Archive for February, 2008
More and more GPS phones emerge. Here goes another one, the “Portege 810″ from Toshiba. Introduced during Mobile World Congress 2008 in Barcelona, Portege 810 comes with ab uilt-in A-GPS receiver, allowing its users to view and navigate through the maps. To let them download the maps data at a high-speed connection, a HSDPA [...]
February 26th, 2008 | Posted in mobile | 1 Comment
Orbit is a download accelerator and manager based on P2P techonology. And it has advanced robust multithread download algorithm implemented with high quality.Orbit integrates seamlessly into Microsoft Internet Explorer to automatically handle your downloads. Using Orbit you can easily download files from any remote server via HTTP, FTP, RTSP, MMS. With Orbit the downloading process [...]
February 26th, 2008 | Posted in Software | No Comments
After added the GeForce 8800M GTX SLI option onto XPS M1730, Dell now offers the magic of 45nm Intel Core 2 Duo Penryn processor onto its most popular gaming laptop series. U.S customers will be able to opt-in for either 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo T8300 or 2.5Ghz T9300 CPUs. The former option (and other [...]
February 25th, 2008 | Posted in Laptop | No Comments
Foobar2000 is an advanced audio player for the Windows platform. Some of the basic features include ReplayGain support, low memory footprint and native support for several popular audio formats.
Download : foobar2000 0.9.5.1 Final (1.61 MB)
February 25th, 2008 | Posted in Software | No Comments
Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) provides new proactive security technologies for Windows XP to better defend against viruses, worms, and hackers along with increased manageability and an improved experience for users.
Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3 fixes a range of bugs in Windows XP. It doesn’t matter what XP updates you have [...]
February 24th, 2008 | Posted in Software | No Comments
iTunes is a piece of software that lets you add to, organize and play your digital media collection on your computer, as well as sync it to a portable device. It’s a jukebox player along the lines of MusicMatch and Windows Media Player, and you can use it on a Mac or Windows machine. The [...]
February 23rd, 2008 | Posted in Software | No Comments
Not one, not two, but three. That’s the number of new portable DVD players from Toshiba. Let’s see, first we have the 9-inch SD-P91DT model, measuring 267 x 167 x 34mm and weighing 1.2kg. The second one is SD-P71S model with a 7-inch LCD and of course, smaller and lighter body (190 x 148 x [...]
February 22nd, 2008 | Posted in Hardware | No Comments
Orbit Downloader is a great speed, super light,easy-to-use free download manager. It is based on p2p and multi-source downloading technology and supports HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, MMS and RTSP protocols. Using Orbit Downloader, you can almost download everything online with 500% faster speed, like youtube video, rapidshare files, flash and streaming media etc. Anyway, Orbit Downloader [...]
February 22nd, 2008 | Posted in Software | 1 Comment
CPU-Z is a freeware that gathers information on some of the main devices of your system.
* Support for the new validator (1.44.1) * Preliminary support for VIA Isaiah processor. * Support for all VIA Model D processors: VIA C7-M, VIA C7-D, VIA Eden, VIA Eden. * Memory timings on Intel 5400A/B MCH (Skulltrail). * [...]
February 17th, 2008 | Posted in Software | 2 Comments
After you first setup the computer with Windows 7 you’ll be able to establish a “HomeGroup.” Sounds similar to a Workgroup, but I guess this is yet another step that Microsoft is taking in making networking an easy process for anyone that uses a computer.
February 14th, 2008 | Posted in Software | 1 Comment
Firefox is a free, open-source web browser for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X and is based on the Mozilla codebase. It is small, fast and easy to use, and offers many advantages over Internet Explorer, such as the ability to block pop-up windows.
Download : Mozilla Firefox 3.0 Beta 3 for Windows (6.66 MB)
February 14th, 2008 | Posted in Software | No Comments
Opera is known as the fastest and smallest full-featured browser, a first choice for people using older PCs and Windows 95 and a brilliant alternative to the default IE from Microsoft. This new version has a chance to actually beat IE hands-down because it has a truckload of new and exciting features. It complies to [...]
February 14th, 2008 | Posted in Software | No Comments
The latest release for Mac OS X Leopard, 10.5.2 is now available The update, which weighs in at a whopping 343 megabytes if you choose to download the combo update from Apple.com or a slightly less mammoth 180 megabytes from within Leopard’s Software Update tool.While the full list of changes are available here (and more [...]
February 12th, 2008 | Posted in Software | 1 Comment
NTT DoCoMo unveils its latest virtual humanoid project, U-Tsu-Shi-O-Mi, “an interactive robot that appears as a computer-animated character when viewed through a special head-mounted display.” Video after the break.
Destined to support you in your state of involuntary abstinence, the U-Tsu-Shi-O-Mi system maps a pretty girl onto the robot’s anatomically correct, green-cloth surface with the [...]
February 10th, 2008 | Posted in Hardware | No Comments
Experience the web, Apple style, with Safari: the fastest, easiest-to-use web browser in the world. With its simple,elegant interface, Safari gets out of your way and lets you enjoy the web – up to 2 times faster then Internet Explorer.
Download : Safari 3.1 (525.7)
February 10th, 2008 | Posted in Software | 1 Comment
Firefox is a free, open-source web browser for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X and is based on the Mozilla codebase. It is small, fast and easy to use, and offers many advantages over Internet Explorer, such as the ability to block pop-up windows.
Download : Mozilla Firefox v2.0.0.12 for WindowsDownload : Mozilla Firefox v2.0.0.12 for [...]
February 8th, 2008 | Posted in Software | No Comments
Adobe Reader 8 includes new document viewing options, advanced collaboration, increased time-saving ways to work with PDF files, and other new features to help you more securely and consistently communicate and collaborate using PDF files.
Download : Adobe Reader 8.1.2
February 5th, 2008 | Posted in Software | 1 Comment
RoseWill recently introduced “RHUB-310″, its brand new 7-ports USB hub. Each ports support USB 2.0 interface, so you could expect faster data transfer rate from this little self-powered baby. Moreover, the hub also features a DC adapter, over-current detection, and individual power control.
February 2nd, 2008 | Posted in Hardware | No Comments
Maxthon Internet Browser software is a powerful tabbed browser with a highly customizable interface. It is based on the Internet Explorer browser engine (your most likely current web browser) which means that what works in the IE browser will work the same in Maxthon tabbed browser but with many additional efficient features like: Tabbed Browsing [...]
February 2nd, 2008 | Posted in Software | No Comments
According to T3, Sony might be releasing a new thinner, lighter PlayStation 3 in Q3/Q4 of this year. Other specifications have not yet been announced.
Specs-wise, we’re probably looking at the same machine with stacks of space and the trusty Blu-Ray player on board. The new PS3 is a proper looker: if it’s anything like the [...]
February 1st, 2008 | Posted in Hardware | 2 Comments