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Shootdown 1.0 (Mobile)

Shootdown is a game where you shoot the targets with a voice-activated shooting mechanism. You speak into the microphone with a sound high enough to beat the threshold. The threshold is adjusted by sliding the thumb at the bottom of the screen. You move the cross-wire on the red mat...

Tags: Mobile, Sound, Aesthetic Systems, Shootdown, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-09-28

Address Book Extender 1.0 (Mobile)

Address Book Extender application will let you define common attributes to all your contacts, and associate contacts that have those attributes. The by means of simple rules and queries that can be saved, you can retrieve contacts that fulfill the criteria. It features define your own attributes, define your own...

Tags: Mobile, Contact, Attribute, Aesthetic Systems

Software downloads 2009-09-28

Analyze HandWriting 1.5 (Mobile)

Analyze HandWriting features the following, use your finger/stylus to write characters on your iPhone/iPod screen, you will be given a a series of characters and the word as a whole to write, with certain math and algorithmic approach, your writing is analyzed and your mind pattern is brought to you,...

Tags: Mobile, Word, Character, Aesthetic Systems, Digital Music, Advertising & Promotion, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Marketing, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2009-04-16

Stay In Touch 1.0 (Mobile)

The unique feature of setting a reminder on a random date within a set period of time sets this app apart. The contacts can be browsed and set against a frequency amongst following: weekly, fortnightly, monthly, 3 months, 6 months and yearly. Within this period, the app will choose a...

Tags: Mobile, Apple iTunes, App, Aesthetic Systems, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2009-02-10

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Nokia 2705 Shade - black (Verizon Wireless)

Photo gallery:Nokia ShadeMost of Nokia's recent cell phones for the U.S. market haven't been too exciting. Sure, the company gave us the odd Nokia Twist last month, but we're more likely to see functional handsets like AT&T's Nokia Mural 6750. Verizon's new Nokia Shade 2705 certainly is part of that...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Verizon Wireless, Nokia Corp., phone

Product reviews 2009-10-27

Toshiba Qosmio X505-Q850

Toshiba's Qosmio line has always been the company's experimental playground for high-end systems, from massive gaming rigs to inventive multimedia home theater laptops. While there were a lot of interesting ideas there, you often ended up with slightly overpriced systems with out-of-date video cards or non-functioning Webcam hand gesture controls....

Tags: Notebooks, Toshiba Qosmio line, Toshiba Qosmio, Toshiba Corp.

Product reviews 2009-10-19

Lenovo SL510

Without proceeding any further, I am about to make a guess: you have already decided whether or not you're buying a ThinkPad. The iconic brand, the unending combination of professional respect, solid features, and unabashed blandness, combine to make a product that has surprising appeal across the board, yet remains,...

Tags: Notebooks, Microsoft Windows 7, Processors, IBM ThinkPad, Intel Core 2 Duo, Lenovo Group Ltd., Intel Corp.

Product reviews 2009-10-16

Psystar Open(Q)

If nothing else, Psystar's OpenQ should serve as a message to Apple that it's long overdue in bringing quad-core CPUs to its mainstream desktops. Because as much as the OpenQ lacks Apple's design polish, this $799, illicitly OS X-based midtower runs circles around Apple's $1,499 24-inch iMac on our benchmarks....

Tags: Apple Mac OS X, PRODUCTIVITY, Desktops, Processors, Psystar, Snow Leopard, Apple Inc.

Product reviews 2009-10-09

LG LHB953

Photo gallery:LG LHB953When Blu-ray HTIBs first hit the market, they really didn't make sense as a product type. They were slow, and the value just wasn't there, as it was easy to put together superior systems from separate components. One year later, everything has changed; there are several excellent HTIBs...

Tags: subwoofer, speaker, LG LHB953, LG Electronics Inc., center channel

Product reviews 2009-08-14

Konnet PS3 and Xbox 360 Power Pyramid (charging and storage dock for game controllers)

Konnet makes a few different versions of its Power Pyramid charging docks, including one that's designed to charge four wireless Xbox 360 controllers at one time and one that charges four PS3 controllers which only come in a wireless version. However, the model reviewed here is the only one that...

Tags: Game players, Games, storage, game, Microsoft Xbox 360, Microsoft Xbox, PS3 controller, Sony PlayStation 3, XBOX 360 Controller, Konnet, light-emitting diode

Product reviews 2009-07-15

Sony Vaio FW480J/T

Editors' note: This review is part of our 2009 Retail Laptop and Desktop Back-to-School roundup, covering specific fixed configurations of popular systems that can be found in retail stores.In a growing field of Blu-ray-playing laptops, it's important to take note of Sony, who created the Blu-ray format in the...

Tags: Desktops, Sony Vaio, Sony Corp.

Product reviews 2009-06-30

2010 Mazda Mazda3 s Grand Touring 5-Door

Photo gallery:2010 Mazda Mazda3 s GTAt first glance, the 2010 Mazda Mazda3 s Grand Touring appears to be merely a face-lifted version of the first-generation model. The proportions and measurements are about the same. The previous generation Mazda3 received much praise from the automotive press, so we naturally expected the...

Tags: Digital media, Digital music, Mazda Mazda3, Mazda Motor Corp., automatic transmission

Product reviews 2009-06-18

Will Windows Vista live to die another day?

After spending most of the morning on the phone to a number of UK universities (due to the time difference, many US universities were still sleeping), the general consensus is that Windows 7, when released, will not be the first upgrade they roll out to their networks. ...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Operating System, University, Microsoft Windows Vista, University Of Kent, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-05-12

Tonium Pacemaker (60GB)

Photo gallery: Tonium Pacemaker (60GB)When we reviewed the original Pacemaker in June of 2008, it topped our list of digital DJ toys, but the accompanying $800 price tag was hard to swallow. Revamped for 2009, the second-generation of the Pacemaker MP3 player includes all the features of the original (and...

Tags: Tonium Pacemaker

Product reviews 2009-05-05

Vizio VF550XVT

Photo gallery: Vizio VF550XVTAt CES this year, Vizio caused a stir by announcing the VF551XVT, a 55-inch HDTV with local dimming LED backlighting and 240Hz processing for the rock-bottom price of $1999. If you look carefully at the model number of this review, you'll notice it says VF550XVT....

Tags: Monitors & displays, TVs, TV & Home Theater, Cable, Vizio VF550XVT, Vizio

Product reviews 2009-03-26

Dell SX13-163B

Editors' note: This review is part of our Retail Roundup: Q1 2009, covering specific configurations of popular laptops that can be found in retail stores. The 13-inch laptop owes much if its success to Apple's embrace of the form factor for its popular MacBook systems. But besides that,...

Tags: Notebooks, Processors, Dell Computer Corp., Adamo, laptop computer

Product reviews 2009-03-20

OKI C3600n

A color laser printer can be the perfect solution for small workgroups and home offices that print a high volume of color documents. The OKI C3600n ($399) color laser printer is network ready and prints at an impressive speed compared with its competition, but it's larger than most printers and...

Tags: Printers, Monitors & displays, input drawer, OKI, OKI C3600n, printer

Product reviews 2009-03-18

Gateway LX 6810-01

Intense gamers, multimedia editors, and families looking for a multipurpose computer heavy on 3D graphics power and connectivity can end their search with the Gateway LX6810-01. It's sold exclusively at Best Buy and makes a compelling argument for off-the-shelf systems with high-grade components that won't disappoint even more demanding users....

Tags: Serial ATA, Wi-Fi, Gateway Inc.

Product reviews 2009-02-13

Microsoft vs. Open Source competitors

Microsoft vs. Open Source competitors Haven't you ever heard of Interoperability?The reality of IT unlike that unreality which ZDNet bloggers write about is that most if not all IT Departments run multiple IT systems from mainframes to distributed servers and multiple OS's from Unix to Windows to Linux.How hard is...

Tags: Sales strategy, Operating systems, Sales force management, Now Let, Microsoft Corp., Open Source competitor, open source, Linux, MySpace, OEM, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-02-08

CES 2009: Palm announces the Palm Web OS and the Palm Pre device

CES 2009: Palm announces the Palm Web OS and the Palm Pre devicewow, good for Palmcan't wait to check one out. About time they got back in the game. Stereo bluetooth? Flash? How's the web browsing?Resolution is a showstopper for me320 * 480 is inexcusable in an age where HTC...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Operating systems, Apple Mac OS X, Palm Inc., mobile, operating system, game

Discussion threads 2009-01-08