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Archive for April, 2008

Grand Theft Auto IV Rated X … as in 10/10

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

Grand Theft Auto IV went on sale yesterday and some gamesites have already reviewed & rated it. Most give it an enthusiastic ten.
Gamespot for example says the game has a “superb character-driven story - Liberty City really does feel alive”.

And IGN sez “Grand Theft Auto IV is ..a big leap forward” & “a ‘10′ [...]

Inkjet Printer/Paper/Ink Fade Test

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

Trusted Reviews tested 4 inkjet printers with 5 papers and 5 different inks, looking to see how well printed images stood up after 12 months.
Their conclusion: the best results came from the Canon Pixma MP600 printer with original ink - paper didn’t seem to matter much. And if you’re too cheap to buy brand names [...]

Asus Eee PC 900 in Black, with Fish

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

A diner in Hong Kong artfully poses his brand new black Eee PC 900 with the main course. Still life with grouper. Fish, yum.
黒いEee PC 900

HDD vs. SSD

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

ComputerWorld put some traditional hard disk drives up against a couple of those new-fangled solid-state drives and got a bit of a surprise. SSDs are supposed to shine in the areas of power consumption, weight, faster data access and lower boot times, as compared to those ancient electro-mechanical HDDs. However, CWorld’s test show that there’s [...]

Microsoft to Switch to MacBook?

Monday, April 28th, 2008

Interesting and mildly ironic of Microsoft to use Apple hardware, in this case a MacBook Pro, during a Microsoft-sponsored event. The event was entitled “Business Leadership and Digital Innovation for Future Graduated” with Event ID: 1032372709 held in Belgium April 24 2008 and featured Steve Ballmer as keynote speaker.
Might be a trend - a while ago MacBooks were spotted [...]

RIM Developing the iBlackBerry

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

The New York Times reviews the state of the smartphone in the U.S. and finds that the 40% market share enjoyed by Research In Motion to be in some jeopardy. The rival Apple iPhone has grabbed a 17.4% share in just 6 months, and, even worse, a 79% customer satisfaction rating, compared to 54% for the [...]

Nokia 5320 XpressMusic

Saturday, April 26th, 2008

Nokias’s new 5320 XpressMusic music phone features voice recog where one can request a song by saying the artist’s name or the song title.
XpressMusic is of course Nokia’s brand for music phones and features things like “great audio quality”, dedicated music keys and a standard 3.5mm jack. The 5320 implementation of XpressMusic supports MP3, M4A, eAAC+, and WMA music formats.     
 
Nokia 5320 XpressMusic 
 
  

Apple 3G iPhone

Friday, April 25th, 2008

iPodObserver speculates on what the forthcoming iPhone might look like.  Basically a shiny black plastic back replaces the current shiny metallic back.
Not big news, but other sources say the second-gen iPhone will have GPS, and a flush headphone jack. Dimensions to be 115×63×12.5mm, as compared to 115×61×11.6mm for the current model. And have 3.5G. 
Rumor: New [...]

Sony DSC-W170 with Happy Face

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

Walt Mossberg sidekick Katherine Boehret reviews some cameras that aid and abet revisionist photography. The cameras are the Sony DSC-W170, Kodak Z1085 IS and the Olympus FE-340. The features in question include red eye correction, face detection and smile correction.
The Sony DSC-W170 is the only 1 of the 3 cameras that finds smiles in [...]

Gran Turismo 5 Prologue - Review

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

Ars Technica reviews the latest Gran Turismo 5 Prologue offering and deems it a … demo. In case you’ve beaten Gran Turismo 4, can’t wait until GT5 is available in about a year or so, and have $39.99 to spend, then you might want to consider GT5P, the preview version.
A/T says the physics are fine, [...]