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Monday, August 04, 2008

Aigo's Atom-packin' MID gets unboxed

Source: http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/355188692/

Aigo's MID (more formally known as the MID P8860) just arrived in the anxious hands of UMPC Fever, and of course, it uploaded a number of photographs so we could all share in the joyous unboxing experience. Granted, you've already seen so many in the wild shots that you aren't apt to be surprised, but we're rather impressed with just how nicely everything was arranged inside of the subtle black box. We'd totally have to debadge it (is the Atom sticker really necessary... really?), but other than that it's not a half bad item to have residing in your rear pocket. More shots in the read link.

[Via Pocketables, thanks Jenn]

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VIA Nano whoops Intel's Atom (again) on video

Source: http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/355203149/

Filed under: Handhelds, Laptops

Do you cheer for the underdog? Would you love to see VIA unseat Intel in the battle for the hearts and minds of netbook market share just because Intel's, well, Intel? Good, then you'll love this highly emotive video produced by VIA showing its meager 1.3GHz Nano processor kicking Intel's 1.6GHz Atom to the curb in a 1080p HD video test. We'd be more suspect of the results had we not already seen VIA clean Intel's house in the head-to-head benchmarks. Now pull up a seat ringside and get ready to sputter along with the Atom-based netbook -- video after the break.

[Via UMPC Portal]

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Friday, August 01, 2008

WebToMail Delivers Any Web Page to Your Inbox [Web Browsing]

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/350908025/webtomail-delivers-any-web-page-to-your-inbox

Web site WebToMail sends full web pages to your email on demand. Why? Let's say, for example, you're sitting behind a nasty internet filter at work that won't even let you access your friendly, productivity-enhancing Lifehacker. Just fire off an email to send@webtomail.co.cc with the URL of the web page you want in the subject (http://lifehacker.com). A few minutes later, you'll receive an email back from WebToMail with the contents of the URL you requested conveniently embedded in the email. The results vary depending on the email client you're using; in Gmail, you don't get nicely styled CSS, but you do in desktop apps like Thunderbird. Seems like a worthwhile utility to add to your IT lockdown toolbox.

WebToMail [via MakeUseOf]

VMware Fusion 2.0 Beta 2 Now Available [Beta Beat]

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/351788753/vmware-fusion-20-beta-2-now-available

Mac OS X only: VMware releases a new beta of Fusion 2.0, the virtual machine software for Mac. We were impressed with our test drive of beta 1, and beta 2 adds a few more promising features, like: automatic virtual machine snapshots (for easy rollback in case something goes wrong), mirroring folders (like your Mac's Documents folder to Windows' My Documents folder), better keyboard and mouse mapping, and improved 3D graphics (happy news for gamers). The folder mirroring is a welcome addition to my virtual XP installation—no more constant browsing to a shared Mac folder. Take a look at how it works.

Screencast courtesy of VMware:

The Fusion 2.0 beta 2 has all-around improved Unity and its ability to use apps from either operating system in any context. For example, you can set Windows apps as the default file handler for documents on your Mac (and vice versa). (Adam showed you how to do this to some extent in Parallels last July.) Here's another upbeat screencast from VMware demonstrating:

Right now beta 2 is a free download for testers; Fusion 2.0 will be a free upgrade for 1.0 users with a ($79.99) license.

Fusion 2.0 Beta 2 [VMware via TechBlog]

Photoshop Express Becoming Better Web-Based Image Editor [Photoshop]

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/351808413/photoshop-express-becoming-better-web+based-image-editor

Previously mentioned Photoshop Express offers more web-based image management and editing features, like drag and drop upload (via an Adobe AIR app), tags to organize your photos, and slideshows put to music (in addition to Flickr integration). [via]