June 18th, 2009 — Uncategorized
LG is set to release its first 3D TV — the 47-inch 47LH50 LCD — into the Korean market next month. As our tech overlords, this could signal a trend that’ll head west. In fact, LG estimates that the 3D television market will exceed 30 million units by 2012 — exactly what we’d say too if we were in the business of selling televisions. Hmm, 30 million TVs multiplied by 4.5 pairs of glasses required for the average household — guess we’ll be investing in polarized lenses.
[Via @visitken]
June 18th, 2009 — Uncategorized
Sure we’d love to see Panasonic mass produce that 4K 150-inch plasma, but so far we’ll just have to be happy with a cheaper 103-inch HDTV and the latest model, an 85-inch 1080p display it’s showing off at InfoComm ‘09 this week. All that super size flat panel building experience has been poured into a package that is 99mm thick and apparently 30 percent lighter per square inch than its 103-inch cousin, at a total of 130Kg. This one’s coming through business channels to Japan and the U.S. this fall, ’til then you’ll just have to live with your 4 x 42-inch matrix setup or for the cost conscious, a projector.
[Via AV Watch & Japan Corp (English)]
June 18th, 2009 — Uncategorized
Exactly as we heard, T-Mobile’s managed to nab itself the Dash 3G, who while on the lam went by the pseudonyms Maple, S522, and even the Sprint-bound HTC Snap. The much prettier replacement to T-Mo’s Dash is decked out with Windows Mobile 6.1, 802.11b/g WIFI, GPS, and red accents on its glossy black exterior. Not a dollar sign or price in sight, but without a doubt we’ll be filling in that blank before its now-confirmed July release date.
June 10th, 2009 — Uncategorized
Sure the Star Radio Communicator iPhone app looks kinda like that other communicator—you know, retro-futuristic design, flip door, 3 button layout—but last time I checked, Captain K’s communicator absolutely did not make calls on Earth’s phone system.
iPhoneSavior says the 99 cent app gives you a dialing interface to place calls from within the app, making you feel like you’re about five seconds away from bitch-slapping a couple of Klingons. But I can’t imagine Paramount is at all happy with this. [iTunes Store via iPhoneSavior]
June 10th, 2009 — Uncategorized
OpenCL, the open standard framework due to ship with Mac OS X 10.6, has been widely hyped as having the ability to squeeze performance out of often-dormant GPU chips, giving a satisfactory speed boost. Well, almost all GPUs. Seeming to have gone unnoticed in the flurry of news following Apple’s WWDC event on Monday, the system requirements for Mac OS X 10.6 hold some interesting pieces of information.
Firstly, Snow Leopard officially requires double the RAM of its predecessor, at 1GB in contrast to 512MB. H.264 hardware acceleration, which QuickTime X will use to improve performance, only works on Macs with an NVIDIA 9400M graphics chip. For those that don’t follow Apple, that’s the new integrated chip that’s been slowly working its way into Apple’s product line. OpenCL, however, will not work on all Mac GPUs. The functionality is limited to the following:
- NVIDIA Geforce 8600M GT, GeForce 8800 GT, GeForce 8800 GTS, Geforce 9400M, GeForce 9600M GT, GeForce GT 120, GeForce GT 130.
- ATI Radeon 4850, Radeon 4870
And a final revelation that may shock some of you: 64-bit support requires a 64-bit processor.
June 10th, 2009 — Uncategorized
You’d think — starting from the moment you saw the glossy sheen of the iPhone 3G S to the waning seconds of this year’s WWDC keynote when you realized that there would be no magical second model announced — that the near-constant drone of matte iPhone rumors leading up to this week’s festivities were all fake. But were they really? It’s been astutely noted by @cabel (yes, we just threw out a Twitter handle there) that the matte black backing seen last month has totally matching information — model number and FCC ID alike — with the actual device. We suppose it could just be an unfinished component, but as
Daring Fireball notes, this could mean that Apple toyed with a matte finish early in the 3G S’ design but ultimately abandoned it — or even more intriguingly, it could’ve been a unique one-off trap designed to identify leakers who’d otherwise tried to hide their identities. It sounds like a pretty far-fetched conspiracy theory at first, yes — but we’re aware of at least one wireless carrier that actively puts out bogus information to achieve the same effect, and you might remember that Microsoft was rumored to have done the same thing with prototype Zunes back in the day. Either way, it’s a crying shame, because that glossless finish has left an indelible mark on our hearts that won’t soon heal.
[Via Daring Fireball, matte iPhone picture via MacRumors]
June 10th, 2009 — Uncategorized
Outpost Firewall gives peace of mind from any virtually every Internet danger. Unlike other personal firewalls, Outpost starts protecting against all kinds of internal and external attacks as soon as it’s installed.
This is the first firewall with an open architecture and support for plug-ins, so its capabilities can easily be extended by thousands of developers worldwide.
Key Benefits:
Basic Firewall Protection - Standard packet and application filtering safeguard your computer from unwanted communications.
Connections Monitoring - Lets you see network activity in real time, to help define inappropriate connections and close them right away.
Surfing Protection - Maintains your privacy on the Internet, keeps browser protected from Internet dangers.
Website: Agnitum Ltd - 16.63MB (Freeware)
Download: Download x86 Download x64
June 10th, 2009 — Uncategorized
Monitor connectivity and device availability of your network
NetGong is an intuitive network monitoring tool that allows network administrators, webmasters, and Internet service providers to monitor any networked device on the Internet, corporate intranet, or TCP/IP LAN and receive alerts immediately via audible alarm, message, e-mail, or third-party software when a connection fails. It is a powerful personal monitoring product delivering low cost, simplicity of operation, and round-the-clock coverage. An essential addition to any network administrator’s personal toolkit, NetGong allows users to tailor it to their particular area of responsibility, from a single server to a small-office LAN to hundreds of devices within a large corporate network. Corporate network managers can use NetGong to distribute responsibility among IS staffers and complement existing network management systems. Small businesses can afford to employ NetGong for monitoring critical e-mail and Web servers.
Main features:
- System service - Runs as a system service automatically on startup.
- Agentless architecture - Allows you to monitor network devices or services without installing an agent on each machine.
- Global settings - Allows quick network resource configuration.
- Independent parameters - Allows all parameters to be set independently for each network resource.
- Maintenance mode - Permits you to temporarily disable monitoring of certain resources.
- Robust alerting - alerts you to failures using a variety of techniques ranging from audible alarms to third-party software.
- alert schedule - Allows you “fine tune” the alerting functions to avoid unnecessary alerting during an extended failure.
- Failure and recovery alerts - alerts can be enabled for any combination of failure and recovery notices.
- Custom alerts - Allows custom alerts to be created for each monitored resource.
- Test alert configuration - Each alert type can be tested in order to verify that the alert is configured correctly prior to going live.
- E-mail notification - Allows e-mail notification via SMTP with the server of your choice.
- Custom messages - Supports keyword values and customized message information.
- Integrated reporting - Offers real-time and historical reporting capabilities to assist you in tracking network resources availability.
- HTML report output - Provides reports in HTML format to help keep track of network resources availability in an easy to view list.
- Remote access - Provides remote access to the monitoring results using a Web browser.
Benefits:
- Multitask support - Allows to monitor network resources simultaneously.
- Multiplatform - One installation runs on Windows 98, Me, NT, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista, and Server 2008.
- User-friendly - Highly intuitive interface makes operation easy for both beginners and power users.
- Superb performance and reliability - Developed in C++ for maximum efficiency.
- Low cost - Covers budgets starting at only $39.99 US!
What’s new:
- Added - Enhanced integration with NetInfo, enabling users to easily find out more about monitored devices.
- Improved - Stability and security.
- Improved - A few other minor improvements and bug fixes.
Download: NetGong 6.9 - 1.72 MB (Shareware, $39.99)
Screenshots: >> Click here <<
Link: NetGong home page
News source: NetGong news
June 10th, 2009 — Uncategorized
BurnAware Free is a free CD, DVD, Blu-ray Disc burning software. It is ideal for users with basic disc burning needs as backup, creating data, audio, MP3 music, DVD-Video discs and burning disc images. Free, easy to set up, it enables you to save your files to disc quickly and provides clean, flexible interface to help you complete your burning tasks much faster.
What’s new (9-Jun-2009)
- Added option to set pause between tracks in Audio CD compilation.
- Added ‘Options…’ button in main window of Audio CD compilation.
- Updated translations.
- Fixed bug with creating MP3 CDs with long file names.
- Fixed bug with setting of incorrect CD-Text in case if track was skipped.
- Cosmetic fixes and improvements.
Download: BurnAware Free 2.3.6 | Freeware, 8MB
Screenshot: >> Click here <<
View: www.burnaware.com
June 10th, 2009 — Uncategorized
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) is a professional open source system to create Windows installers. It is designed to be as small and flexible as possible and is therefore very suitable for internet distribution.
Being a user’s first experience with your product, a stable and reliable installer is an important component of successful software. With NSIS you can create such installers that are capable of doing everything that is needed to setup your software.
NSIS is script-based and allows you to create the logic to handle even the most complex installation tasks. Many plug-ins and scripts are already available: you can create web installers, communicate with Windows and other software components, install or update shared components and more.
Website: Website
Screenshot: Click here
View: Features
Download: Download