Archive for: August 4, 2008

August 4, 2008

Sonos ZonePlayer ZP120 and ZP90 leak out

Filed under: Review - 04 Aug 2008

Filed under: Home EntertainmentThere’s no official word on the wires, but we don’t think Stuff.tv has a particularly good reason to fake press shots of new Sonos gear, so we’ll give ‘em the benefit of the doubt until we manufacture out otherwise — the cheeky Brits say Sonos is set to unveil two new…

Fujitsu’s Lifebook U2010 headed to the US as the U820

Filed under: Review - 04 Aug 2008

Filed under: Laptops
whether you’ve been squirming around like you’ve got ants in your pants wondering whether Fujitsu’s tiny Lifebook U2010 was going to build its way Stateside — feel free to relax. Word on the street — and from the FCC — is that the diminutive and convertible laptop will come t…

EFF introduces Switzerland… the program

Filed under: Review - 04 Aug 2008


The Electronic Frontier Foundation has released an open-source, cross-platform program designed to track your packets and determine whether your ISP is throttling your connection to torrents, VoIP, and other legal, high-bandwidth consuming communications. Called “Switzerland” and licensed under the…

Coder urls Yahoo search, Google App Engine

Filed under: Review - 04 Aug 2008


The goliaths of the Net are dangling an ever-larger supply of bootstraps for folks who want to try new ideas for the Web.

The first case in point is Google App Engine, an infrastructure that lets folks run their Web applications on Google’s servers, for free up until assured limits are set. moment…

BlackBerry Bold now available — in Chile

Filed under: Review - 04 Aug 2008

Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds
Movistar’s Chilean outpost has now become — somewhat surprisingly, may we add — the very first carrier in the world to launch the BlackBerry Bold and put it into subscribers’ hands. The carrier’s making certain everyone knows what a coup they’ve managed to pull o…

Everest Ultimate Edition 4.50 Build 1465 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 nbsp

AVG AntiVirus Free Edition 8.0 Build 138a1332

AVG Anti Virus Free is the well known anti virus protection tool AVG Free is available free of charge to home users for the life of the product Rapid virus database updates are available for the lifetime of AVG Free Edition providing a high level of detection capability that millions of users around the world trust to protect their PCs AVG Free is easy to use and will not slow your system down low system resource requirements

Stewart Copeland composes BlackBerry Bold soundtrack with negative effects

Filed under: Review - 04 Aug 2008

Filed under: Cellphones
You know how Stewart Copeland plays that insanely slick triplet hi-hat part in “Message in a Bottle,” and every duration you take in it you wonder how it’s possible for him to stay so perfectly in instance? And you know how his drums fit so perfectly in the pocket with Sting …

iPhone 2.0.1 now available through iTunes

Filed under: Review - 04 Aug 2008

Filed under: Cellphones
Well, finally. iPhone firmware 2.0.1 has just been released by Apple, and we’re hoping it solves the myriad problems introduced by 2.0: crashing apps, interminable keyboard delays, choppy scrolling — you know what we’re talking about. We’re pulling down the 250MB file now, w…

AV8OR Multi-function Display works well on highways, friendly skies

Filed under: Review - 04 Aug 2008

Filed under: GPS
Okay, so the huge majority of you won’t be needing a navigation unit that plus provides pertinent data while cruising several thousand feet above your nearest freeway, but for the amateur pilots out there looking for the best of both worlds, take notice. Bendix/King’s AV8OR is a sel…

Mixin makes your big schedule micro-sized

Filed under: Review - 04 Aug 2008

Mixin is a very pretty and simplistic scheduling tool that makes your calendar readily available to others. It’s been designed to help you block out instance and keep everything organized with color coding and an entry system that makes creating a new event as easy as typing just a few characters….

Is Midori Really the Next Windows?

Filed under: Review - 04 Aug 2008

The Windows 7 craze is barely by, and yet the Web is already buzzing with the next big thing from Microsoft: a project called Midori. The SD Times claims to have seen internal Microsoft documents detailing what Midori actually is, and they say it’s the clean-break from Windows many of us have been w…

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