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Microsoft SideWinder X5 Mouse

Cut right to the chase with the Microsoft SideWinder X5 Mouse–another addition to Microsoft’s award-winning line of SideWinder gaming products. This fast, durable mouse delivers super-precise action with advanced features like vertical side buttons, 200 to 2000 dpi on-the-fly laser tracking, macros, 5 assignable buttons, and more.

Features:

Quick Launch Button One-touch access to Microsoft PC Gaming features.		Vertical Side Buttons Top/bottom design makes locating side buttons easier.		On-the-Fly DPI Switching Instantly switch sensitivity between high, medium, and low with one click.

Additional Features: 2000 DPI Laser Tracking Engine: For fast action. Built to Last: Main button life rated to 10,000,000 clicks. Engineered for Speed: Right-handed shape designed for quick, balanced, precision gaming action. Quick Turn: Check your perimeter with the click of a button. Wide Rubber Scroll Wheel: With detent clicking action. Five Programmable Main Buttons: Customize your main gaming buttons to your preference. Macros: Create and assign macros out-of-game using included software.

System Requirements: Windows Vista/Windows XP 100 MB Powered USB port CD drive

Product Description

Fast. Durable. Gaming Mouse. Cut right to the chase with the Microsoft SideWinderTM X5 Mouse another addition to Microsoft’s award-winning line of SideWinder gaming products. This fast, durable mouse delivers super-precise action with advanced features like vertical side buttons, 200 to 2000 dpi on-the-fl y laser tracking, macros, 5 assignable buttons, and more.

Price: $ 59.99 Click here to buy

Windows 7 For Dummies Book + DVD Bundle

A terrific value-a full-size book plus video demonstrations of key Windows 7 tasks

Windows 7 is Microsoft’s much-anticipated new release of the operating system that powers nearly 90% of the world’s computers. This two-for-one package provides the step-by-step guidance that will get you up and running with all the exciting new features.

This bundle includes the complete Windows 7 For Dummies book plus a DVD with two hours of video training. Featuring the expert advice you get in the book, the DVD shows you how to accomplish various Windows tasks and displays the screens you’ll see as you proceed.

• A two-for-one value – the full-size Windows 7 For Dummies book plus two hours of video training on DVD
• Windows 7 has new features, an interface with more graphical elements, better interactivitiy with other devices, and faster speed
• Whether you’re new to computers or just to Windows 7, this handy package provides a simple, easy-to-use guide plus video illustration to help you accomplish basic tasks in Windows
• Covers the things most books assume you already know, as well as how to work with files and programs, get things done online, and customize Windows 7
• Shows you how to use movie, music, and photo management features, how to upgrade your system, and how to fix common problems you’ll encounter
• DVD shows you what you’ll see on the screen as you master each step

This great book-and-DVD package will have you comfortably using Windows 7 faster than you can say 1-2-3!

Price: $ 27.99 Click here to buy

WinZip Now Available On Mac OS X And Will On iPhone And Android Near 2011

WinZip is the popular compression software has now created version of its compression utility for Mac, and has unveiled it is currently developing versions for the iPhone and Android OS.

The new mobile editions are expected to arrive in early 2011 for the iPhone and iPad with Android apps available later in the year.

Its the very first edition that WinZip has created for OS X and just like the Windows version WinZip Mac supports Zip, Zipx, RAR, LHA and 7z file types and . However the new Mac edition has a completely  re-designed user interface. Providing features to reduce file size, secure sensitive information and send zipped email attachments instantly.

WinZip for Mac is now available to download, WinZip Mac Edition with a free 30-day trial. A single-user licence will cost £26, and it requires Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard to run.

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RadioShack to sell T-Mobile G2

If you were proactive enough to pre-order a T-Mobile G2, there’s a better-than-average chance that your shiny new smartphone is already en route to your abode.

For those who slept in, it looks as if RadioShack will be the go-to place if you’re looking to snag one early from the retail universe. According to the badly formatted flyer pictured above, The Shack will be the first B&M location to stock the US version of the HTC Desire Z, and it’ll be hawking ‘em for $ 149.99 on a two-year postpaid contract starting October 3rd. Got that penciled into your little black book? Good.

Via Engadget

Zaggmate iPad keyboard Case To The Res”Q”

There’s a market for iPad cases with accompanying keyboards. If none of the other options that have emerged over the past few months tickled your fancy, Zagg is introducing yet another to mull over. The Zaggmate actually does manage to differentiate itself fairly well from the competition, with two models being available: one with a keyboard and one without. This clip-on stand can elevate your iPad (positioned horizontally or vertically) for easier viewing, and the “with keyboard” model obviously throws out a full QWERTY set to make those Pages creations somewhat easier to bang out. Currently, Zagg’s got this one listed as ‘Coming Soon,’ with the standard model carrying a $ 69.99 price tag and the keyboard edition demanding an extra $ 30. Peek ‘em both in their YouTube debuts just after the break.

Via Engadget

Personal Cooking System

Jetboil Personal Cooking System

Boils two cups of water in two minutes with Jetboil Personal Cooking System has sparked a revolution in outdoor cooking. Capable of boiling two cups in two minutes at 75-80% efficiency, the PCS is twice as fast and uses half as much fuel as conventional stoves. The PCS boils up to 50 cups of water from only one isobutane/propane micro-canister. Such outstanding performance results from the FluxRing heat exchanger, which captures and focuses the burner’s heat instead of the heat being lost to the ambient air.

The Jetboil can be used to make hot beverages, noodles, pasta, dehydrated hiking meals, soups and, of course, a nice cup of coffee. Jetboil integrates a 1 liter insulated hard-anodized aluminum cooking cup, high-performance burner base with built-in piezoelectric igniter, drink-through plastic lid, and a protective bottom cover that doubles as a measuring cup. At only 15 ounces, the Jetboil PCS rivals the lightest titanium cooksets and micro-canister stoves.

OCZ RevoDrive X2 PCIe SSD reviewed

Hard to say why OCZ Technology pushed out revision two of its RevoDrive so soon after the original launched, but it’s hard to complain with numbers like this. Just in time to shock the performance hound in your life with an outlandish Christmas gift comes the RevoDrive X2, and this here PCIe SSD solution has now been benchmarked to the hilt. The bottom line? It’s fast. Really fast.

In fact, Hot Hardware calls it “simply one of the fastest PCI Express based SSD solutions” that they have tested, noting that it went toe-to-toe with Fusion-io’s ioXtreme while costing a good bit less. Critics over at Tweak Town echoed those thoughts, and while both teams felt the $ 680 asking price for a 240GB model was a touch pricey, neither felt that it wasn’t worth it if you’ve got the coin laying around. Hit the links below for more charts than you’d ever want to see as an eight grader.

Via Engadget

Watching Videos On Your Desktop PC Without Interruption

When watching web videos or DVD movies on your computer, your video playback may be interrupted in many different ways.

For instance, the screen saver can activate itself or the computer screen may enter sleep mode if you don’t touch the mouse or the keyboard for a long period (because you are busy watching the video). Sometimes, pop-up notifications from IMs and other programs, that are running in the background, can also interrupt playback.

You can easily turn-off these distractions through Windows Settings but the problem with this approach is that the changes will stay even when you are done watching the video. To give you an example, if you disable the screensaver before hitting play, it will stay in the disabled state forever unless you re-enable it manually.

Therefore, instead of fiddling with your existing configuration, you may consider using utilities that will also disable all these distracting elements, but only temporarily.

Some media players are start enough and will automatically turn off the screen saver during video playback. If you are using VLC, go to Video settings and check the option that says “Disable screensaver.” In Windows Media Player, go to Player options and uncheck the box that says “Allow screen saver during playback.”

If your media player doesn’t have such a feature, you can use this excellent utility called Mouse Jiggler to prevent the screensaver from becoming active. It moves the mouse pointer back and forth periodically so Windows will never go into an idle state and therefore the screensaver won’t show up.

The next task is keep your monitor awake during the video playback. Mouse Jiggler should care of this part as well or you may try Caffeine it’s like Jiggler but simulates keystrokes instead of mouse movements.

There’s nothing to install or configure – just download and run Caffeine and your system will stay awake as long as you like. Double-click the Caffeine icon in the task bar and it will disable itself – all this without making any changes to your system register or power plan.

How to Skip Trailers on DVDs

If you have too many apps running on your system, they are consuming system resources and some of them, especially the chat clients, may surprise you during playback with notifications. You can either right click-click in the task bar to selectively close these apps or get a utility like CloseAll that will automatically close all running applications with a click.

CloseAll closes all running apps by default (including itself) but you can also configure it to ignore certain applications by adding a simple exclusion list to the CloseAll.exe command line. Here’s an example:

CloseAll.exe -x=”explorer.exe|firefox.exe|outlook.exe|dropbox.exe”

An excellent alternative to CloseAll is SmartClose – it will not only close all the running programs with a click but can also restore all these the programs once you are done watching the video.

It does this by capturing a snapshot of all the running process and services. If there’s a particular program or Windows Service that you would not like the utility to close, just add it to the protected list. The default settings are good enough though you can always choose the location where these system snapshots should be stored.

Finally, if you like watching videos while simultaneously working on other windows /tasks, check out Always on Top – this is again a free utility that will help you stick your media player window on top of other program windows. Launch the program, select the media player window and press Alt+Space bar to put it on top.

Via Labnol

Sylvania’s 7-inch Android tablet now ready to….

Not down with coughing up serious cash for a serious Galaxy Tab? Great news, Bargain Ben: you’ve got options. Joining the raft of cut-rate, low-priced tablets is a new one from Sylvania, which is humorously described as a “7-inch MID tablet.” Details are scarce, but it’s rocking Android 2.1, an 800 x 480 screen resolution, six-hour battery, 512MB of RAM, 2GB of Flash memory, front-facing camera and a microSD card slot. You’ll also get 802.11b/g WiFi, a pair of mini-USB sockets, HDMI output and what we’re assuming is a resistive touchpanel. We’d say the chances of Android Market access are slim to none, but for just $ 179.99, who really cares if it functions?

Via Engadget

iControl and uControl engage in home automation merger, domestic disputes seem inevitable

Come one, come all — we’re guessing you won’t want to miss the most comical business arrangement since the latter part of 2007, when ROK acquired a majority share of Rock. Believe it or not, have somehow put their selfish ways aside to come together as one, but it’s pretty clear who’s really in control. The merged company will forge ahead as iControl Networks, leaving u with nothing but fading memories and half a bottle of Jack. In all seriousness, this melding of minds could definitely give the home automation world a boost it’s badly in need of; fragmentation and a lack of universal compatibility (not to mention stratospheric pricing) has severely hindered adoption in the consumer universe, and we’re hoping that these guys can somehow make ZigBee, Z-Wave and your ZR1 talk to each other sans any hoop jumping. ‘Course, we wouldn’t expect any sort of quick collaboration — these two have to get on speaking terms before any magic happens, you know?

iControl and uControl Announce Merger Agreement

Creates Market Leader and Advances Broadband Home Management Industry

PALO ALTO, Calif., Nov. 4, 2010 /PRNewswire/ — iControl Networks and uControl today announced that the companies have entered into a definitive merger agreement. The merger combines the two market leaders in broadband home management, and promises to deliver a best-in-class solution that includes interactive home security, energy management and home health care solutions to broadband service providers, home security companies and utilities. The combined company has launched commercially with several service providers and will announce additional deployments in the near future. All commercial trials and deployments will continue as planned.

The merged company will retain the name iControl Networks and will be headquartered in Palo Alto, California with a division in Austin, Texas. iControl CEO Paul Dawes and uControl CEO Jim Johnson will both remain in their roles and serve as co-CEO’s of the new iControl Networks.

“Through this merger, iControl and uControl have combined our respective strengths to deliver the best platform for the broadband home management market,” said Paul Dawes, co-CEO of iControl. “Whether it’s support for industry-leading IP video monitoring, innovative iPhone and Android apps, or cutting edge ZigBee and Z-Wave technology, the new iControl will offer the most comprehensive, innovative solution available.”

“This is a rare opportunity where everyone benefits,” said Jim Johnson, co-CEO of iControl. “The scale achieved through this market consolidation is better for customers, partners, employees, and investors. Our top priorities are the success of our customers’ deployments and accelerating the growth of our OpenSMA ecosystem.”

About iControl

Palo Alto-based iControl Networks is a venture-backed software and services company providing award-winning solutions defining the broadband home management market. iControl Networks partners with home security companies, broadband operators, utilities and telecommunication firms to deliver iControl ConnectedLife, the next generation of home management, security and connectivity. Investors in iControl include ADT, Charles River Ventures, Cisco, Comcast Interactive Capital, GE Security, Intel Capital and the Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers iFund. For more information, please visit www.icontrol.com.

About uControl

Austin-based uControl delivers an open, technology-agnostic Home Security, Monitoring and Automation (SMA) software platform making the Connected Home a reality. uControl focuses on the full spectrum of SMA solutions, leading with next generation home security. Through its industry-leading OpenSMA program, uControl brings together all the players who power the Connected Home, integrating and enabling a diverse ecosystem, from Service Providers such as cable and telephone companies to Platform Hardware and Lifestyle Device manufacturers who supply items such as thermostats, lighting controls, touch screen tablets and security sensors. Application developers also play a crucial role within OpenSMA, bringing to market an endless list of Connected Home applications. For details on uControl partners and customers or more information on OpenSMA, visit www.opensma.com or follow @opensma on Twitter. For more information about uControl, visit www.ucontrol.com or call 1-888-357-4214.

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