Month: August 2006
Vista and Office due January 30th (2007) – watch them slide
According to a listing posted on Amazon.com (example), Windows Vista and Office 2007 will be launched on the same day – January 30th 2007. Who wants to take bets on that date slipping – at least for Vista? Maybe this…
YouTube Video of the Day – The Simpsons versus Star Trek in theme music battle
So. Fans of Star Trek and fans of The Simpsons are in for a treat. Rhodes piano, theremin and casio keyboards lock antlers with a man in a yellow hat and a shouting through a funnel. This is ace.Mof Gimmers…
Google offers free book downloads
Google has launched a service to allow users to download PDF versions of classic and public domain novels and books and print them out. It's a potential threat to traditional book retailers, both on and offline, though I wonder who…
QuietPC's Zalman ultra-quiet notebook cooler
QuietPC have introduced the Zalman ZM-NC1000 ultra-quiet notebook cooler, in light of the recent spate of stories about overheating batteries. I'm not sure that this is going to sort out a dodgy battery, but nevertheless keeping a notebook cool is…
Review: Sennheiser PC120
The Propaganda Sennheiser has a massive range of products, from proper audiophile headphones, to sport friendly earbuds, to the more serious VoIP end of the market. The P120 is aimed as an addition to the PC set-up, with the…
Houseparty iPod 'mood enhancer' speakers
I read the announcement for GEAR4's HouseParty 24/7, and was drawn in by the title: 'around-the-clock mood enhancer'. Wow, how's it going to do that? Invite Noel Edmonds round? Well, no (thankfully) that's not part of the deal. What we've…
Xoro HSD 7500 offers portable DVD and Freeview viewing
Xoro have announced the HSD 7500, a portable/handheld Freeview TV and DVD player with a 7 inch LCD widescreen, resolution 480×234. Its Freeview tuner is detachable, has auto-scan, EPG and Teletext. The DVD player is a slot-loading affair (smmooth) and…
Spiral Frog: Totally free music backed by Universal. Itunes rival?
Music giant Universal Music is supporting a new web site that allows visitors to download songs free of charge, in exchange for viewing adverts. With a suitably odd name, Spiral Frog will launch in December – initially to the US…
iPod not so white? Apple and manufacturing ethics discussed
The controversy over working conditions at FoxConn, a Taiwanese company who assembles and supplies the iPod for Apple has escalated, as two Chinese journalists have had their assets frozen by a court at the company's request. They claim that the…
Archos launches 604 and 404 personal video players
Archos never really impacted on my life until a very dull evening channel-hopping led me to TV’s darkest hole – the shopping channels – where an enthusiastic gent was demonstrating one of their portable players. Unlike most items on…
