Creative Rolls Out ZEN X-Fi Style Portable Media Players

Creative Technology Ltd. comes back to the PMP market by releasing the new Creative ZEN X-Fi Style and Creative ZEN Style series. Available in 8GB, 16GB and 32GB of storage capacities, the Creative ZEN X-Fi Style comes equipped with a bright 2.4-inch TFT display, the Video Out in X-Fi audio quality for watching movies on the TV, lossless audio support (FLAC), and a built-in speaker for music sharing. The gadget also adopts the X-Fi technology for crystal clear music. Its battery provides up to 25 hours of audio playback or 5 hours of video playback. Additional features include an FM radio, an alarm clock, a calendar and a voice recorder.

The Creative ZEN Style has a bright 1.8-inch TFT display, a built-in speaker for music sharing, an FM radio (Only with Creative ZEN Style 300), an alarm clock, a calendar and a voice recorder. Its battery provides enough juice for up to 32 hours of music playback from a single charge (@128kbps MP3). The Creative ZEN Style Series is currently available in 4GB, 8GB and 16GB of storage space.

The Creative ZEN X-Fi Style is currently up for pre-order and will be available from April 14th onwards from $79.99 to $169.99, depending on storage capacity that you choose. Meanwhile, the Creative ZEN Style will retail for between $49.99 to $79.99, depending on the storage space.

Sony’s Portable 2-way Speaker Dock

The Sony RDP-NWV500 speaker is specially designed to fit in your car’s cup holder. The portable 2-way speaker dock can dish out 16W of 360 degrees audio from its 56-mm woofer and 20-mm tweeter. The speaker can be managed via top-mounted controls or the included remote control. It draws its power from the car’s accessory socket. The RDP-NWV500 is priced at 20,000 Yen or about $214 each.

New Sony Cyber-Shot Camera With Rhinestones

Sony has recently released the spanking new Cyber-Shot DSC-W350D digital camera for the Japanese market. Designed for women, the 14.5MP camera is decorated with sparkling rhinestones. The Cyber-Shot DSC-W350D features a 2.7-inch LCD display for previewing your captured photos, a 4x optical zoom, a 45MB of internal memory, the BIONZ Image Processing Engine, a high-resolution wide-angle 26mm lens, an optical image stabilization, an ISO Sensitivity of up to 3200 and a memory card for storage expansion.

People Of Lava Google Android Powered HDTV

People Of Lava has developed the Scandinavia HDTV that runs on Google’s Android OS. The Scandinavia HDTV will be available in a variety of sizes such as 42-inch, 47-inch, and 55-inch. Each HDTVs is powered by an 833MHz ARM Cortex A8 processor and Android 1.5 OS. Additional specs include a couple of USB 2.0 ports, a DVB-T digital TV tuner, HDMI and the ability to playback video in Full HD and 1080p. The 42-inch model is priced at $2,500.

Mitsubishi Launches New 23-inch Eco-friendly LCD Monitor

Mitsubishi Electric has released a new addition to its Diamondcrysta WIDE family of monitors in the form of the RDT232WLM. This new model features a 23-inch TN panel and an ECO Mode that can lower power consumption by 35%. Available in black or white model, the RDT232WLM has a native resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels, a 5ms response time, a brightness of 250 cd/m2, a 1000:1 contrast ratio (5000:1 DCR), D-Sub, DVI and HDMI outputs, and a couple of 1W speakers. The Mitsubishi RDT232WLM will be released in Japan on April 23rd, 2010.

Lockerz – Launching Soon!!

Kathy Savitt, used to be Vice President at Amazon.com and the CMO at American Eagle has come up with this website - Lockerz.com. Their major financial contributors is Liberty Media, which owns a major part of Time Warner, which is the firm that supports Bodybuilding.com and QVC.

Lockerz is the place to go to buy the coolest stuff at the lowest prices, watch exclusive video, discover new music, play the hottest games, hang out with your friends – and get rewarded for just about EVERYTHING you do on the site.

There is a massive list of prizes that you can earn, and in a short amount of time you can gain enough points to get some amazing prizes.

With a Lockerz account, you can get some of these prizes:




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MSI Readies N220GT-MD1GL/D3 Low-Profile GeForce GT 220

MSI is preparing to launch another low-profile GeForce GT 220 graphics card to its range in the form of the N220GT-MD1GL/D3. Designed specifically for HTPC users, the card integrates 48 Stream Processors, a 128-bit memory interface, a 1GB of GDDR3 memory, an active cooling system and factory overclocked frequencies – 625MHz for the GPU, 1360MHz for the shader and 1580MHz for the memory. It also comes with D-Sub, DVI and HDMI outputs, and supports DirectX 10.1. The N220GT-MD1GL/D3 should be available very soon for unannounced price yet.

Tongfang Q5 Android MID Shipped

Chinese-based company Tongfang has begun shipping their latest Android MID ‘Q5′ in China. Measuring 120mm x 80.7mm x 9.9mm and weighing 209g, the device boasts a 4.8-inch 800 x 480 capacitive touchscreen display, a 866MHz RK2808 processor, a 4GB of storage, a 128MB RAM, a music/video player, a web browser, email support, WiFi, a 3.55mm headset jack, a 2200mAh battery and is pre-loaded with Android OS. The Tongfang Q5 is now available for purchase in China via Amazon.cn for a retail price of 1,999 Yuan (about $293).

WD Scorpion Blue Hard Drive For Laptop

Newegg has started selling the new Western Digital Scorpion Blue WD7500BPVT HDD for laptop. Priced at $119.99 each, this 2.5-inch HDD is currently available in 750GB of storage space, which is the highest on this form factor. The WD Scorpion Blue WD7500BPVT has a 2-platter 9.5mm high HDD with SATA 3GB/s interface, a 5400rpm spin rate, and an 8MB of cache. Additionally, the HDD also adopts the Advanced Format Technology[Newegg]

Golden Xbox 360

The folks at Computer Choppers just love dipping consoles in gold ,like this 24-karat Xbox 360. With a plain jane Xbox you just have to worry about the Red Ring Of Death. With this $5,000 purchase, you have that to worry about and plus you might die at your wife’s hand.

The Xbox and its controller have both received the beautiful golden sheen. You don’t have to be filthy rich, but it helps. In which case, it goes well with all of your other blinged out stuff.

idisplay app turns your ipad into a wireless monitor

Here’s an interesting iPad app that turns your iPad into a secondary monitor. Shape Services iDisplay connects your iPad to your Mac desktop and lets you wirelessly extend your screen onto your iPad’s display.

Right now it’s version 1.0 product, so I’m sure they have some bugs to work out, but the users who have problems are using iPhones.

Samsung To Unleash U250 And U200 All-In-One Desktop PCs In UK

Samsung is about to unleash two new all-in-one desktop PCs for the UK market in the form of the U200 and U250. The U200 offers a 20-inch 1600 x 900 touchscreen display, a 2.2GHz Intel Pentium T440 dual core processor, a 512MB GeForce G310M graphics card, a 2GB RAM, a 320GB hard drive, a DVD drive, a web camera, a multi card reader and runs on Windows 7 OS. Meanwhile, the U250 boasts a 23-inch 1920 x 1080 Full HD touchscreen display, a 2.2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T6600 dual core processor, a 512MB GeForce G310M graphics card, a 3GB RAM, a 500GB hard drive, a DVD drive, a web camera, a multi card reader and is pre-loaded with Windows 7 OS. Both all-in-one desktop PCs will hit UK next month, however, there’s no word on pricing yet.

Apple iPad Internal Pictures

The FCC has received dissected pictures of the Apple iPad that will be released Stateside tomorrow morning. As you can see in the picture, the iPad uses a large 24.8Whr battery, which provides enough juice for up to 10-hour of operation time. There are also a number of closeups of the WiFi and Bluetooth modules.

iWeb - 6.5'' Notebook - Transformer

What would be advanced, lightweight, compact and beautiful were not laptops and netbooks, one they will always lag behind the desktop, and it is - a full keyboard. I think few would argue with the fact that the printed text of 10-15 pages on a laptop is not so easy, then as a netbook, this procedure becomes suschuyu torture. The concept, proposed by designer Yang Yongchang is based on quite a successful idea: since we are dealing with a scanner, why not make a big crooked number? In fact, such solutions have been proposed in the concepts of external keyboards for the Tablet PC, in addition, collapsing real keyboard used in conjunction with the CPC in those days, when smart phones are not dragged to a consumer handheld computers. For example, if you implement this concept in any netbook, you can get quite a decent keyboard size of an average laptop. In turn, the netbook with such a design would have differed little from the desktop PC in terms of convenience of the press.

Yamaha releases first line of in-ear headphones

Yamaha has just launched its first line of in-ear headphones which comprises three models' the EPH-20, EPH-30 and EPH-50.
As indicative by the naming, the EPH-50 is the flagship pseudo-audiophile variant with 13.6mm drivers, sturdier construction and includes a quarter-inch adapter for home stereos. These come in black or white.

The EPH-30 is the more mainstream positioned model with 9mm drivers and a more conventional design, whilst the EPH-20 sits at the entry-level with slightly larger drivers (10.7mm), aimed at buyers who don't want to spend a premium whilst still getting satisfactory quality. These come in five colors of your choice.

The new EPH series is designed to work fine with iPhones, iPods and all other devices with 3.5mm jacks. Pricing starts at $30 for the EPH-20s, whilst the EPH-30s and EPH-50s come in at $50 and $100 respectively.

Apple's next big project: a head-mounted display?

Now that the iPad is almost in stores, Apple's skunk works is certainly hard at work on the company's next "magical and revolutionary" product.

A leaked internal memo reveals a head-mounted concept. Curiously, it appears to cover only one eye, kind of like a Vuzix monocle. Design notes reveal it's engineered to allow the user to watch movies and shows from an iPod or iPhone while keeping their player in their pocket

The working name is the "iPatch," most likely because of its resemblance to its swashbucklin' kin.

All-In-One Desktop PC From Pioneer Computers

Pioneer Computers Australia has dropped their latest all-in-one desktop PC ‘DreamVision D-Ion’ for the mass market. Powered by a 1.6GHz Intel Atom 330 dual core processor, this space-saving machine sports a 22-inch 1920 x 1080 multi-touch LCD display, a NVIDIA ION chipset, an integrated GeForce 9400 graphics card, up to 4GB RAM, up to 1TB hard drive or 256GB SSD, a 1.3MP webcam, an optional DVD burner or Blu-ray drive, a 3-in-1 card reader, a TV tuner (optional), WiFi, Bluetooth and runs on Windows 7 OS. Price starts at $999.

NEC’s Latest Eco-Friendly Full HD monitor

NEC has come out with another eco-friendly Full HD monitor in the form of the AccuSync AS231WM. This new 23-inch monitor is compliant with Energy Star 5.0, TCO 5.0 and EPEAT Silver, and consumes 50% less energy compared to regular monitors of the same size. In terms of performance, the AS231WM provides 1920 x 1080 Full HD resolution, 16:9 aspect ratio, 1000:1 contrast ratio, 250 cd/m2 brightness, 5ms response time and has D-Sub and DVI-D connectors. The AccuSync AS231WM will begin shipping in May for an estimated street price of $269

I-O Data WM-G300DR Wireless N Router

The WM-G300DR is the latest wireless N router from I-O Data that boasts up to 300Mbps transfer speed over a Wi-Fi connection. This new Wi-Fi router also comes with its very own USB port that enables you to easily share other devices over the network. Additionally, the I-O Data WM-G300DR also has an eye-catching design.

Macally Launches Aluminum Viewing Stand For iPad

Check out the Macally VIEWSTAND aluminum viewing stand for iPad. The device allows you to place your iPad either vertically or horizontally, and makes it look a little like an iMac. You can pre-order the VIEWSTAND at J&R for $49 a pop. [Product Page]

Motorola Text-to-speech Bluetooth Headset

Motorola today unveiled the latest Bluetooth headset with MotoSpeak. Known as the H17txt, the headset interacts with the MotoSpeak application that can be downloaded from application stores such as the Android Market. Using this application, you will be able to hear your text messages read out to you through the H17txt headset. What’s more, the device can also announce who is texting you via sender ID and can automatically respond with a customizable text message that lets your friend know that you’re driving. You can purchase this Bluetooth headset at Verizon Wireless Communications stores and online. No word yet on pricing.

The PeeWee Power Laptop For Kids

PeeWee has launched a new laptop that is designed to be used by kids, the PeeWee Power Laptop, although from the looks of the specifications it is more of a netbook than a laptop.
The PeeWee Power Laptop features a 10.1 inch LCD display with a resolution of 1024 x 600, an Intel Atom N450 processor and Intel GMA3150 graphics, plus a 160GB hard drive.

Other specifications include a six cell battery, a 1.3 megapixel web camera, Ethernet, WiFi and Windows XP
, it also features a child friendly carry handle. You would expect a netbook with these specifications to retail for about $300, although PeeWee have decided to charge $499 for it.

If you are looking for a netbook for your kids, then there are much better options out there which cost a lot less like the offerings from Asus and Acer
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Check Google PageRank Of All Internal Pages Of a Website

For this method, you should have Firefox [Download Link] installed in your computer, instead of Internet Explorer.
There's an add-on for Firefox - SEO-Quake Firefox

Once installed, it will be displayed in Firefox at the bottom like this:

To enable or disable this add-on, you just have to click on it.

Now with the help of this tool, during a Google search, you will see addtional details below every Google Search result, like this:

In those additional details, the first one is PR of that particular web page.

Now go to Google.com

And search like this:

site:YOUR_WEBSITE_OR_BLOG.COM

for ex, site:bloggerstop.net

Then you will see all the pages indexed by Google of that website/blog, along with their Google PageRanks.
Refresh the search result pages 1,2,3... if the additional details are not displayed instantly below the search results.

SceneLife(ScL) tracker - Officially Dead!!

Well, it was probably expected, but here is an announcement from ScL's Staffing Team!

Scenelife forever in our hearts - 2010-03-31
Dear Scenelife Members

As you know things haven't been going well lately and we apologize for that. But we would like to say that there is an explanation for everything that has happened in the past months.

In the past 7 months – ScL’s owner and coder SScript has been really inactive. He has been even less active than he was before, which basically means he has been spending approximately an hour a week on the site. He has also been leaving for many weeks without letting any other staffers know, leaving the site on its own and constantly forgetting to pay the server costs (which I'm sure you all noticed since the site constantly went down at the start of each month). SScript was never a good owner. Coding issues that were supposed to be dealt with almost 11 months ago are still not done, and yet he was too arrogant to give direct access to other coders so they could help us out.

In the past year the site has basically been ran by it's mods and admins paying the server costs from their own pocket. And if it wasn't for staff members like pedrowsky, MSO, HL, aquirre, ViperMM, scrappen and winnie - the site would have died a long time ago. Of course we also have to mention KS, z7x, nbf, bananafurry and all other ex-staffers when talking about this in general - though the names we mentioned in the first sentence was the people who had the most influence in the past year.

Around 4 months ago ScL went down for a long period because the owner SScript had issues paying for the server. He claims that he had paypal problems. The other staffers – supportive as always wanted to help him to get ScL back up and perhaps ask you guys to donate a little extra so he can keep running the site. But SScript didn’t have a recent copy of ScLs code and DB (His last copy was 8 months old!). Yes we know – The owner and coder of ScL doesn’t have a copy of his own site? As crazy as it sounds – It’s the truth, so now you can understand why we call him a bad owner. After this we really understood how little he cared about the site – so we decided not to support him anymore.

Anyway after weeks of hard work – MSO managed to find a 2 month old copy of the ScL and then host it on aquirres server. This copy – as everyone noticed didn’t have the torrents backed up, so therefore ScL came back up with 0 torrents.
We have been trying for months to find a way to get our torrents back and trust us – if there was a way to do it, it would have been done a long time ago. This is one of the main reasons why we didn’t give out any info to our members – We simply hoped that we could get our torrents back and that everything could go back to normal. Other reasons for us giving you guys information about the sites status this late was that SScript removed the domain (scenelife.com) since he realized that we are against him now. And as mentioned earlier, we were really far behind on the coding front – so we simply didn’t have a function to mass email our users. However – thanks to mrstonedone (who is actually not a site coder, but an IRC coder) we managed to make a function like this to finally inform you guys about what’s going on.

So what happens now? As tragic and sad as it may be – It’s time for ScL to shut down. We were blessed with the finest community the BT world has ever known and there is no doubt that our members will forever be in our hearts. There is no other tracker and there never will be a tracker with a community as strong and warm as the one ScL had.
But there is still some hope left: ScL will never come back, no. But – The Scenelife Crew is working on a new promising project and would like to welcome our active and loyal members to join us. This tracker is going to be a magnificent tracker – including a reckless design, a magnificent community, and the one thing ScL always missed – LOTS OF TORRENTS. We’ve got sponsors for this project and we got a really nice budget to work our way around. More info about this project will be given later.
Last but not least – We would like to say that our time as staffers on this tracker has been great and we’ve had a lot of fun serving this community. Even though we’ve had our ups and downs, it has been a pleasure to be staffers of a community this amazing. We will surely miss our fine members and we would like to wish you the best of luck in life.
And PS: The forums will be up until further notice.

Take care,

Add Your Blogger Blog to Facebook

In today's Blogger tutorial I will show how to add your Blogger blog (Blogspot blog) to Facebook so that your updated content can be read right from your Facebook profile. Importing your Blogger blog into Facebook will only take you a few minutes to set up but will likely produce quite a few extra readers.

By importing your blog into Facebook your Blogger posts become available to all your Facebook friends and family. Everytime you post new articles to your Blogger blog they will automatically appear on your Wall in Facebook and in your friends News Feeds. It is also possible to remove any content that you do not wish to be displayed which may be handy for some.

Advantages of Importing Your Blog into Facebook

• Increase your web presence
• Enjoy added interest in your blog articles and new readers
• No need to replicate your blog articles or content on Facebook

Disadvantages of Importing Your Blog into Facebook

• If you blog for profit think carefully about importing your Blogger blog into Facebook as you are likely to experience a drop off in traffic and a reduction in revenue earnings as fewer people will visit your actual blog. One possible way around this is to set your blog's RSS feed to show summaries only that way ensuring that anyone interested will need to visit your blog to read the whole article.

How to Import or Add Your Blogger Blog to Facebook

1. Login to Facebook or Sign up to Facebook if you are not already a member
   
2. From your Facebook profile page go to Settings > Application Settings which you will find in the top right hand corner
   
   
3. Select Notes from the list of applications displayed on the page
   
4. Click on Import a Blog in the right sidebar
   
   
5. Enter the URL address of your blog
   
   

   either website URL: http://blogknowhow.blogspot.com
   
   or your Blogger feed: http://blogknowhow.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss
   Please note it is not necessary to add the feed of your blog as Facebook will autodetect this

   
   
   
6. You will need to tick the box below this to confirm that the content is not illegal or obscene and that you have the right to permit Facebook to reproduce the content of your blog. Any problems click Cancel and reenter your blog URL address
   
7. Click Start Importing
   
8. Facebook will now import your feed and you will be taken to a preview screen to make sure the content matches your blog. If it does go ahead and confirm the import by clicking on the Confirm Import button
   
   
   
9. Go to your Wall in Facebook to check that your Blogger posts are now available to all your Facebook friends and family.
   

Tips and Troubleshooting

• If your Blogger blog is members only the blog import will fail as Facebook will be unable to detect your blog's feed
  
• To remove a blog post from your Wall in Facebook click on the Remove button on the righthand side
  
• If your images are not displaying (there seems to be a bit of a glitch with this) then you may need to try importing your blog using Networked Blogs

In this Blogger tutorial I have discussed how to import your Blogger blog into your Facebook profile. I have also pointed out some advantages and disadvantages of adding your Blogger blog to your Facebook profile. I will be talking some more about importing blogs into Facebook in the future which is likely to be of interest to those with multiple Blogger blogs.

Sharkoon FireGlider Black Edition gaming mouse

Sharkoon now has a black edition of its popular FireGlider gaming mouse. Gamers will love that the mouse comes with a soft black surface and boasts seven buttons, six of them programmable.

Some other features include a scroll wheel that you can finely adjust and special grip areas for the best possible hold. There is also on-board memory for macros. The DPI range is between 600 and 3600, with a frame rate of 7080 fps and it can implement accurate accelerations up to 20 G.

The FireGlider Black Edition Gaming Mouse sells for about $33.

Bluetooth T-Shirt tells you how many emails await you online

This might shock you, but when you aren’t at your computer stuff is still going on. Like email. You are still getting them and they are piling up. This shirt will show you how many emails you have waiting for you, but it’s mostly just to display to others how important you are.

It requires a single AAA battery. It was created by attaching an Arduino Lilypad controller into a simple T-Shirt with LED indicators showcasing a variety of options.