Jan 12

AVG 8 Free Available, Not Bad Actually

Posted in: Freeware, Newly Released, Software, Today's Chili

This article was written on April 25, 2008 by CyberNet.

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We were getting quite a few tips over the last day regarding the new version of AVG free that was just released. As you might recall AVG 8.0 Pro was made available several months ago, and it is a pretty comprehensive security suite. It wasn’t bad, but to me it seemed pretty bloated.

Now the free version of AVG 8.0 is available, and I gave it a whirl real quick to see what it all included. I actually like the free version better than the paid version because it seems a lot simpler. It includes the antivirus and anti-spyware portions which are very important, and excludes the anti-spam, firewall, and anti-rootkit. The parts it excludes are things most people can live without out.

There are a few things that actually really impressed me though. The first being that I was able to install AVG 8 Free and get it running without ever being required to restart my computer. That’s a huge plus in my book because having to restart after installing a program can really be a pain.

And then there is memory usage. To my surprise AVG 8 Free was pretty light on its toes. After running it for about 15-minutes it was only using up about 1.8MB. When I started to perform a full system scan the process took up about 18MB, and used a little over 20% of my processor consistently. Not bad at all, and my system still felt very responsive.

If you’re already using AVG then I think it’s worth taking the upgrade, but I don’t think this offers a whole lot to grab new new users if they’re already sitting happy with Avast or another free antivirus solution. The new interface is definitely way better than AVG 7 though.

Get AVG 8 Free [via Download Squad]
Thanks to everyone for the tips!

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Jan 12

Spotify comes to Logitech Squeezebox, makes non-Europeans mildly jealous

Posted in: app, logitech, streaming, Today's Chili

Spotify still won’t say when its streaming music service will come to the US, but its 10 million songs will play on two more devices from here on out: starting today, the Logitech Squeezebox Touch and Squeezebox Radio can get their 320kbps groove on. (Sonos, eat your heart out.) A free beta version of the music app should appear on the MySqueezebox website at any moment — though it doesn’t seem to be there right now — followed by “a full rollout expected in the very near future,” a promise which we can’t quite translate, but might mean support for even more devices down the road. Of course, Spotify’s something of a given for Logitech’s next Squeezebox, if it happens to run Android. PR after the break.

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Jan 12

iPhone meets Arduino, tilt joystick for mobile games results (video)

Posted in: arduino, controller, diy, iPhone, mod, modding, robot, Today's Chili, video

Even though games like Infinity Blade can be great fun on the iPhone, there’s no getting around the fact that touchscreen-centric, buttonless devices don’t offer the best gaming ergonomics. A modding project gone horribly right, however, might just fix that right up for all of us. Shane Wighton set out to build a robot to try and beat his favorite iPhone game, replete with a webcam and an Arduino setup, but in the process of doing so he “just realized that [he’d] made a mechanism to play tilt based phone games with a joystick.” Yes indeedy, one of the most awesome DIY gaming accessories was built by fluke as much as design. See it revolutionizing mobile gaming just after the break.

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iPhone meets Arduino, tilt joystick for mobile games results (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 12 Jan 2011 02:09:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jan 11

Alleged Nintendo 3DS roams the wild, gets thoroughly dismantled

Posted in: 3ds, console, gaming, handheld, in the wild, InTheWild, leak, nintendo, nintendo 3ds, Nintendo3ds, speculation, teardown, Today's Chili

You had to expect that as the 3DS got closer to its global release, stray units would manage to break out of Nintendo’s manufacturing fortress and dash out into the wild. We already saw one such escapee earlier this month and, if we’re not terribly mistaken, that very same unit has now gone through the ritual of having its body disassembled for the sake of curious 3D gamers everywhere. There’s little to thrill the superficial viewer — we already knew about the 1300mAh battery, for example — but maybe you’ll care to scrutinize the silicon more closely. If so, the source link is your nearest and dearest friend.

[Thanks, Adam]

Alleged Nintendo 3DS roams the wild, gets thoroughly dismantled originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 12 Jan 2011 01:28:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jan 11

Study shows love for music relates to brain chemical, not to My Chemical Romance

Posted in: Music, research, science, study, Today's Chili
It would make sense that people listen to music for the sheer pleasure of it, right? That’s what we thought, but apparently there’s a scientific reason for this. Scientists have discovered that when Earthlings listen to pleasurable music, one particular chemical is loosed in the gord. The study, conducted by Robert Zatorre and Valorie Salimpoor of McGill University in Montreal, concluded that when the participants tuned into instrumental pieces they were familiar with, their brains released dopamine into the striatum — an area of the noggin linked with anticipation and predictions. According to PET scans, the members of the study unleashed the chemical 15 seconds before a climaxical moment in a song, signaling the possibility that humans may actually release it in anticipation and not as a reaction to a wailing solo. Bonus point? Chopped and screwed tracks unleashed forty times more dopamine. Just kidding, but it’s probably true.

Study shows love for music relates to brain chemical, not to My Chemical Romance originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 12 Jan 2011 01:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jan 11

Intel announces Connected Store concept, makes us hungry for shoes

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It’s been less than a week since Intel announced their 2nd Generation Core processors, and the little guys are already hard at work. Deep in the heart of another convention — the National Retail Federation Convention, to be exact — Intel unveiled the Connected Store concept: a futuristic storefront for retailers looking to up their digital game. The store, powered in part by the “visibly smart” processors, is packed with interactive demos and proof-of-concepts that look like something out of the Jetsons. Among the systems sporting the new processor’s 3D graphics capabilities are a virtual search engine-equipped wall of Adidas sneakers — the thing packs up to 8,000 different styles — and the Intel Digital Signage Endcap, which does some creepy big brother stuff, using gestural sensors to target you specifically. Also on display are a number of beefed-up and interactive self check-out kiosks and point-of-sale systems. Intel’s already got the big guns interested, including Proctor and Gamble and Kraft Foods, but we just want to know who’s going to make this wall of shoes a reality. Video of the Connected Store after the jump.

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Intel announces Connected Store concept, makes us hungry for shoes originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 12 Jan 2011 00:24:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jan 11

Satarii Star camera base follows your every move, might exist if the money’s raised

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Looking a bit like a universal Sony Party-shot, the Satarii Star is up on fundraising site IndieGoGo right now with a simple goal: finding enough people who are willing to pay for an action-tracking base for their camera to get the thing produced. The concept is simple enough — use the included iPhone and standard tripod mounts to insert the camera of your choice, grab the remote sensor and attach it to the object, animal, or human you want to track, and let ‘er rip — as long as you stay within 8 meters (roughly 26 feet), the base station with camera attached will rotate up to 180 degrees to keep the action in the frame. As of this writing they’re about halfway to their goal to $20 grand — and they’ve already slapped together a functional prototype, so you know you’re not funding pure vaporware. Follow the break for a demo, and while you’re at it, go ahead and tell off all your friends — you won’t need ’em to hold your camera while you film magic tricks for YouTube anymore. Score!

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Satarii Star camera base follows your every move, might exist if the money’s raised originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 11 Jan 2011 23:24:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jan 11

MetroPCS finally prepping Android smartphone with LTE from Samsung?

Posted in: 4G, Android, lte, rumor, samsung, Today's Chili

LTE’s great… but only if it’s got phones and modems that can take advantage of it. Though MetroPCS beat Verizon to become the first American carrier to launch the technology, it’s been scraping by so far with nothing other than the Samsung Craft, a middling dumbphone without the chops to attract the powerusers that would normally want to be involved with a 4G network anyway. Looks like that’s finally about to change, though, because BGR‘s scored a shot of a so-called SCH-R910 — also from Samsung — that’s running Android 2.2. It’ll allegedly have backward compatibility with MetroPCS’ CDMA network (naturally) along with a 1GHz Hummingbird core and 5 megapixel camera — not a blockbuster by any stretch, but still on a whole new plane than the Craft. Rumor has it we’ll see this before the end of March for somewhere between $330 and $400 contract-free; question is, will it beat Big Red’s first LTE phones to market?

MetroPCS finally prepping Android smartphone with LTE from Samsung? originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 11 Jan 2011 22:56:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jan 11

WSJ: AMD’s Meyer lacked vision, ousted accordingly

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We thought the story behind former AMD CEO Dirk Meyer’s resignation wouldn’t be as juicy as that of HP CEO Mark Hurd, but they’ve actually got something in common — neither had a visionary strategy for entering the smartphone and tablet markets. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Meyer’s hesitation, particularly towards tablets, may have cost him the job, and that the company pressured him into resignation after he showed disinterest in mobile devices at this year’s CES. Sounds familiar to us, but we still don’t expect any sex scandals or fraudulent reports out of this one.

WSJ: AMD’s Meyer lacked vision, ousted accordingly originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 11 Jan 2011 22:33:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jan 11

Mozilla Hopes to Retain more Firefox Users

Posted in: Freeware, Mozilla, Software, Today's Chili

This article was written on August 08, 2007 by CyberNet.

Firefox Retention

Mozilla is currently taking new steps to improve upon their 50% user retention rate for Firefox. That number means that only half of the people who try Firefox actually continue to use it on a regular basis. So what’s Mozilla going to do to make that number even better? Here’s their plan:

  1. Force the Firefox icon to easier to find location
  2. Alter the default browser settings path for better user choice
  3. Major outbound brand marketing program driving brand recognition and differentiation
  4. Change Firefox icon label to closer resemble action of getting to web
    Firefox Icons
  5. Improve download page and first run pages
  6. Launch support.mozilla.com
  7. Make common plug-ins work out of the box
  8. Make add-ons and personas more accessible
  9. Stickier start page
    Firefox Frontpage
  10. Make the web feel more human
  11. Improve messaging through communication channels

Mozilla recently started a community effort to create more support documentation, and we’ve been contacted by Mozilla to see if Chris from our very own Learn Firefox could contribute some of his work to the project. We’re still trying to work out some of the terms regarding that, but Learn Firefox has everything beginners and advanced users need to know about getting started with the browser. And if you’re looking for a theme there is no better place than Learn Firefox to browse over 200 of them!

There’s no doubt that Mozilla is making some progress as they climb up to 20% of the browser market share, and hopefully by implementing some of these tactics it will increase their retention rate. In the first week of September Mozilla should also be hitting a big milestone: 400 million downloads of Firefox. They are currently close to 390 million downloads, and I’ve estimated the 400 million mark using the current download rate.

Source: Ars Technica

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