(Credit: Mimo)One of the compromises frequent travelers have to make is the limited screen size that comes with an ultraportable or thin-and-light laptop. This is a difficult transition, especially if one is used to large 20-inch-plus screen real estate in the office or home. Fortunately, USB monitors provide an …
(Credit: Onkyo)Onkyo is one of the heavy hitters in the AV receiver market, with its TX-SR lines of AV receivers consistently scoring well in our reviews for their combination of features and performance. Wednesday, Onkyo announced a new line of AV receivers, dubbed the HT series, which includes the …
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Vice President Biden announces $2.4 billion in battery-related grants originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:17:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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TiVo on Wednesday added the ability for video podcast providers to publish their shows directly to certain TiVo machines. The DVR service provider also added hundreds of new, free Web videos to its library.
The additions are available to TiVo Series3, TiVo HD and TiVo HD XL subscribers. They include hundreds of new podcast channels from outlets like CBS, FOX, Oprah, and G4. Podcast creators can publish original content, meanwhile, via RSS and H.264 video.
TiVo users can watch the videos directly or set up rules to record preferred shows as they are published. They can also stream podcast content from shows not available from TiVo by entering the URL for a video podcast in the “Video On Demand” menu.
“What makes this announcement unique is that everyone has the ability to publish their content to the TiVo DVR,” Evan Young, senior director of broadband services for TiVo Inc., said in a statement. “With a robust library of Web videos already available through the TiVo DVR, and the ability to enter the URL for other podcasts you want, this announcement puts the control in the hands of the user to search for and retrieve exactly what they want to watch and from the comfort of the couch.”
Broadband-connected HD subscribers can start accessing this feature today via their DVR’s. Available podcasts are searchable via TiVo Search.
(Credit: Pentax)Pentax’s dSLRs may be the attention-getting cameras for the company, but its point-and-shoot Optio line deserves some recognition, too. Even if it’s only for their lenses and prices.
The P80 is a refresh of the Optio P70, a decent ultracompact camera that had the unique feature …
If you’re looking for a unique, slim, and light case in which to tote your laptop and also want to make an artistic-type style statement, the GG2G Foleo ($56 direct) fills the bill–and it’s made from recycled materials, too. What could be cooler? These necessarily one-of-a kind bags are crafted from recycled highway billboards, of all things, and can come with or without bamboo padding–your choice.
The bag is sturdy and nicely made, and the “re-vinylzed” water-repellent outer material has a sleek, shiny look and feel. All the Foleos come with a handle on the side (though you may not see them in the Web site’s images), so you can carry the bag that way or tuck it under your arm like a clutch. The Foleo has one inner pocket–a thumb drive compartment. But if you need more storage space, you could easily stash this sleeve inside a larger case.
The Foleo bags pictured on GG2G’s site are all currently available. Once a bag is purchased, it’s replaced by a new one, and no two look exactly the same. But if you have your heart set on a color palette, you can
email Dayan Moore (a co-owner of GG2G), and she’ll do her best to help you out.
Sanyo's Eneloop Portable Solar panel can charge mobile devices on the go.
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If you plan on walking through the desert with a cell phone anytime soon, you might want to check in with Sanyo before you leave.
Its new Eneloop Portable Solar panels can charge portable …
Now that the cat’s out of the bag on Creative’s Android-powered Zii EGG, the FCC has gone ahead and released its full report on the touchscreen handheld, after giving us a teaser early last month. Now online are external and internal photos, for the gadget fiend who likes to see products gutted, and a user guide that conspicuously fails to mention its “Android” or “Plaszma” platforms at any point in the guide. Maybe it’s wishful thinking, but we’ve got hope someone can cram a 3G chipset in that array of circuitry. Hop on through the read link to peruse the expanded report for yourself.
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Creative Zii EGG gutted for expanded FCC report originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 05 Aug 2009 16:51:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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StarCraft II is now officially a 2010 title.
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Even though StarCraft II never had an official 2009 release date, Blizzard squashed any hope that its best-selling sci-fi strategy game might come out this year with an announcement Wednesday. Saying “it has become clear that it will take longer …
This article was written on October 03, 2006 by CyberNet.
Tracking Down Great Software For You!
I have been using the GreatNews RSS Reader for exactly two months and it has been pretty good. I wasn’t looking to switch to a new feed reader until I stumbled upon the cleverly named Feedreader. It looked so clean and simple that I felt like I had to give it a try…and of course it is free!
My first impression was very good because I was shocked at how simple, yet powerful, the software was. The more I started to play with it the more I started to like it.
There are a lot of great features that really stand out to me. First, In the View menu there are two options that say “Hide read articles” and “Hide read feeds”. I particularly like the “Hide read feeds” because it will only show you the feeds that have new articles that you need to read. This reduces the clutter from the screen especially if you subscribe to hundreds of different feeds.
The next feature that is my absolute favorite is the Smartfeed option. It will basically search the articles in your feed list for keywords that you specify or one of the other many options that you can search for. For those of you familiar with WinAmp then it kinda reminds me of the Smart Playlists feature:
What would a feed reader be without a cool alert slider? Yep, Feedreader has one of the nicest that I have seen and it notifies you each time there is a new story:
There is a lot more that Feedreader can do so make sure you checkout the Options that they have available (particularly the Advanced tab).
It does have a few things that I’m not too fond of but they are all something that I can deal with. The first thing is that there is no button to mark all of the feeds as read. You have to either right-click on the feed/folder and select “Mark as Read” or you can press Ctrl+R, but ideally there should be a button to do this.
The second thing that I don’t like is that they apparently removed the option to set the default update frequency and now you have to change it on each feed individually. They do that because they believe their IntelliSense option is better so they set it by default. It is designed to recognize how often a feed is typically updated and it will adjust the schedule accordingly. So if a site doesn’t update their feed for a few days at a time then it may only check for updates each day. If you don’t want to use this option then you can change it for each feed with choices as low as 1-minute update intervals.
This is going to be my feed reader from now on and hopefully the developer continues to add more features…all while keeping the interface as simple as it currently is.
| Update: | The developer of Feedreader commented below saying that you can easily change the update frequency of multiple feeds simultaneously: “You can change update period of all feeds if you go to feed management and then do Control A or select some feeds while holding down control. Now only archive size and update period is active. Change those and press Save. Voila – you have changed update period for multiple feeds.“ |
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