Tuesday, March 14, 2006

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Samsung B600 with 10 megapixel camera

Is it a phone?


Or a camera?



It's both and TV as well! The Samsung B600 comes with a lot of other interesting features:



  • Camera: 10 megapixel with 3x optical zoom, 5x digital zoom, flash, auto-focus, 1/2000 shutter speed, and self-timer

  • DMB satellite TV reception

  • Bluetooth / PictBridge / Voice recognition

  • Bluetooth printing

  • Video Recording & Messaging (MPEG4 / H.264)

  • MP3/ AAC / AAC+ 

  • Dual speaker 

  • Document Viewer

  • TV out

Via engadget

Wednesday, March 8, 2006

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Cool Tool: BCWipe

I recently got a new external hard disk and gave my old one to a colleague. I made sure that all personal data was removed from it first using BCWipe. Deleting the files is not enough as it only removes the file from the file system "index". The files can easily be recovered by a recover utility. Formatting is better but not as good as wiping a disk. Wiping a file, or disk, writes over the data many times with "random" data to make it close to impossible recover the original data.


BCWipe (Windows , Unix) is a free tool that allows you to delete your data and make sure it cannot be recovered. It has several useful features:



  • Delete with wiping

  • Wipe free disk space

  • Wipe Swap File

  • Wipe Empty Directory Entries

  • Wipe File Slacks



BCWipe v.3 is a powerful set of utilities which complies with options to invoke either the US DoD 5200.28-STD standard or the Peter Gutmann wiping scheme. You can also create and use your own customized wiping scheme to wipe sensitive information from storage devices installed on your computer



Jetico also has a commercial product for encrypting data on the fly: BestCrypt. It creates a virtual disk and encrypts all contents on it. I have used it on NT 4.0, Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 for storing sensitive data, but have moved to poSecrets as it allows me to share my “secrets“ between my Pocket PC and my laptop.

Monday, March 6, 2006

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Free download: Charlie Chaplin's - The Kid

Archive.org does it again and makes another great movie available for download. This time it's the movie that was made Charlie Chaplin a legend: The Kid  (more info about the movie on IMDB)


The movie is available in many formats:  64Kb MPEG4, 256Kb MPEG4, MPEG1 (445MB), MPEG2 (2.3GB)

Saturday, March 4, 2006

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Compact 1TB USB 2.0 Hard Drive by LaCie

LaCie Big Disk 1TB




The most powerful Hi-Speed USB 2.0 hard drive in a portable 5.25" 1U form factor, the LaCie Big Disk is designed for low-cost storage expansion and is ideal for backing up several workstations with enormous capacities up to 1TB. With USB universal connectivity and no software to configure, this plug & play drive delivers high performance with maximum convenience. Easily share and exchange among multiple workstations for archiving without clogging the network. Its durable d2 body has been uniquely designed to naturally dissipate heat (500GB and 600GB drives are fanless) and its “smart fan” technology (in the 1TB drive) allows for the quietest possible operation.

Friday, March 3, 2006

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Get a free USB thumb drive from Microsoft

Getting a free USB thumb drive has never been this easy: go to the Microsoft "Mystery Solved" site, click the Valuable Information link and answer the simple questions



Cool Or What?


Via The Road to Know Where

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Cool Tool: Shrinkster

Shrinkster is an online tool that creates short links from long ones. Long and hard to read urls that break in mails can be compressed to a short and unique url that never expires. Click the short link and you are automatically redirected to the original link.


TinyUrl offers the same basic features, but Shrinkster adds one great feature: you can track URL usage

Thursday, March 2, 2006

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Axia A308: the World's smallest Windows phone?

Axia A308, the world’s smallest PDA Phone on Microsoft® Windows® Mobile 5, has with some impressive features considering its size:



Connectivity:
Quad-band GSM (850/900/1800/1900 MHz)
Integrated GSM/GPRS/EDGE
Wireless LAN (IEEE 802.11b compliant)
Bluetooth (1.2 compliant, Class 2 transmit power)
IrDA


Size:
Dimensions: 20.8 (D) X 48.8 (W) X 113.3 (L) mm
Weight: 128 g


Camera:
1.3 MegaPixel Fixed focus


Via The Registry