Archive for: August 13, 2008

August 13, 2008

HP EliteBook 8730w gets the hands-on treatment

Filed under: Review - 13 Aug 2008

Filed under: Laptops
HP’s touting the DreamColor display in its new Centrino 2 / NVIDIA Quadro FX 3700-powered EliteBook 8730w as being one of the best displays on the market, and whether the crew at Maximum PC is to be believed, the $400 option lives up to the hype. Other notable bits included the …

Speakal’s iPig speaker system rolls in the mud with your iPod

Filed under: Review - 13 Aug 2008

Filed under: Home Entertainment
For those of you (we know, pretty much everyone in existence) who already picked up a set of Pink Pig PC speakers a few years back, you can carry on with your daily routine. For everyone else that owns an iPod, hold it right there. Speakal is delivering the iPod docki…

Fit 2 Vote: ‘08 Pres Campaign Trivia on Your iPhone

Filed under: Review, apple, games_entertainment - 13 Aug 2008

Fit%202%20Vote.jpgSince the introduction of the Political Machine 2008, the Presidential election is once again entering into the realm of gaming. This time it comes in a form of an App Store product for your iPhone or iPod Touch.

Designed by Inspired Arts & Media - a group of self-proclaimed "undecided, independent voters" - Fit 2 Vote is a political trivia game that aims to better inform users' voting choices by quizzing them on speeches delivered by John McCain and Barack Obama. The game utilizes the iPhone's accelerometer to navigate the interface and make selections.

Inspired says that in all 150 quotes from both presidential candidates were stored into the game. Get 50 of them right, and you may consider yourself 'Fit 2 Vote'. Once each of the White House hopefuls picks a VP, watch for a Fit 2 Vote spinoff, Fit to VP. The game is currently available on iTunes or through the App Store for 99¢.

Touch Sight camera for the blind displays photos using Braille

Filed under: Review - 13 Aug 2008

Filed under: Digital Cameras
Gadgets for the visually impaired are nothing new, but the Touch Sight camera is one of the most different we’ve seen. Designed to be held against the brow, the camera doesn’t have an LCD, but instead displays a three-dimensional representation of the image on a built-in…

cFosSpeed 4.25 Build 1434 Beta

cFosSpeed is a high performance network driver for DSL modems and routers Highlights of this program include Traffic Shaping For DSL modems and routers Fully compatible with conventional PPPoE drivers Automatic router detection Self calibrating Highly responsive when used with online games and Peer to Peer networks like eMule or Kazaa and Freely configurable priority classes

nVidia ForceWare 177.83

ForceWare drivers for the nVIDIA cards

VIA Hyperion Pro 5.20A

VIA Hyperion drivers are suitable for any VIA chipset and all Microsoft Windows 32 64 bit Operating Systems Please read the information about all VIA chipset driver choices however so that you chose the drivers that can best be recommended for your system VIA Hyperion 4in1 drivers are suitable for any VIA chipset but they are particularly recommended for KT4 series P4X4 series and newer
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Version 5 17a has had the built in VIA Falcon IDE driver updated to version 2 50A
The full list of components includes
INF V3 00A
AGP V4 60A
V RAID V5 70A and RAID Tools v5 40
VIA IDE Falcon Storage Device driver v2 50A

Realtek AC97 Audio Driver 4.05 WHQL

This driver supports all ALC series audio chipsets from ALC101 up to ALC861 It is used as onboard sound on many motherboards Chips covered include AL 101 201 202 203 250 650 653 655 658 861

Realtek High Definition Audio 2.01

This driver supports all Realtek High Definition audio chipsets It is used as onboard sound on many motherboards Chips covered include ALC260 ALC262 ALC268 ALC662 ALC861 ALC861 VD GR ALC880 ALC882 ALC883 ALC885 ALC888 ALC888S ALC880T

nVidia ForceWare 177.83

ForceWare drivers for the nVIDIA cards

* “Top 10 Usability Highs Of Mac OS” *

Filed under: Review - 13 Aug 2008

An interesting composition has been making its way around the Web the past few days, titled “Top 10 Usability Highs Of Mac OS”. Mac OS X indeed does some things very, very right, just like many other operating systems and graphical environments do some things very, very right. The issue with the lis…

Ultra Motor intros A2B electric bike for urbanites

Filed under: Review - 13 Aug 2008

Filed under: Transportation
A intelligent name, a intelligent design and a solid premise — now, whether only we didn’t see a set of front and rear pegs along with Dave Mirra grinding down a stairwell each day we looked at it, we could actually take that thing seriously. Unfortunately for our childi…

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