After buying DVR software developer Meedio Yahoo! offered their new Meedio-based Yahoo Go TV software free. It seems Yahoo! got the trump card in their competition with Google.
The first desktop with Blu-ray option
Epson has released the first desktop with Panasonic’s LF-MB121JD Blu-ray drive. The price is not so cheap – $1,074. But people who want to have the latest devices should pay more for this possibility 🙂 Maybe after one-two years Blu-ray drives replace completely CD/DVD drives.
Portable MacMini
Recentlly I found MacMini Portable Project. Basically it is a simple and good idea to add small TFT display to MacMini. It can replce your laptop but UMPC (Ultra Mobile PC) such Samsung Q1 or Averatec AHI is much better IMHO.
Upload poscast to non iPod devices
Podcast Ready is a site which lets you easily schedule and download podcasts onto a bunch of non-iPod devices, including memory cards and USB drives. Personally, I don’t have my own podcasts and I don’t listen other s too much. Maybe in the future I’ll start to use it.
The first LINUX-based sequencer
Lionstracs released the Mediastation X-76, a next generation music workstation & performance keyboard based on Linux and AMD’s 32bit Athlon or 64 bit Opteron CPUs in 2004. This isn’t news but nevertheless it very interesting device: The sound generation system is based on a combination between DSP and software synthesis: a total of 256 voices provided by DREAM DSP chips to provide GM/GS sounds. Besides […]
Toshiba HD-A1 inside
Would you like to look inside Toshiba HD-A1 – HD DVD player which consts about $500? One reckless guy gave us this possibility. He removed the lid from his unit’s case and made some shots. Nothing really exciting here except cooling system. It supposes to be very quiet.
Samsung T709 – Wi-Fi/UMA connectivity
A new Sumsung mobile phone – T709 is remarkable becuase it has not only an usual set of handy features but it has a Wi-Fi. More over it allows to make calls to channel from WiFi access points, through the Internet, and, of cource, onto cellular network! There is not a big number of mobile phones with Wi-Fi on the market. That’s why T709 deserves […]
VMware opened virtual machine disk format specification
VMware, the global leader in virtual infrastructure software for industry-standard systems, today announced that its virtual machine disk format specification for defining and formatting virtual machine environments is now openly available, downloadable and free of charge. It’s very clever step! API or open specification of some software stimulates developers to create applications based on this software and extented it. I use VMware under Windows to […]