Archive for: August 9, 2008

August 9, 2008

Man inexplicably brings touchscreen to the PSP

Filed under: Review - 09 Aug 2008

Filed under: Displays, Gaming, Handhelds
A convinced jube808 has launched a quixotic quest to add a myriad of features to the PSP that he believes should’ve been there from the start, including beefed up battery life, a better control pad, and touchscreen support. Think what you will of his aims, he…

CloneDVD Mobile 1.5.0.1 Beta

CloneDVD mobile converts your DVD movies quickly and easily into a format that your mobile equipment Sony PSP Apple iPod Video iAudio X5 Creative Labs ZEN Vision etc can play You can also convert your DVDs to other file formats such as DivX XviD AVI MP4 etc

µTorrent 1.8 Build 11730 Final

micro Torrent is an efficient and feature rich BitTorrent client for Windows sporting a very small footprint It was designed to use as little cpu memory and space as possible while offering all the functionality expected from advanced clients

Microsoft Process Monitor 1.37

Process Monitor is an advanced monitoring tool for Windows that shows real time file system Registry and process thread activity It combines the features of two legacy Sysinternals utilities Filemon and Regmon and adds an extensive list of enhancements including rich and non destructive filtering comprehensive event properties such session IDs and user names reliable process information full thread stacks with integrated symbol support for each operation simultaneous logging to a file and much more Its uniquely powerful features will make Process Monitor a core utility in your system troubleshooting and malware hunting toolkit The software runs on Windows 2000 SP4 XP SP2 2003 Vista x64

Lenovo shows off regular of Olympics-themed USB flash drives

Filed under: Review - 09 Aug 2008

Filed under: StorageLenovo already rolled out one Olympics-themed flash drive enlarged before the Beijing Games kicked off, but now that the Opening Ceremonies have come and gone, the outfit is showing off a few more for good degree. The Mascot series contains a half dozen colorful 4GB units that’ll…

SIGOPS Operating Systems Review on Linux R&D Available Online

Filed under: Review - 09 Aug 2008

ACM has announced the availability of the SIGOPS Operating Systems Review, an Issue on Research and Developments in the Linux Kernel. It is available, for free, from the ACM Archives site. The issue has 12 papers about the advances that have been merged or are candidates to be merged into the Linu…

Crapgadget: USB back massager, limbo string and more obviously terrible ideas

Filed under: Review - 09 Aug 2008

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets, Household, Peripherals
Remember those battery-operated vibrating ladybugs that society used to pass around (multiple times) as office gifts? Yeah, that critter ain’t got nothing on that regular of patently terrible gizmos. We’ve seen a remarkable amount of trashcan pass u…

Suzukaze air conditioned seat cushion keeps the hindquarters cool

Filed under: Review - 09 Aug 2008

Filed under: Wearables
Kuchofuku is on the loose again, that instance creating an air conditioned seat cushion to keep your fundament breezy. Reportedly, the unit can be powered via an AC adapter, car adapter or rechargeable batteries, and the built-in fan can move by 170 liters of air per minute in…

Windows habitable Messenger 9.0 To Use WPF?

Filed under: Review - 09 Aug 2008

One of the common complaints regarding Microsoft is that the company has problems eating its own dog food. Even though it promoted Windows Presentation Foundation as the programming for building Windows and web applications, it so far floped to produce any meaningful WPF applications itself. None of…

PwnageTool 2.0.2 now out for iPhone users

Filed under: Review - 09 Aug 2008

Good news, iPhone lovers looking for the latest in pwnage technology! the iPhone-dev team has released PwnageTool 2.0.2 for folks to use.From the iPhone-dev team’s website: Installer 4 Beta is included, it is added in any mode by default. The main installer package management interface within Pwnage…

PwnageTool 2.0.2 Screen Captures

Filed under: Review - 09 Aug 2008

In case you’re not familiar with the PwnageTool or you want to get an notion of what it looks like before you start installing it, these images should give you a good concept. You can get a look at the Installer 4 beta here, too. 

The iPhone DevTeam have done it again, folks! There are a few addit…

Beep beep — Sprint’s looking to offload iDEN network?

Filed under: Review - 09 Aug 2008

Filed under: CellphonesStill committed to iDEN, eh? After another relatively brutal quarter of lost cash, lost subscribers, and lost opportunities, word on the street is that Sprint might be rethinking its approach to its legacy push-to-talk network — the obsolescence-bound spectrum it acquired via…

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