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Seagate Barracuda 7200 750GB 7200/16MB SATA300 Hard Drive

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Seagate Barracuda 7200 750GB 7200/16MB SATA300 Hard Drive

It may seem a little strange to feature a hard drive, but bear with us for a second. While we’re all aware that capacity has been growing while cost per GB has been dropping, Seagate really launched one out of the park with a 750GB hard drive. Think about it – almost up to 1 Terabyte in one container! And that’s coming soon too. But here’s the other remarkable thing about this drive: not only is it huge, the performance is also amazing. You might be tempted to think that it would suffer, but think again. Test after test has shown this Barracuda to have a lot of bite. Here are some specs to chew on: 7200RPM spindle speed, average seek time of 12.6msec, top external transfer rate of 300Mbps, and here’s what you can store (approximate numbers): 318 two-hour DVD-quality movies or 1000 hours of VHS-quality video or 660 days of around-the-clock MP3 audio or 276,500 vivid digital photos!

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SlingPlayer Mac… finally!

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SlingCommunity’s Editor, Matt Whitlock, had a chance to catch up with Brian Jaquet of Sling Media while at the Digital Life show in New York in hopes of getting some information on the upcoming SlingPlayer for Mac OSX, and included in the video interview is actual footage of SlingPlayer Mac in action! As you’ll see, SlingPlayer Mac is indeed very real, and though missing a few features, it’s looking like the Mac community has a real treat in store for them.

No, this is not a hoax… Sling Media actually is releasing Mac software!

View the YouTube Video and check out the full article at SlingCommunity.

Source: DVR Playground

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NTI Offers One Day Free Download of New USB Storage Partitioning, Encryption Software

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For your free copy of NTI Ninja download it tomorrow (September 26) at www.ntininja.com. After that…$24.95!

Starting at midnight tonight, NewTech Infosystems (NTI) will be making their new Ninja software – a USB data storage and protection software solution – available free on their web site, www.ntius.com. Unlike most fixed partition USB software, NTI Ninja allows users to adjust the size of their public and private partitions on their portable storage device. In addition, the software provides users with complete storage area anti-tamper encryption and password protection.

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teamslide: Web-based Presentation Application

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German company, telepark, is billing its teamslide application as the 1st remote slide presentation software that needs no download and works across all platforms (Windows, Mac and Linux) and on any device as well as being the to integrate Powerpoint slides with Skype. Although I can’t vouch for the ‘1st’ part, I can say that this is a cool application, another example of Web 2.0 at work. Essentially, you can create presentations and have them be viewable in a web browser anywhere. You can choose who you wish to invite to your presentations and the whole thing is clean and pretty slick with some AJAX-based functions thrown in. The best part is that they offer a free plugin to convert your Powerpoint slideshows into teamslide format. Pricing starts at $99 for the single-presenter mode. You should check out the demo – you’ll instantly get what this does. Here’s a PDF version of the press release.

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Web-based PDF Conversion

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A new web-based service allows you to convert documents in over 50 formats to PDF for a small membership fee without the need to spend $180-200 on specialized software

BALTSOFT has announced the immediate availability of Free PDF Converter. This is new a web-based service that provides users with an online interface for rapid conversion of documents to the PDF format. The source file may be a document in one of the 51 formats, including *.doc, *.xls, *.ps, *.ppt, *.rtf and many others (for the complete list of supported formats, please, refer to www.freepdfconvert.com/cgi-bin/pdfengine.dll/Formats). Additionally, users can convert PDF documents to the Microsoft Word format (*.doc).

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Official GP2X SDK has been released

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GamePark Holdings, Inc. has officially released the GP2X SDK.

The official GP2X SDK is available from the GP2X site from one of these links:
http://dev.gp2x.com/sdk/gp2xsdk_windows.zip
http://dev.gp2x.com/sdk/gp2xsdk_linux.tar.gz

If you need more library source, GPH provides the contact [email protected] and GPH will provide it on the developer’s forum, http://dev.gp2x.com/forum/. GPH mentions that you can get most of the library from the internet, as Dev-C++ for GP2X was coded with the source code which is already opened on the internet.

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Review: GoodSync Data Synchronization Software

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Review: GoodSync Data Synchronization Software

Slashdot ran an article last year titled “Condensing Your Life on to a USB Flash Drive?” and inspired me to modify how I use USB flash drives. I now use USB flash drives as portable backups in case of a disaster. While that may sound drastic, I didn’t think so as I had already started planning on using USB drives in this manner after Hurricane Katrina. While I created a portable backup solution using a couple of USB flash drives (one for personal information and one for work information), I also created a file synchronization nightmare. If I modified files on a USB drive, I had to make sure I copied it over to the folder in “My Documents” where I usually work on the file and vice versa. GoodSync uses a synchronization algorithm to synchronize data between PCs and USB drives. While other synchronization software simply copies files from place to place, GoodSync offers true bi-directional synchronization preventing data loss. Read the rest of the review to see how the Geeks feel about GoodSync’s synchronization algorithm.

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iLife ’06

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iLife '06

Happy Birthday to you Apple! The Apple Geeks of the world appreciate your 30 years of innovation and imagination and award you the Gizmo of the Day for perhaps the best software package value on the market today for iLife ’06!

Honestly, what can iLife ’06 not do? iLife ’06 includes iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, GarageBand and iWeb. iPhoto allows you to import, organize and work with your digital photos. iMovie easily allows you to convert home video into home cinema while iDVD allows you to produce your own DVDs by burning movies, photos and music to standard and widescreen DVDs. GarageBand is an interesting application that allows you to create your own soundtrack and record music and podcasts. Finally, iWeb lets you easily create web sites and blogs. Overall, if you have a Mac and an older version of iLife… it’s time to upgrade.

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Memeo iExtend (Turn your iPod into a PDA)

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Memeo iExtend (Turn your iPod into a PDA)

Attached to your iPod at the hip? Yet you want to have PDA-like functions without lugging around another device? Then try out the iExtend from Memeo. It’s a piece of software that syncs up things like your e-mail, notes, calendar, contacts and even files with your iPod. Memeo also touts iExtend as a great mechanism for using your iPod as an alternative to a USB memory stick. One of the software’s features is something called SmartPick which tracks and backs-up files on your computer to your pod. This is a pretty slick piece of software for the price.

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Oleansoft Releases New Version of Hidden Camera

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Oleansoft Hidden Camera v2.16 offers a software-based electronic surveillance system to monitor desktop activities across corporate networks. It serves the control of both productivity and security. Real-time monitoring from a split-screen, filtering of archive records and remote control of monitored systems are just a few examples of the solution’s rich functionality.

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