Archive for October 2006

Ricoh’s gel printing challenges inkjets and laser

Oct 24th, 2006 | By Staff Writers | Category: New products, Products - photo printers, Technology news

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.



Fujifilm’s digital SLR-style FinePix S6500fd

Oct 23rd, 2006 | By Staff Writers | Category: Products - digital cameras

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.



32Gb USB Flash drive is shipping!

Oct 23rd, 2006 | By Staff Writers | Category: New products, Products - storage, Technology news

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!



Digg-style sites go ballistic

Oct 23rd, 2006 | By Staff Writers | Category: Internet, Internet applications, Tips and advice, Web sites, podcasts and videos

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.



Mac attacks rare, but real

Oct 23rd, 2006 | By Staff Writers | Category: Special features, Technology news, Tips and advice

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.



Make plastic stronger - using wood fibre!

Oct 22nd, 2006 | By Staff Writers | Category: New products, Technology news

The MSNBC website has a fascinating story on how scientists are using wood fibre to make plastic stronger.

  



A car that gets 100 miles per gallon?

Oct 22nd, 2006 | By Staff Writers | Category: New products, Technology news

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).



Web design from scratch

Oct 22nd, 2006 | By Staff Writers | Category: Tips and advice, Web sites, podcasts and videos

A web designer of 10 years has put together an interesting website on the process he takes to create a new site from scratch.

   



FinePix Z3 for the fashion conscious

Oct 22nd, 2006 | By Staff Writers | Category: New products, Products - digital cameras

FUJIFILM’s new FinePix Z3 is designed to be a stylish, ultra-compact digital camera that appeals to the fashion-conscious.

Key features: 3.1 MP, 3x optical zoom, ERP $399



Portable camera companion

Oct 22nd, 2006 | By Staff Writers | Category: New products, Products - media players

The new Creative ZEN Vision W portable video, photo and MP3 player features a high resolution, 4.3-inch, 16:9 format, colour widescreen TFT display for viewing up to 240 hours of video, tens of thousands of photos, and it can carry up to 15,000 songs.



Microsoft launches IE7, first bug already found

Oct 21st, 2006 | By Staff Writers | Category: Internet, Internet applications, New products, Technology news, Tips and advice, Web sites, podcasts and videos

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.



Script catches MySpace sexual deviant

Oct 20th, 2006 | By Staff Writers | Category: Internet

Wired reporter Kevin Poulsen’s coding skills have led to the arrest of sexual deviant Andrew Lubrano.

Lubrano’s MySpace profile



Real cameras on mobile super smartphones

Oct 20th, 2006 | By Staff Writers | Category: Imaging, New products, Products - mobile phones, Products - digital cameras, Products - media players, Products - video cameras, Technology news

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?



Virus scare a lesson for Apple

Oct 19th, 2006 | By Staff Writers | Category: Products - media players, Special features, Technology news, Tips and advice

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.



Vista and Win CE soon to set sail

Oct 18th, 2006 | By Staff Writers | Category: New products, Special features, Technology news

With two brand new versions of Windows by November 1, the end of the Windows world as we know it is already here.

  



Answers to Laser TV questions

Oct 17th, 2006 | By Staff Writers | Category: Imaging, New products, Products - media players, Special features, Technology news, Test, Tips and advice

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!



Online services maturing, PS3/Wii latest examples

Oct 17th, 2006 | By Staff Writers | Category: Buying guides, Internet, Internet applications, Products - gaming, Special features, Tips and advice, Web sites, podcasts and videos

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?



How soon before it’s taken off the Internet forever?

Oct 15th, 2006 | By Staff Writers | Category: Products - gaming, Technology news, Web sites, podcasts and videos

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!



Beware the MySpace phishing attack

Oct 14th, 2006 | By Staff Writers | Category: Internet

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.



Red letter day for new iPod nano

Oct 14th, 2006 | By Staff Writers | Category: New products, Products - media players, Products - storage, Technology news

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?