Photos of Next Gen iPhone in Action? Auto-Focus and Compass
A Chinese-language blog UMPCFever posted what it claims are the first photos of the next generation iPhone in action. According to the rough automated translation these images show the new iPhone but as it is a prototype the external design may change is not therefore not featured.
According to the report, the new iPhone does contain an autofocus camera that is uses an on-screen square that can be moved by the tap of a finger to chose the object of focus. Also shown is the long rumored digital compass as well as compass software (pictured above). Those features seem to be specific to the next generation iPhone, though the site also demos MMS and Copy/Paste with Images.
Posted by: aaly on Sunday, May 31, 2009 @ 09:43:43 CEST
We've seen some pretty weird stuff in our years on this planet -- heck, we've revived our own drenched Sony DAP by burying it in rice for 48 hours -- but this is easily one of the most bizarre gizmo resurrections we've ever come across. As the tale goes, one valiant NVIDIA GPU owner apparently bit on a myth which suggested that a pinch of time in the oven (quite literally, might we add) would repair faulty GPUs that were throwing up oodles of vertical lines. After purchasing another GPU to replace his ailing 8800GTX, he figured he had zilch to lose and gave it a shot; lo and behold, the temporary warmth seemingly melted the solder points and healed micro-fractures that were causing the unwanted lines.
Posted by: aaly on Sunday, May 31, 2009 @ 09:29:09 CEST
PSP Go Leaked: Slider With 16GB of Flash Storage and Bluetooth
Live images have leaked of Sony's PSP Go, set to launch at next week's E3. Looks like those rumors were true: It's a UMD-less slider with 16GB of memory, and it'll ship this fall. No price yet, but that should come with the official announcement next week.
All this leakage stems from the June issue of Qore, which is a bit of a slip-up on Sony's part. The Go looks to keep the single analog joystick, though the overall design is quite a bit more playful and, well, circular than previous iterations of the PSP. Notice we didn't say "attractive": the circle section that houses the start and select buttons especially has kind of a late-90s feel to it, but we'll have to see how it looks in the hand.
Posted by: aaly on Saturday, May 30, 2009 @ 22:22:49 CEST
Microsoft is planning a launch event on July 10 for its Silverlight 3 technology and the accompanying Expression Studio 3 toolset, a company representative said Friday evening.
The company has not yet announced official ship dates for the two technologies, the representative said. But the launch event, planned for the San Francisco Bay Area, is intended as an opportunity to highlight the work customers and partners have been doing with Silverlight and Expression Studio, and to tout features of the two releases.
Posted by: aaly on Saturday, May 30, 2009 @ 15:55:47 CEST
VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).
Presently, VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh and OpenSolaris hosts and supports a large number of guest operating systems including but not limited to Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4 and 2.6), Solaris and OpenSolaris, and OpenBSD.
Posted by: aaly on Saturday, May 30, 2009 @ 15:52:19 CEST
Industry titans Microsoft Corp. and Google Inc. are getting rave reviews this week about innovative new approaches to Internet search and communications, respectively.
Even Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Wozniak told a reporter that Microsoft's new Bing search engine looks "astounding" and that he's "a big fan, now."
There's much to like. In a nutshell, Bing does more to surface information you're probably looking for than Google does. For example, if you search for a company, one of the top results will present links to customer service, store locator -- that kind of information.
If you haven't seen it, go here to see the Microsoft pitch for Bing.
Looks great, right? What's not to like. Well...
Posted by: aaly on Saturday, May 30, 2009 @ 11:29:32 CEST
The zip file format offers much in terms of data storage and network transfer, but its potential weakness, however, lies in the fragility of the file structure. If for any reason some part of a zip file becomes damaged, standard zip tools will be unable to extract it.
Zip Repair Tool provides the user with a cutting edge technology that helps repair zip structure and extract zipped files. Full automation of the zip repair process and a user-friendly interface make zip repair a snap. After the user locates zip files, the program scans each file to assess the damage - then Zip Repair Tool deploys its robust engine to recover zip files wherever possible. High speed and accuracy are the distinguishing features of the technology. The zip repair engine can fix zip files of any size and number.
Posted by: aaly on Saturday, May 30, 2009 @ 11:22:20 CEST
Windows 7 Starter Edition took some criticism with its three-application limit. Today, however, Microsoft announced on its Windows Team Blog that it would be removing the three-application limit on Windows 7 Starter, and that it will be available worldwide for use on "small notebook PCs," which presumably means it'll be geared toward netbooks.
There were some rumblings earlier in the week that Microsoft would remove the three-app limit, but with today's announcement, Microsoft made it official.
Posted by: aaly on Saturday, May 30, 2009 @ 07:19:09 CEST
Are you dying to see Nokia's latest, the N97 ripped to shreds in glorious moving pictures? Well, that's too bad: we don't have that. What we do have, however, is a series of photographs of said shred-ripping, turned into a video. A creepy, silent film, if you will, complete with subtitles. Lack of movement and sound aside, it gives us a pretty great look at the innards of the handset, if that's what you're into.
Posted by: aaly on Saturday, May 30, 2009 @ 00:41:07 CEST
10 Gadgets That Will Keep Computer Users From Turning Into Quasimodo
There are throngs of reality shows devoted to documenting dangerous professions...but what about professional blogging?
Like other sedentary, computer-focused jobs, we are faced with the prospect of turning into deformed freaks from years of hunching and typing. If you face a similar fate, these gadgets can help.
Posted by: aaly on Saturday, May 30, 2009 @ 00:14:09 CEST
Taking Computex by storm, MSI is preparing to show off in Taipei a new GT200-powered Lightning graphics card. Officially named N275GTX Lightning, the upcoming release is a custom job to say the least as it features double the normal amount of memory for a GTX 275 - 1792MB, has a 10 phase PWM, and Solid State Chokes (SSC), which not only provides better performance, but it makes away with the annoying squealing that has plagued GT200 cards based on Nvidia's design.
In addition to the board changes, the second Lightning card will come with a new Twin Frozr heatsink which, like the first iteration, makes use of two fans and five copper heatpipes, but has a tweaked design.
Posted by: aaly on Friday, May 29, 2009 @ 21:12:36 CEST
Windows 7 users panic when Microsoft gives wrong auto-reboot date
A mistake by Microsoft sent some users into a panic when they received an e-mail that told them their copies of Windows 7 beta would automatically begin rebooting every two hours starting June 1.
Windows 7 beta, which was released to the public in January, will expire on Aug. 1. A month before that, the operating system will prod users to move on to the next milestone, dubbed "RC" for Release Candidate, or revert to an older OS such as Vista or XP. Microsoft doesn't go for subtlety: It warns users of an approaching expiration date by automatically shutting down, then restarting, the PC every two hours.
Although the company had earlier pegged the beta's auto-shutdown as starting on July 1 -- a full month before it expires -- an e-mail it sent to the millions who downloaded the test version used the wrong date.
Posted by: aaly on Friday, May 29, 2009 @ 18:27:48 CEST
Updated Windows 7 and Vista downgrade rights leaked
Are you ready to have your mind blown by some truly incredible gadget news? In fact, we have spicy hot new Windows licensing details. According to Tech ARP, Microsoft will soon allow end users to downgrade from Windows 7 Professional or Ultimate editions to either Windows Vista Business or Window XP Professional. If that weren't enough, OEMs may now choose to install XP Professional, XP Pro Tablet, or XP Pro X64, instead of Windows Vista Business / Ultimate -- as long as they fulfill a bunch of legalistic requirements regarding activation markers, certificates of authenticity, Windows Vista Logo criteria, and other stuff you probably don't care about. It looks like the repudiation of Windows Vista is continuing apace...
Posted by: aaly on Friday, May 29, 2009 @ 18:21:26 CEST
Cellular South, the nation’s largest privately-owned wireless communications carrier, has just announced the availability of its latest handset - the Motorola Hint QA30. This model will definitely keep all you social butterflies up to speed with the latest happenings among your peers as well as other events happening in town, where the innovative slider design will reveal a full QWERTY keypad when open to make way for easy messaging and natural browsing on-the-go. According to Jim Richmond, director of Corporate Communications for Cellular South, “Staying in touch with friends and family, keeping networks updated and ensuring constant access to social circles are top priorities for many of our customers. “Motorola Hint is a stylish solution for those social networkers who demand quick, reliable access and communication.”
Posted by: aaly on Friday, May 29, 2009 @ 17:30:02 CEST
Successor to Intel's Core i7 expected in late August
Intel's upcoming Lynnfield processor will be in the spotlight at the Computex exhibition in Taipei next week, as hardware makers and computer vendors gear up for the release of the chip later this year.
Lynnfield is a successor to Intel's current line of Core i7 chips. The chips and motherboards that support them are ready to be released as soon as July, but Intel has told hardware makers to hold off on sales of the products until late August, according to a source familiar with the situation.
Posted by: aaly on Friday, May 29, 2009 @ 14:55:16 CEST
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We've seen some pretty weird stuff in our years on this planet -- heck, we've revived our own drenched Sony DAP by burying it in rice for 48 hours -- but this is easily one of the most bizarre gizmo resurrections we've ever come across. As the tale goes, one valiant NVIDIA GPU owner apparently bit on a myth which suggested that a pinch of time in the oven (quite literally, might we add) would repair faulty GPUs that were throwing up oodles of vertical lines. After purchasing another GPU to replace his ailing 8800GTX, he figured he had zilch to lose and gave it a shot; lo and behold, the temporary warmth seemingly melted the solder points and healed micro-fractures that were causing the unwanted lines.
Live images have leaked of 
Microsoft is planning a launch event on July 10 for its Silverlight 3 technology and the accompanying Expression Studio 3 toolset, a company representative said Friday evening.
VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).
Industry titans Microsoft Corp. and Google Inc. are getting rave reviews this week about innovative new approaches to Internet search and communications, respectively.
The zip file format offers much in terms of data storage and network transfer, but its potential weakness, however, lies in the fragility of the file structure. If for any reason some part of a zip file becomes damaged, standard zip tools will be unable to extract it.
Windows 7 Starter Edition took some criticism with its three-application limit. Today, however, Microsoft 
Are you dying to see Nokia's latest, the 
There are throngs of reality shows devoted to documenting dangerous professions...but what about professional blogging? 
Taking Computex by storm, MSI is preparing to show off in Taipei a new GT200-powered Lightning graphics card. Officially named N275GTX Lightning, the upcoming release is a custom job to say the least as it features double the normal amount of memory for a GTX 275 - 1792MB, has a 10 phase PWM, and Solid State Chokes (SSC), which not only provides better performance, but it makes away with the annoying squealing that has plagued GT200 cards based on Nvidia's design. 
A mistake by Microsoft sent some users into a panic when they received an e-mail that told them their copies of Windows 7 beta would automatically begin rebooting every two hours starting June 1.
Cellular South, the nation’s largest privately-owned wireless communications carrier, has just announced the availability of its latest handset - the 
Intel's upcoming Lynnfield processor will be in the spotlight at the Computex exhibition in Taipei next week, as hardware makers and computer vendors gear up for the release of the chip later this year.