Anyone who plays games knows the importance of having a good audio set-up. This usually means having headphones as compared to speakers not only due to the clarity of sound that can be achieved but also to avoid disturbing other people. This is particularly applicable in LAN sessions where people are bunched together in a single room.
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If you like me get annoyed by the standard offerings available to all Windows users for the purpose of listening to their music collection. Most people know about WinAmp as the only real alternative to Windows Media Player and iTunes, however, recently a whole new crop of media applications have come to the fore and today we look at a couple of them.
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Alright so the SanDisk Sansa Clip isn’t really likely to get rid of Apple iPods, but hey, its tempting to say it. The Sansa Clip will have 8 GB worth of memory and costs only $99. It costs about $30 more than the highest capacity iPod Shuffle (which costs $69) and has 4 times the memory size. The clip is removable and that is probably a strong selling point, seriously!
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The HTC Max 4G is a cellphone/PDA based on Windows Mobile 6.1, that and it is the world’s first Wi-Max and GSM combo phone. This means that you could essentially get transfer rates of up to 70 Mb/s on a Wi-Max network. This beats all the hyped up phones that have been released. Unfortunately, if you live outside Russia you will have to miss out on this one.
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What with the recent trend towards greener and more energy efficient products (as in hybrid and hydrogen powered cars, increase in usage of renewable energy, recycling etc) we now find that even the data storage industry is wising up to consumer tastes. Hence the eco-friendly HDDs (Hard Disk Drives) by Fujitsu and Logitec (not of Logitech Switzerland fame).
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SanDisk recently announced that it could make SSDs (Solid State Drives) up to a hundred times faster (in certain situations, probably means it will still be significantly faster in all other situations). In other news, the long awaited USB 3.0 specs will finally be unveiled at the USB implementers forum on November 17th 2008. No further delays, fingers crossed.
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Photographic and camera enthusiasts would be familiar with Canon’s 5D Mark II camera simply because it is one of the first few HD camera’s commercially available. And now we have seen a glimpse of its capabilities and we find it simply stunning. This 720p HD video of the subway and some other scenic/picturesque spots is worth the wait for it to load.
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Microsoft aims to provide better implementation of SSD (Solid State Drives) in Windows 7 and intends to discuss how they will make this happen at the upcoming Windows HEC (Hardware Engineering Conference) 2008. Also worthy of news is Mozilla finally implementing a privacy mode in the 3.1 version of their now relatively well known internet browser, Firefox.
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