Archive for: August 19, 2008

August 19, 2008

Microsoft says Rock Band 2, Guitar Hero: World Tour, and Rock Revolution instruments to be cross-compatible on 360 as well

Filed under: Review - 19 Aug 2008

Filed under: Gaming
It’s sad that the petty bickering within Activision, Harmonix, and Konami mandatory console makers to step up and ensure that gamers didn’t end up with piles of redundant plastic instrument controllers, but things are starting to get better — just as Sony did yesterday, Microsof…

More pictures of Dell’s Mini Inspiron surface

Filed under: Review - 19 Aug 2008

Filed under: Laptops
Dell’s Inspiron 910 can’t stay hidden, apparently — check out these new, higher-res shots of the 8.9-inch netbook. Nothing spectacularly new here — and we’d still like to see some locked-down specs on that thing — but ooh, shiny. Check the potential adapter after the break.Co…

Intel’s UrbanMax slider laptop concept unvieled at IDF

Filed under: Review - 19 Aug 2008

Filed under: Handhelds, Laptops
Intel appears to be firing on all cylinders at IDF. Besides whatever surprised they have planned for tomorrow, the chip-maker rolled out a prototype of a convertible laptop / tablet / MID / UMPC / netbook / super-gadget called the UrbanMax. There’s not much in the way…

The Windows 7 Team

Filed under: Review - 19 Aug 2008

Last week we reported on the Engineering 7 weblog, a weblog headed by Microsoft’s Steven Sinofsky on which they promised to chronicle the development process of Windows 7, while allowing us normal folk to give feedback. They are keeping their promise, as the latest post by Sinofsky offers some inter…

FlashFXP 3.8 (3.7.3 Build 1277) Beta

Filed under: Review, My choice, games_entertainment, music, free_downloads, utilities - 19 Aug 2008
FlashFXP is a powerful and popular FTP amp FXP Client loaded with features for the power user FlashFXP has an intuitive and full featured user interface allowing you to do all the common tasks with just a few clicks It also support full drag amp drop so you can transfer files synchronize folders find files and schedule tasks with just one click Using the FTP protocol you can transfer files from remote servers to your computer or even to another remote server It makes it easy to update your Web site download files from the company server or even download files from the internet that always seem to fail using your Web browser It allows you to transfer files between two sites FXP resume incomplete downloads synchronize directories schedule multiple tasks and more

Regular Linux Desktops on the XO

Filed under: Review - 19 Aug 2008

“Me and Bobby Powers have spent a few hours smoothing out the process of getting fully-featured Linux desktops to boot on the XO laptop. On the whole, OLPC developers have been pretty good at getting cipher upstream, so only a few fixups are needed to get things operational on the XO.” On a slightly…

Casio intros the blemish-zapping EX-Z300 digicam with a slew of likeminded friends

Filed under: Review - 19 Aug 2008

Filed under: Digital Cameras
Casio, clearly not wanting to be left behind in the compact digicam market, has introduced what might be described as a treasure-trove of cameraifical excellence. Heading up that line of unstoppable goodness is the £229.99 ($429) EX-Z300, a 10-megapixel shooter tha…

DVDFab 5.0.8.8 Beta

Filed under: Review, My choice, games_entertainment, music, free_downloads, utilities - 19 Aug 2008
DVDFab Platinum is the most powerful and flexible DVD copying burning software With 8 copy modes you can back up any DVD to DVDR in just a few clicks
DVDFab Platinum is brand new is completely rewritten is based on more than 6 years of DVD copy software development
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DVDFab HD Decrypter is a simple version of DVDFab Platinum It copies entire DVD movie to hard disk and removes all the protections CSS RC RCE APS UOPs and Sony ARccOS while copying It also comes with full HD DVD and Blu ray support Removes AACS
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What 39 s New
5 0 8 8 Beta August 19 2008
Fix Subpicture is not rendered correctly for WMV 2 pass encoding in device ZUNE and Xbox 360 DVDFab Mobile Option
Fix A jerky playback problem for WMV output since the fps is not set correctly DVDFab Mobile Option
Fix quot Display only forced subpicture quot only work for first selected title DVDFab Mobile Option

FlashGet 2.0 Multi-Language Final

Filed under: Review, My choice, games_entertainment, music, free_downloads, utilities - 19 Aug 2008
FlashGet is a powerful download manager that will solve two of the most annoying problems concerning Internet downloads the speed and the management finding mirrors multithread downloading pause resume etc
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Brand new FlashGet Brand new style
Support HTTP FTP BT protocol
Support batch download
Support firefox
Support multi languages localized FlashGet by making easy to make language packages
Please send language packages to zq liu flashget com
Better support for proxy servers
Can work with FlashGet 1 x

(Portable) DVDFab Platinum 5.0.8.5 Final *REGGED*

Filed under: Review, My choice, games_entertainment, music, free_downloads, utilities - 19 Aug 2008
DVDFab Platinum is the most powerful and flexible DVD copying burning software With 8 copy modes you can back up any DVD to DVDR in just a few clicks
DVDFab Gold is very fast and easy to use DVD copy software With just one click you can copy any DVD to DVDR
DVDFab Mobile Option converts DVD title to AVI MP4 WMV MKV files which can be played on mobile devices like iPod PSP ZUNE cell phone etc
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Changes in DVDFab 5 0 8 5 August 16 2008
New Added quot Output Type quot in 39 Conversion Settings quot window User can choose between quot Video Audio quot and quot Audio Only quot DVDFab Mobile Option
New Extract DVD audio to MP3 MP4 WMA WAV AC3 DTS with quot Audio Only quot output type DVDFab Mobile Option
New Added audio only profiles for devices Generic iPod and Zune DVDFab Mobile Option
New Added option quot Run report program when DVDFab crashes quot in quot Settings gt General quot window Although it doesn 39 t collect personal information and helps us to improve DVDFab user can disable it so that DVDFab will not access internet automatically when DVDFab crashes
New Updated HD Decrypter to support AACS V4 and V7 which exist on HD DVD and Blu ray released before June 2008
Please note DVDFab doesn 39 t support HD DVD and Blu ray officially now since it doesn 39 t work on some Blu ray discs which was just released or released by quot 20th Century Fox quot Please take this feature as free bonus thanks for your understanding
New Updated language files
Fix A crash problem when using quot ...
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Is Apple shooting in the dark to fix iPhone 3G issues?

Filed under: Review - 19 Aug 2008

Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds
Hopes were high that 2.0.2 would decisively crush the reception woes some iPhone 3G owners have experienced since taking delivery of their cracking beauties; dropped calls, latching onto EDGE reception when 3G (also known as “the good stuff”) is available, and gene…

Intel teases with a new tablet at IDF, shows off the best of the rest

Filed under: Review - 19 Aug 2008

Filed under: Laptops
Apparently Intel is on a bit of a roll already at that year’s IDF. After showcasing and talking up a number of new products, including (but not limited to) the lap-destroying mobile Quad Core Extreme CPUs (as featured in Lenovo’s vicious W700), new switchable graphics solutions …

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