Transcend DPF

Transcend has added to its line of digital photo frames with the the PF810W (white) and PF810B (black) in India.

With an LED lighted touch-sensitive menu interface built into its outer frame with a subtle, elegant interlocking pattern, the PF810 has an 8-inch 800×600 (4:3) color TFT LCD panel to display photos and a full 2GB of built-in flash memory.

Austin Huang, Regional Head – Sales, SAARC and APAC, Transcend, said, “You can add a personal touch of elegant fashion to your living room, bedroom, and even your office and show off the pictures of your precious family, friends and special moments with Transcends new digital photo frames that offer exceptional quality, features and value. In fact, these are much more than average digital photo frames as you can play music and videos in various formats and also tune in to your favourite FM stations.”

The PF810 supports most JPG and BMP formats, and allows users to view their photos one at a time, in slideshow view, or in a tiled thumbnail view. Its AOS (Automatic Orientation Sensor) adjusts image placement on the screen automatically for optimal viewing. The PF810 is also equipped with advanced new NaturaTone intelligent skin color processing and user-selectable color modes that analyze the makeup of each image and enhance colors for a more natural, lifelike appearance.

The DPF also features an alarm clock, FM radio and an electronic calendar.

Priced at Rs. 9,900, the DPF is available with a two-year warranty for device and one-year warranty for panel.

Warbots of WWI and WWII

Long before Predator drones and PackBots patrolled Iraq and Afghanistan, unmanned systems were used in combat—as far back as WWI and WWII, in fact. Here’s a quick look at the coolest of the old-timey warbots:

While reading PW Singer’s Wired for War, I was surprised by the ingenuity on both sides in coming up with unmanned—and even radio-controlled—machines that were occasionally actually used during the two biggies. I’ve highlighted six, plus an exceptional example of early computer intelligence, that are all covered at some length in the book.

At the time of World War I

FL-7 remote-controlled boat (1916) - Sadly unpictured – These German “sprengbootes” carried 300lbs. of explosives and were tethered by 50-mile wire to a dude on shore, sitting in a tower 50 feet up. The controller was too vulnerable perhaps, because they soon moved him into an airplane buzzing overhead, still trailing that long-ass cable.

Wickersham Land Torpedo (1917) – Another ill-fated warbot, this one was startlingly close in looks to the PackBots of today, with its two tank treads. But instead of a sophisticated computer brain, this one packed 1,000 pounds of explosive and a rudimentary remote control. Unfortunately for people who like big booms, it never went into production.

Norden bomb sight (1932) – If the unmanned vehicles above represent prototypes in the body designs we see in today’s land, air and sea robots, the Norden bomb sight was the precursor to their cold, calculating brains.

A telescope would pick out a single spot on the ground, a series of gyroscopes and motors would hold that spot in sight, an analog computer would figure out the trajectory of the bombs needed to hit the target, and the whole thing would engage the plane’s autopilot to make sure the bombing went down as planned. You don’t have to read Catch-22 to know that, on bombing runs, nothing ever really went as planned, but the Norden was the closest they had to AI back in WWII, and there’s a reason it was said to “put a bomb in a pickle barrel from 20,000 feet” (even if that’s not going to do the bomb or the pickle barrel any good).

Samsung’s Rugged Mobile

Samsung’s B2100 Xplorer, that was reportedly released in a few European countries and Germany very recently, Read more

DC++ 0.75

DC++ is an free open-  source, ad and spyware-  free client, written in C++ for the Direct Connect  protocol originally  developed by John Hess,  that allows you to share  files over the internet with  other users.

• Much more stable. It wastes less memory, is faster, file size is smaller and long queue won’t freeze the whole program. Neo-Modus Direct Connect eats memory and resources.
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TortoiseSVN 1.6.0

AntiVir Personal 9.0.0.386

The AntiVir Personal  Edition offers the effective  protection against  computer viruses for the  individual and private use  on a single PC-workstation.  In order to make possible  an easy operation,  the AntiVir Personal  Edition is developed to the  essential points.

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Thunderbird 2.0.0.21

Thunderbird is a great email client from the same people who brought you the Firefox browser.

Thunderbird gives you IMAP/POP support, a built-in RSS reader, support for HTML mail, powerful quick search, saved search folders, advanced message filtering, message grouping, labels, return receipts, smart address book LDAP address completion, import tools, and the ability to manage multiple e-mail and newsgroup accounts.

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LD KM710

Well friends this time LG  has done somethin a lot  different apart from its  traditional lifestyle  products, by launching this  trend setter. Read more

Alcohol 120% 1.9.8.7507

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Defraggler 1.08.132

From Piriform, the company that brought you CCleaner and Recuva… they now bring you a file defragmentation tool… Defraggler!It differs from other defrag tools on the market, by enabling you to quickly and simply defrag the files you want to, without having to process the whole drive. Simply run it, select the file and defragment in seconds. No more struggling with the Windows defragmentation tool!

• Defrag Individual Files
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And remember like all Piriform products, Defraggler is completely free for both corporate and individual use.

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