Posted by hina on November 13, 2009 under Accessories, Computer Hardware, Software | 
Gartner analysts also revealed that they expected the number of PCs in use to hit 2 billion by 2014, with a 12% annual increase, largely thanks to the surge in adoption rate in developing countries.
One of the greatest challenges that countries will also face in the future is figuring out how to safely dispose of unwanted computers. It is estimated that some 180 million computers, or about 16 percent of those in use globally will be retired. and up to 35 million will be “dumped into landfills with little to no regard for their toxic content”.
Its all well and good that you’re upgrading to the latest PC capable of playing Crysis, but do remember to dispose of your old PC more responsibly, k? Cos the Earth will love you for that.
Posted by hina on under Accessories, Software |
The Gmail team has just added a novel feature to one of the world’s most popular online email platforms: mail goggles. The intention of this weirdly named feature? To add another layer of prevention against the accidental sending out of a poorly worded or poorly timed email.
Gmail Goggles works by allowing you to specify a time when you are likely to be less alert and in control of yourself(etc drunken Friday/Saturday nights). Everytime you attempt to send an email during that time, Gmail will request that you answer a series of maths problems within a certain time limit before your mail is sent – Hopefully that helps to prevent another occurrence of the time you emailed your boss and presented an ultimatum – a raise or you quit.
Posted by hina on under Accessories, Software |
With the plethora of personal video and audio players available on the consumer market today one common question newbie users have is: What software to use in order to convert a video or audio file into one that can play on their device?
While there are all-in-one players that exist, the fact remains that most video players on the market today such as the Apple Ipod Video are unable to play videos encoded with popular codecs such as the XVID codec. Conversion needs to be done in order to convert the original video into the .mp4 file that will play on the Ipod Video. Enter Blaze Media Pro, an all-in-one multimedia suite or a software package containing utilities such as an audio converter, video converter and a video editor.
Features promised by the Blaze Media Pro multimedia suite include the following:
* Audio editing and conversion from popular formats such as mp3, wav, ogg and wma
* Adjustment of bitrate and compression for audio files
* Ripping, burning and editing capabilities
* Batch video conversion between avi, mpg, wmv and mov formats
* Video editing features for popular video formats
* Video joiner for avi, wmv and mpeg files
* Video frame to image file ripping
* A variety of other features including but not limited to the area of: Video capture, Video editing and Audio extraction
As you can see, this multimedia suite virtually does it all, you’d be hardpressed to find software like Blaze Media Pro that duplicates all of the functionality listed above without downloading up to 4 or 5 limited software that only offers a fraction of the functionality. Testing revealed that the video encoder certainly worked as promised, offering performance and accuracy in the video conversion, something that is definitely key in any video editing or conversion software.
Posted by hina on under Accessories, Software |
The ScribeFire Blog Editor is a Mozilla Firefox addon that has received rave reviews from bloggers from all over the net. Its a blogging tool built into the Mozilla Firefox interface by way of an add on, allowing you to have access to a WYSIWYG editor while browsing the net for inspiration or references.
ScribeFire is easily installed, and once the installation is done you can easily add your blog address,username and password to the Scribefire interface. Scribefire allows you to add multiple blogs from multiple blogger accounts so that you can choose which blog to post to easily.
Once this is done, a easy to use blog editor just like that in blogger allows you to easily compose your posts and add images. You can browse through existing entries in your blogs, or go through saved posts which are either unfinished or unpublished, all located in an easy to use tabbed interface that will ensure you never face the problem of a missing unfinished blog post again.
Posted by hina on under Accessories, Software |
For those Firefox advocates including me myself, I relish the thought of knowing another simple trick about the ever powerful Firefox itself that will enhance my web experience. A little unknown feature available in your latest version of Firefox 3 is that is allows you to set more than on homepage. What i mean is that you can now open several instances of Firefox homepage when you first execute and run the popular web browser.
Select and follow the following directions on how to set and run more than one homepage in Firefox.
Posted by hina on November 11, 2009 under Accessories, Computer Hardware |
Sega has been pretty agressive in making robots. After they’ve shown us Sega female robot, the latest bot that Sega brings to us is the Sega Ampbot.
The Sega Ampbot is specially designed to bring more fun to your musical enjoyment. It’s like a little doggy that follows you around everywhere and blasts tunes with its 12W speakers. Besides, it dances along the beat too. The Sega Ampbot is equipped with an iPod dock that lets you plug your iPod on it, so it will carry your tunes and blast around.
If you ain’t mind to be followed by a little weird robot everywhere you go in the house, then this would be the choice to make your favorite tunes to accompany you for every food step. The AmpBot is expected to hit both in America and Japan in November this year. And will be carrying a price tag of $500.
Posted by hina on under Accessories, Cell Phone, PDA Phone |
The Nokia 7610 has got the official info now. It’s a cellphone that carries a 3.2 megapixel camera, and is the flagship phone of the Nokia Supernova series, and there are quite a number of goodies on it.
the Nokia 7610 cellphone features a 3.2-megapixel camera, which comes with auto-focus and dual LED flash for aiding you in shooting nice photos around. It also features 16M color QVGA screen, and it’s quite a stylish handset. But unfortunately, it works on the low-speed GPRS and EDGE only for the data connectivity, which has no fate with 3G.
One cool feature found on this cellphone is the illumination color of the keypad and the theme will change automatically dependent on the current environment. It also features the XpressOn covers which allow the easy changing of the covers of the cellphone.
The detailed specs are listed as below:
- GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 (2G Network)
- 2 Inch TFT Display (16M colors/240 x 320 pixels)
- MP3 and Polyphonic (64 channels) Ringtones
- Vibration
- 64 MB Built in Memory plus microSD (TransFlash) Card slot up to 2GB, 512MB or 2GB included
- Phonebook (2000 entries & Photocall)
- Call records (20 dialed, 20 received, 20 missed calls)
- GPRS Class 32, 88 kbps
- HSCSD – EDGE Class 32, 296 kbits
- Bluetooth v2.0
- v2.0 microUSB
- SMS, MMS, Email, Instant Messaging
– colours (Muted Gray, Steel Blue, Red, Bright Lilac, Pristine White)
– HTML and WAP 2.0/xHTML Browser
- Games
– 3.2 MP Camera (2048×1536 pixels, autofocus, video(VGA@15fps), dual LED)
- MP3/AAC/AAC+/eAAC+/WMA player
- Stereo FM radio with RDS
- Built-in handsfree
- Voice memo
- Java MIDP 2.0
- Xpress-on covers
- MPEG-4 player
- T9
- Li-Ion 860 mAh (BL-4S) Battery
- Up to 300 hours standby time
- Up to 5 hours 20 minutes talk time
- 98 x 48 x 15 mm and weighs only 99 grams.
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So many great tools are available for the “night thieves”. If the night vision scope isn’t sufficient for you to carry out your mission in darkness, here comes the Night Vision Goggles, which at least makes you look more professional as a “night thieve”.
There is so much fun with this spy gadget. Look at the picture how the goggles are worn by the beautiful chick, which has now turned her into a “night heroine” that has always appeared in your dream, climbing through the window of your room.
These spy goggles allow you to see up to 60 meters away while you’re in a complete darkness. Besides, it’s equipped with a PAL video output, which allows you to connect it to a PMP with video in, to record whatever your eyes and the goggles have seen in darkness. You can even connect to video/audio source to the AV IN to let you watch movies with sounds on it.
The goggles also come equipped with adjustable focus and infrared brightness. It comes with a rechargeable li-ion battery that is long-lasting to let you enjoy hours of peeking fun in the dark or watching movies on it. The gadget has the flexibility that you can swivel the camera off your eyes when you’ve got enough with it.
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