Death of the trackball mouse

Death of the trackball mouse

Author JoeDigital | 25.06.2009 | Category Computers

Ever wonder what happened to the track ball that was so famous in the 90’s? People swore by the logitech “giant ball” mouse.. Sure you can still get the trackball at retailers but those seem to be getting fewer and fewer in numbers. Gamersyndrome has a great article on the “death of the trackball”. I personally never understood the trackball, even after using one I thought it was annoying and cumbersome. Any readers out there still uses a trackball mouse?

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Samsung, Zet

Author Ciel501 | 16.06.2009 | Category Cellphones

Samsung’s new touch phone, Zet is unveiled. It has Samsung 6410 processor run with 800MHz, 5-mega pixel camera, 3.1’’ WVGA AMOLED display and Dolfin browser based on web kit.
Samsung makes it a non-smartphone by adding Touchwiz 2.0 UI and Samsung OS. It is impressed that it supports MS Exchange Active Sync that we only use on smartphone even though not concerning DivX Video play function. And it also contains On Board Navigation function with A-GPS. There is no source about release date.
Watch more details of Zet.

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Samsung, Omnia Pro B7610 instead of Louvre B7610

Author Ciel501 | 16.06.2009 | Category Cellphones

Samsung announced officially slide type phone ‘Omnia Pro B7610’ instead of ‘Louvre B7610’.
Omnia Pro B7610 has 3.5’’ WVGA AMOLED display, 800MHz and 5-mega pixel camera. It is told that it will be released in August with Windows Mobile 6.1 not officially but it is certain that it will support Mobile 6.5 upgrade.

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Cool Zippo for Gundam’s 30th Anniversary

Author Ciel501 | 16.06.2009 | Category Gadgets

It has been 30 years since Gundam was unveiled and here are nicely designed cool Zippo for Gundam’s 30th anniversary.
If you are interested in Gundam series, they will make you satisfied even though you never smoke.

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Toystory 3 preview

Author JoeDigital | 15.06.2009 | Category Movies

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Finally the long awaited Toy story 3 will be released on June 18th 2010. In this new story the main character Woody voiced by Tom Hanks, Buzz Light year (Tim Allen), and the rest of their toy box friends are given to a children’s day-care center when Andy their owner (now a young adult) departs for college.

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Xbox360 project Natal

Author JoeDigital | 06.06.2009 | Category Innovation, Video Games

This is absolutely amazing technology from Microsoft called xbox360 Natal. It is an interactive technology with you and the system, no controllers, no wires just you a camera and the tv screen. Big deal right? there has been interactive tv/video games for a while. Well thats not the only feature, xbox has almost created true artificial intelligence and interaction with a character called Milo, he can recognize you, your face, your emotion and even interact with you via the camera on the xbox (just by holding a picture or a drawing to the camera in a split second he can see it and identify whats on that paper). This is absolutely ground breaking and revolutionary technology that I have never seen before and it will change the gaming and AI industry forever. Check out the youtube video: Lionhead Peter Molyneux Milo Demo – Xbox 360 Natal

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Fifa 2010

Author itzco | 05.06.2009 | Category Video Games

During the presentation of FIFA 2010 in Emirates Stadium of London, England, EA show a Demo and the advances of the game, now it is 45 % complete for the consoles Playstation 3 and Xbox 360. This game will have a lot of improvements with your defensive, because every player is going to be able to act independently and this mode is going to add more realism to the game. Graphically FIFA 2010 is going to be better than FIFA 2009, all the players are going to have more graphic details.

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Stocco, Cool Maitre Mirror with MP3 Player

Author Ciel501 | 05.06.2009 | Category Gadgets

Here is a cool and not an ordinary Maitre mirror from Stocco. It contains touch screen console in the lower-right corner, which offers MP3 player, programming and operation of a radio, and a clock, so you can listen to music or radio even while you are taking shower. The Maitre mirror is polished and flush-mounted on an aluminum frame, complementing any contemporary style and bringing an understated elegance to your spa-inspired space. The Maitre mirror is available in sizes from 90-cm to 2-meters.

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Windows 7 release date

Author itzco | 05.06.2009 | Category Windows

Everybody is wondering when is going to be the realize date of Windows 7, for many reasons a lot of people think it will be on October 23, but the official date will be on Oct 22. Microsoft said that they face tremendous pressure with the release. They have 1 great new and 1 bad news because of the realize date, the great new is Windows 7 will make the lucrative holiday shopping seasons and the bad new is that they will miss the lucrative back-to-school shopping season.

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Microsoft Bing search engine review

Author JoeDigital | 03.06.2009 | Category World Wide Web

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So we have all heard of this new entry into the search engine market called “Bing” or more like Microsoft second crack at gaining more search engine dominance against Google and Yahoo. Microsoft over the last month has been hyping this new search engine as the next revolution in search as its search engine market share has been slipping in the last couple of years and marketing (pay-per-click) struggles to make a profit. At first glance the front page search looks very simple and has an almost google feel to it, doing a search in Bing does reveal the same results or very similar results as it did with the MSN search engine and I can see Bing weighs the domain name quite heavy for search result. The one neet feature I can say was quite helpful was the left hand sidebar with my search history (although if you where searching for something sketchy and forgot to clear the history that might be embarrassing).

Overall I think Microsoft did a decent job making the look and feel of the search engine “Google’ish” but will it gain more market share or increase what Microsoft has now?

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