PC Buyer's Guide

Fujitsu LifeBook T2010 and U810

2008-08-27T22:11:00.000-07:00

Fujitsu announced two new additions to its notebook lineup, and neither are traditional notebooks: The Fujitsu LifeBook T2010 is a convertible Tablet, and the Fujitsu LifeBook U810 is a UMPC.

Featuring a bidirectional swivel hinge, the 12.1-inch, 3.5-pound Fujitsu LifeBook T2010 makes great use of its 1280 x 800-pixel backlit display that's optimized for both indoor and outdoor use. Internal components include your choice of Intel Core 2 Duo processors, 1GB of RAM (upgradable to 4GB), a shock-mounted and two-level password-protected hard drive (ranging in size from 60GB to 160GB for a traditional HDD, or a 32GB solid state drive), 802.11a/b/g/n Wi-Fi, a PC Card slot, and 3-in-1 memory card reader. The security conscious will appreciate the inclusion of a fingerprint reader, TPM, a Smart Card slot, and BIOS password protection; and the clumsy will appreciate the spill-resistant keyboard. Purchasers can also select either the Windows Vista Business or Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 operating systems. An HSDPA mobile broadband option will be offered in Q1. The LifeBook T2010 starts at $1,599.

At just 1.5 pounds, the incredibly lightweight Fujitsu LifeBook U810 is what Fujitsu hopes will be the handheld that makes business users give up their BlackBerrys. Powered by an Intel A110 processor this mini-UMPC has 1GB of RAM, a 40GB hard drive, 5.6-inch Crystal View WSVGA display, 0.3-megapixel camera for snapping photos and Web conferencing, an SD Card reader, pointing device, illuminated keyboard, and a modular bay that can be outfitted with one of several optical drives. The system also comes with a slew of security features (BIOS Lock, a fingerprint reader, and TPM) and two wireless options (Bluetooth, 802.11a/b/g Wi-Fi). The U810 comes preinstalled with Windows Vista Home Premium, Windows Vista Business, or Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005. The system starts at $999, but in the first quarter of 2008, a HSDPA mobile broadband option will bring the price to approximately $1,300.

The Fujitsu LifeBook T2010 is available for purchase now, and the Fujitsu LifeBook U810 will begin shipping September 18th.

Price: $999 (Fujitsu LifeBook U810); $1,599 (Fujitsu LifeBook T2010)

PhotoZoom Professional 2.1.1

2008-08-26T07:20:00.000-07:00

PhotoZoom Professional

PhotoZoom™ Professional is based on a patented, self-adjusting, advanced interpolation method, called S-Spline Technology. It introduces a revolutionary approach to digital image enlargement. It is able to render true to life image magnifications without the serrated edges - yet perfectly focused - without visible loss of quality!

PhotoZoom Professional Key Features :

Enlarge your images with S-Spline, the No. 1 resize technology in the world. Awarded and praised by the professional and consumer press over and over again.

The S-Spline Algorithm is being improved to make sure that you will not have to suffer any quality loss.

Batch conversion allows you to resize whole series at once, easily adjust the setting for a batch and there you go.

Extensive support for high-end image formats (such as 48 & 64 bit images)

The software comes as both standalone application and Adobe Photoshop compatible export plugin, making sure that whatever it is you prefer, the workflow runs smoothly.

For fast results it has a quick menu to easily select S-Spline and a predefined setting like "Photo - Detailed" or "Graphics - Strong edges".

For a subtle finishing touch S-Spline allows you to control the end results by providing the advanced fine-tuning tools.

Compare quality to what competing programs do by switching between S-Spline and any of the other existing interpolation algorithms that are available in for e.g. Adobe® Photoshop™

Large preview window with zooming functionality to show you the end resize result in great detail.

HP Pavilion dv9500t

2008-08-20T22:32:00.000-07:00

Without much fanfare, HP has started offering an upgrade to its sleek and sexy Pavilion dv9500t notebook that's sure to please multimedia mavens: an HD DVD-R drive. While the previous dv9500t had the ability to play HD-DVD movies, the updated dv9500t can now burn HD content as well.

The notebook, which starts at $1,174, features Windows Vista Home Premium, a 1.6-GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, a 17-inch WXGA+ display, 1GB of RAM, a webcam and mic, 160GB hard drive, 802.11a/g/n Wi-Fi, and the required Nvidia GeForce 8600M GS graphics card to complement the HD DVD-R drive. The HP Pavilion dv9500t with HD DVD-R is available now.

HP Pavilion dv9500t Notebook specs:
Intel Core 2 Duo processor T5450 (1.66 GHz, 2MB L2 Cache, 667MHz FSB), 17.0″ WXGA+ BrightView Widescreen (1440×900), Vista Premium, Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100, 1GB SDRAM, 160GB 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive, LightScribe SuperMulti 8X DVD+/-RW with Double Layer Support, PRO/Wireless 4965AGN Network Connection, 8 Cell Lithium Ion Battery, Microsoft Works 8.0, Free Microphone/Webcam, one-year limited warranty.

Internet Explorer 7 Final

2008-08-20T22:29:00.000-07:00

Internet Explorer 7 Final

Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) has been designed to make everyday tasks easier, provide dynamic security protection and improve the development platform and manageability. End user improvements include a streamlined interface, tabbed browsing, printing advances, improved search functionality, instant feeds (RSS), dynamic security protection, and more.

Internet Explorer 7 features
Review the features below to see the advances that have been made to ease of use, security, and the development platform in Internet Explorer 7.
Makes everyday tasks easier
Simplified User Experience
The Internet Explorer 7 frame is reorganized to make it noticeably simpler, more streamlined, and less cluttered with unnecessary items. This maximizes the area of the screen devoted to the WebPages that you want to see and makes performing the most common browsing tasks easy.

Advanced Printing
Automatically scales a printed webpage so that it's not wider than the paper it will be printed on. Internet Explorer 7 also includes a multi-page print preview with live margins, resizing text to avoid document clipping, and an option to print only selected text.

Instant Search Box
Web searches using your favorite search provider can now be entered into a search box within the toolbar, eliminating the clutter of separate toolbars. You can easily choose a provider from the dropdown list or add more providers.

Favorites Center
Offers easy and fast access to Favorites, Tab Groups, Browsing History, and RSS Feed subscriptions. Expands when needed, and can be anchored in place for even easier access.

RSS Feeds
Automatically detects RSS feeds on sites by illuminating an icon on the toolbar. A single click on the icon allows you to preview and optionally subscribe to the site's RSS feed, and then be automatically notified as content is updated. Read RSS feeds directly in the browser, scan for important stories, and filter your view with search terms or site-specific categories.

Tabbed Browsing
View multiple sites in a single browser window. Easily switch from one site to another through tabs at the top of the browser frame.

Quick Tabs
Provides easy tab selection and navigation by displaying thumbnails of all open tabs in a single window.

Tab Groups
Tabs can be grouped and saved into logical categories, allowing you to open multiple tabs with a single click. A Tab Group can easily be set as the Home Page Group so the entire Tab Group opens every time

Internet Explorer is launched from the Start menu.

Page Zoom

Enlarge individual webpages, including both text and graphics, to either focus on specific content or to make content more accessible to those with vision limitations.

Dynamic security protection
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ActiveX Opt-in
Disables nearly all pre-installed ActiveX controls to prevent potentially vulnerable controls from being exposed to attack. You can easily enable or disable ActiveX controls as needed through the Information
Bar and the Add-on Manager.

Security Status Bar
Enhances awareness of website security and privacy settings by displaying color-coded notifications next to the address bar. Internet Explorer 7 changes the Address Bar to green for websites bearing new High Assurance certificates, indicating the site owner has completed extensive identity verification checks.

Phishing Filter notifications, certificate names, and the gold padlock icon are now also adjacent to the address bar for better visibility. Certificate and privacy detail information can easily be displayed with a single click on the Security Status Bar.

Phishing Filter
Proactively warns and helps protect you against potential or known fraudulent sites and blocks the site if appropriate. The opt-in filter is updated several times per hour using the latest security information from
Microsoft and several industry partners.

Cross-Domain Barriers
Limits script on webpages from interacting with content from other domains or windows. This enhanced safeguard will further protect against malware by limiting the potential for malicious websites to manipulate flaws in other websites or cause you to download undesired content or software.

Delete Browsing History
Allows you to clean up cached pages, passwords, form data, cookies, and history, all from a single window.

Address Bar Protection
Every window, whether it's a pop-up or standard window, will present an address bar to the user, helping to block malicious sites from emulating trusted sites.

International Domain Name Anti-spoofing
In addition to adding support for International Domain Names in URLs, Internet Explorer also notifies you when visually similar characters in the URL are not expressed in the same language, thus protecting you against sites that could otherwise appear as known, trustworthy sites.

URL Handling Security
Redesigned URL parsing ensures consistent processing and minimizes possible exploits. The new URL handler helps centralize critical data parsing and increases data consistency throughout the application.

Fix My Settings
To help protect you from browsing with unsafe settings, Internet Explorer 7 warns you with an Information Bar when current security settings may put you at risk. Within the Internet Control Panel, you will see certain critical items highlighted in red when they are unsafely configured. In addition to alerts warning you about unsafe settings, you will be reminded by the Information Bar as long as the settings remain unsafe. You can instantly reset Internet security settings to the "Medium-High" default level by clicking the "Fix My Settings" option in the Information Bar.

Add-ons Disabled Mode
To help troubleshoot difficulties launching Internet Explorer or reaching specific websites, you have the ability to start in "No Add-ons" mode, where only critical system Add-ons are enabled.

Features Unique to Windows Vista
The following features are available only with Internet Explorer 7 in Windows Vista:

Protected Mode
Internet Explorer 7 in Windows Vista runs in isolation from other applications in the operating system. Exploits and malicious software are restricted from writing to any location beyond Temporary Internet Files without explicit user consent.

Parental Controls
To help keep kids safer online, parents can control browsing behavior through the parental control settings built into Windows Vista. The child's safety level can be monitored and changed remotely. The safety level carries over to many PC activities, such as playing games or browsing the Internet. A child's browsing session can even be examined by a parent afterwards, and cannot be removed without the parent's permission.

Improved platform and manageability
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CSS Improvements
Application Compatibility Toolkit
Alpha Channel in PNG
Group Policy Improvements
Internet Explorer Administration Kit
Improved AJAX Support
Open Search Extensions
RSS Platform
Platform Compatibility

Samsung Bordo (Bordeaux) LCD TVs

2008-08-07T06:57:00.002-07:00

Samsung Electronics which holds the record for selling more than a million sets of their Bordo LCD TV’s in the shortest time has launched 32-inch and 40-inch 2007 Bordo LCD TVs. The concept of the new design of the 2007 Bordo LCD TVs which is sure to attract the admiration of worldwide customers is “Beauty”. The products imitate in a stylish way an image of wineglass through the use of a soft and transparent bezel design in the lower part. Breathtaking clarity, stunningly vibrant colors, rich acoustical depth, and seamless multimedia integration make Samsung Bordo LCD TV a leader in LCD TV technology. In addition, the front, frame and rear parts of the LCD TVs are high-glossy coating treated, bringing up the image of black pearl coating, coupled with a soft touch-based control button of a shiny jewelry-like detailed design, maximizes the beauty of TV.

The thrill of optimized game mode; true-to-life surround sound; and sharp definition of even fast-moving images etc makes Samsung Bordo LCD TV’s a class of its own.

Light Artist

2008-08-07T06:57:00.001-07:00

Light Artist is a program that allows you to add realistic lighting effects to your photos.

With this program you can easily make your ordinary and undistinguished photos sunnier, romantic or even gloomy if you want.

You can modify the light color, add multiple light sources, change the surface qualities of the image and add various ambient illumination effects.

Using one of the image channels as the texture channel you can add 3D relief to your images. Looking through this gallery should give you the impression of what can be done with Light Artist.

Amazed by our gallery? Here is a detailed step-by-step guide that helps you reproduce the effects used to create the Light Artist Gallery.

Now you can apply any of the given effects to your own pictures within a couple of clicks. The corresponding parameters file names are given below the processed images.

The first thing you have to do is download the new version of Light Artist and the Sample Settings package and install them on your PC.

Light Artist features are as follows:
Load and save jpg,bmp
Add multiple light sources to the image
Adjust light source type and parameters
Add 3d relief to the images

Genius SlimStar 820: A Solar-powered Keyboard

2008-08-04T03:50:00.000-07:00

The Genius SlimStar 820 is one of a kind keyboard that includes a solar panel to draw on energy from light sources and then to recharge the unit's built-in battery. The panel located on the top right is adjustable to absorb as much light as possible. Other than this unique feature, the SlimStar 820 seems like an ordinary $15 keyboard with tons of multimedia hotkeys. One more thing. The keyboard is hybrid powered. In the absence of any light, the USB cable charger can take over. The solar-panel doesn't recharge the 1600dpi laser mouse which uses 4 AA batteries that are pretty harmful to the environment. The good news is the batteries last up to 15 months.

PC Tools File Recover v6.2.0

2008-08-04T03:48:00.000-07:00

File Recover™ 6.0 for Windows

File Recover is a safe, affordable and easy-to-use file recovery solution, designed to recover and restore deleted files from hard drives, floppy drives and other types of fixed media.

File Recover allows you to recover critically important documents, or other files, which have been lost by accidental deletion. These files may be lost by emptying the Recycle Bin, or using other deletion actions that bypass the Recycle Bin altogether. Such actions include Windows Shift-Delete, command line deletion, deleting excessively large files or using applications that delete files without the Recycle Bin.
When a file is deleted from the Recycle Bin, or if the recycle bin is bypassed altogether, the file can no longer be recovered by the Windows Operating system. The content of the file still remains on the drive, relatively intact, until the section of the drive it occupies is overwritten by another file.

File Recover identifies the contents of such lost files on the hard drive and allows you to recover them. If a file has been partially overwritten, File Recover attempts to reconstruct as much of the file as possible with the remaining contents. This allows you to salvage at least part, if not all, of that recovered file to continue using it as required.

File Recover feature highlights

Recovers files instantly from hard drives, floppy drives and other types of fixed media. If you are a home user or a network administrator, File Recover fills a critical gap in your data protection strategy.

Rapid scan engine - a typical hard drive can be scanned for recoverable files within minutes.

Scan all files and directories on selected hard drives.

Search for a recoverable file using part or all of its file name.

Utilizing a non-destructive, read-only file recovery approach. File Recover will not write or make changes to the section of the drive from which it is recovering data.

Batch file recovery (recovers multiple files in one action).
Works around bad-sector disk areas. Recovers data where other programs fail.
Supports standard IDE/ATA/SCSI hard drives, including drives larger than 8 GB.

Supports hard drives formatted with Windows FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS file systems.

Review DJ ToneXpress

2008-08-02T05:37:00.000-07:00

DJ ToneXpress is an easy to use application that lets you make unlimited customized real music ringtones from MP3, WMA, AAC/MP4, WAV, OGG files & Audio CDs. The 3 step Ringtone Creation Wizard guides you through music selection, ringtone editing and upload to phone. You can view the music sound wave graphically and use the zoom feature to achieve optimal start and stop points. Easy, Simple & Quick: the whole process requires only a few clicks from music selection to your ready to use ringtone.

The ringtone can be transmitted over the air to your phone or downloaded to your computer. There are NO subscriptions or hidden fees. DJ ToneXpress works in more than 50 countries & works with most mobile phones (e.g. Nokia, Motorola, SonyEricsson, Samsung, Siemens, Panasonic, LG, NEC, Sharp) that support real music ringtones & have Internet service through its carrier. Testing of phone compatibility available prior to buying license, plus attentive Customer Support is available.

DJ ToneXpress was created with the ease-of-use in mind; instructions are provided on each step, guiding you through the process of making your customized real music ringtone. All you have to do is to follow 3 easy steps; the whole process should not take more than 5 minutes to complete:
Step 1 - Select Song
Step 2 - Make Ringtone
Step 3 - Send to Phone

Version 3.0 includes bug fixes and new phones added, speed improvement, and better support for Verizon phones.

Fujitsu LifeBook P7320 ultra-portable

2008-08-02T05:34:00.000-07:00

Fujitsu Computer Systems Corporation today announced the LifeBook P7230 notebook, an ultra-portable that elegantly blends mobility with complete functionality for mobile professionals who need full computing power while on the road. Weighing less than three pounds, the LifeBook P7230 notebook, available in chic Leather Black or trendy Leather White, features an even slimmer 1.17-inch silhouette with a 10.6-inch LED lit widescreen display.

Equipped with the powerful yet energy-efficient Intel Core Solo U1400 Ultra Low Voltage Processor and fully loaded with Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic, Windows Vista Business or Windows XP Professional, the reliable LifeBook P7230 notebook delivers exactly what professionals on-the-go require. With an LED-lit Crystal View XGA TFT wide format display, the LifeBook P7230 notebook presents an incredibly crisp view of presentations, DVDs, and other digital media. Digital dual array built-in microphones and dual built-in stereo speakers, along with a new optional built-in web-cam for taking still pictures or capturing video, add a novel dimension to the LifeBook P7230 notebook. The optional built-in camera, centered above the display, is ideal for visually demonstrating a complicated procedure over the web or illustrating items to clarify key points.

Staying connected while mobile is easy with a seamlessly integrated Intel PRO/Wireless 3945b/g Network Connection or Atheros Super AG Wireless LAN, modem, Gigabit Ethernet, and Bluetooth wireless option. The LifeBook P7230 notebook offers two conveniently placed USB 2.0 ports, an IEEE 1394 port, full-sized video port, modem, LAN and audio in and out jacks. Accessing photo or video files is easy via a combination of Secure Digital (SD), Memory Stick PRO and xD card slots.

Review Ulead PhotoImpact V12.0

2008-08-01T19:21:00.000-07:00

Ulead® PhotoImpact® 12 is a complete image-editing suite. Choose powerful yet easy-to-use tools and share in your photos, greeting cards, labels, calendars, prints, email and more.
New! Easy & Fast ExpressFix Mode

ExpressFix mode is perfect for beginners to get started fast.

One-click fixes and enhancements make it great for anyone!
Powerful, High-end Image Editing

New Auto White Balance Control makes colors look natural.

Enhanced RAW file & 16-bit image support.

Complete Creative Suite

New Create greeting cards and CD & DVD labels.

Advanced painting, drawing, cloning and retouching tools.

Exciting 2D & 3D text and graphics and dozens of professional filters.

Web, DVD & Video Graphics

Create tailor-made DVD menu buttons, Web and video objects.

DVD Menu Maker Plug-in* lets you make custom DVD menus.

What's New in Version 12

Easy and Fast ExpressFix™ Mode
ExpressFix mode is great for anyone for everyday image-editing tasks. The large preview screen lets you make enhancements visually.

One-click fixes and easy-to-use enhancements make ExpressFix perfect for beginners.

Auto SmartCurves gives you high-quality tonal correction with one click.

Auto Reduce Noise cleans up unwanted digital artifacts automatically.

SmartGuide “How-to” Help
SmartGuide is task-based help that teaches you how to edit - while your edit!
Step-by-step directions show you what to do. Links take you directly to the tools you need.

Auto White Balance Control
Automatically corrects the colors in your photos.

Advanced perceptual technology makes colors look natural.

Detailed settings let you make precise adjustments.

Photo Project Templates
Share your photos in greetings cards and on CD & DVD labels.

Choose from 70 customizable templates.
Simple and fast 3-step wizard.

Web and Blog Page Templates

Customizable templates allow you to design your own blog pages quickly and easily.

Review Power Text To Speech Reader v1.00.06.8.1

2008-08-01T19:19:00.000-07:00

Power Text to Speech Reader - The World's Best Text To Speech Software

Welcome to Power Text to Speech Reader, the world's most popular Text To Speech tool.

Power Text to Speech Reader is an award-winning text-to-speech player that lets you listen to documents, e-mails or web pages instead of reading on screen, it uses voice synthesis to create spoken audio from text with natural voices.

You can listen on your PC or save text to MP3 or wave files for listening later. Even better, if you have a portable audio device you can take your text as MP3 files to the gym, in your car, or anyplace you need to go.It can directly open Plain Text files (.txt), Microsoft Word files (.doc), PDF files (.pdf), EMail files (.eml), Rich Text files (.rtf), HTML files. For Microsoft Internet Explorer users, Power Text to Speech Reader supplies a handy toolbar plug-in for Internet Explorer and for Microsoft Outlook supplies a handy toolbar plug-in for Outlook. Power Text to Speech Reader supports dozens of male, female and robotic voices for over 11 languages.

Power Text to Speech Reader can monitor the Windows Clipboard and automatically process its contents. This feature makes it easy to read web pages, e-mail messages, documents and much more.

Power Text to Speech Reader Features
Open and read various file formats - Power Text to Speech Reader can open and read the Word, PDF, EMail, RTF and HTML files directly.

Toolbar for Internet Explorer - Added a handy text-to-speech toolbar on your Internet Explorer.

Toolbar for Outlook - Added a handy text-to-speech toolbar on your Outlook.

Support Multiple Languages - Including American English, British English, Spanish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, etc.

Multiple Output Format - Support for WAV and MP3 audio files.

Configurable Clipboard Options - You decide how Power Text to Speech Reader behaves when your computer's clipboard changes.

Alarm - Just as an alarm clock, Power Text to Speech Reader can announce time to you every special interval depend on your settings.

Optional MP3 Quality - The "Output Sample Frequencies" and "Output Bitrates" options allow you to make a choice between the quality and the size

Review Salon Styler Pro

2008-08-01T19:18:00.001-07:00

Salon Styler is the salon industry's leading hairstyle imaging software, used by the top hair salons and beauty schools world wide. In a digital makeover session you can quickly fit your clients with hairstyles from Salon Styler's database of 1,000s of hairstyle choices. Plus, you can apply makeup from the most popular seasonal color pallets and much more.

Salon Styler is loaded with exclusive features you will find nowhere else!

● Huge database of hairstyles, eyeglasses and more...
● Powerful makeup tools
● 3D simulation of your clients (with selected hairstyles)
● Add your own hairstyles to the database option
● Apply two different hair colors in two levels of a hairstyle!
● Proven money maker
● EZ to setup - EZ to learn - EZ to use
● Windows 95, 98, NT, XP

Features overview
Salon Styler Pro is a powerful hairstyle imaging software for professional use in beauty salons, hairstyling schools, and by makeup artists and cosmetic surgeons. In a digital makeover session you can quickly fit your clients with hairstyles from Salon Styler's database of 1,000s of hairstyle choices. Plus, you can apply makeup from the most popular seasonal color pallets and much more.

Salon Styler Pro works with three view of the client for 3D hairstyling simulation. When a hairstyle is chosen, the program automatically rotates the head to the proper view and fits the hairstyle to the client's photo.

Hairstyles
Salon Styler Pro comes with the world's most extensive database of hairstyles ready to fit on your clients photos. It has more than 850 hairstyles for men, women and children. They are organized into six collections (wedding, parties, everyday styles, etc) and can be accessed by hair length, angle of view, hair type (smooth, wavy, etc) as well as by hairstyles with and without bangs. Salon Styler Pro also displays variations of each of the hair styles that can be fit to the client's photo by simply clicking on the hairstyle. In total there are more than 46,750 choices ready to try with a click of the mouse.

Once a hairstyle is set, it can be modified in many ways. You can cut, lengthen, add body, reshape, lighten, darken, color individual locks, change the color of the hairstyle to customize it for your customer. You can add two different colors to the hairstyle in one time. These powerful editing features allow you to modify the existing styles and add them as new styles to your library for future use in Salon Styler Pro.

Make up
Not only does Salon Styler change hairstyles but it also allows you to do a complete digital makeover by applying makeup.

The makeup colors can be selected from seasonal color pallets or from a custom color picker. As you apply the makeup, you have control over the size of the area effected, the brush size and the pressure of the application tool. If a mistake is made, it can be undone with a mouse click. Salon Styler Pro allows for unlimited undo and redo.

With the contour morphing feature you can simulate face lifting, body shaping and other major changes of the face and body.

EZ to Setup - EZ to Use
While Salon Styler Pro is a powerful program meant for professional use, it was designed for ease of use. No special computer experience is needed to master it. It works with all kinds of web cams, digital cameras and scanners. When using a TWAIN type camera (virtually all digital cameras except for Sony and Olympus) the client's photos are loaded directly into Salon Styler and are ready for a digital make over session. With non-TWAIN cameras the photos must first be saved to the system's hard drive and then can be opened in Salon Styler Pro. The interface is clean and logically laid out and was designed for many hours of use without tiring the eye.

Other Features
Salon Stylers Pro is loaded with many high-end features. With it you can change a photo to preview the results of plastic surgery or weight loss. It comes with an extensive library of designer eyewear, mustaches and beards. You can easily add your own hairstyles to Salon Styler Pro's database. There are a wide array of ways of displaying Salon Styler Pro's makeovers, everything from slide shows were one image morphs into another for a Hollywood effect, to multi image layouts.

Available in English, Spanish, Catalan, French, Russian, German, Finnish and Chinese languages.

Kodak New Line of All-In-One Inkjet Printers

2008-08-01T19:15:00.000-07:00

Eastman Kodak Company today entered the consumer inkjet industry with a revolutionary new product line for the home. The KODAK EASYSHARE AiO Printers feature exclusive KODACOLOR Technology that enables consumers to cost-effectively print crisp documents and KODAK lab-quality photos. KODACOLOR Technology is a combination of four key elements—pigment-based inks, micro-porous photo papers, color and image science, and the Micro-Electro-Mechanical-Systems (MEMS) print head—that deliver outstanding results for general-purpose printing of text and graphics and stunning color photos that are sharp and vibrant. The PICTBRIDGE compatible entry level model KODAK EASYSHARE 5100 All-in-One Printer ($149.99 US MSRP), featuring print, scan and copy capabilities, and can print and copy up to 32 pages per minute in black and 22 pages per minute in color. The mid range KODAK EASYSHARE 5300 All-in-One Printer ($199.99 US MSRP) builds on the 5100’s features by offering a 3-inch color LCD display that enables photo viewing and cropping directly from the printer.

Memory card slots provide an additional quick and simple way to print digital pictures without a PC. The top end model KODAK EASYSHARE 5500 All-in-One Printer ($299.99 US MSRP) in addition to sharing the features of the 5100 and 5300 printers, the 5500 has fax functionality and includes a 2.4-inch color LCD display, an automatic document feeder and a duplexer attachment.

ASUS MW221U and MW201U LCD Monitors

2008-08-01T19:10:00.000-07:00

ASUS MW221U and MW201U LCD Monitors Receive Microsoft Windows Vista Certification

ASUS's MW221U and MW201U widescreen monitors have passed the WHQL tests and are both certified for Windows Vista Premium version. Both monitors will bring a more plentiful graphic experience to users. The ASUS MW221U 22" widescreen monitor, which delivers a high resolution of 1680 x 1050 and wide viewing angles, can fit two A4 size pages side by side on screen. This means that there is ample space for displaying multiple windows simultaneously and perfectly complements the new functions of Windows Vista such as Windows Sidebar and Internet Explorer 7.0. Microsoft is also building support for HDCP (High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection) into Windows Vista as its OCPM (Output Content Protection Management). Both the Asus MW221U and MW201U support HDPC and have built-in DVI input; which is one of requirements for being certified for Windows Vista Premium version. Coupled with built-in stereo speakers and earphone jacks, the Asus MW221U and MW201U will bring multimedia enjoyment to users with ease.

The Asus MW221U and MW201U both incorporate ASUS's exclusive Trace Free Technology, which accelerates response time to 2ms to enable smooth video quality without ghosting and video delays. The MW221U is currently the fastest and most responsive 22" widescreen in the market. Both monitors display 16.7 million colors and adopt ASUS Splendid Video Intelligence Technology for more spectacular Vista experiences making the MW221U and MW201U the best choices for visually upgrading the system.

Sony's three new models of retractable headphones

2008-08-01T18:40:00.000-07:00

Sony just loosed a bevy a new headsets in Japan. The ¥3,098 ($26) MDR-LE30LW comes in the additional colors of blue, white, and black and offers a double-retraction system for both the headphones and audio player cable. You'll be the envy of the janitorial boys when slung from your beltloop along side your keys.

Also on the retractable tip come the 16.5-mm thin, 38-gram model MDR-Q38LW (¥2,468 / $20) and 43-gram model MDR-Q68LW (¥3,675 / $30) headphones. They offer 104dB/mW with 20Hz to 24kHz range or 108dB/mW with a slightly wider range of 16Hz to 24kHz, respectively. Like the MDR-LE30LW, the MDR-Q68LW offers double-cable retraction at the push of single button.