New Sony Walkman - NWZ-S738F

Sony may have ceded much of the personal music player market to Apple and its iPod, but the companys nearly 30-years old product line continues with new models announced recently. The Walkman NWZ-S738F stands out with built in noise cancellation head phones. With an included adapter, travellers can plug the walkman into an airplanes audio jack to use the noise cancelling features for in flight movies. The 8GB NWZ-S738F available for US$180 which can play audio and video files in many common formats


Source : Sony News

Nikon Coolpix S60

While not the first camera to feature a touch screen to navigate the menus, the S60 does have a few tricks up its sleeve with regards to its touch-based interface. This 10 megapixel camera not only allows you to operate the zoom controls via virtual buttons but it even allows you to use your finger to select where your subject is in the frame so the camera can focus on it. For example, if you have two people standing at different distances from each other, you can just tap on your intended subject on the LCD screen to have the camera focus on it. The camera also features Nikon's new Scene Auto Selector mode which will analyse the scene and automatically switch between Scene modes to suit the situation. Other notable features are a 5x zoom lens equivalent to a 33-165mm lens, ISO settings from 64-2000, 3.5in LCD screen and a HDMI connector for video and photo output to HDTVs.



Source : NikonUSA

Smartbook With Digital Al-Quran

FTEC Resources Berhad has bundled a digital version of the Quran with its Smartbook mini notebook. The Quran software created by software firm Al-Tasneen, includes audio recitations of the entire Quran; translations in English, Arab and Bahasa Malaysia; search engine to find verses; and recordings of Azan prayers by famous Mu'adzins from Saudi Arabia and Egypt. The mini notebook has an Intel Atom processor, Intel 915GMS chipset, 802.11bg WiFi, up to 1GB of RAM, 30GB of hard disk space, a webcam and is powered by Windows XP Home operating system. The portable FTEC SmartBook has a water-resistant keyboard and is capable of running additional educational software.



Source : HighBeam

Capture Any Web Video Automatically

Youtube is one of the biggest video sharing websites in the world. Since February 2005, when Youtube was created, more than eighty million users have logged in daily to watch their favorite videos, share or upload video clips. Youtube is nowadays the “go to” web site if you want to have fun watching stand up comedy, see the shows you have missed on TV and much more.

Users who are not registered on Youtube can only watch videos, while the registered users can upload as many videos as they want. However, all the movie clips, music videos, TV clips or original videos uploaded by users that you find on Youtube cannot be downloaded from this web site. This is unfortunate for many of the users because Youtube is the one place where you can find almost any video you want. The problem is you can only watch it on Youtube. It would be a lot nicer if people could download video from Youtube, because they would be able to watch it over and over again without needing an Internet connection.

Actually, it is very easy to download videos from Youtube. All you have to do is use a Downloader for Web Video & TV. RipTiger is an online video downloader that saves video to your computer as soon as you start watching. RipTiger captures web video automatically and downloads it while you continue surfing the web. All downloads are saved to your download folder so you can change file names, convert web video to other formats and enjoy your video. No other software can download as many formats as RipTiger does!

RipTiger is the easiest and the most powerful way to capture any web video and TV. Just start RipTiger, play your video or web TV as usual and RipTiger saves it automatically. No additional click or configuration hassle. RipTiger does everything automatically in the background for you. If you want to give it a try. check out their Product web-site. There are many times when you do not have Internet access for various reasons. This prevents you from watching Youtube videos. This is again unfortunate for you. . For all these situations there is a solution. RipTiger gives you the opportunity to watch your favorite videos whenever you like.

T-Mobile G1 - The First Phone To Run Google's New Android Mobile Operating System

T-Mobile announced the world's first Android-powered phone yesterday -September 23. The phone is the first to use the Google Android operating system and I think it is the first real competitor to the iPhone. The G1 complements its touch screen with a physical keyboard, the lack of which has made the iPhone a non-starter for some users. The G1's keyboard is revealed when you slide open its screen. The keys are a bit flat, and you have to reach your right thumb around a bulging portion of the phone's body to type, but it’s a real keyboard. It has a lot to prove and has lots of cool features. To view some of the cool features check out video below. It will be sold in the U.S. starting next month by T-Mobile, for $179 with a two-year contract. So what do you think? Will it kill the iPhone?







Source : T-Mobile | Yahoo News

Store Any Secret Information In Binary Code Right On Your Finger?

What?? Store any secret information in binary code right on your finger? This is not a ring from a Lord Of The Ring movie.You should check out this Encoder Ring. This unique ring can hold up to 64 characters, so you can get at least a fairly decent sized message. The user would choose a secret message 64 characters long, have the message translated into binary code and finally have a ring produced using rapid-prototyping. I think this is good if you want to hide your secret information. Anyway, It’s still a concept right now.


Source : Bextim

The Pulse Smartpen - Pen With Digital Capabilities

This electronic pen called the Pulse Smartpen from Livescribe is a ballpoint pen that you use to write notes during your classes, lectures, meetings, etc. As you write, the pen will record your strokes along with audio. When you are done with a note taking session, you can go back to your handwritten notes and tap on a word that you wrote to hear what was being said as you were writing that word. You can also upload your note taking sessions to your computer for archival and searching purposes. The Pulse smartpen has a high speed infrared camera with a Dot Positioning System (DPS); rechargeable lithium battery; high contrast display for easy indoor or outdoor viewing; dual microphones for recording and noise cancellation; an embedded speaker and an audio jack. When used with the bundled Dot Paper Notebook, the nearly invisible micro dots printed on notebook pages tell the Pulse exactly where a user is writing or tapping. Users can also customise the Pulse with additional applications , ranging from productivity tools to games. I think students will absolutely love this gadget.Check out video below.





Source : PC World

Fitbit - A Tiny Wireless Tracker That You Clip Onto Your Clothing To Track Your Daily Movements

The Fitbit Tracker is an amazing all-in-one monitoring device that gives you a wealth of feedback on your health and fitness levels. The Fitbit contains an accelerometer, pedometer and an energy expenditure measurement device to measure calories burned. The device itself is small and can be clipped on to one's clothes. It can be clipped anywhere on the body - to a sleeve, pocket, collar and will still gather data. The tiny device measures a large amount of fitness metrics: intensity and duration of physical activities, calories burned, steps taken, distance traveled, how long it took you to fall asleep, how long you were asleep and more. Well, it's not even really on the market yet, it's just available for pre-order, and won't start shipping until late December or early January.


Source : CNET News

Tired Of Squinting To See The Smaller Elements Of A Webpage Like Comments And Picture Captions?

Most browsers these days let you zoom in on the page with a quick keyboard shortcut. On a windows run machine, press the Control and + keys to enlarge the page and Control and - to decrease the size of the page view. On a Mac, press Command key along with + and - keys to zoom in and out. Press Control and the 0 key to return the page to 100%.

Locked And Unlocked Your Door Via Internet

What if locking the front door of your house while you're away were as easy as hopping on the internet? Recently at the CEDIA Expo in Denver, Ingersoll Rand's Schlage unit showed off door locks that can be wirelessly set via the internet, from a mobile phone or a computer. The battery operated locks have keypad that are locked and unlocked with four digit access codes. Users who forget to lock a door and want to enter their code remotely can hop onto a web portal or an application added to their mobile phones. These password protected portals also let people change, activate or disable the codes. The system which Schlage bills as the first of its kind will be available in the United States in late October. Kit for the lock, which includes the lock and the wireless bridge to communicate with it will set you back $299. There's a $13 monthly fee to use the applications that let the locks be controlled remotely.


Source : ABC News

Kingston DataTraveler BlackBox - Tough Thumbdrive!

If data safety is your ultimate concern, you might want to take a look at Kingston's latest DataTraveler Blackbox thumbdrive. According to Kingston, the BlackBox is FIPS certified ( Federal Information Processing Standard ), which means it meets strict United States federal requirements for data protection. The BlackBox features a 256bit hardware based AES encryption which automatically encrypts and decrypts data on the fly. The drive automatically locks down after ten consecutive failed password attempts, thus helping to prevent unauthorised access if it gets into the wrong hands. TheBlackBox thumbdrive is available in 2GB, 4GB and 8GB capacities.


Source : Kingston

Remove Empty Directories

Empty folders or directories exist for a number of reasons. Sometimes applications create and require empty folders and deleting them can cause your programs not to function as they should. Usually though, empty folders are a results of sloppy uninstallation programs that fail to clean up all traces of programs. The result can be hundreds of empty folders. While these won't harm your computer, they could slow it down since at various times Windows must read into memory the folders that you have on your computer. Getting rid of unneeded ones can only help.

Most empty folder removal tools are command line only and therefore not so easy to use, but German programmer Jonas John has created a Windows based tool called Remove Empty Directories which is free for use. The program is easy to use. You select a folder or drive to scan, click Scan Folders and the program goes to work. An Options Panel lets you specify certain folders that should not be flagged as empty.

Microsoft Outlook Advanced Find

Are you looking for a long lost email message in Outlook? Now you can use Outlooks Advanced Find dialogue box to power your way to better searches. Available from the Tools menu in the Find submenu it lets you conduct searches based upon a number of criteria including how old the message is, the recipient, whether it contained attachments, to name just a few. You can use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl-Shift-F to access Advanced Find as well. Now you can track down that message. Hope it helps. :)

Audio Visual System Integration

Audio visual systems play an immense role in the technology enriched life of people these days. Be it any event, occasion or episode which involves giving presentations of any sort, it requires proper audio visual system settings.

Sometimes the event has to be held in a small meeting room for maybe 50 people and sometimes there is a mass waiting to listen to what you have to say, the need is nevertheless imperative. The system integrations requirements for a small scale event might be different from the large scale events, but the importance of having professional audio and visual integration is more or less the same.

Audio visual machinery helps to collectively organize the audio and the visual sound effects for clear communication of the message. Display devices like the video monitors, projectors, plasma screens, video cubes or walls could be used to give the visual effect that one asks for and the audio devices like the microphones, speakers could be used to providing the clarity to communicate the message. One could also use the video equipments like the DVDs, video peripherals and computer supplements to bring life into the entire event.

For having a perfect conferencing environment and make the impact more overpowering there is a requirement for organized audio-visual system integrators. Usually business presentations are audio-visual to have a pronounced effect, instead of the traditional “single-person” giving the entire presentation without any audio-visual aids. These kinds of presentations involve the person giving the presentation which is the audio and projector and certain such devices like slide projector, or digital projectors connected to laptops of computers to give the visual effects. This was talking about the business formal presentations. What if there is a grand ceremony or a party? You would like to have the best lights settings, proper screens fixed and speakers all throughout the place. Integrating all of these to get what you want is audio visual system integration.

For tech freaks this Audio visual system integration industry is nevertheless the best it could get, in the terms of the newest and biggest brands investing in this and the ever-changing technology up gradations that occur for these audio visual systems. There is always someone coming up with some new feature and some new technology or machinery. There are innumerous products in market which meet the audio visual system integration requirements for you. Even if you are not tech savvy, to make all this audio visual system integration a task which could be managed easily there are the control features induced these days. These are like the medium that surpass the complexity of handling these systems with ease. Touch panels, remote controls, wireless remote controls, wall fixed touch screens and button controls and such similar stuff make the entire audio visual system integration thing easy to handle.

Giant Spider Brings Liverpool To Standstill

A giant robot spider hangs on the side of a run down building in Liverpool city centre recently. La Princesse, as the spider is known, is a giant artwork by French company La Machine. The 50ft tall spider commissioned by Artichoke, the creative company behind The Telectroscope, to bring La Princess to Liverpool as one of the highlights of the Capital of Culture 2008 celebration. Totally freaky and cool.






Source : BBC

Zune Phone Concept

Designer Adam Huffman has come out with the Zune Phone concept. Made attractively thin, this Zune Phone has a 5MP camera, extremely space efficient touchscreen, convenient side buttons and 32GB of storage. I really like the design, not sure about how practical it would be considering some of the options shown vs the design. Your thoughts?


Source : YankoDesign

Share Your 3G Mobile Broadband Wherever You Are!

Aztech recently announced their new 3G mobile broadband 802.11g router - HW831. The new Aztech HW831 3G Mobile Broadband 802.11g Router offers users a portable high-speed wireless hotspot solution for tradeshows, conferences and business meetings outside the office. Without being tied down to a fixed cable or DSL line, the router gives users the flexibility of deploying a wireless hotspot anywhere using their existing 3G mobile broadband connection. The HW831 also features built in WEP security and firewall protection to ensure secure WiFi connections.

Features :

- Plug & Play - Supports major 3G USB modems in the market
- Portable HSDPA networking - creates instant wireless hotspot
- Share your HSDPA Internet access wirelessly with multiple users
- Supports both wireless WiFi 802.11b/g & wired Ethernet 10/100Mbps connections


Source : Aztech

Audio/Video Editing and Converter Software

The QuickTime .MOV format is the video output format for many digital still cameras. MOV is also becoming very popular as the distribution format for video bloggers; primarily because many video bloggers are also Mac users. MOV converter Software from Blaze Media Pro is one of the powerful software which helps you convert MOV (QuickTime Movie) to MPG (MPEG-1 and MPEG-2), AVI (using any compression codec), and WMV (Windows Media Video) with ease. Now if you get trouble with Windows Media player in playing your MOV file, this is really what you need!

Apart from that, the Blaze Media Pro software includes a powerful video encoder feature that can encode AVI, WMV and even other MPEG variations (MPEG-1 or MPEG-2) into MPEG. It also support data CD/DVD software burning, and acts as dvd ripper to rip your dvd files. Download the free Blaze Media Pro trial version to experience its advance multimedia capabilities and powerful features. What are you waiting for?

French USB Train Tickets

The French are doing something interesting with USB and trains. France's national train service (SNCF) is offering 1,000 USB TRAIN TICKETS in a trial. By plugging the card into a PC USB port, the users' computers are automatically connected to the SNCF web site, where they can make payments and get schedules. Schedules can be downloaded to the card. The cards work like a debit card - passengers buy some amount then the fare is deducted each time they ride. The device can store information on one chip with up to 4 Gigabytes of memory. Data on the card will include the cardholder's name and personalized information—whether that person is a student or senior citizen, for instance, or the amount of money the cardholder has available for purchases or transit tickets—along with other data, such as transit schedules that can be downloaded from the Internet. A second chip, for the RFID function, operates independently of the USB-stored data, and holds a unique ID number that is transmitted at the transit station when a passenger passes through a turnstile. Thus, the cost of the ticket is automatically deducted from the user's prepaid balance. If it is successful, they fully intend to implement it to all customers by 2010.


Source : Coolest-Gadget | RFIDJournal

Google Chrome

Google is launching an open source web browser called "Chrome" to compete with Internet Explorer and Firefox. The search giant claims that its new offering will provide a faster, more reliable and cleaner alternative to those currently on offer. It will be launched as a beta for Windows machines only in more than 100 countries. Below is a part of the comic strip explanation of Google Chrome. Click Here for the Complete Comic Book.

Source : BBC | Google Blog

A Great Site For Reference Of Different Web Hosting Around

A web hosting service can be used for various types of websites. Based on the nature of the website, you must make the right decision to choose the right type of web hosting. If you have an e-commerce related website then in that case you will have to be very cautious by using the right type of web host. This is mainly because e-commerce is a very security conscious based business. It has to be handled with great alertness. E-commerce basically deals with transactions of products or services online. These products are in the form of virtual shop fronts, B2B (business to business), buying and selling etc. Your ecommerce website deals with handling of the money that you earn from products / services that you sell. Hence it is extremely important to have the right web host.

If you are interested in host a site, feel free to visit webhostingrating.com. It is a hosting rating site that are trying to build the biggest searchable web hosting directory. It’s a site dedicated to reviewing Web Hosts and Providers, so you don’t have to do all the digging. The site has a great resources of different web hosting articles which aims to provide information to blogger’s, Webmasters and other information which a researcher would find it as a great resources.Check out this useful articles if you want to know further about web hosting.

Domain & Hosting Sponsorship Program

I just want to share a good news for bloggers who wants to have your own domain and hosting. Recently I came across Icalvyn.com and found it really interesting. Icalvyn.com and MyExHost.com announce a sponsorship program which would benefit bloggers who're running on free bloghost, like Blogspot, WordPress or other free bloghosts out there but you need to achieve the following:

Requirement:
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3- You must maintain a sponsor banner and link of sponsor on your blog
4- Write a short story about this program on your current blog.
5- Your current blog must more then 3 month old

Blogger freedom:
1- You can blog any thing, except illegal stuff
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1- 1 Domain Name(.Com .Net .Org)
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