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September 11, 2009

iPod touch

Apple announced the new iPod touch lineup starting at a price of Rs 12,400. iPod touch features Apple's Multi-Touch user interface, a 3.5-inch widescreen glass display, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and a built-in accelerometer and speaker. The 8GB iPod touch is now available for Rs 12,400, along with the iPod touch 32GB model for Rs 18,400 and 64GB model for Rs 24,400.

The new iPod touch supports Genius Mixes, which automatically creates up to 12 endless mixes of songs from the user's iTunes library.

iPod touch is a game player with its built-in accelerometer, Multi-Touch user interface and the over 20,000 game and entertainment titles available on the App Store. With support for peer-to-peer connections, the new iPod touch gives users the ability to play multi-player games with people next to them or around the world. iPod touch customers can add new game titles from the App Store over Wi-Fi

iPod touch is a also pocket computer, letting users surf the web, do email, manage their calendars, organise contacts, and use social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter. iPod touch comes with the iPhone 3.1 software including: cut, copy and paste; Spotlight Search to search across iPod touch or within mail, contacts, calendar and iPod; landscape keyboard for mail, notes and Safari; remote lock for MobileMe and anti-phishing features.iPod touch features up to 30 hours of music playback or six hours of video playback on a single charge. The 8GB model holds up to 1,750 songs, 10,000 photos and 10 hours of video; the 32GB model holds up to 7,000 songs, 40,000 photos or 40 hours of video; and the 64GB model holds up to 14,000 songs, 90,000 photos or 80 hours of video. The 32GB and 64GB models also include up to 50 percent faster performance and support for even better graphics with Open GL ES 2.0.

Motorola Cliq aka Dext

Struggling phone maker Motorola unveiled its first device using Google's Android system, banking on it to power features that will attract consumers looking to use their phones to connect with friends, family and colleagues

The Cliq (known as the Dext outside the US) comes with a touch screen and a standard, "QWERTY" keyboard that slides out from its side

Software on it will let users aggregate contact information from various social networks and e-mail accounts. Small application "widgets" will show such information as your friends' Facebook status updates on the home screen.

The new device also sports a five-megapixel camera, allowing for sharper images than most other phones, including Apple's iPhone and its three-megapixel resolution

September 10, 2009

Minicooker PC Oven Casemod--- nice model

PC modder Zbysek has creatively built his Project MiniCooker PC, complete with blue LED “gas burners” that looks real. He built the entire system by hand, including welding together the metal chassis, creating custom plastic knobs, and fake burners out of acrylic. The Minicooker PC Oven Casemod features an Intel Pentium D820 3.5GHz CPU with the MSI 975X Platinum, a 2GB DDR2 Kingston 800MHz, and an nVidia EVGA 9600GT graphics card, a WD Caviar 80GB hard drive, and the Tagan Easycon 580W

Apple iPod nano 16 GB (5th Generation)

iPod nano now has a built-in video camera that lets you spontaneously shoot video wherever you are. And that's just the beginning. It has a dramatic, polished anodized aluminum finish and a larger screen. The new Genius Mixes feature acts as your personal DJ, automatically searching your iTunes library, then making mixes you'll love. Take iPod nano anywhere and the new Pedometer counts your steps. Also making its debut: a built-in FM radio with two amazing features--iTunes Tagging and Live Pause. So the world's most popular music player now has more to play with
Video a-Go-Go

iPod nano now has a built-in video camera that lets you record fun as it happens. Then share it with friends on the Internet. It's the video camera that's small enough to take with you everywhere.

Video Recording--a Whole New Way to nano

A quick scroll through the menu takes you to the video camera. Then you're ready to record video in portrait or landscape--perfect for emailing or posting on Facebook or MobileMe. A built-in mic lets you capture audio, too. And when you play back your video on iPod nano, you'll hear the recorded audio with it. All of which means your indispensable music player is now your indispensable video camera.

FM Radio--it Gives You Yet Another Way to Rock

There's always something great on the FM dial. And now the FM tuner lets you hear your favorite morning shows on your commute and discover new music while you work out. It even shows you what and who you're listening to

Shake to Shuffle Your Music

Hear songs in a totally random way. Just turn on Shake to Shuffle, then give iPod nano a shake and it shuffles to a different song in your music library. You never know what iPod nano will spin for you next

Let's Talk VoiceOver

What if you're listening to a song and want to know the title or the artist? Just use the Click Wheel or the controls on the optional Apple Earphones with Remote and Mic and VoiceOver tells you the song name and who's performing it without interrupting your music. So you're never distracted from your ride or run by looking down at your screen.

Technical Details

Dimensions: 3.6 x 1.5 x 0.24 inches (90.7 x 38.7 x 6.2 mm)
Weight: 1.28
ounces (36.4 grams)
Capacity: 16 GB
Display: 2.2-inch (diagonal) TFT
display
Display resolution: 240-by-376-pixel resolution at 204 pixels per
inch
Frequency response: 20Hz to 20,000Hz
Audio formats supported: AAC
(8 to 320 Kbps), Protected AAC (from iTunes Store), MP3 (8 to 320 Kbps), MP3
VBR, Audible (formats 2, 3, 4, Audible Enhanced Audio, AAX, and AAX+), Apple
Lossless, AIFF, and WAV
Earphone frequency response: 20Hz to 20,000Hz
Earphone impedance: 32 ohms
Video formats supported: H.264 video, up to
1.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Low-Complexity version of the
H.264 Baseline Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in
.m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; H.264 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480
pixels, 30 frames per second, Baseline Profile up to Level 3.0 with AAC-LC audio
up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; MPEG-4
video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile
with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov
file formats
Languages: Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French,
German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish,
Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Traditional Chinese,
and Turkish (additional language support for display of song, album, and artist
information: Bulgarian, Croatian, Romanian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian,
Ukrainian, and Vietnamese)
Supported VoiceOver languages: Chinese
(Cantonese), Chinese (Mandarin), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (U.S.), Finnish,
French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese,
Russian, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish; other languages are available with the
purchase of a supported third-party text-to-speech engine
Supported spoken
menu languages: Chinese (Cantonese), Chinese (Mandarin), Czech, Danish, Dutch,
English (U.S.), Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish; other
languages are available with the purchase of a supported third-party
text-to-speech engine
Battery: Built-in rechargeable lithium-ion battery
Playback time: Music playback time: Up to 24 hours when fully charged; Video
playback time: Up to 5 hours when fully charged
Battery charge time:
Fast-charge time: about 1.5 hours (charges up to 80% of battery capacity);
Full-charge time: about 3 hours
Mac system requirements: Mac computer with
USB 2.0 port; Mac OS X v10.4.11 or later; iTunes 9 or later
Windows system
requirements: PC with USB 2.0 port; Windows Vista or Windows XP Home or
Professional with Service Pack 3 or later; iTunes 9 or later