Posted by hina on November 13, 2009 under Accessories, Software | 
If you like a website and would like to save it into a picture file for future reference, you would probably have to save the whole page via “File > Save Page As”. This method would no doubt save huge chunks of unwanted files along with it. The other possible alternative is to print screen multiple copies of the web page and save them using Microsoft paint/GIMP. However, this makes the process very tedious, especially if the page is lengthy. After some research using the mighty Google, theysaY has discovered one useful Firefox plugin dedicated for print screening the entire web page.
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Posted by hina on under Accessories, Software |
All windows users would have one time or another experience your computer hanging when you are in the midst of your work. To make matter worse, you cannot simply restart your computer because you have not saved your project that you rushed through the night. However you can try a simple trick to unfreeze your windows without restarting your computer.
Unfreeze your windows when your computer hang
1) Press ctr alt del / right click your taskbar and select Task Manager to access your Windows Task Manager.
2) Under the Processes tab, select explorer.exe and press end process. Select yes to confirm your action.
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Posted by hina on November 11, 2009 under Accessories, Computer Hardware |
This gadget looks like a pistol, but it doesn’t shoot bullets. It’s a infrared thermometer which allows you to measure temperatures for places which are hard to reach.
How does it do that? You just need to point this thermometer gun at those corners which you’re curious what temperatures they’re at.
Just point and shoot at the red hot engine of your car, or your air conditioner, to find out the temperatures. It comes with a display that shows you the digital readings of the temperature captured by this gun. You can switch between Celsius and Fahrenheit. The device also comes with a back light and optional laser pointer. At anytime, any places, you can use this little gun to capture the accurate temperature readings for you.
The device is sensitive to the temperature in the range of -20~+200 Degrees Celsius (or 0-400 degrees Fahrenheit). All it needs is less than one second to tell you the temperature at where you point it at.
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A cube that looks so ordinary from outside. But once you press the black button, the top will open up to unveil you some high-tech stuff inside. It’s actually a label maker, which is a high-tech version from Japan.
Once the top opens up, you’ll see a US version QWERTY keyboard and an LCD screen, which you can start making your labels by inputing the required text, type it on the QWERTY and it shall then print out the labels for you. Unfortunately the LCD screen displays text in Japanese only. It’s a cool device that is pretty widely used in Japan for making labels to stick on your files, folders, hardcover books and even those gadgets scattered around on your desk, to make your life easier.
The device comes in two flavors of colors, which is either red or white. It’s powered by AA batteries and also has an option to source power from the AC adapter that comes with it. The device seems to come with little intelligence that will do auto-completion for you while you’re inputting some initial text, which the auto-completion will try to match and suggest the rest of the text, so you don’t have to type the overly lengthy text. Of course you can always refill it with the blank label stickers when it’s run out.
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Posted by hina on under Accessories, Digital Camera |
The Casio EX-Z9 is a pretty easy to use camera that carries a 8.1 megapixel for the resolution and equipped with 3x optical zoom.
The camera gives you all sort of easiness. Once you just get it out of box, you can have a very quick start of using it after the first charging on its included charging station. The easiness is what Casio emphasizes on this camera.
One pretty outstanding feature is it’s made super handy for uploading videos to YouTube. The video recorded using the Casio EX-Z9 needs only three simple steps for uploading to YouTube.
The camera boasts a 2.6-inch screen, which presents easiness for you to navigate through the menus for various operations. The camera also gives you up to 23 Best shot modes, which include preset shooting modes such as for shooting fireworks and pets, meant for users to take best shots of different scenes. This has shown that Casio has spent pretty much effort into studying how people are photographing, has designed this camera to suit all the possible ways of doing the shooting.
The camera also includes features such as Anti Shake DSP for reducing photo blur, Easy Mode that simplifies camera settings in just three simple menus for adjusting or setting image size, flash and self timer. It’s also equipped with face detection technology, making it much easier to take pictures than ever.
The easy Casio EX-X9 comes in four colors, which are pink, black, silver, and orange. It’s available now for a price of $159.99.
Posted by hina on November 9, 2009 under Accessories, Computer Hardware |
There might be some other tiny computers that are smaller than the Space Cube. But, in my memory, it seems to be the smallest that I’ve ever seen.
The Space Cube is a cubic device, which is a fully functional computer that is sized just like an apple. Look at the Space Cube in the picture, how it’s compared side by side with an apple. The Space Cube comes with lots of ports. Inside the cube, you’ll find a a 300MHz processor, 64MB of DDR RAM and it doesn’t have hard disk drive. The only permanent storage is a 1GB Compact FlashCard.
With the very tiny size of RAM, if you’re only able to use it to open Notepad. It surely fails to run today’s memory-hungry applications. The Space Cube is equipped with lots of ports which allow you to hook up to external devices and extend its connectivities. You’ll find SP Outs, Mic Ins, Ethernet ports, VGA support, USB port, speaker plug and more on this little cubic computer.
There is even a “Space Wire” port, which seems like a proprietary stuff which is to fit the NASA/ESA only. Despite the super tiny size, it carries a huge price tag of $2800. The Space Cube is meant for use in the space, which it acts pretty much like a middle man to be hooked up with various sensors and processing units, while it’s in the space craft.
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Posted by hina on under Accessories, Cell Phone, PDA Phone |
Many are aggressively developing great apps for the Apple iPhone. iPhone was made possible as a universal remote control for your home with the cool app called AirRemote, and also it has another cool app that makes it a controller for unmanned military aircrafts. And now the latest we have here is iPhone has been turned into a controller for RC car with the software app developed by two programmers from the Czech Republic.
Once you launch this RC car controller app on your iPhone, you’ll be presented with five big buttons across the touchscreen of the iPhone. These five buttons allow you to move your car in forward, backwards, left and right and the fifth one does something special which activates the the accelerometers in the phone when it’s pressed, which you can then control the RC car by simply tilting the iPhone.
This RC car controlling system seems taking too complicated route for sending its signals to the RC car and involves couple of communications and equipments. It involves little complex stuff which OSCemote is being used here to send data from your iPhone to your computer wirelessly over WiFi.
Once the data arrives at the computer, some software simplifies the data and then pushes it to Arduino via your computer’s serial port. Arduino is the development kit that has a microprocessor, which can then be connected to the remote control and you then get a fully functional iPhone R/C device. Are you lost? We don’t care, as long as it works. There is a video attached below that shows you how the iPhone is used to control the RC car.
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Various applications have been made for the iPhone which turn it into a great musical instrument. We’ve seen piano, guitar, drum and now we have a Stylophone here.
Stylophone is an electronic musical instrument- a synthesizer that was invented by Brian Jarvis in 1968 and manufactured in the U.K. by Dubreq. The iPhone app that turns it into a Stylophone is called Dubreq iStylophone and developed by the UK-based company which calls themselves Very cool software company
The Dubreq Stylophone seems to be a pretty popular electronic musical instrument in the 70s and it’d been used by various artists including used by artists including David Bowie, Brett Domino, Erasure, Hexstatic, Krafwerk, Marilyn Manson, Orbital, Pulp, The Raconteurs, and They Might Be Giants.
But the Stylophone might have lost its popularity in the 21st century.Now thanks to the Very cool software company, which has brought the Stylophone onto the iPhone. It shall also make full use of the iPhone’s multi-touch capabilities so you could easily churn out fancy tunes on your iPhone’s touch screen. The app costs $5.95 and will be ready for download in December.