Samsung takes on Apple’s iPod Touch – the P2 works its way to functionality
Posted by Kathleen Maher on June 30th 2008 | Permalink
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Right out of the box the Samsung P2 is a thrill—it’s sleek, it has a whizzy interface, and it promises to do anything for you. Reality sets in later duing the experimental phase. There’s a media store, but it’s not active in the U.S. yet. There’s Bluetooth but it doesn’t have anyone to talk to. Why in the world does the USB connector have to have a proprietary connector to the device? And so it goes.
Pinnacle Video Transfer
Posted by Kathleen Maher on June 30th 2008 | Permalink
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Such a simple idea and it works. The Pinnacle Video Transfer box has plenty of forerunners and they too were often capable machines if a tad complicated. The Pinnacle Video Transfer box is a simple analog video recorder that attaches to your machine via composite, S-Video, or Stereo Audio.
Dolby Volume - Does it really work and would I use it?
Posted by Henry Choy on June 2nd 2008 | Permalink
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I’ve seen and heard more product demonstrations than I care to count. In spite of that when I heard the Dolby Volume demo at this year’s CES at Cirrus Logic’s suite, I was hopeful. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve told my kids to turn down the TV volume. It turns out TV broadcast volume levels are not the same from channel to channel or even from show to commercial.
Taking a new workstation and two professional graphics cards out for a test-drive
Posted by Alex Herrera on June 2nd 2008 | Permalink
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Lifting the curtain on its ThinkStation S10 and D10 models back in November of ‘07, Lenovo became the first major vendor to enter the market for deskside workstations in many years. After backing into the market for mobile workstations—with its acquisition of IBM’s PC division in 2005—Lenovo has made a more conscious step forward with deskside models, mounting a new challenge to market leaders Dell and HP.
Lenovo’s ThinkStation S10 taps Intel’s Core 2 while its big brother ThinkStation D10 leverages Intel’s Xeon for dual-socket configurations. Though both of Intel’s new 45 nm processors were announced last fall, Lenovo did not manage to ramp volume until later in Q1’08. When they did finally ramp up, the company loaned an S10 to us for evaluation.
Corel 4 - a big box of tools
Posted by Kathleen Maher on June 2nd 2008 | Permalink
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Corel has added several useful features to its package of tools for graphic artists including tables, as shown in this example. The basic tasks required to create good-looking pieces including brochures, newsletters, business cards, ads, etc. are all here and easy to use. Note the object manager on the right side, the tabs give users fast access to hints (that usually don’t apply, but at least they’re trying) and to ConceptShare to post work online for comment and even interactive chat with comments.
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