NewsOpera Mobile 9.5 Beta Available for Windows Mobile
Posted 07/17/08 at 08:27:13 PM by Pulkit Chandna
Last month, Opera Software had announced that the long awaited and much delayed Opera Mobile 9.5 was undergoing alpha testing and the beta version would become available for download on July 15th, 2008. And, miraculously enough, Opera didn’t disappoint this time around and stuck to its promise.
Just to let you know, this release doesn’t offer support for non-touchscreen Windows Mobile phones. You can download the new browser for free and catch a glimpse of the various enhancements. I believe that this news might not excite those who own an Opera 9.5-bearing HTC Diamond or have downloaded a ripped version of the browser.
NewsMTV Breathing Life into Invincible, Turning it into an Audio-Visual Comic
Posted 07/15/08 at 11:36:54 PM by Pulkit Chandna
MTV is busy optimizing popular comic book Invincible, using a process called Bomb-xx, for distribution through iTunes, Xbox Live and MTV Mobile, besides airing it on MTV2. The enhanced version of the comic book will not be a conventional animation but, on the contrary, an audio visual compilation prepared using actual scans of the comic.
One can perceive it to be something between a usual comic and an animated cartoon. The first six installments of the series will become available through the abovementioned digital distribution services on August 22.
It is indeed a novel idea as this way the peculiarities of the comic might not be compromised as is usually the case when a comic is turned into an animated cartoon. Not all comics travel well across to TV screens just like most videogames turn out to be contemptible movies.
NewsKindle Lights up Amazon with 12% of Book Sales
Posted 07/11/08 at 07:38:50 PM by Pulkit Chandna
Amazon’s proprietary wireless reading device Kindle has been rather successful. It remained out of stock for months after being launched in November, 2007, despite being criticized heavily for its lack of WiFi, ugly design and limited PDF support. Now it is fast emerging as a popular electronic book reader, if a Time magazine report is to be believed.
A source inside Amazon told Time that Kindle accounts for 12% of sales of the roughly 130k titles that are both available physically and as Kindle downloads. Kindle’s share has doubled from May, when Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos had claimed it to be 6%. It is good to hear that digital distribution threatens to change the landscape of the books publishing industry as well. However, Kindle is far from perfect and its design and features need nothing less than an overhaul.
NewsDownload Day, Take 2 (Updated with final stats)
Posted 06/18/08 at 10:43:55 AM by Mark Edward Soper
Couldn't download Firefox yesterday? You still have time to help set the world record. Get clicking!
Thanks to the redefinition of "Day" as "a 24-hour period" - and thanks also to the problems everyone in the world had in logging onto the Spread Firefox website yesterday, Download Day continues, with close to 7,000,000 downloads as of posting time.
Originally, Download Day was scheduled to start at 10:00AM PDT yesterday, and end 24 hours later. However, if you read yesterday's installment of "how to bring a website to its knees", you know that things didn't work out exactly as planned.
FeaturesThe Ultimate Guide to Movie Download Services
Posted 04/16/08 at 04:57:50 PM by Michael Brown & Will Smith
Home-entertainment technology has lent new meaning to the phrase ‘home box office,’ but can any of the new on-demand Internet movie services really deliver the big-screen experience? We examine the top eight options to find out .
FROM THE ARCHIVETheft by Proxy with ImageShack
Posted 04/07/08 at 07:59:22 PM by David Murphy
Who needs ImageShack's BitTorrent service? We found three alternate services that use their bandwidth to download your BitTorrents and spit out the results in a friendly, HTTP-style download link!
FROM THE ARCHIVEXP Strikes Back with Windows Desktop Search
Posted 06/11/07 at 02:30:31 PM by Mark Soper
Send Rover to the dog pound: there's a better way to search in Windows XP
ReviewsAsus WL-700gE Wireless Storage Router
Posted 03/12/07 at 02:38:44 PM by Michael Brown
Asus has solved one of the most common problems download junkies face: By marrying a Wi-Fi router with a hard drive and built-in BitTorrent client, the company has eliminated the need for you to leave your power-hungry PC running 24/7.
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