Not to crack open a can of worms or anything, but we’re honestly curious to see what the legions of Area-51 m15x / m17x owners would change about their machines. When launched, both rigs were fawned by for their top-notch specifications, but the m15x hasn’t seen the warmest of r…

Hands On: One Hundred Push Ups

Filed under: Review, cool_web_sites - 20 Jun 2008

onehundred250x250.gifIt seems the best websites are those online for a purpose. In this case, it's Steve Speirs and his "One Hundred Push Ups" site, trying to give a little Internet love back. Steve had completed an exercise plan from a long since abandoned website, leaving him fit enough to do 100 push ups. He wrote about his progress in his blog and then forgot about it.

With the original site gone and Steve's site now being the only reference, people started turning to him. "I started receiving multiple emails asking if I had copies of weeks 5 and 6 of the plan. Luckily I had a few Word docs saved locally and was able to reply to all the requests. I attempted to contact the original web site's owner to find out what happened to the site, but never heard anything back. " With an obvious need, Steve put up his own site.

In this case, Steve's giving instructions for a fitness plan he's already tried successfully. "I really liked the simplicity of the plan, the progressive nature of the workouts and of course the end result of being able to do one hundred consecutive push ups." Me too.

Recently, I've taken to hiking a local (small) mountain. It was during a 'runner's high' moment (what sad shape am I in, if I can get a runner's high from walking) that I decided to add this push up goal. Last night I began my own quest for 100 push ups. In the pre-rest which determines your original level of fitness, I managed ...

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*Firefox 3.0: Cut the Superlatives, Please*

Filed under: Review - 20 Jun 2008

I’ve seen superlative after superlative concerning the release of Firefox 3.0, and in all honesty, it is making my stomach ache. Yes, Firefox 3.0 is a great release. It has a slicker interface (the UI on Vista looks fairly pretty) and the use of local widgets in Linux is a very, very welcome additio…

Tensegrity prosthetic foot promises to manufacture walking easier

Filed under: Review - 20 Jun 2008

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets, Wearables
It may not boast built-in Bluetooth or an array of sensors and motors, but inventor Jerome Rifkin says his so-called Tensegrity prosthetic foot can nonetheless give amputees a more natural gait and prepare it easier for them to walk across difficult terrain. Tha…

openSUSE 11.0 Final

Filed under: Review, My choice, games_entertainment, music, free_downloads, utilities - 20 Jun 2008
The openSUSE project is a worldwide community program sponsored by Novell http www novell com that promotes the use of Linux everywhere openSUSE Linux provides anyone with free and easy access to the world 39 s most usable Linux distribution SUSE Linux
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