http://www.amabanal.info Quenching my tech stuff thirst by parsing tech stuff feeds. Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:34:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For the past few days, I’ve been trying out the LG KF750 Secret. As a full-featured cell phone, the Secret allows users to assign pictures to contacts in their address book—whether an customized avatar that’s similar to Yahoo’s, a pre-existing image, or a small image to be taken right there ... http://www.amabanal.info/2008/06/30/would-people-let-you-take-their-picture-for-your-address-book/ Filed under: Transportation Look folks, just because Dyson can build a motor with enough oomph to power a vehicle, that doesn't mean it's actually going to. At least that's the message a company spokesperson wants you to believe. Contrary to earlier reports, James Dyson is not looking to enter the electric ... http://www.amabanal.info/2008/06/30/dyson-actually-not-looking-to-build-electric-car-just-a-wicked-fast-vacuum-3/ Filed under: Transportation Look folks, just because Dyson can build a motor with enough oomph to power a vehicle, that doesn't mean it's actually going to. At least that's the message a company spokesperson wants you to believe. Contrary to earlier reports, James Dyson is not looking to enter the electric ... http://www.amabanal.info/2008/06/30/dyson-actually-not-looking-to-build-electric-car-just-a-wicked-fast-vacuum/ VHS. Some of you won’t be old enough to remember video tape. And those of you who are doubtless have a stack of low resolution cassettes somewhere in the basement, maybe next to the box of 8-Tracks and Zip-Disks. Good news. Now you can rip those tapes to digital files, ... http://www.amabanal.info/2008/06/12/convert-your-vcr-tapes-into-digital-video/ Pictures of the Eee Monitor, the upcoming all-in-one desktop PC from Asus, have surfaced. A PC World reporter at the Computex trade show in Taipei snapped a few photos of a company slide showing the Eee Monitor. Head here for the images. It appears quite iMac-esque--shiny and white with a ... http://www.amabanal.info/2008/06/05/asus-all-in-one-pc-the-eee-monitor/ With headlines this week like "AMD jumps into the netbook game," it sounded very much like Advanced Micro Devices was making a belated entry into the netbook segment. But this isn't the case, according to AMD. AMD chips are already used in a number of existing netbook-like designs like ... http://www.amabanal.info/2008/06/05/amd-not-launching-netbook-chip-it-already-has-one/ No free shipping offers this week...From the "perhaps trying a bit too hard" department--visitors to the Voodoo PC Web site were greeted today by an image of the upscale custom-PC builder's page engulfed in flames, with animated fire and smoke billowing upward. Needless to say, you can't ... http://www.amabanal.info/2008/06/05/voodoo-pc-web-site-goes-up-in-flames/ Kevin Unangst, Microsoft Senior Global Director, Games for Windows(Credit: Microsoft) Q&A Kevin Unangst, Microsoft's Senior Director of Global Gaming, hit the interview rounds starting in April, with the goal of working to dispel the myth that PC gaming is in trouble. That idea came about in the ... http://www.amabanal.info/2008/06/05/microsoft-rallies-behind-pc-gaming/ (Credit: Singulum) If you've never heard of Singulum, it may have something to do with your level of discretionary income. Chances are that most of its customers are independently wealthy. The German company is a purveyor of ultra-luxury laptops with keyboards made of ivory and solid 24k gold, as ... http://www.amabanal.info/2008/06/05/tickling-the-ivories-in-the-laptop-of-luxury/ (Credit: Crave Asia) Personal media players suffer from one major issue--sharing movies on the small LCD is quite impossible. But this is not the case for the Suniview PMP Projector, which claims to be the first portable media player to incorporate a Pico Projector under the hood. (Credit: Crave Asia)... http://www.amabanal.info/2008/06/05/project-videos-from-a-pmp/