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Vista Calcuting Estimated Time (Hours and Minutes or Seconds) Remaining

Whenever user copy, move, transfer, delete, unzip files, folders, shortcuts and anything else in Windows Vista, there will be a prominent pop up dialog window that indicates that progress of the files and folders operation. The window title with progress bar will start with something like “Calculating time remaining”, and then change to “About x hour and x minutes (or x seconds) remaining” while the […]

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Volvo Unveiled Collision Warning Auto Brake System

Most of the car accidents are due to human attitude. Since human driving attitude is hard to change, automobile manufacturers are hoping to develop a full proof technology that could reduce the occurrence of such incidents. Volvo, a famous luxurious automobile manufacturer has put much effort in developing a new technology that targets to reduce the accident on the road by enhancing the car safety […]

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MySpace Super Friend Gets MTV Show

MTV’s latest reality show – A Shot at Love With Tila Tequila – is built around the dishy, scantily clad singer/model who is reputed to have the most friends in the history of MySpace (2,009,335 at last count). Tila’s career began at the age of 18 when she was discovered at a shopping mall by a Playboy scout and was offered a chance to model […]

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OKAO Vision Real-Time Smile Measurement and Analysis Software from Omrom

Wanna measure your smile? Omron has recently released its new Smile Measurement Software, an interesting and innovative software that able to automatically detect and identify faces of 1 or more people in digital images and then assign each smile factor on a scale of 0 to 100%, as what you see in the photo. With 3D face mapping technology, this software can ensure accurate smile […]

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Workaround for Slow Large File Copying and Transfering To and From Vista PC

For those who has tried out various fixes for slowness problem while copying, moving or deleting files and folders but failed to see any improvement or got problem solved, Microsoft may have also run out of options. However, Microsoft does publish a few more workarounds to improve the speed of large file transfers for Vista system facing the following symptoms.

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New iPod Nano With Video Playback Feature

Apple has recently announced its third-generation iPod Nano, an updated version which includes video-playback feature and iTunes style cover flow. In addition, the new and slimmer iPod Nano features an 2 inch screen dispaly with QVGA resolution (320 x 240) and it can support up to 24 hours of audio playback or up to five hours of video playback with its new battery, aiming to […]

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Unzip (Extract All) Zip Files in Vista is Painfully Slow – Workaround

Vista also has a built-in zip free and unzip compression and decompression utility as similar to Windows XP, except that the extraction or uncompress functionality in Vista appears to be very slow, buggy and broken, in other word, simply sucks. When unzip and extract the contents of a zip archive in Vista by clicking on “Extract All” or “Extract Files” in right click contextual menu, […]

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Proper Way to Generate MD5 Hash for XCache Administration Password with md5sum or PHP

XCache is a PHP opcode cacher, more commonly known as PHP accelerator that speeds up PHP-based web pages serving and reduces web server load. XCache comes with a web-based administration page (admin-page) user interface that allows administrators or webmasters to monitor and operate the PHP opcode cache in the memory with the performance statistics. To use this admin-page, an user ID and password have to […]

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An Open Letter to iPhone Owners from Steve Jobs

This week Apple announced new iPods and lowered the iPhone price by $200. But what if you were one of the millions of people who bought an iPhone 2 months ago? You’d probably be a little pissed off right? Apple CEO, Steve Jobs, got so many emails from angry customers that he wrote an open letter on the Apple website today. The letter says that […]

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Apple’s iPhone Price Cut for 8GB and End Of Life for 4GB

Apple has announced on the price cut of its 8GB iPhone almost immediate together with the launching of the new iPod series. The price cut of $200 is unexpected, by looking back on how well the sales and profits that Apple has able to make during the initial launch back to July. The price cut of $200, left the price point to be around $399 […]

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Amazing Spy Glasses

Looking for James Bond’s sunglasses? Spycatcher of Knightsbridge has created a glasses which able to record clear audio and color video with an invisible spy camera that built into the lenses, allowing you to take a video without notice. As you see in the photo, this spy glasses also comes with a personal video recorder device which features a built-in colour monitor, speaker and an […]

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New Apple iPod Touch With Touchscreen And Wi-Fi Connectivity

The US company, Apple has recently announced its new iPod Touch. Here’s more details and specifications for the iPod Touch. iPod Touch measures only 8mm thick, the latest portable media player with 3.5 inch touchscreen display (480 x 320 resolutions), album cover flow, YouTube built-in and Wi-Fi connectivity. Besides, the iPod Touch also features a new application which called as iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store, allowing […]

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