Archive for: July 26, 2008

July 26, 2008

Review: Scrabble for iPhone and iPod touch OS 2.0 by Electronic Arts

Filed under: Review - 26 Jul 2008

The board game Scrabble has been around decades before I was even born.  It brings me a lot of delight that EA has ported that word building game by to the iPhone.  In case you haven’t heard of Scrabble, it’s a game where you get seven letters that you use to build words on the game board.  convi…

E-Lead’s Noahpad UMPC gets trunk lid unboxing

Filed under: Review - 26 Jul 2008

Filed under: Laptops
We’ve been seeing in the wild shots of E-Lead’s Noahpad for months on end, but on some fateful trunk lid likely to be halfway across the planet, that undeniably peculiar UMPC has finally arrived to an end user. notably ample, said user couldn’t even wait to get the thing inside,…

DVDFab Platinum 5.0.7.0 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
DVDFab HD Decrypter comes with same functionality as DVDFab Decrypter but with full HD DVD and Blu Ray support Removes AACS

Mozilla Firefox 3.1 Alpha 1

Firefox is a free open source web browser for Windows Linux and Mac OS X and is based on the Mozilla codebase It is small fast and easy to use and offers many advantages over Internet Explorer such as the ability to block pop up windows

Zune Guy calls Microsoft ‘liars,’ says Zune situation is ‘f***ing bulls**t’

Filed under: Review - 26 Jul 2008

Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video
You’ve probably heard by now that the notorious Zune Guy (”Microsoft Zune”) was so disappointed with Microsoft that he’s elected to have his ink removed in place of something more in line with his shifted priorities. In addition to the reconstructive work …

Yahoo! to compensate DRM-protected Music Store customers

Filed under: Review - 26 Jul 2008

Filed under: Portable AudioHey, both of you Yahoo! Music Store customers, listen up. Just hours after Yahoo! affirmed that it would be powering down its DRM servers, along comes a spokesperson to alleviate any worries that you two will get screwed in all of that. According to Carrie Davis, customers…

Infineon CEO wants to sell flagging Qimonda unit… badly

Filed under: Review - 26 Jul 2008

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WhiteKnightTwo to be unveiled on Monday, space to seem less far away

Filed under: Review - 26 Jul 2008

Filed under: Transportation
Hold onto your dollar bills, y’all — the WhiteKnightTwo is set to be unveiled (and swooned over) on Monday. We knew the fabled space tourism vehicle was set to be unwrapped that month, but knowing that said event is merely hours absent just gets our juices flowin’. Richa…

Nokia 5800 gets touched in the wild — again

Filed under: Review - 26 Jul 2008

Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds
At that point, we’ve seen the Tube from everyone but Nokia — heck, even Morgan Freeman got a chance to show it off — and it looks like that trend isn’t going to abate any day soon. Another round of in-the-wild shots of the supposed XpressMusic 5800 have popped up…

Apple admits to lost MobileMe messages, poor karma

Filed under: Review - 26 Jul 2008

Filed under: Misc. GadgetsApple’s Push-like MobileMe launch has been such a debacle that they’re now in damage control mode. As a aftermath, some poor soul has been tasked by Steve Jobs to post status updates “every other day or so.” The first update is already revealing:

Last Friday, 1% of Mob…

Quotes from Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Linus Torvalds

Filed under: Review - 26 Jul 2008

Weekend fun for the OS junkies. A collection of some interesting quotes from the three influential figures in the history of Operating Systems. Some of the quotes are controversial and some of them are just shockingly funny. Personal favorite: Steve Jobs’ quote about Bill Gates “He’d be a broader gu…

Realtek ATI HDMI Audio Device 2.00

The ALC885 is a high performance 7 1 2 Channel High Definition Audio Codec with advanced lossless content protection technology that protects pre recorded content while still allowing full rate audio enjoyment from DVD audio Blu ray DVD or HD DVD discs The ALC885 provides ten DAC channels that simultaneously support 7 1 sound playback plus 2 channels of independent stereo sound output multiple streaming through the front panel stereo outputs Three stereo ADCs are integrated and can support a microphone array with Acoustic Echo Cancellation AEC Beam Forming BF and Noise Suppression NS technologies simultaneously

All analog IO are input and output capable and headphone amplifiers are also integrated at each analog output All analog IOs can be re tasked according to user rsquo s definitions or automatically switched depending on the connected device type

Support for 16 20 24 bit S PDIF input and output offers easy connection of PCs to high quality consumer electronic products such as digital decoders and speakers The series incorporates Realtek proprietary converter technology to achieve 106dB Signal to Noise ratio SNR playback quality and 101dB SNR recording quality and is designed for Windows Vista premium desktop and laptop systems

The ALC885 supports host soft audio from the Intel ICH series chipset and also from any other HDA compatible audio controller With EAX Direct Sound 3D I3DL2 A3D compatibility and excellent software utilities like Karaoke mode environment emulation software equalizer HRTF 3D positional audio and optional Dolby reg Master Studio trade the ALC885 provides an excellent home entertainment package and game experience for PC users
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