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|  | | Scary Mouse Found, Looks More Like an Explosive!
Friday, October 03, 2008
I am wondering who has got such an idea to modifying a mouse so that it looks more like a hand grenade. Well the website where it has been shown is not in English so I couldn’t get more details about it but I thought I’d post this anyway – cool but terrifying!  
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| Now, Adobe Photoshop for Mobile Phones
Friday, October 03, 2008
To date, graphic designers have been creating magic with Adobe Photoshop on their PC, but now Adobe brings new software for mobile users to enhance what they can do online. Adobe’s photoshop.com mobile allows you to upload, view and share photos from your mobile phone. In the US there is a free download of a beta version for Windows mobile based handsets. For those mobiles which do not support Adobe software, Adobe suggests Shozu mobile phone software. An announcement from Shozu suggested its software supports 350 different cell phones, allowing uploads to photoshop.com. But the absence of cropping, auto fixing exposure and an incompatibility with high powered phones could be a drawback. 
"But more likely, Adobe sees this software as a tool to increase its customers' online activity. Photoshop Express can be used for those sorts of adjustments, although even high-powered phones such as Apple's iPhone can't use it yet. But with gradually increasing network capacity and mobile-phone processing, this market will become much more mature in a few years." – cnet news. | |
| Microsoft Windows Cloud OS May Release Next Month
Friday, October 03, 2008
Engadget has reported that Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer has revealed some sort of information on Windows Cloud, an upcoming Windows based OS form Microsoft. According to the news, Microsoft may disclose more details on the Cloud OS during the scheduled Professional Developers Conference. I wonder if it’s the Midori project that there are rumours about? (“codenamed ‘Midori,’ is a new Microsoft operating-system platform that supposedly supersedes Windows. Midori is in incubation, which means it is a little closer to market than most Microsoft Research projects, but not yet close enough to be available W… “ [WindowsMidori.net]). “Of course, Ballmer isn't about to get very specific about the OS just yet, though he does seem to be dampening expectations a bit by saying, "just like Windows Server looked a lot like Windows but with new properties, new characteristics and new features, so will Windows Cloud look a lot like Windows Server." | |
| Apple Drops NDA for iPhone Developers
Friday, October 03, 2008
Yesterday, in a post on the official iPhone developer site it was announced that the company has decided to drop the non-disclosure agreement (NDA) for its iPhone developers. Apple imposed the NDA norm in order to protect their work and prevent leaks of the company’s secrets and formulas but now they have decided to relieve the burden of the NDA. Note: Apple is only dropping the NDA for released products; for products which are still under development an NDA will remain until they are released. “We put the NDA in place because the iPhone OS includes many Apple inventions and innovations that we would like to protect, so that others don’t steal our work. It has happened before. While we have filed for hundreds of patents on iPhone technology, the NDA added yet another level of protection. We put it in place as one more way to help protect the iPhone from being ripped off by others.” – Apple. | |
| | Smart Phones—Are They Really Smart?
Thursday, October 02, 2008
Smart phones may not be so smart where security is concerned. Their use is increasing and at the same rate the security problems are rising too. Mobile Java did a good job once to check malicious code entering smart phones, but now, with so many, features they are more prone to the hackers. If you’re planning to do business with smart phones, take precautions as John Girard from ComputerWorld says, “The more your phone gets like a PC, the more it can host malicious code." 
“Gartner forecasts that wireless identity theft and phishing attempts targeting mobile devices will become more and more prevalent next year. Girard said that before buying large quantities of handhelds for their workers, companies need to be sure that the devices meet a minimum set of security specifications, based on what kind of data the devices will handle and the regulations that businesses need to comply with under data protection laws.” (Rating-4.00) | |
| Nintendo’s Portable Gaming Device with Non Gaming Features
Thursday, October 02, 2008
Listen to your favorite music and take photos with the inbuilt camera … wondering whether I am talking about the latest cell phone? Not this time. Now you can enjoy these features with your personal gaming device. Japanese gaming giant Nintendo is launching a new version of the DS this year which has a camera and music playback capabilities, along with previous features of dual screen, stereophonic microphone and touch screen technology. Nearby trains and restaurants can also be located via improved Wireless communication. They are planning to launch it in Japan by the end of this year followed by a US release afterwards. 
Weird Blog Network has reported recently “Nikkei Net, the online arm of Japan's foremost economic newspaper, reports that the new model will launch this year in Japan and include a camera and music playback. Nikkei's take on the new machine is that Nintendo is moving outside the boundaries of the "game industry" and attempting to create a device that will compete with more general electronics like cell phones.” (Rating-5.00) | |
| Building a Blu-ray HTPC, ep 8: BD-Live
Wednesday, October 01, 2008
Episode eight of tkArena's weekly “How to Build a Blu-ray HTPC” series is now available for viewing. After making the video card choice, John and Fiona explain about the features of BD-Live. John tests the different BD-Live players and picks out his final choice. 
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| AMD Won’t Repeat the History of Barcelona with Shanghai CPU!
Wednesday, October 01, 2008
AMD’s first quad-core CPU, Barcelona, was an unforgettable nightmare for the company when it was shipped last September with a bug in the cache memory. This time AMD has announced that their upcoming CPU, Shanghai, won’t be another Barcelona and they’re claiming that they have overhauled their testing process to avoid such issues. Pat Patla, AMD's server workstation group GM said that, “We realized with Shanghai that we'd have to turn out a product early that had the stability and the health to make [server vendors] get engaged," he told reporters in San Francisco. "We realized their experience with Barcelona wasn't ideal." - PC World. | |
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| | | Here Comes the Wolf! | | Fiona's Ramblings
| By fiona on9/9/2008 1:28 AM | |
| For some odd reason it feels like a Monday on this Tuesday. Yesterday was spent sort of taking care of loose ends. Mondays can be like one long deep breath that is then slowly exhaled over the rest of the week until I hit Friday night and turn off the work PC. 
It’s been an odd year so far for tkArena and for some reason I feel like we’re at a crossroads right now. There have been some huge life-changing events in the lives of some of the main players for this site—things that redefine the word “distraction”. But now, finally I think we’re in a position to really get things moving again. This sentimental blog is probably a result of the spring here in Melbourne – it always makes me energized and nostalgic. | |
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| | Update in Process | | John Gatt's Babblings
| By John Gatt onThursday, August 21, 2008 2:13 PM | |
| So, there’s a new iPhone update out there. The first thing I did this morning was plug in my iPhone to sync it with iTunes and get the latest update, hoping it would fix some of the crash Apple screens of death issues I’ve been having and also hoping it would fix some of the home wireless network issues I’ve been having. Whenever Wi-Fi is enabled on my iPhone it randomly resets my wireless router. Other wireless network devices like PCs, notebooks and my Playstation don’t seem to have the issue but the iPhones for some strange reason does. So I download the software and let it go through the whole backup process of the phone, which takes an incredibly long time. About an hour later I see an error message that says update failed, unknown error 13. So, I disconnect the iPhone which is now in recover mode, and reconnect it. iTunes ... |  | | Comments (0) | More... |
| | @Me dot com | | John Gatt's Babblings
| By John Gatt onTuesday, August 19, 2008 9:34 AM | |
| iTunes has advertised the Apple @Me service to me a couple of times, so I thought I’d give it a spin. If you don’t know what @Me is, it’s iTune or Apple’s solution to Gmail but it’s meant to have more features than just email. It supports Contacts, Photos and general item storage – up to 20GB can be stored in your @Me account. Although they offer a free 90 day trial, it does have a US$99 per year price tag and there is no option for a free version. It’s all or nothing after the 90 days. The whole idea behind @Me is for flawless synchronization between your work PC, Home PC and mobile device – aka the iPhone. First impressions of this service are that they need to do a lot of work to bring it up to scratch. It’s slow and the POP email section of it is nothing short of pathetic. Although your @Me email has a spam filter connected ... | | | Comments (0) | More... |
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