May 2, 2008
SY Tan

Building a World Brick by Brick with Lego Universe

Better late than never. Since Nintendo and Mattel have launched their online universes for Pokemon and Barbie, respectively, it was natural for Lego Group to do so with its ubiquitous bricks. The toy, touted to develop fine motor and coordination skills in children, stimulate their creativity as well as encourage spatial intelligence and three-dimensional awareness, is finally jumping on the virtual world bandwagon. Children, teenagers and adults alike can now create their own universe with Lego Universe, the PC game set to capture a new niche market for Europe’s largest but floundering toymaker.
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May 2, 2008
SY Wong

Apple’s Acquisition of PA Semi Threaten Intel in iPhone Positioning?

Apple’s recent announcement of acquisition plan for PA Semi, a famous multi-core processors developer for embedded market with a huge acquisition cost of $278 million has triggered much speculation on what is the potential next step of the giant computer maker. Some of us may start wondering if such an act will threaten Intel as previous rumors of positioning its newly released ultra small form factor and low TDP (Thermal Design Power) Atom processor for Apple’s next generation iPhone may not come true. By considering a few mismatch factors below, the possibility of using either PA Semi or even Intel Atom processors could just be pure rumors.


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May 2, 2008
SY Tan

Leave an Impression with Interactive Presentation Slides via ZoomIt V1.8

Presentation is an essential corporate communication tool to market your services or products to potential clients. An impressive presentation can make or break a deal. Nowadays with various presentation programs available such as Microsoft PowerPoint, OpenOffice.org Impress or Apple Keynote, the presentation process has been made much easier. You can generate the contents in a presentation file conveniently with these programs. The built in functions in these programs will help you to create an interesting presentation show. To make the presentation more interactive and interesting, besides utilizing attractive slides, perhaps you can also consider this little tool to help. This little application, ZoomIt v1.8, is a screen zoom and annotation tool that can help you to grab your audience’s interest and focus their attention to a specific spot. Besides, you can also use your mouse to draw lines on a specific area or type some messages. The lines and messages will temporary appear on your screen and they will be removed once you press “Escape”.
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May 2, 2008
Nic Cho

Download New Movies Same Day As DVD Release On iTunes

The famous American multinational corporation, Apple has announced that the new movie releases from major film studios and premier independent studios including 20th Century Fox, The Walt Disney Studios, Warner Bros., Paramount Pictures, Universal Studios Home Entertainment, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Lionsgate, Image Entertainment and First Look Studios are now available for purchase on the world’s most popular online music, TV and movie store – iTunes, on the same day as their DVD release.
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May 2, 2008
Tip and Trick Editorial

ADrive Offers Free 50GB Online Storage and Backup Space

ADriveMost of online free file hosting, storage or backup space services either go bust, out of business, site down or turn paid subscription base without notice over time. So far there is no free Internet storage space services that lasts forever, or even more than a few years. If you still believe in free online drive space, which costs hefty bandwidth and storage costs to the provider, you’ll definitely love ADrive.
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May 2, 2008
Tip and Trick Editorial

Get Free $25 or More Money Refund (No Hack Required) from Credit Card Foreign Currency Conversion Fee Settlement

Well, ok, it’s not free actually. That’s the money that you have paid to the oligopolies in credit cards industry. But if you had traveled overseas to international destinations and used your credit card, or have made any foreign transaction (either purchase, cash advance, cash withdrawal, online Internet transaction and any other transactions including non-US ATMs and foreign merchants in U.S) in a foreign currency (or US dollar with additional amount charged for foreign merchant) on a United State-issued Visa-, MasterCard- or Diners Club-branded credit, charge, debit or ATM card at any time from February 1, 1996 to November 8, 2006, then you can claim some refund of money that you had paid without knowing from your issuing banks and credit card payment processors.
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May 2, 2008
Nic Cho

New Alienware Area-51 m17x Notebook With 17″ HD Display

The leading manufacturer of high-performance desktop, notebook and entertainment systems, Alienware has announced a new addition to the redesigned Area-51 notebook computers product line, named as Area-51 m17x, which the company claims as the most powerful laptop they have ever built. In addition, this latest gaming notebook is comes equipped with a brilliant 17-inch, widescreen HD display, seems perfect for PC gamers, 3D content creators and multi-media enthusiasts.


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May 2, 2008
Tip and Trick Editorial

O&O Defrag V4 Professional Edition Free License Key and Download

O&O Defrag is a disk defragmentation software that optimizes hard disk drive in Windows NT, XP Home, Windows XP Professional and Windows 2000 Professional by securely repacking fragmented files together for more efficiency and boosting performance. Fragmented files increase time system used to read them, and thus slowdown the system with higher I/O activity.
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