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The Big Weekend Hardware Roundup
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MSI NX7900GT-VT256E-HD HDCP-enabled Geforce 7900GT Videocard at PCSTATS

Seasonic S12 Energy Plus SS-650HT 650W Power Supply Review at PCSTATS

How To Replace Your Power Supply at Hardware Secrets

iStar D-Storm D300 3U 19-inch Rackmount Chassis Review at PCSTATS

Crucial DDR2 PC2-5300 ECC Memory at 3dGameMan

Zalman Reserator 1 Plus Passive Computer Water Cooling System Review at Tweaknews

TWIN2X2048-8500C5 2 GB Memory Kit Review at Hardware Secrets

eVGA GeForce 7300 GT 256MB DDR2 at Trusted Reviews

Samsung SyncMaster 204B 20 Inch LCD Monitor Review at Tweaknews

Nokia E61 Mobile Phone at Trusted Reviews

HIS X1300 512MB HyperMemory 2 PCIe x1 Video Card at 3dGameMan

ECS RS480-M Crossfire Xpress 200 K8 Motherboard Review at PCSTATS

ASRock 775XFire-eSATA2/A/ASR i945PL Motherboard Review at PCSTATS

New Super Mario Bros at Trusted Reviews

Logitech Wireless Desktop S510 Media Remote at OCC News

Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX9 at Trusted Reviews
 
Star Trek Remote Control
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Beam me up Scotty. This concept remote control might just be landing in your front room if the guys at Geisendesign have their way. A sexy flip top design for a contemporary feel, with important buttons located on the outside, specifications are thin at the moment.

This device certainly looks promising and hopefully they'll see it through to production. As Captain Picard would say, 'Make it so'.
 
Aigo F529 Audio System
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Looking a little like a novelty sex aid, the Aigo Omnisphere is in fact an audio system to revolutionalise your music listening experience. The F529's elegant sleek design is a first in integrated MP3/Amplifier/Speaker technology.

With its built-in 1GB flash memory, you can store up to 250 MP3 files or 500 WMA files on the system, and let the amazing 360 degree omni-directional sound (patent-pending) give you a whole new listening experience of your favourite tunes!

It will also light up your room with different mood colours, as it features a high illumination LED with a staggering 4096 colours! These can be set to mimic your music. Just don't try playing System of a Down at full blast, ok.
 
Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard" debuts
Written by WoobiaEroveva   
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The successor to OS X 10.4 which was released in April last year is finally previewed. The official launch date is to be some time in Spring 2007.

Leopard will feature the following improvements over its predecessor:

  • 64-bit Cocoa and Carbon application support, right beside 32-bit apps, all native.
  • Time Machine - Automatically backs up every version of your files to a hard drive or server. Includes snazzy 3D Time Machine view (pictured) to browse through older versions of folders.
  • Boot Camp - "Even better." Ships with Leopard.
  • Photo Booth - With expanded camera support.
  • Spaces - Apple's term for virtual desktops. Allows you to group different applications together in their own environment for different tasks, and allows movement of windows between "spaces."
  • Spotlight - Can search other machines over a network. Boolean operations, application launching, and recent items will also be added to the search tool.
  • Core Animation - Developer architecture to create moving eye candy with little code.
  • Universal Access - VoiceOver enhancements, Braille support, closed captioning and improved navigation.
  • Mail - Stationary (templates), Notes (specially highlighted self-sent emails) and To-Do lists all built in.
  • Dashboard - New Dashcode tool allows visual template-based Widget development. There's also a new Web Clip app that takes any part of a web page and turns it into a Widget.
  • iChat - Allows multiple logins, invisible mode, animated buddy icons, video recording and tabbed chats (hooray.) There's also photo booth effects, iChat Theater (slideshows, Keynote presentations and videos displayed over video chat), and photo/video backdrops.
  • Enhanced Parental Controls
  • Xcode 3
Keep reading for more information.

 
Windows Vista Update: Build 5472 Preview
Written by WoobiaEroveva   
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With Vista speculated to be released early next year, it will have been almost 6 years since the launch of Widows XP. Previously, Microsoft used to bring out a new OS every 3 years, but the ride has been somewhat bumpy, to say the least, as far as the testing of Microsoft's upcoming OS goes.

We decided to take a look at how they are doing.     
 
MSI P160 to challenge iPod nano
Written by WoobiaEroveva   
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"The P610 is to be the IPOD next greatest contender. A 1GB version should sell for around €99. According to TheINQ The test version had 1GB while there are 2GB and 4GB versions slated for the future. The P610 is thin, very thing at 8.5 millimetre thick. The P610 features a stylish origional design that does not seem to be just another IPOD clone, but something a little different. Fortunately the display visible in pictures below is not the final display that will be used."
 
Fujifilm debuts digicam with face detection capabilities
Written by WoobiaEroveva   
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We've seen it all in sci-fi movies....from self driving cars to talking robots. The spectrum of cool gadgets that only exist in the movie world is infinite. However, with the launch of Fujifilm's FinePix S6500fd, the spectrum just became one gadget smaller.

Ladies and gentlemen - presenting the world's first digital camera with face detection capabilities.

 
Ricoh Blu-ray and HD-DVD Hybrid Player Details
Written by WoobiaEroveva   
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It looks like another manufacturer of optical media players will be launching multi-format devices which will play and record to both Blu-ray and HD-DVD as well as standard DVD and CD formats.

 
Attack of the iriver clones
Written by WoobiaEroveva   
u10clone2

We've seen our fair share of clones in the past, but this is one of the most obvious rips we've seen in a while. It's a copy of the iriver U10/Clix and is called the LUCKYee LY-PM06. The player looks almost exactly the same as the U10/Clix on the outside, but has a different interface inside.


  • 512mb and 1GB capacities
  • 2.2" TFT Display
  • Audio: MP3, WMA, and WAV
  • Video: AVI (25fps)
  • FM Tuner
  • Voice Recorder
  • TXT and Games supported



One noticeable difference is the 25fps for video, compared with iriver's 15fps. This player, like many other clones originates from China. The 512mb and 1GB players are selling for $50 and $62 respectively. Those prices are really great, but like all other copies nothing beats the original.
 
Google makes Google Pack Brit-ish
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Google has kindly made its Google Pack officially available for the UK, saving us having to download the .com flavour. Containing such freeware as Adobe Reader, Picasa, Google Screensaver and Firefox, it's a 'a free collection of essential software'.
 
3 new digital cameras from Samsung promise to keep you shutter happy
Written by WoobiaEroveva   
Samsung has released three New Vision (NV) digital cameras for the consumer market. All three feature black metal bodies and 2.5" LCD screens. The cameras also feature text recognition which allows the user to shoot text from books or magazines and then process the data using Samsung's Digimax Reader text recognition software, but that's where the similarities end.

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