YouTube 15 minutes videos!!!

Microsoft's IE9 Beta will be available to download from September. YouTube increases video upload length to 15 minutes. That's not a big improvement but definitely needs an appreciation. Alienware M11x Core i7 is now available with an 11-inch screen plus NVIDIA's Optimus technology.

Have you ever heard of people who collects CPUs as their hobby? Well then we have a winner now.

70-gigapixel panorama of Budapest is the world's largest digital photograph now. Two Sony Alpha DSLR A900 were behind this 360 panoramic image.

What's special about this cam? Check out below key features.

    * 24.6 MP 35mm format full-frame CMOS sensor (highest res in class)
    * SteadyShot INSIDE full frame image sensor shift stabilization (world first)
    * High Speed Dual Bionz processors
    * Eye-level glass Penta-prism OVF, 100% coverage, 0.74x magnification
    * 9 point AF with 10 assist points, center dual-cross AF w/2.8 sensor
    * 5 frames per second burst, newly developed mirror box
    * Intelligent Preview Function
    * 3 User programmable custom memory modes on mode dial
    * Advanced Dynamic Range Optimizer (5 step selectable)
    * 40 segment honeycomb metering
    * 3.0" 921K pixel Photo Quality (270 dpi) LCD display, 100% coverage
    * Direct HDMI output
    * ISO 200-3200 (ISO 100-6400 expanded range)
    * User interchangeable focusing screens (3 options)
    * CF Type I/II and MS slots, LI-ION battery, STAMINA 880 shots
    * Weight 850g (without battery, card, accs)
    * New Image Data Converter SR software (includes vignetting control)
    * New Vertical Grip
    * Supplied with wireless remote control
    * Magnesium Alloy body and rubber seals for dust and moisture resistance
    * AF micro adjustment
 
And here's A900 with older brother A700.

Mercedes-Benz unveils 2011 S63 AMG with twin-turbo and 5.5L V8. 

 A Bat-mobile created by a customized 1985 Porsche 944. : )

Pioneer new earphones

Pioneer has released some new earphones recently.

On last week Facebook reached half billion users milestone. That's a huge. And if you're planning to get a Dell server motherboard soon, please wait a while because....... they contain Spyware. : ) Yeah its true. Dodge releases 2010 Mopar Challenger.

Tag MP3 easily

My older MP3 collections was a big headache for me, because most of the songs were not correctly tagged, making it very hard to find the song which I'm looking for. Manual tagging would take months to tag the whole collection. Then I found these two easy ways which I'm sharing with you today. Shakira's 'Give it up to me' (one of my favorite tracks) will be the test track for this, mostly due to the nice cover art its going to get.

Soon after the track was downloaded it was look like below when opened in foobar2000.

Method 1 - Use WinAmp (Oh yes, I use WinAmp solely for this purpose). For bulk operations this is the preferred method. Open the track from WinAmp and go to File Info dialog box. And click on 'Auto-Tag'.

WinAmp Auto-Tagger (powered by Gracenote) will do the rest.

Once the track been updated it will look like below. Perfect.

Something missing? Yep the cover art. Go to Artwork tab and click on 'Download Art'.

You'll get couple of album arts, searched based on artist and album details. Select the most preferred one.

Cool. It's done and now you'll have a perfectly tagged track, which is very easy to search or to browse with album arts.

Method 2 - Skip all the above steps if you're tagging only one track. Power up MediaMonkey and add the track to the playlist. Go to Tools and select 'Auto-Tag from Web...' option.

A searched will be perfomed on artist & album details and track details along with album art will preview like below.

There are many options you can use to fine tune the tagging. Once you're satisfied, click on 'Auto-Tag' option. Done. Open the song and see. Perfect.

There are many other methods which will do the same process. If you know any other easy ways, please share them here.

iPhone 4 antenna issue + more

2011 Subaru Outback adds in-car Wi-Fi. That'll provide you an encrypted connection within 150 feet of the car, and it can be used while the car is in motion. Redesigned Nissan March goes on sale in Japan.

It is powered by a new family of inline three-cylinder engines. The basic is 1.2-liter and rated at 79 horsepower and Nissan has also announced a supercharged and direct injected version that should produce over 100 horsepower. Also this includes an automatic start-stop function to switch off the engine when the car comes to a halt. Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X SE ready to smoke some rubber.

Consumer advice: Don't buy iPhone 4 because it's antenna sucks : D When you buy an iPhne you'll get a free case to solve that issue. And also there's proximity sensor issue, some users have had their phone’s touch screens turn back on during calls, and their face makes commands on the phone. Anyway the white iPhone 4 will ship at the end of July.

Google announced Friday that it has received its last shipment of Nexus One devices, which will be the final batch of smartphones that the search engine giant will offer for sale on its Web site.

Mafia II PC release date will be August 24, 2010. Ok there's one month more, but I waited one year now : )

Brother Industries introduces vibration-charged low-power batteries. This is cool.

Its miniature electromagnetic induction generators inside are designed for infrequently used gadgets and provide as little as 10mW when shook.

First real Symbian 4 screen shots emerge. We can expect many advanced features in this release.

Crysis 2, the $200 Special Edition with Nano Pack.

Good news, Microsoft extends Windows XP downgrade to 2020.

Windows 8?

Details are starting to leak about features and functionality Microsoft is planning for the next version of the operating system, which may or may not be called Windows 8. It will include faster startup times, 3-D graphics support, USB 3.0 and Bluetooth 3.0 connectivity, and the ability for users to log in via facial recognition technology. Microsoft is planning to launch an application store from which users will be able to buy apps for PCs and other devices that run Windows. For slates and laptops, Microsoft is focusing on resume-from-sleep performance of less than one second and also planning to connect Windows accounts to the cloud so that users' settings and preferences can follow them to any device they use. More details can be found here.

YouTube improves the site for mobile devices, the site should perform much faster than the original. Facebook will be shutting down the three-year-old Facebook Gifts in order to focus on other projects.  Firefox 4 beta offers HTML 5, tabs default to the top of the window (like Google Chrome) and many more features. but is it better in security? Not yet.

IBM has requested that all employees adopt Firefox as their default browser, regardless of the machine they're using for work.

YouTube on Friday announced support for so-called "4K" video, a format four times the size of today's 1080p HDTVs. A news came that  a user's iPhone 4 caught fire during the connection recharging process, resulting in slight burns to the person's hand.

 Android 2.2 beats Apple iOS 4 in Java based benchmark tests.

New Facebook games, Office Wars. Cool. : )

 Motorola announces charm Android phone with QWERTY keyboard.

 Onkyo's HT-S7300 and HT-S6300 HTIB bundles are totally ready for 3D.

PlayStation Blu-ray 3D update arrives in September. 3D photo, PlayTV and YouTube support to follow.

Intel developing new automotive black box after Toyota's unintended acceleration problems dominated headlines earlier this year.  While this level of information would likely prove helpful in determining who's at fault in an accident, there's the prickly question of who owns that information once it's stored in the vehicle.

BMW celebrates 25 years of M3. Below is the 1986 model.

Office 2010

It's here but is it any better than 2007? First look. Installation is straightforward and as same as 2007. 

Interfaces are exactly 2007 with little changes like the Office Button is now replaced by classic file menu.  For casual use the changes can consider as none.

I've been using this for almost 2 weeks. Although not a heavy user, for reporting and presentation purposes I work with Excel and PowerPoint very much. Clearly there aren't much difference between 2007 and this, except few add-ins like copy and paste quick option menu in Excel and charts and graphic content alignment guidelines in PowerPoint, etc.

Conclusion. Is it better than 2007? Should I convert to 2010? If you're a Windows 7 user or planning to upgrade, definitely go for it. If you're on XP and work very less on Office package, don't worry it's still 2007 with a new interface.