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Mar 29, 2008
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JayBird Bluetooth Headset Designed For Outdoor Activists

Are you an active person who must have your music when you’re jogging or running? Bluetooth headset will keep your headphones on even when your feet are devouring the miles. The JayBird JB-200i-01 is an elegantly designed Bluetooth headset to give you maximum listening pleasure without cramping your style.

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Mar 29, 2008
SY Tan

OpenOffice.org 2.4 Released for Download

The latest version of free office application suite, OpenOffice.org 2.4, is officially released. This latest office program which is free under the GNU Lesser General Public License shows some new features, enhancements and bug fixes. It is available for downloading and supports numerous operating systems such as Windows, Mac OS X and Linus.
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Mar 28, 2008
SY Tan

Reduce Large Digital Photo File Sizes for Easy Emailing and Use on Websites

Most internet users deal with digital photos everyday. Photographers, web designers, bloggers or webmasters upload digital photos to their websites or online photo albums; net users forward their digital photos to friends, colleagues, etc. Dealing with digital photos can be a tedious job when you come to resizing digital photo matter. Those digital images taken from digital cameras with high resolution settings will be huge in capacity and size. One single photo with high resolution quality probably might require more than 1MB. To upload this onto the internet or send off to friends via email might consume a lot of time. Thus, most users will resize their photos before sending. Resizing digital photos might be simple for single or a few images. However, if you need to resize or compress photos in bulk, using normal photo editing tools might kill you. If you need to organize and resize your digital photo file sizes in bulk regularly, you can try some useful applications below.
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Mar 27, 2008
SY Tan

Shakespeare’s Complete Quartos Go Online

Shakespeare’s complete quartos go online For lovers of Shakespeare’s works, all the 75 editions of the Bard’s plays printed in quarto format before 1641 will be available online soon. The Bodleian Library in Oxford and Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington have teamed up to download their vast collections, capitalizing on the work of the British Library which digitalized its collection of quarto editions four years ago. The downloading is expected to take a year to complete.

There is no greater proof of the merging of art and science. Hamlet will not only breathe through the pages of a book or the theater stage and film, but also through the computer screen.
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Mar 27, 2008
SY Tan

The ‘Tiny’ Challenge by Modu Mobile Group

Modu PhoneHow small can a mobile phone be? An Israeli company, Modu Mobile, released a tiny mobile phone weighing around 40.1g and measuring 72mm x 37mm x 7.8mm. Modu Mobile which was funded by Dov Moran, who sold msystems to SanDisk claimed that this newly launched handset is the world’s smallest and lightest mobile phone available. The Modu phone was designed in a very unique way. It can operate as a standalone phone and also can be fitted into different cases or so called ‘jackets’. Users can slot the underlying Modu phone to different jackets from time to time to have different graphics or color schemes on its display. Besides, users also can slot the Modu phone to some jackets which can enhance or add extra functions of the original device. For instance, users can slot Modu into a GPS device to display maps for addresses that a user has saved on the phone. A home cordless phone could display numbers and other address book information when a Modu is plugged into its base.
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Mar 27, 2008
SY Tan

Songbird 0.5 Final Version Released

Songbird has released its 0.5 final version and it is available for downloading. Songbird is an innovative free software media player as well as web browser developed by Pioneers of the Inevitable, a small and chirpy team of digital media innovators. There are couple of new features have been added into latest Songbird 0.5 final version and hundreds of bug have been fixed.
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Mar 27, 2008
SY Tan

Captured Favorite Online Contents with Web Clipping Tools

There are billions of websites containing all sorts of materials e.g. politic, culture, hobby, medical, sex, junk, pornography, etc which give you endless access into them. Definitely it is impossible for users to access and browse all the websites available. Net users will only browse the relevant websites and organize them probably. Net users will organize their favourite web sites and bookmark them in accordance to individual styles and formats. Using bookmark and favourite functions in the browsers such as IE or Firefox is convenient and easy. However, the built in bookmark functions available in the browsers are not manageable.
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Mar 26, 2008
SY Tan

Prevent Theft of Personal Information Through Web-based Malware with Haute Secure 2.0

Founded in 2006 by former Microsoft Security Engineers, the remarkable web-surfing service which detects and blocks malware from infecting or stealing web surfers’ personal information, Haute Secure, has released its Version 2 lately. Haute Secure no longer uses Beta version and is now available for both IE and Firefox.

Malware or malicious software which usually hides in links within videos, blogs, emails, widgets, instant messenger, banner ads, etc is something net surfers cannot ignore. Recent studies and analyses have reported that there are more and more new and sophisticated forms of malware (malicious software) which posed a threat to the security of the internet industry. These highly sophisticated types of malware such as Win32/Genetik, Win32/TrojanDownloader.Agent, etc have created strong web-based risks where they can steal personal information/data passing through any browser while evading detection.
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