If you took the chance offered by Microsoft, and you’re using Windows 7 beta as your main operating system, you probably noticed that you can’t mount ISO files using Daemon Tools for now. I Heart PC has an article about how to mount an ISO in Windows 7.
Trying Windows 7 beta right now and I like it so far.
Like all the phones they have until now weren’t enough, Nokia just threw left and right with details about the new N97. Under the hood it rolls with a 3.5-inch, 640 x 360 pixel touchscreen display with tactile feedback and QWERTY keyboard. But wait, there’s more. HSDPA, WiFi, and Bluetooth radios, A-GPS, a 3.5-mm headjack, 32GB of onboard memory with microSD expansion (for up to 48GB total capacity), and a battery capable of up to 1.5 days of continuous audio playback or 4.5-hours video are also on the list. And last but not least, a 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss glass and "DVD quality" video capture at 30fps, complete what we know about the N97 until now.
If this is worth paying €550 or $693, that is for you to decide when it will come out next year.
I am not a big fan of photography, but I can appreciate a good photo when I see one, or so I think. And Nikon, from what I heard from friends that are into photography, is one (if not The) best when it comes to digital cameras. So I said, why not do something about the new D3x? Well, here it goes.
When you think of this camera, you think of the FX-format, 24.5-megapixel (6048 x 4032) CMOS sensor that gives you extreme resolution, dynamic range, color depth, detail and sharpness, especially made for the most demanding eyes. You can up to five frames-per-second in 14-bit file format, which translates to approximately 138MB per image. Santa better bring you this X-mass a trunk-full of memory cards, because you will need them. But when you pay $7.999.95 for this camera, I think you can throw in a few other hundreds for memory cards.
Other features include the Nikon’s Creative Lighting System (CLS) that offers photographers a mobile lighting solution and Nikon’s GP-1 GPS receiver to gather information such as latitude, longitude, altitude and date of shooting, which works for sorting photos. Hats off to anyone who will have enough dough to buy one of these babies or who will have the privilege to at least work or touch it.
Well now, what do we have here? It seems that advertising is going up a step at a time. The new thing for promoting your business seems to be business cards with video footage on them. rCard Multimedia has created a concept called EDG. Just a little bit thicker than an average business card, this baby comes with an LCD screen, a speaker and video playback controls.
This kind of promoting works well when words aren’t enough and you pull out the business card and show your client the product in action. Using a mini-USB the giver can upload videos on the card and the receiver can download additional PR content. For me, this concept does it. Like they say, images speak louder than words, and if this kind of business cards “sell” products, than we will see it everywhere.
From $17.50 to $29, you must be sure that your product is worth buying when giving away a card like this.
It seems that Alienware has a serious competitor when it comes to laptops made for graphic applications. The new kid in town is the AMILO Notebook Sa 3650 packed with the first ever external graphics solution that goes by the name of GraphicBooster that gives the laptop a 470% boost. This new contraption is the brain child of Fujitsu Siemens Computers.
The new AMILO is small but powerful, packing a 13.3 inch screen and weighting about 2.4 kg. The GraphicBooster is not 90/60/90, actually it’s 180 x 130 x 33.5 mm and 0.5Kg. Inside the device we have the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 graphics card with 512MB GDDR3 memory, with HD support.
To do anything with that cool graphics card, this AMILO has the AMD X2 dual-core mobile processor, the ATI Radeon HD 3200 graphics card with shared memory, 4GB memory, wireless N support, Bluetooth 2.1, eSATA port, a 15-in-1 card reader, and 4.5 hours of continuous operating time. Well now, I am a little impressed I must say, not because of the specs, but of how they manage to cram all that inside such a small thingy. But wait, that’s not all. It also includes the BrilliantView technology for the screen, a 7.1 high-definition audio via S/PDIF, 320 GB storage capacity, DVD burner, Logitech QuickCam web camera for online conferences, silent mode function, and spill-resistant keyboard. You will just have to wait a little more to get your hands on this baby as it will be available this month.
This thingy is for all of us that wanted to have superpowers like superman or just wanted to see beneath the clothes of girls. Oh no, wait! That was me. In case I am not alone in this, then you would definitely love this contraption.
In the David Steele catalog it appears that the secret of X-ray vision has been discovered. This X-ray Vision Camera Lens can be attached to almost any camcorder and works like and infrared filter. It is based on the fact that most clothing can allow light and infrared light to pass through the fabric, and this light is reflected back through the clothing. And what we see is the reflected normal light mixed with the infrared light, and the lens can filter the normal light out. This way the clothes will look transparent or semi-transparent.
I for one, would find this fun for about a day or two, then I would start to go out with girls and see how underneath the clothes feels like. And for a couple of days of fun, $199 is a bit too much for me. Over and out!
I know many of us have thought about the music we listen to as being cool, or heart-warming or whatever, but did you ever see music as running like tap water? If not, and I haven’t also, some crazier people did and they made it happen. The concept is named Music Flow, and it’s the brainchild of Yanko Design.
To play music you turn the faucet knob, and the music starts flowing into headphones that are connected to the spigot. Furthermore, if you pinch the headphone cable, the music stops. But wait, there’s more. The remote "looks like waves" and controls the player without the faucet knob and the faucet knob is actually also a disguised speaker. The spigot has a battery inside that you charge before you attach it to a wall or whatever.
It seems that each item will be sold separately. Me, I prefer a plain-old music player.
It’s time to get busy making the X-mass list. Who cares if you got one month until then, you can never be too prepared. And I know some of you out there want what’s the best in mobile phones, so we got for you Samsung Omnia. Packing a 3.2” touch screen display and Windows Mobile 6.1, from what birdies told me in different reviews, it seems we are in for one of the best phones out there.
Let’s see what else we got under the hood. Well to start, we got the TouchWiz, that allows us users to tune and customize the phone the way we want it with widgets. You get one-touch access to the applications you use most. The keyboard is an on-screen QWERTY.
If this isn’t enough for you to add this baby on the X-mass list, here is some more for y’all: Opera 9.5 Mobile Browser support, a 5 megapixel camera with digital zoom and LED flash, video recording capability, stereo Bluetooth connectivity and Wi-Fi support. The retail price is $249.99 and a $70 mail-in rebate and agreeing to a 2-year contract. Not sure about adding this to my shopping list, but on my wish list, I definitely will add.
Now we all know that Xerox is a household name. They don’t need to come up with anything new to let us know that they are boss when it comes to printing, paper technology and other stuff. But, they decided that all this wasn’t enough and the big brains there at Xerox came up with the EverFlat Paper. Wasn’t paper already flat? Well you are missing the point if you are asking this question. The idea behind this is for books and photos to lay completely flat so they would look better for us mere mortals. This means that pages will bend, bow or arc no more.
Along with the EverFlat paper, Xerox came out with four new photo paper products. The first one on our list is Xerox PhotoPix. It’s a -cut, tabloid-sized sheet that creates one 8″ x 10″, one 5″ x 7″ and four wallet-size high-gloss photos. It’s very easy on our pockets, as you can print up to 6 photos on one paper and it is also perforated in the center so it can be folded and placed into a conventional envelope.
Next up is the SportsPix, a letter-sized, pre-cut sheet that simplifies the process of printing on-demand trading cards. From one SportsPix sheet you get two double-sided cards, both matching size and thickness.
Third is the FunFlip, which is similar to an origami, but with photos. It all starts as a letter-sized sheet that folds into a 3″ x 3″ square, and then can unfold to display four different images. It can be used to create unique product presentations or invitations or whatever your mind can think of. The sky is the limit.
AccordianPix is the last on the list. It’s application that is folded into a free-standing, panorama of eight images. It comes with no additional finishing.
All this being said, let’s give it up to Xerox for reminding us again why they rule.
This thing right here is so far the only real data protection system for computers. Absolute Software, its maker, is the top of the pile when it comes to computer theft recovery, data protection and secure asset tracking solutions. Their service is not free, but not expensive either. It’s only £60 per laptop and you get a whole list of services: a security policy adhered by every staff member, authorization for the right staff members, the possibility to know exactly how many devices are used by the organization, accountability needed to retrieve devices from those employees leaving the organization, and tracking, which enables tracking and recovering lost or stolen computers, with the option to self-destruct sensitive data stored on them.
The service goes by the name of ComputraceOne and even if it may sound like a little James Bond-ish, I am sure that some people will actually find it very useful. The ComputraceOne is loaded on the hard drive and in the BIOS. If on the stolen laptop the hard drive is replaced of formatted, the C1 Agent from the BIOS will start rebuilding the files needed for controlling the hardware from the Monitoring Centre server, making it impossible to remove the service without a special password. I don’t have any use for it, as I don’t work in the military or something like that, but I am sure there are lost of people that will find this a life and job saver.
