Archive for: August 14, 2008

August 14, 2008

Palm’s Treo 850 is really the Treo Pro?

Filed under: Review - 14 Aug 2008

Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds
Would you look at that. A very official looking page — at a Palm.com domain, no less — has unveiled the previously rumored Treo 850 as the Treo Pro. We’re still digging the new look, though the keyboard does look suspiciously small in these shots. At a cursory gl…

X-Files iPods: misplaced merchandising, or desperate tender for profitability?

Filed under: Review - 14 Aug 2008

Filed under: Portable Audio
We want to believe it’s not the latter. Okay, that is (hopefully) the final one of these Fox-branded iPods we do, we just thought it would be funny, you know, considering the film did so badly and… stuff. Yeah, on moment thought, not very funny.[Via TUAW]Read |&nbs…

Still no official Facebook app for Windows Mobile

Filed under: Review - 14 Aug 2008

FriendMobilizer: A Facebook pretender, with ads.(Credit: CNET Networks)

This past July, Facebook’s excellent iPhone application joined similar apps for BlackBerry and Palm to bring core Facebook features to mobile socializers in a distinctive Facebook wrapper. Curiously, there’s no official softwar…

RoofRay calculates solar savings using Google Maps

Filed under: Review - 14 Aug 2008

RoofRay is a tool that helps you figure out whether it’s worth plunking down on money to put solar panels on your roof. whether you’ve enlarged been contemplating going solar to stick it to the man, that tool will give you a fairly rough estimate of how much efficiency you can expect and how it wi…

Sony wrangles Cell chip into ZEGO BCU-100 video rendering system

Filed under: Review - 14 Aug 2008

Filed under: Desktops, HDTV
Not that most of us are on the hunt for 1U server blades to build a rendering farm out of, but it’s always fun to see Sony’s PS3 hardware put to a use that actually earns Sony money. The Cell-based ZEGO BCU-100 includes the PS3’s RSX graphics processor and is designed for…

Survey says: Xbox 360 gets the most love from devs in the consoles department

Filed under: Review - 14 Aug 2008

If you remember, SCEA executive Jack Tretton made a statement final E3 regarding Microsoft’s methods of “currying favor from third party devs.” Well, it certainly looks like that “currying” of Microsoft is clearly working for them, as a survey reveals that the Microsoft Xbox 360 is the platform that…

NVIDIA ships out beta OpenGL 3.0 drivers in record speed

Filed under: Review - 14 Aug 2008

Filed under: Gaming
While boasting a fraction of DirectX usage in the gaming market, OpenGL hasn’t been sitting around while Microsoft eats its lunch. towering favored as a foundation for cross platform games like World of Warcraft, and historically used by by id Software to famous effect, the API j…

‘Engineering Windows 7′

Filed under: Review - 14 Aug 2008

Windows 7 has been making waves around the net for a while now, and we already know some of the more encompassing goals of Microsoft’s next operating system release. It’s going to be built on top of the foundations laid out by Vista and Server 2008, but it will not increase hardware requirements. Th…

GM taunts us with teaser shots of production Volt

Filed under: Review - 14 Aug 2008

Filed under: Transportation
Well, it certain looks like GM is intent to be milking the roll-out of its hotly-anticipated Chevy Volt for all its worth (and who can blame ‘em), with it first offering a fleeting glimpse of the actual production vehicle on ABC the other day, and it now letting loose its…

Poukker rips off Twitter but has a far better promo video

Filed under: Review - 14 Aug 2008

There’s been a lot of chatter that week about the importance (or unimportance) of PR in Web 2.0. My take on it is that unsolicited pitches can be just as fun as things I discover on my own, including that Spanish start-up called Poukker, which e-mailed to let us know about its launch.

It’s a sist…

ATI Multimedia Center 9.16

ATI Multimedia Center is an All In One multimedia software application that includes the following components TV CD Player VideoCD Player Still Gallery Media File Player
Multimedia Center is an integrated suite of software applications designed to provide the ultimate multimedia playback experience Combined with ATI 39 s industry leading Radeon and All in Wonder products Multimedia Center provides end users with advanced players for
middot Intelligent TV
middot DVD
middot Video CD
middot CD 39 s
middot Multimedia Files
Here are some key features of quot ATi Multimedia Center quot
Intelligent TV
middot EazyConnect Stream live TV or captured content from an All in Wonder on a home network to other computers in the home EazyConnect TV clients have local control over volume pausing exporting to file and can request a recording event check channel listings plus more
middot EazyLook integrated user interface for the Remote Wonder RF remote control provides complete control over TV player including Guide Listings in North America play pause record schedule record and more
middot MulTView ndash Provides Picture in Picture or Picture over Picture for dual TV Tuner systems
middot TV on Demand ndash Pause Playback or Export to File live videostreams
middot Personal Video Recorder ndash with new MPEG4 capture capability Choose from three presets or edit to create a custom capture setting
middot Closed Caption Database Search ndash Search the Closed Caption text during TV on Demand sessions to create instant replay
middot VideoSoap ndash Use next generation filtering algorithms on personal video recordings to clean up image blockiness recreate partial frames and create clearer and crisper video
middot Gemstar GUIDE Plus ...

µTorrent 1.8 Build 11813 Final

micro Torrent is an efficient and feature rich BitTorrent client for Windows sporting a very small footprint micro Torrent was designed to use as little cpu space and memory as possible while offering all the functionalites expected from advanced clients With BitTorrent you can download files faster and contribute by sharing files and bandwidth nbsp
Most of the features present in other BitTorrent clients are present in micro Torrent including bandwidth prioritization scheduling RSS auto downloading and Mainline DHT compatible with BitComet Additionally micro Torrent supports the Protocol Encryption joint specification compatible with Azureus 2 4 0 0 and above BitComet 0 63 and above and peer exchange
micro Torrent was written with efficiency in mind Unlike many torrent clients it does not hog valuable system resources typically using less than 6MB of memory allowing you to use the computer as if it weren 39 t there at all Additionally the program itself is contained within a single executable less than 260 KB in size
Various icon toolbar graphic and status icon replacements are available and creating your own is very simple micro Torrent also has support for localization and with a language file present will automatically switch to your system language If your language isn 39 t available you can easily add your own or edit other existing translations to improve them
The developer puts in a lot of time working on features and making things more user friendly Releases only come out when they 39 re ready with no schedule pressures so the few bugs that appear are quickly addressed and fixed
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