Monthly Archives: February 2004

general February 11, 2004 posted by

Alt Ernative.

The AltPhotos.com site features some stunningly beautiful photos from all over the world. A photo enthusiasts site par excellence.

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general February 11, 2004 posted by

Fish mongering.

The Fish memory card is a ‘universal semiconductor memory card with standard built-in USB 2.0 communications.’ There’s a baby version as well as a normal sized one. Capacities will range from 32MB to 16GB. Apparently. So, here we have yet another memory card standard for the poor suffering consumer to puzzle over.

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Where am I?

WhereIam from Psiloc is a neat little program for Series 60 smart phones which activates macros depending on the location of the phone. It uses the location information of the GSM network cell to determine where it is. Genius idea. ‘Alarm That event means that end user may set up an alarm, that will activate when the mobile phone would approach or exit selected location (geographical area). So using this application end user may sleep in the train to work…

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Buzz off.

Good grief, yet another high tech anti mosquito program. This one for the Nokia 7650 and 3650. Price $9.99. ‘The software can make your mobile phone to generate a high frequency audio wave that mosquito hates a lot to get them out of your way.’

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general February 10, 2004 posted by

Take the weight off.

The iMedic Chair is billed as the ‘world’s first massage chair that understands your body’s needs.’ Wot’s that mean? Well 10 airbags with vibrators, heat therapy via air massage, infrared sensors to detect ‘all the major 27 acupressure points on your back’, 4 roller massage system and twin LCD remote control. Yours for a mere AUS $6495.00. Oh and guys, do yourselves a favour and remove the cheesy javascript right mouse click lock if you want to get publicised properly…

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DigiMemo

The DigiMemo A501 notepad from ACECAD ‘digitally captures and stores everything you write or draw on paper, without the use of computers and special papers. Utilizing the electromagnetic technology, it allows you to affix any ordinary A5-size papers or notepad on the digital pad and write with ink.’ Now that sounds like it could definitely be useful.

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Find yer own phone, mate.

The Nokia online Find Your Phone feature is a rather cutesy method of determining which handset will suit you. Move the sliders to indicate your mobility, leisure, fashion and stuff and up pops a set of three phone suggestions. Oh, did I mention that they were only Nokia brand?

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Airing the dirty laundry.

LaundryView from Mac-Gray Corporation ‘enables students to monitor the status of the washers and dryers in their campus laundry rooms from any device that has a web browser…Each machine reports its status to LaundryView(TM) several times every minute and, from their computers, students can see if the laundry room is busy, and can ask to be notified when machines become available. Once a student has started a machine, they can ask LaundryView(TM) to remind them when the machine completes its…

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Flash video.

The Kibisis program converts video files to low bit rate flash format for streaming across the Net. A tad expensive perhaps at $59.95, especially since the end video quality is not all that great, but I can see where this could be useful. No hassles with video servers, or client players since most browsers are Flash enabled almost by default nowadays.

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Replay gain.

The Replay Gain initiative looks to be a worthy one, which hopefully will eventually work out. ‘The Problem: Different CDs are mastered at different levels. When Random playing, the volume keeps changing. The Solution: Store the ideal Replay Gain for each audio track in the header of the audio file. What’s here: A proposed method of calculating the Replay Gain, together with a calibration standard.’

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DVD rewind.

Save on embarrassing fines at your video rental store with Digital Velocity’s online DVD rewinding service. Only $1 per rewind. Bargin. ‘Our rewind is guaranteed: it will NOT void your service agreement with Blockbuster or other major video rental outlets.’

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Idiot phish?

Is there a new class of phishing that I’m not aware of? Idiot stupid phishing? Received this spam a few days back – ‘DEAR Citicard Cleints, This_ EMAIL was sentt by_the_ CITI_bank _server_ to veerify your _email_ address. You musst cmpltoee this pceorss by clicking on the_ link bellow and enttering in the smal winndow your Citibank Atm_ Card nummber and PIN that you_use on_the Atm Machine. That is done for_your poetrction -k- becaurse some of_our membres no logner have…

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Xpress GPS.

Now here’s interesting. Buried amongst the blurb about the cool upcoming Nokia 5140 phone that we featured a while back, comes mention of a new add-on – the Nokia Xpress-on GPS shell. Basically a sleeve that you slip over the handset which will then provide GPS functionality. This is looking like it could be one heck of a handset. ‘The Nokia Xpress-on� GPS shell helps you get where you’re going with maps and directions.’

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