If you’re getting frustrated by the limitations of the Windows Explorer interface and fancy something a bit more geared towards the power user, it may be worth taking a look at the feature-stuffed Directory Opus, a commercial file manager that offers more bells and whistles than Santa’s float at Carnival.
Continue reading Directory Opus v9.1 File manager For Windows: Review (91%)
Hoping to be heard above the clinking of Michael Phelp’s vast haul of gold medals is Lenovo’s new Lenovo IdeaPad U8, which gets an official debut at the Beijing Olympics
Authorised by the Beijing Olympic Organising Committee, the 10.6-ounce MID (that’s Mobile Internet Device, acronym fans!) packs an 800MHz Intel Atom Z500 processor with 1GB of RAM onboard (up to 2GB supported) and a SD slot for expansion. There’s a small, mobile phone style keypad to the right of the screen with a stylus included.
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After a Flash demo was apparently ‘accidentally’ posted on Palm’s website, bloggers have been busy digging up more information about the forthcoming Palm Pro handset – and by all accounts it’s a bit of a beauty. Much to our joy.
Sony New Zealand (of all places) is the first to release details of the company’s new E series of MP3 players, each sporting
a 2.0 inch QVGA TFT LCD screen supporting 262,144 colours.
The players come with three different memory capacities, with the NWZ-E435 offering 2GB, NWZ-E436 4GB and the top of the range NWZ-E438 serving up just 8GB of storage (come on Sony – folks are getting used to 16GB and 32GB capacities now and 8GB is, like, sooooo 2007).
Continue reading Sony Announces NWZ-E435, NWZ-E436, NWZ-E438 PMPs
NDS, a DRM, PVR and interactive TV company, will be taken private, away from its current public listed status.
News Corporation currently owns approximately 72% of the equity and a stunning 96% of the voting power of NDS through its ownership of 100% of the outstanding Series B shares.
Substantial amounts of desirous drool were seen dribbling from the mouths of our graphics department with the announcement of Lenovo’s ThinkPad W700 mobile workstation.
Created for graphics professionals, photographers and designers on the move, the W700 packs a bright (400-nit) 17-inch display with a resolution of 1920×1200 (WUXGA) and beefy Intel Extreme Quad-Core processors, but what makes this laptop really stand out from the crowd is the inclusion of an optional built in Wacom digitiser and colour calibration unit.
Continue reading Lenovo’s ThinkPad W700 Packs Onboard Digitiser And Colour Calibration
The cats at Fujifilm’s New Product department have been busying themselves of late, with a veritable litter tray of new digital cameras ready to roll out to the masses.
No less than four additions to their J series of digital compacts have been announced, regaling under the names of the FinePix J100, J110W, J120 and J150W.
Continue reading Fujifilm Announces Finepix J100, J110W, J120, J150W And F60fd Digicams
We’ve never been particularly wowed by its clunky, mid-90s appearance, but we’re certainly digging the functionality of the Amazon Kindle e-book reader, and according to CitiGroup analyst Mark Mahaney it may prove to be a bigger smash than first expected.
Continue reading Kindle E-Book Reader: ‘The Apple iPod Of The Book World’
Coming a little late to the netbook party but still hoping that its celebrity name will guarantee a good seat at the table is Lenovo, who have just announced their IdeaPad S10, a 10-inch mini-notebook running the 1.6GHz Intel Atom chipset.
Although it’s YARN (yet another ruddy netbook) that looks the same as the rest of them, Lenovo have an excellent reputation for the quality of their products, so this 2.4 pound 9.8″ x 7.2″ x .8-1.08″ little wonder might be worth taking a look at.
Back in the day, musicians on the road had to make do with scribbling on the back of beer mats when inspiration struck, but thanks to Tascam’s GT-R1 Portable Guitar/Bass Recorder, musos can lay down the licks in a tick with this pocket sized, high end digital recorder
Looking a bit like it’s mated with a mini-Cyberman, the GT-R1 is a high quality, portable audio recorder for capturing your ‘licks’ to MP3/WAVE at 48/44.1 kHz, 24-bits uncompressed.
The unit comes with a backlit 128 x 64 graphic LCD and and a 1GB SDHC memory card, leaving you ample time to throw some shapes and lay down your finest hammers ons, pull offs, slides, whammy bar wobblings and note bendings.
The SDHC slot means that you can add higher capacity cards letting hit your vibrato and go for a bite.
The unit comes with multiple effects built-in, no less than 55 preset rhythm patterns and packs a cunning “trainer” function which allows axe-wielders to rock along to their fave tracks at their choice of speed — without changing the pitch.
The Tascam comes in a rather pleasing orange/red finish which looks like it could survive being stepped on by drunken drummers or being hit by Derek Smalls’ codpiece enhancer.
There’s no UK release date planned yet, but the Tascam GT-R1 will be out in Japan on August 26th, with a retail price around £160 ($310).