Archive for: June 21, 2008

June 21, 2008

DVDFab Platinum 5.0.4.0 Beta

DVDFab Platinum is all you need to backup DVDs DVDFab Platinum 3 is brand new is completely rewritten is based on 5 years of DVD copy software development
DVDFab is simply the easiest way to copy a DVD movie Just insert the movie and a blank DVD then press Start Your entire movie including menus trailers and special features is copied to a single DVD with just one click and everything happens automatically
Backup your entire DVD including menus trailers and special features onto one or multiple discs
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Changes in DVDFab 5 0 4 0 Beta June 21 2008
New Added DirectShow decoder support for Preview which means preview can work like real DVD player now
New For preview user can enter exit full screen and can switch audio while playing
New Added option quot Decoder quot in quot Settings gt General gt Preview quot user can choose from quot Internal quot and quot DirectShow quot
New Added options quot Video Decoder quot and quot Audio Decoder quot user can choose specific filter from all the installed DirectShow filters
New Updated language files
Fix A low quality problem when using H 264 1 pass encoding from version 5 0 3 0
Fix Several minor problems

Twilight Hack returns to knock out Wii Menu 3.3

Filed under: Review - 21 Jun 2008

Filed under: Gaming
Nintendo talks a big talk, but has never invested heavily in actually protecting its systems from those nefarious homebrew junkies. While the Wii Menu 3.3 did slightly break the Twilight Hack, it didn’t even bust up folks who already had the hombrew channel installed, and its pro…

Snow Leopard screenshots emerge, reveal Web App functionality

Filed under: Review - 21 Jun 2008

Filed under: Desktops, Laptops
A few doubtful screens from Apple’s upcoming OS X mini-update “Snow Leopard” popped up the other week, but now we’re staring at a full-on collection of shots from the folks at German site Apfeltalk. They seem legit ample, but given the fact that Snow Leopard’s improvem…

Obama vs. McCain: It’s Twitter time

Filed under: Review - 21 Jun 2008

And we thought the YouTube and Facebook presidential debates were all that.

The latest in debate 2.0 is a campaign face-off on Twitter sponsored by the Personal Democracy Forum that started Friday and is expected to go on at least through the end o…

Dell pushes back desktop XP cutoff moment to June 26

Filed under: Review - 21 Jun 2008

Filed under: Desktops
certain, you’ll be able to pay out the nose for a Vista machine with a XP Professional “downgrade” soon decent, but Dell just pushed back its cutoff for straight-up XP machines. They’ll be selling choose Inspiron and XPS desktop with whatever flavor of XP you choose up until Ju…

iriver’s cute little Lplayer gets reviewed

Filed under: Review - 21 Jun 2008

Filed under: Podcasts, Portable Video
iriver’s Lplayer, which we just got done handling ourselves, made it by to the review crew at PC Magazine. As expected, both design and interface were smiled upon, and critics plus felt the price was fair. Upon using the admittedly wee device, they seemed to hav…

German scientists develop nerdiest brain-computer interface yet

Filed under: Review - 21 Jun 2008

Brain-computer interfaces have been popping up left and right lately, but the latest system from Germany’s Technical University of Braunschweig, might be the silliest one we’ve seen so far. While the system doesn’t entail the careful placement of electrodes, it does require you to don a larg…

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FCC seeking comment on free wireless auction

Filed under: Review - 21 Jun 2008

The Federal Communications Commission on Friday formalized its plans to auction off a section of wireless spectrum to buyers who promise to supply free Web service that filters out pornography and other inappropriate composition, and offers open acce…

Shenzhen EM-2811 “Latte ICE” is actually kind of neat

Filed under: Review - 21 Jun 2008

These days, it’s pretty wild and crazy whether a PMP manufacturer manages to do anything different than what’s already out there, so we’ve got a soft spot for Shenzhen’s EM-2811, being sold as the “Latte ICE.” certain, nothing spectacular, and the 1GB-4GB capacity is seriously amature hour, but …

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Will Wright to demo Spore in San Francisco later tonight

Filed under: Review - 21 Jun 2008

If you habitable approach or in San Francisco and have some free day on your hands tonight, you may want to head on by to 1 Stockton Street (that’s the San Francisco Apple Store, for your information) to watch a specially prepared game demonstration at 7 p.m. PDT.

What makes that demo so fundamen…

Leadtek WinFast GTX 280 and GTX260 Graphic Cards

Filed under: Review - 21 Jun 2008

Rising to the expectations of global gamers, Leadtek recently announced its new epochal graphics card series, WinFast GTX 280 1024MB and GTX 260 896MB. Based on the NVIDIA GTX 280 and GTX 260 chipsets, these high potential graphics cards have been born to convert and take gaming into a n…

AOpen ubox LE300 first of the XCubox series

Filed under: Review - 21 Jun 2008

AOpen ubox LE300 is the first product of the XCubox series. It fully supports HDMI and HDCP for domestic theater PCs (HTPC) and comes with a compact and contemporary shape. Its contains the latest nVIDIA MCP68PVNT chipset, an AM2 socket suitable for AMD Athlon 64 X2, Athlon 64, and Sempron…

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