Archive for: October 3, 2008

Filed under: LaptopsLaptop Mag would evidently like to produce two things fairly clear: whether you pick up MSI’s Wind U90, you better love SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 and be totally cool with the sub-2 hour battery life. For those of you still with us, you can probably guess that the 10-inch W…

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Filed under: Handhelds
So much for Amazon’s attempts to quell Kindle 2 rumors, eh? Talk of a replacement (or a pair of replacements) for Amazon’s popular — but very oddly-styled — e-reader has been in the mix seemingly since the first model started shipping, and Boy Genius Report has scored shots …

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Filed under: Home Entertainment, Media PCs
Okoro apparently doesn’t have much day for design changes, or even model name changes, but the company has at least seen fit to give its low-profile OMS-SX100 a considerable spec-bump and, apparently, a reduction in ability consumption. That latter bit seem…

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Whether you like Apple or not, you’ve got to give them credit: they have really been on the bug fixes lately. And while some may argue they should take more instance when developing products before releasing them, there are just some bugs you can’t catch in the beta phase.  

Big fixes galore in th…

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Add ’study guide’ to the towering list of tricks you can do with your iPhone. Cram ($9.99) is a solid application that lets you create and import tests on any topic. You’ll be able to take scored multiple choice quizzes or go into study mode, in which Cram provides you with…

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Filed under: Cellphones, HandheldsSo the good news is that T-Mobile has decided to keep right on taking pre-orders for the G1 through October 21, just one day before the handset’s official launch. The naughty news, though, is that it doesn’t mean you’ll be getting your Android on come October 22. Tu…

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HP’s Voodoo Envy 133, first announced in June, has struggled a bit off the blocks, with manufacturing problems keeping it out of buyers hands until final month. Of course, HP has a good excuse: carbon fiber. The notoriously difficult fabric wasn’t used sparingly on the Envy 133,…

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Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video
Hope you don’t intellect two similar worlds running together, considering nowadays we’re asking about not one, but two of Cupertino’s latest. The iPod touch 2G and iPod nano 4G were both simultaneously (give or take a few minutes) announced back in early S…

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“Kevin Willis, the retired basketball center turned entrepreneur, gave up on the BlackBerry and depends on Apple Inc.’s iPhone to stay in touch with buyers, suppliers and the high-profile clients who wear his custom jeans,” reports Connie Guglielmo (bloomberg.com). He’s not alone. Apple, Gug…

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The geekily quirky, unfortunately named, GIMP has just been freshened up with the release of version 2.6. As I mentioned with Google's Picasa a few days ago, it's getting more and more difficult to know what's significant based solely on the naming and numbering scheme. GIMP.org says, "GIMP 2.6 is an important release from a development point of view." I'll treat it that way.

GIMP stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program. GNU is the licensing, "intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change all versions of a program--to make sure it remains free software for all its users." So we've got free (as in beer) software created and advanced by individuals with this kind of encouragement: "Any time you feel able, you can pick a smaller enhancement request and have a go at implementing it. It's that easy. " However, unfair or not, I'm going to have to compare GIMP to Photoshop which is the current image manipulation standard.

There is no doubt GIMP does lots... certainly most of the things Photoshop does. It just doesn't do them as gracefully or easily. As soon as I fired up GIMP 2.6 I opened a photo I'd taken--a jpeg file. I tried to sharpen it. No problem, except, unlike Photoshop, GIMP only previews the sharpening in a small window. There's no way to see what you'll do to the whole image until you've done it.

The same goes for levels control--a feature on Photoshop I couldn't live without. As I slid the level control points on ...

A report posted on the citizen journalism section of CNN’s Web site Friday dawn claimed that Apple CEO Steve Jobs had been rushed to the hospital with a heart attack. The reporter cited an anonymous but “quite reliable” source who supposedly said paramedics were summoned after Jobs complaine…

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Filed under: Transportation
Pininfarina said it was going to build an electric car and, go figure, it’s actually built one. As we had heard earlier, the car, now dubbed the B0, is the conclusion of a collaboration with the Bolloré Group, which was mostly responsible for the car’s lithium meta…

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