Archive for: July 6, 2008

July 6, 2008

Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 Build 8.0.6001.17184

Internet Explorer 8 takes the Web experience beyond the page and introduces a new way to seamlessly experience the power of the Web whether you are a Web developer writing to standards or an end user discovering a new online service This beta release is available to everyone but is primarily for Web developers and designers to test the new tools layout engine and programming enhancements

EVEREST Ultimate Edition 4.50 Build 1429 Beta

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 FPU CPU and memory benchmarks are available to measure the actual system performance for comparing it to previous states or other PCs

foobar2000 0.9.5.4 Final

Foobar2000 is an advanced audio player for the Windows platform Some of the basic features include ReplayGain support low memory footprint and native support for several popular audio formats

Prius to go (partially) solar

Filed under: Review - 06 Jul 2008

Filed under: Transportation
According to Nikkei, Toyota’s apparently going to be equipping future high-end Priuses with Kyocera-built root-mounted solar panels. Somewhat counterintuitively, the sun’s rays won’t be used to capability the car itself, but will instead run the AC. It additionally sounds…

Gentoo Linux 2008.0 Released

Filed under: Review - 06 Jul 2008

The 2008.0 final release is out! Code-named “It’s got what plants crave,” that release contains many new features including an updated installer, improved hardware support, a total rework of profiles, and a move to Xfce instead of GNOME on the LiveCD. LiveDVDs are not available for x86 or amd64, alt…

Automatix Comes to Fedora 9 - FedoMATIX

Filed under: Review - 06 Jul 2008

Remember Automatix? Yes the nifty little application that made installing additional softwares on the Ubuntu system a breeze. Here comes the same for Fedora 9, FedoMATIX (v0.1Beta). It currently works on the command line only, but supports more than 60 additional softwares/apps already. The next ver…

Apple MacBook: Change is in the Air

Filed under: Review - 06 Jul 2008

The Apple MacBook Air has been a ground-breaking, first-generation product. So, what will Apple do to top it when an update comes later that year? There are some telling indicators already. that is what I expect–and hope for–as a user.

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Confessions of a Bluetooth convert

Filed under: Review - 06 Jul 2008

Thanks to California hands-free phone law, I have been dragged into Bluetooth land. It’s not somewhere I really ever saw myself landing. I never really saw a need; I don’t use my cell as frequently as anyone I know, and my car tends to sit in the ca…

iRobot (still) working on lawn-mowing Roomba?

Filed under: Review - 06 Jul 2008

Filed under: RobotsNot that it’s any surprise, but according to a patent filing (which we were unable to ourselves unearth from the abyss that is the USPTO), iRobot would seem to still be working on the “Mowba,” or whatever the hell the lawn-cutting robot is that they were talking up years ago. We’r…

New report says SSDs are, in fact, more efficient

Filed under: Review - 06 Jul 2008

Filed under: StorageSo LAPTOP magazine published a report confirming what most citizens already believe to be true about SSDs (that is, before final week when SSDs supposedly hit the fan): they use less capability than traditional drives. Apparently they got an additional 20 minutes battery life whe…

Opera partners with Ask.com

Filed under: Review - 06 Jul 2008

Filed under: Search, BrowsersAlthough it doesn’t always get the most attention, Opera is a solid browser that continues to improve with each version. While they work on their next version, codenamed Peregrine (like the falcon), subtle improvements are being added to the current release, 9.51. The la…

Facebook for Palm released, gives Centro users something to show off

Filed under: Review - 06 Jul 2008

Filed under: Photo, Utilities, Video, Palm, Web services, Freeware, Social Software, web 2.0Everybody that has a web-enabled phone and a thing for online interaction in lieu of actually having in addition to a social life knows that the biggest social networking sites are but a few keystrokes absent…

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