Sunday, August 22, 2010

Mc-Intel-Afee ; )

Intel acquired McAfee Thursday. Cameron Diaz tops McAfee's most dangerous internet celebrity of the year followed by Julia Roberts and Jessica Biel. McAfee publishes a list of commonly searched athletes, actors, musicians or politicians that scammers are using to lure you to their sites.

Xbox 360's 250GB hard drive is now available. All you suffered with cramped 4GB, be happy!


Google releases Chrome web store developer preview. Developers can upload and test their apps created for upcoming Chrome OS here. Facebook Places is out now as an iPhone app but still US only. Power DVD 10 now supports 3D. 

Upcoming Nokia X3. Touch screen + keyboard, nicely designed.It has some cool colors planned out too.

Sony will replace handset wiring with a single copper cable for upcoming models soon. This will be a good news for mobile technicians. : )


FrostWire, the new app I'm using for my.... (thinking.....) let's say downloads. What I love is this has all the features of LimeWire Pro still this comes FREE!
 
Also  love its cool splash screens.


Am I going to replace Ares with this? NO! Why? This can't beat Ares's speed, features, light-weight app, huge network of virus free quality downloads.

I was (was???) a huge fan of GOM player for more than 2 years because of playback capabilities, easier to use interface and pleasant experience watching movies. Now this has a rival. KMPlayer.  Whats better? It has all the features I loved in GOM and +++. Hoooray. Can it beat GOM? Already done.


Also I loved it's iTunes like audio library browser. But for audio, I still recommend foobar2000.


2011 Nissan Maxima.


Microsoft has decided to release Windows 8 a Sinhalese version.


Just kidding ; ) Adios!!!

Sunday, August 8, 2010

Microsoft's new mystery product + more

What is Microsoft's new mystery product? A thin, black, rectangle-shaped device with the word "Microsoft" on bottom back side.


"Don't be so touchy...flat is where it's at." thats all Microsoft says. What is it really? We're waiting....

250GB Xbox 360 Kinect bundle tipped on the retail 4GB packaging. Wow!


New Acer netbook runs Windows XP and Android. Android mobiles are more popular than BlackBerry and iPhone in the U.S considering the number of smartphones shipped in the second quarter.

ASUS' EeeBox EB1501P leaks out with Atom D525 Ion GPU.



Google rolling out multi-account sign-in to users. It will enable to open up Google services from different accounts in the same browser instance. Goodbye GreaseMonkey script : )

Palit will release a factory-overclocked GTX 460 card with 2GB of GDDR5 memory.

It's been informed Quora's founders include Facebook's former CTO. What is Quora? It's some social network like FB, which released to public very recently.

This is bit rare but here are some women of stunt motorcycles.



Fiat 500 BlackJack edition.

2011 Toyota Highlander.


Lamborghini Estoque Concept.


Friday, August 6, 2010

Pioneer rekordbox

recordbox is a music management software distributed by Pioneer. Its a freeware and you can get the free serial key by submitting your taste on DJ music and equipments for a small survey the website conduct.


Basic tasks like search for music files stored on your computer, measure and adjust the beats, cueing, looping can perform with very few clicks. The software can be used in combination with a Pioneer DJ Player (ie. CDJ-2000, CDJ-900) to achieve outstanding DJ performance. This works with USB device import feature too.


Features are a little less but its a nicely organized, smart looking, and free music management software.

Saturday, July 31, 2010

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. : )

Friday, July 30, 2010

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.

Sunday, July 18, 2010

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.

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