Source: http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/10/a-datas-sataii-ssd-300-plus-promises-quicker-reads-writes/
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A-DATA's SATAII SSD 300 Plus promises quicker reads, writes originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:39:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Fi! led unde r: Cellphones, Handhelds, Portable Audio
Nokia introducing 5030, 5330, and 5730 XpressMusics at tomorrow's event? originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:39:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Gigabyte's M1028 netbook / tablet hits the FCC originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:42:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- In one case study, a publisher has managed to buck the trend of declining click-through rates with a potential solution: creating scarcity.
The story is more or less the same: Apple is allegedly planning a touchscreen netbook for release as early as H2 of this year. As chum, this new report throws out a display size figure of "between 9.7-inches and 10-inches," again pointing to Wintek as the display supplier and Quanta as the device manufacturer. Actually, the most interesting part of this report is what remained unsaid, at least by the parties involved:
Jill Tan, a spokeswoman for Apple in Asia, declined to comment Tuesday. Wintek spokeswoman Susie Lee and Quanta Computer investor relations officer Carol Hsu declined to comment.
Obviously this isn't proof of anything, but it is a rich—and uniformly held—silence.
Aside from lending the original rumor a bit more credibility, the new report doesn't do anything to address the most pressing questions: what form-factor, and how much? I don't suspect we'll get answers to these questions until the existence of the "it" is a bit more certain, which, judging by the claimed shipping target, could be a while. [DJW via CNET Asia]
That's what this thing is going to give us: A natural way to plug into the vast pool of information of the internet and ask questions like Kirk will do in Star Trek. At least according to Stephen Wolfram—who changed the world of mathematical research with his Mathematica software and, as genius go, he's up there with the best—and other scientists who have tried it. The new engine will be able to truly interpret your questions and give you a real, precise answer.
It won't use a database of preset questions, but it will have the ability to actually understand what you are asking. So if you ask "How many protons are in a lasagna for six people?", the system will be able to recognize, interpret, and answer the question.
We can only hope that nobody asks "what's the origin of the universe?" or we will all explode to hell. [Wolfram via Daily Mail]
Ars interviewed Barry Young, Managing Director of the OLED Association, and managed to get a pretty good read on where the OLED industry is, and more importantly, where it's headed. The nebulous long term projections about OLED dominance still stand, but the short term prospects are, in a word, shitty. Here's why:
Some major manufacturers have gotten to be pretty good at building the small OLED TVs we're used to seeing (Samsung is about to introduce a midrange, 14.1-inch pipsqueak), and prices for these mini-sets should start dropping soon enough. Unfortunately, these small OLED screen are the largest panels anyone is capable of mass-producing right now.
Sparing you the mind-numbing technical details (those here), manufacturers are being faced with two equally unattractive (read: expensive) options for building TV-sized OLED TVs, like the one Samsung showed off last year: either devise an entirely new manufacturing process, which would require the invention of new techniques and machines for f! abricati on, or pursue a different type of OLED panel. Both options would circumvent the current size restrictions, but both options are extremely expensive.
In the current climate, companies like Samsung can't be certain that such risky investments will pay off fast enough, and for the time being, investment capital is scarce. Answering a question about Samsung's plan for a 32" OLED set, Young could only say this: "How soon Samsung will do their next generation will be affected by the downturn." In other words, sorry 2009. And 2010. [Ars via OLED-Display]
Source: http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/10/sonys-panorama-shooting-dsc-hx1-camera-handled-on-video/
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Sony's panorama-shooting DSC-HX1 camera handled on video originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 10 Mar 2009 07:46:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Finalized USB 3.0 tests just months away, consumer devices set for next year originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 10 Mar 2009 08:57:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Neothings LightSpider takes HDMI signals 300 feet over fiber originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 10 Mar 2009 03:51:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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The better the deal compared to other retailers, the higher the deal score Gazaro assigns. The site is very electronics-oriented right now, with the majority of deals categories like televisions, computers, video cameras, and so on. One of the nicer aspects of using Gazaro to hunt for deals is that the price you see is the no-effort-involved price—no rebates, smooth-talking, or animal sacrifices required. Gazaro just compiles the prices from the company sites without factoring in rebates or your-mileage-may-vary tricks.
On top of the basic ticket price aggregation, Seat Karma has seating maps for over 1600 venues—similar, but more comprehensive than previously reviewed SeatQuest. Of those venues, 1300 of them are live maps where the available seats are mapped out with markers to give you an idea of where you'll be relative to the action. Out of the live maps, there are currently 140 venues with actual photos taken from the stands in various positions throughout the venues to give you an actual perspective on how you'll see the court or stage. For venues that have more complicated seating arrangements than simple stadium tiers, such as small theaters, Seat Karma has 3D-style seating maps to show how the various balconies mezzanine levels overlap.
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Photo by FaceMePLS.
Earlier this week we asked you what video editing software you thought was best. You responded in force, and we're back to share the top six tools Lifehacker readers use to edit their videos. While we normally limit the Hive Five strictly to five options, given that several of the options here cost more than a used car, we've expanded this Hive in order to provide a balanced spread. In this particular Hive Five, we can't promise cheap and open source, but we can promise that the contenders are—price tags and all—worthy of inclusion. A final note regarding pricing: many of the video editors can only be purchased as part of a bundle of software. For example, Adobe Premiere is part of the Adobe Creative Suite Production Premium bundle, and also includes, among other software, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and After Effects.
Now that you've seen the contenders for top video editor, it's time to log you! r vote:< /p>
Best Video Editing Software?
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If you have something to add—especially if you voted Other—sound off in the comments below to share your video editing tips with your fellow readers.
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Photo by Kevin N. Murphy.
Over at the photography site Digital Photography School, they've put together a list of best practices for avoiding the boring portrait blues. They all focus on breaking out of your default camera-pointed-right-at-subject's-face/subject-starring-down-camera-like-hungry-wolf setup. The photograph I grabbed from Flickr here is an example of tip #7, introducing a prop into the photo. Another way to go about injecting interest into your photos is to take a well-established rule of composition and break it:
The Rule of Thirds is one that can be effective to break - placing your subject either dead center can sometimes create a powerful image - or even creative placement with your subject right on the edge of a shot can sometimes create interesting images.
While the tips they offer are all about composition, don't neglect the hardware side of things. Check out previously reviewed list of photography hacks from David Pogue to increase your photographic arsenal cheaply. If you have a favorite portrait to share, link it and explain its craft in the comments. Photo by Gianmaria.
Whether a file has been indexed by Google's search servers or not, paste in the link to the document, and Google Translate will convert it to HTML, translate it, and present you with the page in a handy viewer. You usually have to know the original language to help Translate get started, and Google Operating System's Alex noted that it only gave back the first nine pages of a PDF he gave it. For technical documents and other works you need a quick, mostly-legible read on, though, Google Translate's document tool is a killer app.
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