SteelSeries to release R.U.S.E.-branded Xai mouse and QcK mouse pad
Teaming up with French publisher Ubisoft, SteelSeries has made a couple of peripherals that bear the brand of the upcoming real-time strategy title R.U.S.E. (developed by Eugen Systems). Targeting fans of the new RTS, the Xai R.U.S.E. Edition laser mouse come with a pre-configured profile setting that optimizes gameplay by enabling quick access to the title's HQ Menus and commands.
Spec-wise, the Xai mouse features a 10.8 megapixels/second sensor, a 128 x 32 pixels LCD screen on its underside for on-the-go configuration, seven programmable buttons, built-in memory for profiles, gold-plated USB connector, and patented technologies like SteelSeries ExactAim, ExactRate,ExactSens and FreeMove.
As for the second R.U.S.E. product, the QcK Limited Edition (R.U.S.E.) mousepad, it won't give you extra troops or anything but it does have a nice picture and provides a smooth and consistent glide.
"Industry awards, player feedback and tournament wins have shown us that the time we spent methodically perfecting the SteelSeries Xai Laser Mouse has paid off," said Bruce Hawver, CEO of SteelSeries. "R.U.S.E. players will be easily impressed with the game's unique game-play built around an incredible zooming engine, and with the technology we pack inside the SteelSeries Xai as well as the smooth glide and graphics of the QcK mousepad it all comes together to provide gamers with an outstanding RTS experience."
The Xai R.U.S.E. Edition mouse and QcK LE gaming surface cost $89.99 and $14.99, respectively but are not available for order. Don't worry though, they'll surely be released before R.U.S.E. which is set for a June 8 launch.
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WHS Add-in Poca Podcast Catcher
The HomeServerShow broadcasts regular podcasts that are entirely devoted to Windows home Server, and developer Bill Rockhold has written an Add-in for the WHS platform that allows you to automate the downloading of podcasts (any podcast).
Poca works perfectly as advertised and allow podcasts to be downloaded to a convenient location for easy access, automatically, without a second thought.
If you are a home server user and you are into your, this is one add-in worth grabbing!
Radio Website: The Home Server Show
Download: Poca
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Rightware introduces its own browser benchmark
Want more numbers to tell you how fast/slow your web browser is? If yes, then you're in luck as Rightware has now launched BrowserMark, a tool that will measure the browser performance in JavaScript and HTML rendering of mobile and embedded devices.
The new benchmarking solution performs visual tests, flash, Javascript tests, DOM and battery tests and offers, at the end, a score which can be compared with those of popular devices/browsers.
"Given the exponentially increasing usage of internet via cell phones and other handheld devices, we knew that the world needed an objective performance comparison tool," says Tero Sarkkinen, CEO of Rightware. "With BrowserMark, we're helping the industry develop better performing browsers for their devices. Consumers reap the benefits in the form of more efficient browsers that provide faster browsing experience."
BrowserMark comes in two flavors, a corporate version that's set to be used by device manufacturers, and a consumer version, accessible here, for everyone to enjoy.
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RipCode announces realistic iPad Flash solution
Texan software development firm RipCode has decided to go against Steve Job's best wishes and get something that they really want on the Apple iPad - Adobe Flash software.
The company has announced this week the successful implementation of an all-new "clientless Flash video codec", that is set to enable Flash content streaming to Apple iPads - which would unlock access to services such as Hulu.
"RipCode's Transactional Transcoding platform enables an alternate and immediate solution to this issue, opening up video content to users without requiring the content hoster to move to HTML5 or pre-transcode entire video libraries from Flash to an iPad-accepted container format. By transcoding the content 'in the cloud', it is essentially analogous to a network-based Flash to MP4 or MPEG-TS video adaption layer."
RipCode go into a little detail in their press release stating that the TransAct Transcoder V6, as it has been dubbed, is a piece of software that captures the iPad's request for Flash and converts the content into a format that the device accepts and plays, without a local client or any user intervention.
The only two things that RipCode have to worry about are whether the companies involved find a way to block the use of said codec, and of course whether AT&T - who are to be providing unlimited 3G coverage for the device - will step in to deny user access.
The technology is set to be shown of at NAB 2010 this week in Las Vegas, so further questions are sure to be answered then - keep your eyes pealed iPad owners!
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Chieftec unveils the CH-09B-B-OP mid-tower chassis
Chieftec has now revealed to the world the latest addition to its PC case portfolio, the CH-09B-B-OP or CH-09 for short, mid-tower chassis which is claimed to have been developed with one motto in mind - "pay less and get more."
Looking pretty plain, the new case measures 540 x 205 x 480 mm without the bundled feet, and has a black coating, four exposed 5.25-inch bays, front-placed audio and USB 2.0 ports, special 5.25-inch and 3.5-inch clips for tool-free installation, two pre-drilled holed for watercooling tubes at the back, and a front 120mm fan.
Chieftec's CH-09 chassis is set to start selling at the end of this month.
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ESET NOD32 Antivirus version 4.2.42 update released
ESET NOD32 Antivirus proactively detects and disables viruses, trojans, worms, adware, spyware, phishing, rootkits and other Internet threats. ESET NOD32 Antivirus provides: 1) Proactive Protection - multiple layers of detection protecting you from Internet threats before it is too late. 2) Precise Detection - accurately identifies known and unknown threats; it consistently wins top awards from testing labs and is recognized for having zero false positives. 3) Lightweight Design - requires less memory and CPU power, allowing your computer to run fast and have more room for games, web browsing, and emailing. 4) Fast Scanning Speeds - highly efficient program ensures fast file scanning and product updates; it runs quietly in the background.
Changes in this update include:
- Fix: Issues with HTTP scanner with longer domain names ( support for length of domain name to 256 characters)
- Fix: Issues after PC restart when firewall system integration is "only scan application protocols"
- Fix: When ESS installed with disabled FW, dialog about trusted networks not displayed
- Fix: Installation of ESS using Remote Desktop; after selecting firewall's "Interactive mode", the session will interrupt
- Fix: Long file name makes trouble with logs in "document protection enabled" mode
- Fix: Scan profile settings not retained after reinstallation
- Fix: Open ESI log of EAV doesn't work on Microsoft Windows NT4.0
- Fix: Not possible to save EAV's ESI log and export service script on Microsoft Windows NT4.0
- Fix: Wrong settings imported from ESS configuration cause problems in EAV
- Fix: All ESI logs are lost after upgrade from V4 to V4.2
- Fix: Impossible to delete the on-demand Scan Log in ESS
- Fix: Fixed ceasing of scan tasks when logged in as standard user
- Fix: Minor issues with Trusted zone conversion from older to newer version
- Fix: Unification of behavior when disabling some parts of EAV/ESS/EMS in the main settings window
- Fix: Possible to delete log of a running on-demand scan
- Fix: X64 Vista + win7: UAC appears when opening ESI log from ESS/EAV GUI
- Fix: Minor Thunderbird and Outlook issues.
Website: ESET Software
Download: NOD32 4.2.42 International 30 Day Free Trial
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Adobe rumoured to be preparing lawsuit for Apple
Riding hot on the heels of the out spoken Adobe staff on Monday, ITWorld are reporting that Adobe is now preparing their legal team for a full-scale lawsuit against Apple over recent SDK amendments that prevent developers from using Adobe tools to create iPhone OS applications.
The report reads: "Usually I write about security here, but Apple's iron-bound determination to keep Adobe Flash out of any iWhatever device is about to blow up in Apple's face. Sources close to Adobe tell me that Adobe will be suing Apple within a few weeks," as written by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols of ITWorld Magazine.
Following the release of iPhone OS 4.0 beta, Apple has altered section 3.3.1 of their developers agreement and in doing so has banned the use of intermediate layers of alternate languages in their AppStore, which effectively renders all Flash-to-iPhone compiling in Adobe's CS5 products entirely useless (which was something that Adobe themselves were rather proud of before the OS4 announcement).
The grounds of the lawsuit are unclear at this time, but if they are to be true then this is certainly the most effective way to fuel the fire of this debate.
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iPad international launch pushed back to the end of May
Apple is bearing (some relatively) bad news today as it just announced that the planned iPad international release has been pushed back by a month and is now scheduled for late May. According to the Cupertino-based company, this move is required due to high demand in the US, the only market in which the iPad is currently selling.
In order to not stretch its supply lines too far, Apple basically figured that the world outside the US can get the short end of the stick wait some more for the shiny tablet. International prices for the iPad are set to be (officially) revealed on May 10, day on which Apple will start taking online orders from customers around the world.
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More Opera 10.52 snapshots up for grabs
Yes, it's that time of the week again Opera fans so put browsing on hold for 2 minutes and go grab the new Opera 10.52 builds released by the Opera Software Desktop Team. Available for Windows, Mac OS and Linux, these latest snapshots include the following changes:
Desktop/UI
- The Windows and UNIX 'notrayicon' command line switch has been converted to a preference
Core
- Fixed DSK-293735 (Fix Carakan on PPC)
- Fixed DSK-293753 (Performance regressions in build 3346)
- Fixed CARAKAN-1245 (GCing with a JSON parser instance in an uninitialised state)
- Fixed CORE-28932 (Some FTP links doesn't work)
- Fixed CORE-29063 (Swedish BankID crashes Opera, on pensionsmyndigheten.se)
- Fixed CORE-29139 (Fixes to make Zip compressor work with PPC)
Unite
- Fixed DSK-291828 (UNIX: Unite Media Player closes down by itself right after being launched)
Opera Widgets
- Fixed DSK-276007 (UNIX: fileio browseForDirectory doesn't launch dialogue)
- Fixed DSK-249873 (UNIX: Crash occurs after closing widget)
- Fixed DSK-249947 (UNIX: Double click on wgt file should start widget installer)
- Fixed DSK-271916 (UNIX: Widget Manager do not contain icon for every exported widget)
- Fixed DSK-273524 (UNIX: Add application/x-opera-widgets and application/x-opera-uniteapplication to mimetype list)
- Fixed DSK-290760 (UNIX: Choosing any option from widgets context menu crashes widget)
UNIX
- KDE4 Skinning enabled
- Support for system session manager interaction: automatic exit and restart
- Support for native X11 dialog/messageboxes
- Command line options re-enabled
- Do not scan for opera on startup unless a lock file is detected: Should improve startup time.
- Fixed DSK-293120 (Stop using xdg-utils with the rpms)
- Fixed DSK-293776 (Fix broken XDG files on RPM upgrade)
- Fixed DSK-275880 (--help output and --debughelp output are mixed up.)
- Fixed DSK-283431 (Opening Opera through the command line opens 3 windows)
- Fixed DSK-286971 (Non-ASCII dialogue titles are broken)
- Fixed DSK-289505 (Mouse keys ("Button6" and "Button7", as reported by xev) don't work)
- Fixed DSK-292266 ("opera -version" starts opera)
- Fixed DSK-292425 ([regression] keyup event is not fired for input elements)
- Fixed DSK-292933 (Send events for mouse buttons 4-9 to core.)
- Fixed DSK-292934 (Add additional back and forward mapping to mouse buttons 8 and 9.)
Windows
- Fixed DSK-291499 (Opera 10.51 will not run on windows XP x64 for some users)
- Fixed DSK-293250 (Missing plugin box not clickable)
- Fixed DSK-288967 (Streamline MSI/Installshield installer)
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WinZip 14.5 comes with Office-like rubbon interface, multi-touch support
Corel-owned WinZip Computing has now rolled out a major WinZip update which debuts a new user interface, and includes a lot of added features that simplify file zipping and unzipping for quick, efficient and secure uploading and downloading, email transmission and data backup.
The biggest change you'll see is the Office 2010-inspired ribbon interface that enables easy navigation for increased productivity, but the WinZip 14.5 update also includes the following:
- Support for Windows 7 Libraries, Jump Lists, Multi-Touch Gestures
- 'Zip' button on Home tab lets the user first select the files they want to zip then create a new Zip file
- '1-Click Unzip' option automatically extracts the content of a Zip file to a folder it creates, then opens the folder in Windows Explorer, providing easy editing access
- 'Auto Open' feature automatically extracts and opens a zipped document, spreadsheet, or presentation in its associated Microsoft Office 2010 or 2007 application by simply double clicking the Zip file within Windows Explorer or Microsoft Outlook
- 'Attach to E-mail' button lets users email a Zip file instantly and provides advanced options like 'best method' compression and file encryption, as well as the ability to resize photos so they send faster and fit standard computer screens
- 'Encrypt' check box makes it easier than ever to secure confidential files using password-based AES encryption
- 'Backup' tab reveals innovative capabilities for protecting data files, including a choice of predefined backups for documents, desktop, email, etc., a wizard for creating custom backup, and a way to backup photos directly from a digital camera
"Customers tell us they rely on WinZip to save space and time and help them protect their confidential files and critical data. With WinZip 14.5, we've given them what they've asked for - features that simplify the product, making it easier to take advantage of all its power and value," said Tim Hale, Vice President of eCommerce and Marketing at WinZip. "WinZip 14.5 works the way you think," Hale continued. "Its new ribbon UI puts key features front and center and straightforward options increase user productivity."
WinZip 14.5 is now available for purchase at prices starting at $29.95 / €29.95 for a single-user WinZip Standard license and $49.95 / €49.95 for one WinZip Pro license.
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