Nov 25

Woow Digital’s The One tablet cooks up Tegra 2 with Gingerbread just in time for Christmas

Posted in: 10-inch, Android, android tablet, AndroidTablet, arm, gingerbread, NVIDIA, Pre-Release, slate, tablet, tegra 2, Tegra2, Today's Chili

No, we can’t say we’ve ever heard of Woow Digital before either, but we’ve just received some very legit-looking imagery of the company’s forthcoming tablet, modestly titled The One. Google’s impending Android Gingerbread release is promised as the OS, while the internal equipment includes an NVIDIA Tegra 2 core, 1GB of RAM, and 16GB of flash storage. Up front you’ll find a 10-inch display spanning a 1024 x 600 resolution, while wireless connectivity is taken care of with Bluetooth, WiFi and WCDMA 3G radios built in. Woow tells us it plans to launch The One in Japan before Christmas at a price of ¥42,000 ($504), which will be followed up by availability in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Europe. Well, it had better hope that release schedule doesn’t shift, because come CES 2011, we should be up to our ears in Tegra 2 tablets and phones.

Gallery: Woow Digital’s The One tablet

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Nov 24

Apple Boot Camp 1.0.2 Beta Released

Posted in: Pre-Release, Software, Today's Chili

This article was written on July 12, 2006 by CyberNet.

Apple Boot Camp 1.0.2 Beta Released

Apple surprised the world when they released Boot Camp because it allows Mac users to dual boot the Mac OS with Windows. Now they have updated Boot Camp again.

I’m sure you want to know what is new in this release, right? Well, that answer is simple…

Unfortunately, Apple has provided no documentation regarding enhancements in this release…

It is presumed that this update includes revised versions of the Windows XP Mac drivers, so you should burn a new drivers disk (using Boot Camp Assistant) after installing the Boot Camp update, then boot into Windows XP and re-install drivers.

So Apple has provided a new version of Boot Camp and doesn’t let people know why. How nice of them.

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Nov 20

ESET SysInspector Computer Analysis

Posted in: Freeware, Pre-Release, Software, Today's Chili

This article was written on March 20, 2008 by CyberNet.

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You may have noticed in the Daily Downloads today that I mentioned an application called ESET SysInspector that is currently in the Beta stage. From what I gather it’s not an incredibly new application (released late last year), but this was the first that I had heard about it. And ESET, the creators of the NOD32 antivirus software, is one of my favorite security companies so it’s only fitting that I spread the word about this new app.

ESET SysInspector is completely free and requires no installation to start using it. What’s really nice is that it brings up the interface seen above so that you can analyze the services, registry entries, and running processes on your computer. It’s a great tool for finding out details about your PC that you may not have otherwise known.

Using the Items Filtering slider along the top portion of the interface you can narrow down items on your computer according the the risk they pose. If you put the slider somewhere towards the middle it will show the items on your computer that the application is unfamiliar with. If you take the slider all the way over into the red only the “risky” items will be shown.

One thing that I want to point out is that this is a read-only application. By that I mean you can’t remove registry settings or delete files from within this interface, but you can right-click on an entry to open the file/registry location in an external program. Also from the right-click context menu you can perform an online Google search of a file or registry entry in your default browser.

This is definitely something you should throw on your USB drive for those times you have to clean up a PC from one of “those people.” Yeah, you know who I’m talking about. ;)

Download ESET SysInspector Beta

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Nov 19

HTC Merge emerges on Verizon site a little early

Posted in: Android, HTC, leak, Pre-Release, qwerty, QwertySlider, slider, Today's Chili, verizon, Verizon Wireless, VerizonWireless, vzw

Far be it from us to tell Verizon how to do a product launch, but showing off a 360-degree view of the HTC Merge before the phone’s even been announced doesn’t seem like the soundest strategy to us. Of course, we doubt anyone intended for this Flash module to have become public knowledge like it has, but sure enough, a forum member over at Android Central spotted it among VZW’s web properties and now we can all take a multidimensional look at this upcoming Android handset. Yes, that includes seeing it with its sliding QWERTY keyboard open — you can find more imagery of that after the break — though the pivotal questions of when, for how much, and “can you disable Bing?” remain unanswered for the time being. Ah well, let’s just enjoy the eye candy.

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Nov 18

Opera 9.5 Optimizes JavaScript; Beats Firefox 3

Posted in: Firefox 3, Freeware, Opera, performance, Pre-Release, Software, Today's Chili

This article was written on May 09, 2008 by CyberNet.

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Opera is obviously not content with sitting on the sidelines when it comes to being the fastest browser out there. Back in February Mozilla decided that it was time to optimize it’s JavaScript performance, and used a technique called Profile-Guided Optimization (PGO) that gave it a nice boost. Opera decided to jump on the PGO bandwagon as well with this week’s release of Opera 9.5, and here is their explanation of how it works:

With this technique, Opera is compiled twice. The first compilation creates a specially instrumented build that gathers statistics about which code is called and which variables are used most often. The instrumented build loads sites automatically using “URL player”, a testing feature available in every Opera build (more information about that in a later blog post). This information is dumped into files and used to produce the final build that’s optimized based on the gathered statistics.

Did it help? Unfortunately there are some bugs in Opera 9.5 that prevent it from finishing the Sunspider test, but in the areas it does complete the result is normally better than Firefox 3 Beta 5. It does, however, consistently beat Firefox 3 in the MooTools SlickSpeed test in addition to this JavaScript benchmarking tool.

Congrats Opera! It looks as though you might be recapturing the JavaScript performance crown, but we’ll have to wait and see what the final version of each browser is like before we make any conclusions along those lines.

Be sure to checkout our more complete article where we compare the performance of more browsers.

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Nov 17

Firefox 3 Tab Switcher

Posted in: Firefox 3, Firefox Extensions, Pre-Release, Software, Today's Chili

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

One of the things that Alex Faaborg presented back in July was a mockup of what a cool tab switching (Ctrl+Tab) interface would look like in a browser. As it stands right now no versions of Firefox have an advanced interface for switching between tabs, but that could become a thing of the past.

Mozilla Links noticed that work has already begun on Ctrl+Tab replacement system for Firefox, and it might make its way into the final release of Firefox 3. The great thing is that a preview is currently available as an extension which can be installed on any pre-release version of Firefox 3.

Once you get it up and running you’ll notice that pressing Ctrl+Tab on the keyboard presents you with a slick looking interface that has a thumbnail image for each of your open tabs:

Firefox 3 Ctrl Tab
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It doesn’t stop there though. The drop-down menu on the tab bar has changed it’s appearance. Clicking on it will bring up a visual display of all your open tabs, and you can use the Filter box to quickly find a site according to its title:

Firefox 3 Tab Switcher
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Don’t get your hopes up if you want to see this in Firefox 3. It seems a bit late in the game to throw such a big feature in for the first time, but as long as it is offered as an extension I don’t mind. I’ll keep my fingers crossed. ;)

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Nov 16

Nexus S teaser by Eric Schmidt now available on video

Posted in: Android, AndroidOs, gingerbread, Google, interview, nexus s, NexusS, nfc, Pre-Release, samsung, teaser, Today's Chili, video

Ah, the “unannounced product” that Eric Schmidt brought along for his latest interview — you want to see more of it, don’t you? We know you do, so we’ve naturally tracked down the full 44-minute marathon chat session between Eric and his Web 2.0 Summit hosts, which thankfully kicks off by delving right into the phone that we know and love under the Nexus S name. Notably, the Google chief never calls it that explicitly, though he takes a moment to stress that in the past he was quoted as saying there’d never be a Nexus Two, not that there’d never be a Nexus successor at all. See the whole thing unfold after the break.

[Thanks, Thomas]

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Nov 14

Firefox Mobile Progress Update

Posted in: Freeware, mobile, Pre-Release, Software, Today's Chili

This article was written on August 14, 2008 by CyberNet.

It was almost one year ago that we first got a glimpse of what Firefox Mobile looked like running on the Nokia N800. Then in January we saw some mockups of what their iPhone-like interface might look like for other devices, and even more recently we saw a video demonstration that knocked our socks off with an intuitive tab navigation system.

Where’s the project at now? The version that runs on the N800 is making some steady progress. As it stands the first Alpha release, codenamed Fennec, should be available in the next month or two. At that time they’ll have the basic functionality included, but the fancy things we saw in the latest video demonstration are nowhere to be found. According to Mark Finkle, Mozilla’s Platform Evangelist, those things are to come:

We have been focusing on some of the underlying, platform work. The UI changes will come in future releases to be sure.

The latest version, Milestone 6, is available for Nokia N8x0 owners to test out. Here is a snapshot of what it looks like:

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A Windows Mobile version of Fennec isn’t a top priority on their list, but it is expected to debut at some point. There’s no mention as to whether other phones, such as the Blackberry, will also be considered for development.

Keep an eye out for the next milestone because that’s when some of the interface updates are supposed to land. According to this page on the Mozilla Wiki the end result should look something like this:

Recent Fennec Mockups (Click to Enlarge)
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We’ll definitely be watching close as new versions are released, and will keep you posted of anything interesting that we find. In the meantime any of the Nokia N8x0 owners out there should take the new release for a whirl and let us know how it is. I’ve read a few reports of it not being too stable, but no one is giving up hope this early.

[via Mozilla Developer Center]

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Nov 11

Internet Explorer 7 Beta 3 Planned For August

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This article was written on June 02, 2006 by CyberNet.

Internet Explorer 7 Beta 3 Planned For August

It looks like Microsoft is planning for IE7 Beta 3 to be released in the middle of August. This release is currently what the IE developers are working on and it will include several bug fixes. The article by HotFix made one interesting point that really caught my attention:

One fix going in Beta 3 will be will be to revert back to an IE6 behavior when using PHP pages. One IE7 tester noted that “when it comes to compare the code in the session variable and the code in the post data, they’re different.” Eric Lawrence of Microsoft responded with “for compatibility reasons, we’re going to revert to IE6 behavior for IE7 Beta 3 to prevent this exact issue” on the subject. In the past few weeks Microsoft has made a few references to IE7 Beta 3 on their IE Blogs about bug fixes and releases.

So the next Beta of IE7 will be taking on some IE6 characteristics. Sounds to me like Microsoft likes rolling things back after they have changed them.

Talks of Internet Explorer 8 are supposedly in the works and IE8 is expected to be released one-year after IE7 gets released (IE7 is expected to be released at the end of 2006). Internet Explorer 8 is reported to have some enhanced networking and better rendering features.

News Source: HotFix

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Nov 10

OpenOffice 3.0 Wants to Compete with Outlook

Posted in: Features, Freeware, Pre-Release, Release Date, Software, Today's Chili

This article was written on October 13, 2007 by CyberNet.

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I was just over at the OpenOffice site browsing through some of their marketing materials to see if there was anything interesting. I came across a presentation that was given on September 19th at the OpenOffice 2007 Conference. The presentation was called “OpenOffice.org 3.0 and Beyond,” and it walked through some of the most notable features that are expected to be released in the next big OpenOffice milestone.

The presentation was actually pretty interesting to flip through, but the one thing that really caught my attention was their reference to including a Personal Information Manager (PIM). More specifically the presentation mentions bundling Thunderbird with their Office Suite, and refers to it as an “Outlook replacement.” This is all assuming that Thunderbird recently losing two of it’s main developers doesn’t affect the decision, because I’m sure OpenOffice wants to ensure that Thunderbird will continue to progress before including it.

A post that I made earlier this year regarding Thunderbird as an Outlook replacement really sparked some heated debates in the comments. People were saying that it will never happen, yet this is the direct goal of the new OpenOffice. They plan on including the Lightning add-on for Thunderbird so that in addition to email support, users will also be able to manage their schedule and appointments.

This is pretty big news, but the PIM that is to be included in OpenOffice 3.0 won’t be the only notable feature (click on a thumbnail to enlarge it):

  • New Personal Information Manager
    • Supports local and server-based calendars
    • Task management
    • Month, week, day view
    • Multiple calendars support
      OpenOffice.org 3.0 Calendar
    • Free/busy management
    • Connector to Sun Java System Calendar Server (WCAP, iCal, WebDAV, CalDAV, and Google Calendar
  • PDF Import and Export
  • Microsoft Office 2007 XML Importing
  • Improved Pivot Tables and Solver in Calc
  • Web 2.0 Support (Blogging and Wiki)
    OpenOffice.org 3.0 Blogging
  • Presenter Console with Multi-screen Support
  • Vista Integration
  • New Chart Engine and Wizard
    • New chart types like regression curves, 3D exploded pie, 3D doughnut, 3D smooth lines, and more.
      OpenOffice.org 3.0 Charts
    • Flexible source ranges
    • Enhanced logarithmic scales
    • Enhanced data editor
  • Improved Notes
  • Rectangle Selection in Writer
  • New Report Engine for Base
    OpenOffice.org 3.0 Report Builder 
  • Improved Extension Management
  • Icon Redesign
  • Better Chapter Numbering in Writer
  • ODF Toolkit

OpenOffice 3.0 is due out in September 2008 which is perfect timing for the Linux world. Most Linux distributions have a new version that comes out every spring and fall, so OpenOffice 3.0 should be able to make it into the fall lineup of Linux distributions.

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