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Monthly Archives: October 2006
Ricoh’s gel printing challenges inkjets and laser
A new printing technology has taken on colour inkjets and laser printers in Japan over the past 18 months, with over 200,000 units sold. Called a GelSprinter, it is available in the UK and has launched in Australia today, and is an interesting alternative with cool features all its own.
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Fujifilm’s digital SLR-style FinePix S6500fd
FUJIFILM’s new SLR-style FinePix S6500fd camera incorporates proprietary Face Detection Technology, ultra-high ISO 3200 sensitivity, sixth generation Super CCD and a Fujinon 28-300mm zoom lens.
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32Gb USB Flash drive is shipping!
Flash drives keep on getting bigger and bigger. In the early days, we dealt with 8mb, 16mb, 32mb and larger versions, until we got to 512mb, 1Gb, 2Gb and larger. Now a 32Gb model has finally landed, but what an amazingly expensive price!
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Digg-style sites go ballistic
Sites like Digg.com, which let users choose the most popular news stories, have exploded onto the scene amidst a mass of Web 2.0 and social media hysteria. With nearly 350 Digg-style sites on just about any news topic you can imagine, including sites in other languages, the user-ranked and user-generated content revolution won’t be going away any time soon.
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Mac attacks rare, but real
There’s no question that, today, Macs are much more secure than Windows based PCs. This is thanks to a more secure operating system, but it has also been because of a smaller user base that presented a smaller target for malware and virus writers. However the smaller user base argument is not necessarily the case today, thanks to the rise and rise of the iPod and the iMac.
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Make plastic stronger – using wood fibre!
The MSNBC website has a fascinating story on how scientists are using wood fibre to make plastic stronger.
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A car that gets 100 miles per gallon?
Popular Mechanics magazine has a fascinating article on a car that could travel at 100 miles per gallon, using today’s technology… and it doesn’t involve magic carburetors or engines that run on water. Click on this link or the picture below to read the original article (over four pages, with the image on page 2 of how the car would be constructed available as a link to a downloadable PDF file. You’ll find that link on the first page).
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Web design from scratch
A web designer of 10 years has put together an interesting website on the process he takes to create a new site from scratch.
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FinePix Z3 for the fashion conscious
FUJIFILM’s new FinePix Z3 is designed to be a stylish, ultra-compact digital camera that appeals to the fashion-conscious.
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Microsoft launches IE7, first bug already found
After several beta and release candidate versions, the final version of Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) has been released and is now available for download, although the first bug has already been reported.
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Script catches MySpace sexual deviant
Wired reporter Kevin Poulsen’s coding skills have led to the arrest of sexual deviant Andrew Lubrano.
Lubrano’s MySpace profile
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Real cameras on mobile super smartphones
While Nokia are releasing the fantastic looking 5 megapixel N95 super smart cameraphone in Q1 2007, Samsung have just released their first 10 megapixel cameraphone exclusively for the South Korean market. Is it a phone with a camera, or a camera with a phone?
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Virus scare a lesson for Apple
While the small batch of Apple iPods infected with a Windows virus pose no threats to iMacs or the iPods themselves, the fact they were infected at all is a big worry. Now, the potential for virus and malware writers to start targeting Mac OS X in a bigger way cannot be ignored, and should be a massive wake-up call to Apple and its users: owning a Mac does not mean you’re invulnerable.
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Vista and Win CE soon to set sail
With two brand new versions of Windows by November 1, the end of the Windows world as we know it is already here.
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Answers to Laser TV questions
Last week the Laser TV launched on the world stage, and although only a prototype, showed an amazing ability to deliver such a rich range of colours that a plasma TV next to it looked dull in comparison. Our follow up article asked some questions about the viability of Laser TVs, and now we have some answers. Read on for more!
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Online services maturing, PS3/Wii latest examples
While many parts of the world, including Australia, won’t be seeing a PS3 in stores until March 2007, the US and Japanese launch is still set for November and final preparations are well underway, while the Wii’s online service, which is launching worldwide in November and December with the Wii itself, is also being finalised. While new online services for the Wii and PS3 show great potential, what is some of the history, and where are they going?
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How soon before it’s taken off the Internet forever?
It’s quite likely to be illegal, so chances a new virtual gaming system, featuring 1980s Nintendo games, will be taken off the Internet quite soon. But it’s one way of experiencing what retro games from the original NES (Nintendo Entertainement System) from the 80s will be like to play on the Nintendo Wii – without needing to actually buy one yet (as they’re not available!), buying an actual old console with all the cartridges, or fiddling around with emulation software and downloading roms and games. What is it? The Virtual Nintendo Entertainment System with 395 games!
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Beware the MySpace phishing attack
Criminals are using the MySpace brand name in emails to hundreds of thousands of computer users in an attempt to get them to reveal their credit card details, according to a report in SC magazine.
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Red letter day for new iPod nano
A whole series of red coloured and red themed products are on the way to consumers in support of (PRODUCT) RED, an organisation set up by Bono to fight AIDS in Africa, with a range of red or red-themed products designed to catch the eye, to show your support and to raise money for the project. So what other red products will join the new nano?
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New Gadgets and more…
It’s been a busy time here at Free Access Central, with all kinds of things happening in the consumer electronics industry. A new Bluetooth headset from Gear4, makers of popular iPod acecssories and speaker systems, connects to your iPod by wire and gives you a wired remote control. When a call comes through, the caller ID info is displayed on the iPod’s screen, with the voice coming through the headphones and a microphone likely on the remote control cable. We’ll be getting one to play with in a few days and we’re keen to try it out and give you a report on how useful and effective it is.
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