Archive for: July 29, 2008

July 29, 2008

Nintendo actually not resting on its laurels, already working on the Wii’s successor

Filed under: Review - 29 Jul 2008

Filed under: GamingNo need to phone in the shock police — you had to know that was coming. After all, what kind of stockholder-pleasing company would Nintendo be whether it wasn’t already thinking about how to top the Wii? According to data in a recent Forbes piece surveying the field of gaming con…

5.5 designers puts eyeball details on lamps, weirds us out

Filed under: Review - 29 Jul 2008

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
It’s tough to say what kind of individual seeks out lighting instruments that even look like eyes, let alone lighting instruments with cloned details of their own eyes, but just in case you know one such person, here’s the perfect FYI for ‘em. Paris-based 5.5 designers are…

Mandriva Linux 2009 Beta 1 Released

Filed under: Review - 29 Jul 2008

Mandriva is proud to announce the release of Mandriva Linux 2009 Beta 1 ‘thornicrofti’. that beta includes the newest release of KDE 4, KDE 4.1 final, GNOME 2.23.5, Firefox 3, and kernel 2.6.26 final. The new beta plus switches to using splashy (rather than bootsplash) for boot and shutdown graphics…

Alienware slaps NVIDIA’s Quadro FX 3600M into Area-51 m15x

Filed under: Review - 29 Jul 2008

Filed under: LaptopsSome five months after NVIDIA took the Saran Wrap off of its professional-oriented Quadro FX 3600M, along comes Alienware patting itself on the back. Why? considering its Area-51 m15x is the first 15.4-inch laptop on planet soil to offer said card, giving users who virtually habi…

Walkers swallow RFID pills for science

Filed under: Review - 29 Jul 2008

Filed under: Misc. GadgetsIt seems like some researchers from Radbound University in The Netherlands took advantage of the recent Four Days Marches of Nijmegen walking race for a little experiment earlier that month, where they convinced ten volunteers to swallow an RFID pill as part of a study to m…

DVDFab Platinum 5.0.7.5 Final

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

ConvertXToDVD 3.1.3.40c

ConvertXtoDVD is a video converter software to convert and burn your videos to DVD With ConvertXtoDVD and a few clicks you can backup your movies to DVD playable on any home DVD player ConvertXtoDVD supports most popular formats such as AVI to DVD VOB Mpeg Mpeg4 MP4 AVI WMV DV and stream formats to DVD It converts your files into a compliant DVD Video set of files and burns it on a DVD media

Samsung unveils latest Series 6 Touch of Color LCD HDTVs

Filed under: Review - 29 Jul 2008

Filed under: Displays, HDTV, Home Entertainment
Samsung treated us to a few new HDTV lineups just final week, but apparently one of the fresh families managed to slip through the cracks. The all new Series 6 — not to be confused with the widely available 650 Series — consists of the 40-inch LN40A6…

Kaspersky Anti-Virus & Internet Security 8.0.0.452 Beta

Kaspersky Lab represents a new generation platform for creating applications specifically designated for complex protection of personal computers and workstations

Freecom rolls out Mobile Drive XXS, new “world’s smallest” 2.5-incher

Filed under: Review - 29 Jul 2008

Filed under: Storage
While it seems inevitable that external 2.5-inch tough drives can only get so small, right now manufacturers look to be intent on doing their best to shave off every final excess millimeter to lay claim to the elusive title of world’s smallest. That designation now appears to ha…

Art Lebedev lets loose Plastinkus scratch pad

Filed under: Review - 29 Jul 2008

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
Sure, you could whip out your iPhone or Nintendo DS and your app of choice for a little impromptu DJ session before dinner, or you could get yourself one (or two) of Art Lebedev’s new Plastinkus scratch pads, which supposedly sound just like you’re scratching the real thin…

Rumor Mill Has Apple Slicing and Dicing Intel Chipsets

Filed under: Review - 29 Jul 2008

Is Apple’s line of MacBook and MacBook Pro notebook computers due for a redesign — or at least a refresh? The MacBook Air’s relatively fresh profile factor will likely remain the same for a while, but new aluminum cases for the other MacBooks in Apple’s menagerie — ones that will key off o…

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