Archive for: August 7, 2008

Filed under: Digital Cameras, Handhelds, HDTV, Portable Video
There’s still a great chance that that thing will totally underwhelm, but those willing to give it a shot without reading so much as a singled-out review can now secure their place in line. For $179.95, to-be owners can pre-order Kodak’s …

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Embedded designer Paul Thomas is showcasing a tiny, open-sourced computer at LinuxWorld in San Francisco that week. Would-be Linuxstamp enthusiasts can obtain pre-built boards for the hefty sum of $120 directly from Thomas, or they can download the design for free and build it themselves.Original po…

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Apple employees have filed a course action suit against the Cupertino-based company for its alleged non-payment of overtime and meal compensations. whether found guilty, Apple could be ordered to revise its compensation policies and pay retroactive wages.Lead plaintiff David Walsh says Apple had h…

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Filed under: Handhelds, Portable Audio, Portable VideoIt’s Thursday evening — do you know what that means? Besides being the unofficial start of the weekend (party humans, what’s up?), it’s date for another round of Ask Engadget. that week we’ve got a college freshman who’s scared to death about 8-…

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Filed under: Transportation
Nissan has a knack for pumping out novel safety advancements every few months, and the latest two are in the same vein as a few preceding efforts. Two new technologies, Side Collision Prevention and Back-up Collision Prevention, fit into the auto maker’s Safety Shield con…

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Each year the Office 2.0 conference about Web-based trade apps and processes, paid attendees get some cool gadget pre-loaded with data relevant to the conference. In the first year of the show (2006), the gadget was an iPod Nano with the conference schedule built in. In 2007, attendees got an iPh…

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Filed under: Desktops
Be honest here, you didn’t even remember that the $249 CherryPal cloud PC was expected to ship this month last month. Reportedly, you’ll be waiting a little longer for a PC you don’t even know about thanks to a software quirk that isn’t playing nice with a newer SSD. CherryPal …

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Microsoft’s Mark Brown has put up a cool post on his Microsoft Virtual soil blog. It’s part two of a series that’s detailing some of the bits and pieces behind the tool that gives you that oh-so-helpful bird’s-eye view of your dry cleaners.

In that episode Brown sits down with Keystone Aerial Sur…

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Filed under: Cellphones, Portable Audio, Portable Video
Apple’s experimented with allowing iTunes to stream by the Web as well as your LAN in the past and quickly removed the feature (probably due to RIAA pressure), so we’re not placing too much stock in that, but AppleInsider’s unearthed a patent t…

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Q: I need help with a batch file. I'm the Keeper of Records for my AA Meeting. We record the meeting. The old sound guy put everything in folders and then gave them to me. The new guy uses a Mac and doesn't use folders, so I have dozens of files that are supposed to be in folders. He uses the format "ken buckner 07-05-08.aif" for the files.

Is there a way for a batch file to read a filename, create a folder with that name, then move the file into the folder, and do it until it runs out of files? It would save me a couple of hours, if you can figure it out. - Ken B.

A: Batch file? Who needs a batch file? We'll do the whole job with a single command line! The Command Prompt in Windows XP and Vista has hidden powers, you see. First let's look at the command itself:

FOR %v IN ("ken*.aif") DO MD TEMP&MOVE "%v" TEMP&REN TEMP "%v"

The FOR command takes every file matching the file specification "ken*.aif" and runs the command line following DO, swapping each filename for the variable %v. You can string multiple commands together on a single line by separating them with an ampersand (&) - handy! For each file, then, we create a folder named TEMP, move the file into that folder, and then rename the folder to the file's original name. This two-step process is needed because you can't have a file and an identically-named folder in the same location.

Now, you said you want the folder to have the same name ...

Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video
Looking for a PMP that will be your eyes, ears, mouth, hair and forearms? Perhaps you should gently turn your attention to the JCHyun Udea Discovery — a device that treads that tremulous space amoung MP3 player, Tricorder, and utter waste of money. Still,…

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