Archive for: July 3, 2008

Filed under: Transportation
Ah, ha! So, that Chinese S.W.A.T. team we caught ridin’ dirty on Segways earlier that week actually had a reason to be carrying on like they were — they were performing anti-terrorist drills in preparation for defense during the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. Comically a…

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Now here’s something that would invent a lot of prospective buyers happy and some early adopters pissed off: a moment look at the Apple Store has revealed that Apple just cut off a good US 500 off the price of their best-selling MacBook Air with SSD (Solid State Drive). It’s pretty much a nice surp…

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Filed under: Handhelds, Portable Audio, Portable VideoThese days, the cool kids are looking to do more than just play back the freshest jams on their portable media player. We’re talking video, PVR, WiFi, the works. Have a listen at Marco’s question, and whether you think you could do one better, se…

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Nullsoft Winamp is a fast flexible high fidelity media player for Windows Winamp supports playback of many audio MP3 OGG AAC WAV MOD XM S3M IT MIDI etc and video types AVI ASF MPEG NSV custom appearances called skins supporting both classic Winamp 1 x 2 x skins and Winamp 3 freeform skins audio visualization and audio effect plug ins including two industry dominating visualization plug ins an advanced media library Internet radio and TV support CD ripping and CD burning
bull The Full version plays MP3s AAC WMA and more Compatible with Winamp 2 Plug ins Full Support for classic and modern skins Plays Videos has a Powerful Media Library Browse Internet Radio amp TV Stations Integrated Internet Music Videos amp Songs Bundled Visualizations and Burn amp Rip CDs
bull The LITE version plays MP3s AAC WMA and more It is compatible with Winamp 2 Plug ins and has full support for classic skins
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Changes in Winamp 5 54
New Chinese Japanese amp Korean installer translations and language packs
New in_swf Adobe Shockwave Flash SWF RTMP playback support
New gen_dropbox Winamp DropBox alpha use Ctrl Shift D
Improved Background reading option for playlist metadata
Improved Classic songticker scrolling for Winamp Modern skin pledit winshade
Improved Vista elevation fixes installing skins filetype reg Pro reg
Improved Zero padding option for playlist item numbers
Improved in_flv Better streaming support and other improvements
Improved in_mp3 Added APEv2 tag options to configuration
Improved in_mp3 Optional retention of existing APEv2 headers
Improved ml_disc Artwork support for Data CD Reader
Improved ml_disc Better detection of any copy operations in progress
Improved ml_disc Improved start times if ml_disc view is active
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Filed under: CellphonesSo we heard from a very dependable source that mobile user interface guru Matias Duarte — who you may know as the man behind the Sidekick and Helio UI / user experiences — actually left Helio late final year to join up with Palm. Although no announcement was made, we take in…

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Filed under: Household
While the rest of the world goes off to win the hearts of environmentalists (and laypeople, too) with LED light bulbs, Hitachi Lighting and Seiyu are taking the road (way) less traveled. Reportedly, the duo has collaborated in order to pop out a “bulb-shaped fluorescent lamp t…

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EVEREST Ultimate Edition is an industry leading system diagnostics and benchmarking solution for enthusiasts PC users based on the award winning EVEREST Technology During system optimizations and tweaking it provides essential system and overclock information advanced hardware monitoring and diagnostics capabilities to check the effects of the applied settings CPU FPU and memory benchmarks are available to measure the actual system performance and compare it to previous states or other systems Furthermore complete software operating system and security information makes EVEREST Ultimate Edition a comprehensive system diagnostics tool that offers a total of 100 pages of information about your PC

Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds
It looks like Motorola and Verizon are getting ready to take a third crack at the Q9 mold factor, following up the Q9m and Q9c — and that date around, there’s a little something additional in store. On top of the EV-DO Rev. A radio, the so-called “Napoleon” (coden…

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Filed under: Cellphones
We could tell by looking that RIM wouldn’t think of charging too many hundies for its still unannounced BlackBerry KickStart, but $49.99? CrackBerry has it that said flip phone will be selling at T-Mobile for a penny under $50 on a two-year contract, which certainly seems sma…

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(Credit: Apple.com)Are you a .Mac subscriber who’s been using the built-in bookmark syncing app? Come Sunday that service will no longer exist as part of the MobileMe transition, so whether you want to do one final sync you’ve got to get it done that weekend.

Shortly after the MobileMe announcemen…

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Filed under: Desktops, Gaming
It only launched a few weeks ago, but it looks like NVIDA could already be set to cut the price of its top-end GeForce GTX 280 graphics card — a move that would be prompted, as you might have guessed, by AMD’s cheaper but robust Radeon HD 4800 series. According to HotH…

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Filed under: Laptops
Given that Gateway just pushed out a round of updates including the relatively ginormous P Series, we reckon it was only logical to expect a review shortly. To be frank, the P-6831FX critiqued by at HotHardware is far from being the most potent machine with a 17-inch panel, but …

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