Today the first DLC for the augmented reality game The Playroom built-in to the PlayStation 4 has appeared with the name Toy Maker. This update to The Playroom allows the user to take their smartphone or tablet and create their own toys to toss into their virtual world. With the PlayStation 4 camera, the user’s […]
Google has been adding some interesting new features to its Street View imagery for a while now. Early on Street View allowed you to see the streets you would be driving in certain areas. Google has expanded the service to allow you to explore areas you may not ever get to see in person. One […]
Some of the features culled during iWork’s 64-bit transition have reappeared with the productivity suite’s latest update. To start, Pages, Numbers and Keynote for OS X are regaining their sorely missed custom toolbars. Additionally, Apple’s Keynote presentation app for both desktop and iOS picks up a handful of new builds and slide transitions. Oh, and of course there are the typical stability improvements and bug fixes across the board. If you’re curious about what else is back, we’ve listed the full release notes after the break.
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The Cadillac ELR is an important car for quite a few big reasons. Cadillac itself admits it has been playing catch-up in the luxury sedan market, pitching the ATS and CTS as more virile US alternatives to the typical options from Mercedes-Benz, BMW, and Audi, but with the electrified ELR it’s finally an opportunity to […]
Qualcomm’s nightmare has finally come true. Earlier today, MediaTek officially introduced the world’s first true octa-core mobile processor, MT6592, and the first devices to feature it are expected to arrive as soon as end of year. This 28nm chip packs eight low-power Cortex-A7 cores, and courtesy of the Heterogeneous Multi-Processing use model on top of ARM’s big.LITTLE architecture, all eight cores can operate simultaneously — at up to between 1.7GHz and 2GHz, depending on the bin.
MediaTek pointed that Chrome can already make use of all eight cores, and likewise with some map apps, video players plus multi-window function. According to the company’s figures, the MT6592 manages to beat what appears to be the quad-core Snapdragon 800 in benchmarks, power consumption (as low as 40 percent) and temperature. You can see the full detail in this article’s gallery. %Gallery-slideshow122456%
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There’s a credit card device by the name of Coin appearing this month with full intention of a full release inside 2014, and this week we’ve had a brief chat with the founder and CEO of the company to pose a few queries regarding real-world use. While the card itself wont be produced for the […]
This article was written on November 06, 2007 by CyberNet.
A new feature to Windows Vista is the Volume Mixer which allows users to choose the volume for any application that is running. In Windows XP there is only one single control for all sounds which means that you could find yourself constantly making adjustments. This is why the volume mixer in Vista is so convenient, yet many users don’t even know that it’s there. To access the Volume Mixer, just right-click on the speaker icon in your system tray and select “Open Volume Mixer.” You’ll notice that there is a master control for the device and then individual volume controls for each application that is running.
If you increase the device volume, it adjusts the volume for your applications proportional to what they were set to. For example- as shown above, I raised the volume for Google Talk to the maximum. Windows Media Player was set to about half of the speaker volume, and the Windows Sounds were the lowest. When I adjusted the main volume, each application volume adjusted accordingly.
So now you’re probably wondering when you’d actually use this. Say that you wanted to play your music quietly in the background while you were talking to a friend on Google Talk. You could set it so that Google Talk is always twice as loud as Media Player so that you’ll be able to hear your music faintly in the background, and hear the person that you’re talking to loud and clear. If you want to mute a program entirely, you have that option as well. Should you change the output device from speakers to headphones, you’ll need to readjust the volume for each application again.
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How much of a phone does $179 get you? As of this morning, and the Moto G, the answer is “a surprising amount”: the new Android handset doesn’t rely on carrier subsidies to bring its sticker price down, instead putting the Moto X on a diet and paring back the specs to hit the ambitious […]
Apple’s iPad mini with Retina display is here, the second half of the Cupertino company’s two-hit tablet refresh for 2013. Keeping the slender design and tactile metal chassis of before, but updating it with all-new internal hardware and a beautiful Retina display, the second-gen iPad mini arguably smooths away all of the few wrinkles reviewers […]
This article was written on August 08, 2007 by CyberNet.
Freespire 2.0 was just released today, and it brings a lot of great things to the table. For starters it uses Ubuntu 7.04 as its baseline, and was built off of that. So you get the benefits of using Ubuntu, but a lot of the proprietary software, drivers, and codecs since it is created by Freespire!
I couldn’t have said it better than CNet when they expressed their feelings on the inclusion of proprietary software:
Think of it like adding sugar-free Splenda to your morning coffee, only to find there’s actually a dash of sugar in the powdery substance to make it taste better.
Here are some of the benefits of using Freespire 2.0:
It’s extremely nice that Freespire includes things like Java, Flash, and Adobe Acrobat so that you don’t have to worry about downloading it. Not to mention that you get to use the Click-N-Run (CNR) service for free, which makes installing, updating, and uninstalling applications a one-click process.
I can’t wait to try this out myself, and I could easily see it becoming my choice of Linux distributions since it takes out a lot of the guesswork. The download site that they have setup only supports 100 simultaneous users, and it has been pretty saturated with requests all day. So if you’re like me you’ll just want to jump on the Torrent to get it.
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