Tech News Friday May 8, 2009

May 8, 2009

Get your daily fix of news, gadgets, software, new websites, blog watch, video picks and cheap (under $1.00) tech products available via Amazon.

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Tina Fey :: British-born Canadian actor best known for his role as Dr. Meredith Rodney McKay on the science fiction television show Stargate Atlantis. (Follow Here . . .)

Best Posting : Are Eggrolls just Chinese Hotpockets?

Tech News

Best Office, Ever?
Where the creative is alive and kicking.(Arch Daily . . .)

Windows is anti Pirates
Windows Vista pirated at only half the rate of Windows XP. Maybe because Vista sucked?(cnet . . .)

Forget Petrol/Gas — Buy Chocolate
Car which is powered by chocolate. (BBC . . .)

Tech Fails of 2008
Prediction for 2009 : BlueRay Discs.  (India Times . . .)

Wii Sports II
Wii Sports Resort with controller upgrade. (andriasang . . .)

No Lan Phone
1 out of 5 homes only use cell phones, now just fix 911 access. (Red Orbit . . .)

AT&T Monthly Cost Cut
$10.00, but only if you have an iPhone. If you have a Blackberry, suck it! (The)

Web Site Watch

Soundtrack.net :: A great starting place for soundtrack fans. Includes news, movie and soundtrack reviews, composer bios and filmographies, interviews with composers, a resource list, webliography, and podcasts. (Link . . .)

Also available podcast (Link . . .) and RSS Feed (Link . . .)

Blog Watch

Till 2 Day :: Technology News | Reviews | Tips | Tricks For Software and Web Technologies that will help you to use the Technology to its greatest extent. (Link . . .)

Location : India
Twitter : digmod

Tech Quote

“Technology.. the knack of so arranging the world that we need not experience it.”
~Max Frisch

Get that Gadget

Kindle (1st Generation)
Kindle (1st Generation) :: Why pay almost $ 500 for an appliance that isn’t an upgrade?  It is just bigger and button placement has change.  The original Kindle is available for almost $200 less.  You get all the same books, same content, same access . . . same grey scale screen (just larger).  So why pay more?

Specifications

  • Unlike WiFi, you don’t have to find a hotspot. Amazon pays for Kindle’s wireless connectivity so you will never see a monthly wireless bill for shopping the Kindle Store.
  • Display:
    • 6″ diagonal E-Ink® electronic paper display
    • 600 x 800 pixel resolution at 167 ppi
    • 4-level gray scale
  • Size (in inches): 7.5″ x 5.3″ x 0.7″
  • Weight: 10.3 ounces

Price : $290.00

Cheap Amazon

Freeware Found

VLC :: VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, …) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

It’s easy to install and the best of all: It’s platform-independent. (Get it Here . . . )

Video Watch

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWp4-bM2ADk

Today Is . . .

  • All is Ours Day (No Information Available)
  • Draw a Picture of a Bird Day (No Information Available)

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