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CES: My day one highlight? A surge protector

As day one of CES comes to a close, some quick snapshots of three of the more interesting products I've come across both on the show floor, and at the myriad press-only events that accompany the show. Belkin Conserve Surge Protector Yes, you read...

Tags: Consumer Electronics Show, Player, Slacker Portable, DVR, TVs, Wiki, Digital Music, Notebooks, Tv & Home Theater, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Online Communications, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Consumer Electronics, Josh Taylor

Blog posts 2008-01-07

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Photos: Top 10 reviews of the week

Here are ZDNet's 10 favorite items from the past week, including the 120GB iPod Classic, Nikon D90 digital SLR, and Seagate's FreeAgent Go portable hard drive. by CNET News.com

Tags: Photograph, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2008-10-06

Hands-on review of the Logitech Squeezebox Boom

After seeing my mildly skeptical post about the release of its Squeezebox Boom Internet radio device, Logitech offered to send me a sample unit to review, promising me I'd be pleasantly surprised with the audio output from the compact unit. I've been testing it out over the last few weeks,...

Tags: Station, Radio, Logitech, Boom, Music Services, Advertising & Promotion, Engineering, Wireless, Marketing, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2008-10-04

The quad-core laptops are here . . . sort of

Back in August Dell, HP and Lenovo all announced mobile workstations that offer Intel's first quad-core chip for laptops. Those systems are now available for order and reviews of at least one model--the Lenovo ThinkPad W700--are giving a glimpse of the performance you can expect from these 17-inch powerhouses. ...

Tags: Mobile, Mobile Workstation, Lenovo Group Ltd., Quad-core, Laptop Computer, Quad-core Laptop, Core 2 Quad Extreme, Workstations, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-10-03

HP to jump into smartphones. Why?

HP to jump into smartphones. Why?Been in the smartphone market for a couple yearsActually, HP has been making Windows Mobile Smartphones for a couple of years now with their iPAQ 6000, 500 and 900 series. The 500 series was actually a device that looked more like a phone than a...

Tags: Smart phones, Handhelds, Compaq iPAQ, smart phone, Hewlett-Packard Co.

Discussion threads 2008-10-03

Slimming down the bloated iTunes 8 installer

Slimming down the bloated iTunes 8 installerPerformance?Let alone the installer size, does anyone else out there have kind of mediocre performance with iTunes in Windows Vista? I've had a number of times where it just seems to come up black, or respond slowly, or syncing just slows my PC to...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Apple iTunes, installer

Discussion threads 2008-10-03

Agree Free DVD Ripper Platinum (exe)

Agree Free DVD Ripper Platinum is a DVD ripping software, with the ability of ripping DVD to almost all video and audio formats, such as AVI, MP4, WMV, VCD, SVCD, DVD, 3GP, iPod, iPhone, Zune, Xbox, PMP, PSP, Apple TV, Pocket PC, FLV, SWF, MOV, MP3, AAC, AC3, AMR, M4A,...

Tags: Video, Agree Software, DVD, Corporate Communications, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-10-03

Ukoo 3GP MP4 Video Converter (exe)

Ukoo 3GP MP4 Video Converter is a software to convert video files to 3GP/MP4/3G2 for portable video device use, such as iPod, PSP, ZUNE, Cellphone, PDA, and Pocket PC. It supports nearly all video formats including the following: RM, RMVB, DivX, XviD, AVI, WMV/ASF, MPG, MPEG (MPEG-1, MPEG-2), MP4, M4V,...

Tags: Portable Video, Video, Ukoosoft, Ukoo 3GP MP4 Video Converter, Corporate Communications, Digital Video, Digital Media, Marketing, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2008-10-03

MobaXVT (exe)

MobaXVT is a set of Unix commands (GNU/Cygwin) included in a single portable exe file. MobaXVT comes with an X server, a tab-based terminal and some GNU Unix commands. MobaXVT is a free portable package for Windows that integrates an X server, a tab-based terminal mrxvt and a complete set...

Tags: GNU, Mobatek, MobaXVT, UNIX, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2008-10-03

Nintendo takes a shot at Apple and Sony with the DSi

Nintendo takes a shot at Apple and Sony with the DSiSomething to think about.Had gaming by some strange chance always been performed by touch screen and games had always been developed in this paradigm, would the same things be said about the interface if suddenly buttons were added to the...

Tags: Games, Keyboards, Nintendo Co. Ltd., DSi, Apple Inc., game, Apple iPhone, Sony Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-10-02

Fans to build own radio as Slacker takes on iPod

Fans to build own radio as Slacker takes on iPodWow, just heard about these guysAs it turns out I just found an ad for these guys right up there when looking for "internet Music-on-Demand" at google. There were just a few links Prior to this company's URL though. ...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Digital music, Microsoft Zune, Slacker, Apple iPod, radio

Discussion threads 2008-10-02

Fans to build own radio as Slacker takes on iPod

Is it an iPod? Is it an old-fashioned transistor radio? These are the questions the Slacker portable digital music player will have to answer when it hits U.S. stores this month. NEW YORK--Is it an iPod? Is it an old-fashioned transistor radio? These are the questions the Slacker portable...

Tags: Apple iPod, Station, Slacker G2, Advertising & Promotion, Digital Music, Digital Media, Marketing, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Reuters, Slacker, music, iPod, radio

News items 2008-10-02

VIDEO: iTunes, mp3 rippers paved the way for RealDVD

There's another legal showdown brewing between Hollywood and the techies. RealNetworks and the motion picture studios are headed off to court over RealDVD, just-released software that allows users to rip their personal DVD collections into a PC or portable hard drive. Yeah, just like everyone's been doing with music CDs...

Tags: Rip, CD, Video, MP3, Apple iTunes, Music, RealDVD, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-02

MobaLiveCD (exe)

MobaLiveCD is a freeware that will run your Linux LiveCD on Windows thanks to the excellent emulator called "Qemu". MobaLiveCD allows you to test your LiveCD with a single click: after downloading the ISO image file of your favorite LiveCD, you just have to start it in MobaLiveCD and here...

Tags: LiveCD, CD-ROM, Mobatek, MobaLiveCD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2008-10-02

Ukoo iPod MP4 Video Converter (exe)

Ukoo iPod MP4 Video Converter is a converter for iPod MP4 file conversion of portable video device for iPod. It supports nearly all video formats including the following: RM, RMVB, DivX, XviD, AVI, WMV/ASF, MPG, MPEG (MPEG-1, MPEG-2), MP4, M4V, MOV/QT QuickTime, SVCD, VCD, and VOB. You can cut any...

Tags: Apple iPod, Portable Video, Ukoosoft, Ukoo iPod MP4 Video Converter, Digital Media, Digital Music, Corporate Communications, Digital Video, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-10-02

Windows ID3 Editor (exe)

Windows ID3 Editor is a small and simple MP3 tag editor, which offers the ability to edit the most wanted attributes of the ID3 tags in one window. Although iTunes offers a good interface for editing tags, it does have a few important attributes missing, copyright and encoded by which...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, MP3, Pa-software, Windows ID3 Editor, MP3 ID3 Tag, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2008-10-02

Aunsoft SWF Converter (exe)

Aunsoft SWF Converter is software helping people convert SWF file to video of popular formats, including AVI, MPEG, MP4, and 3GP, MPEG. Macromedia flash is the most popular media presentation and provides fabulous animation effect, movies, and interactive games, and the need to convert the SWF file to video format...

Tags: MPEG, Video, Aunsoft Software, Aunsoft SWF Converter, Digital Video, Corporate Communications, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Marketing, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2008-10-02

Samsung HKT450 Portable Bluetooth Speakerphone

Bluetooth speakerphones are getting more popular these days, as more states start to implement hands-free driving laws. They're mostly made for in-car use, like the BlueAnt Supertooth 3 and the Motorola Motorokr T505. However, there are several Bluetooth speakerphones that can be used outside the car as well, such as...

Tags: HKT450, speakerphone, Mute/Mode, phone, Mute/Mode button, Bluetooth Speakerphone, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

Product reviews 2008-10-01

Stallman vs. the cloud computing tidal wave

Stallman's recent statements regarding his dislike of "cloud computing" didn't surprise me in the least, given what I understand about his software preferences. In fact, I think this is less about Stallman's worry about the security implications of cloud computing, and more about his desire for a software ecosystems that adheres...

Tags: Software, GPL, Cloud Computing, Stallman, Tools & Techniques, Open Source, Management, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-10-01

Winegard RCDT09A

Earlier in the spring we published a blog entry titled, "Don't buy a portable TV this year" highlighting the fact that the vast majority of portable TVs use analog tuners that won't pull in TV signals after the analog-to-digital TV transition February 17, 2009. At the time, our advice was...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Engineering, Winegard RCDT09A, digital television, converter box, battery, DTV converter box, TV, portable TV, battery pack

Product reviews 2008-09-30