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Monday, 20 October 2008 |
Thin is in, with prototype LCD TV screens already thinner than the
2nd-generation iPod Touch, and Samsung has just done 0.1mm better than
LG Philips’ previous record of 8mm. No word yet on when it will go
commercial, but we do know the trick they’ve used to go go gadget
thin...
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Sunday, 19 October 2008 |
Speaking at the final keynote of
Gartner’s “Symposium ITxpo” in the US, Ballmer explained Microsoft’s
stance on Windows 7, saying it’s “Vista but a lot better”, yet
insisting Windows 7 is a major OS revision, and not a minor one, while
criticising Google Apps. Oh, and yeah, it’s ok to wait if you want.
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Friday, 17 October 2008 |
Dubbed by Asus as “the supermodel of netbooks”, the S101 Eee PC is now
on sale at “select retailers” in Australia, but while its size is
positivelEee ultra trim, it’s a shame the $999 price isn’t also on a
diet, although you can't expect Asus to give the S101 away for frEee!
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Friday, 17 October 2008 |
An online report suggests the reason why the 17-inch MacBook Pro (MBP)
didn't get the swish new aluminium cases of the new 13-inch MacBook and
15-inch MacBook Pro was because of issues in "ramping up production",
thus "delaying them by a few months". In short, if you want to upgrade
your existing 17-inch MBP, why bother doing it now?
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Friday, 17 October 2008 |
Well, I almost can’t believe it – finally someone has figured out how
to put an AM radio, and not just an FM radio, into a mobile phone,
something that I’ve wanted for years. While SE’s “R306” does the job
with a couple of nifty enhancements, it’s a pity the R306 is a basic,
low-end 2G model rather than the latest 8 megapixel 3.5G Cybershot, but
this also means it’s cheap, cheerful and does the job.
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Thursday, 16 October 2008 |
If you love trying out public beta browsers, then you’ll be rushing to
download the beta of Firefox 3.1, and while you’ll lose access to your
favourite plug-ins, there are some interesting new features that all
Firefox users will enjoy once 3.1 goes gold.
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Thursday, 16 October 2008 |
Always one to promote its online services, Telstra is again using the
BigPond website and its Next G network to “exclusively preview” the
second trailer of Baz Luhrman’s “epic Australia movie” 24 hours before
it is released to other mediums.
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Thursday, 16 October 2008 |
Just as most CDs are DRM-free, so are SanDisk’s new “slotMusic” microSD
cards, offering music in “up to 320kbps” DRM-free MP3 format. Available
in stores pre-loaded with music from a range of popular artists and
selling at an RRP of US $14.95 each, with some packaged with a
Shuffle-like SanDisk player (on sale for US $20 alone) for a total of
$34.95, is this a new front in the digital music revolution, or a waste
of time in the face of the download reality?
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Wednesday, 15 October 2008 |
Professional photographers in Australia and NZ will likely be smiling
at the availability of SanDisk’s Extreme IV 16GB card, matching
SanDisk’s “Ducati Edition” in speed but doubling the capacity, although
at AUD $450 a pop you’ll need to be a pro-photographer to pay for it!
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Wednesday, 15 October 2008 |
Apple has launched upgraded new models of its MacBook and MacBook Pro
models, as well as a super-expensive 24” screen, but the much rumoured
$800 Mac “netbook” was a no-show. Is it all a load of “meh”?
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Tuesday, 14 October 2008 |
Remember the warnings in the 80s about listening to your Walkman at too
high a volume, and recent warnings the same was the case with mp3
players and iPods? EU scientists have released new “scientific opinion”
that 5-10% of mp3 users risk permanent hearing loss. So, what’s new?
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Tuesday, 14 October 2008 |
Although XP and Vista were names of Windows that didn’t date the year
after they were launched, Microsoft has gone with “year” names for
Office and server versions of Windows for years. But the previously
codenamed Windows 7 won’t be Windows 2009 or 2010, it will be Windows 7
– and it’s a first!
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Tuesday, 14 October 2008 |
In terms of pre-orders which are now totalling 1.5 million, Google's
first Android G1 gPhone is certainly hitting the gSpot, while reports
say South Africa will also get the gPhone in 2009.
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Tuesday, 14 October 2008 |
The flash memory revolution keeps on revving up, with 32GB now a
standard USB flash memory drive capacity at prices that anyone can
afford. Cool!
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Tuesday, 14 October 2008 |
Finally out of the beta and release candidate versions, Sun
Microsystems' OpenOffice.org 3.0 has been released for anyone to
download and try for themselves. Here's my "first look" at this brand
new Office suite!
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Monday, 13 October 2008 |
People pulling around rickshaws in India could one day be a thing of
the past – replaced instead with solar-powered motorised bicycle-drawn
rickshaws known as the “Soleckshaw”.
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Monday, 13 October 2008 |
Wow - way back in 2001, only a few years after Google launched in 1998,
the 2001 index only let you search through a mere 1,326,920,000 web
pages – and we can see that in 1999, Google had a Yahoo!-esque
exclamation mark. My how times have changed...
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Monday, 13 October 2008 |
Seagate, the world’s largest hard disk manufacturer, is slowly making
the move towards the solid state disk (SSD) space, but faces fierce
competition from the very NAND manufacturers it will buy its NAND memory
from.
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