Wednesday, February 25, 2009 by henry.

Microsoft has certified ION platform by nVidia for Windows Vista. With ION, small form PC and notebook user can experience rich media capability.

You can enjoy movie up to 1080p resolution, and faster on photo editing and video transcoding.

Visit nVidia ION official website for details.

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Wednesday, February 4, 2009 by henry.

Brother MFC-6490cw multifunction printer, is one of a kind MFC which capability to handle up to A3 (11×17) paper size in very affortable price under $400.00 CAD. This unit comes with USB, Ethernet and 802.11g WiFi connectivity, plus drivers for Windows 2000, Vista, Vista 64, XP 64 and Mac OS 10.24 and more. Dual paper trays help to speed up the productivity.

MFC-6490CW weight 34lbs, a bit heaver than most printer, but still easy to move around by one person. This is a great unit for small/medium techno or design company which need to handle small amount of CAD drawings or posters. Not much MFC comes with 2 years warranty.

This unit is available at HASFF Tronics Inc. Call or email us for details.

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Friday, January 23, 2009 by henry.

Check which Seagate harddirve you have at home. Latest news from Seagate’s Knowledge Base : some of the 1.0TB Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 hard drive will freeze up suddently, and some 500GB version stop working. Seagate found out the faulty firmware cause the problem. There is no affect to any CC or LC firmware version harddrives.

Seagate promist no data lost to those hard drives and will provide data recovery service at no charge.

Here is the instructions/details on 1st firmware upgrade. Released at Jan 16, 2009.

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Wednesday, January 21, 2009 by henry.

PlayStation 3 will release a new firmware update v2.60. This firmware will enhance its multimdeia capabilities to next level.

It offers new features as fancy photo gallery, PlayStation Store and support DivX3.11.

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Wednesday, January 21, 2009 by henry.

nVidia announced their low profile graphic card Quadro NVS 420. This video card can support up to four 30″ displays with resolution up to 2560 x 1600.  Quadro NVS 420 will be available in February with the price tag @$499.00 US.

It has total 16 parallel processor cores by two GPUs with 512 MB memory.  Plus the large bandwith at the speed of 11.2GB/s.  Make sure you have enough power to handle this card.  It consumes 40W of power. 

If you are a graphic designer, video editor, or CAD operator, this graphic card will make your computer much smoother than ever before.

For more detail info check with nVidia.

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Monday, January 19, 2009 by henry.

Almost one out of four peoples has an iPod today. Everyone knows how to download music to their iPod. Some may have a docking station to enhance the music quality. But they don’t know there are lots of products out there can unfold the power of it.

One of the music/recording manufacturer Alesis has developed lots of products which enable you to utilize your iPod. If you are a news reporter, band member, home  studio recorder, church member, secretary or DJ , you will find these products speed up your work flow and make your life much easier.

1. iMultimix 9R is one of the product makes for mobile DJ
a. Rackmount mixer with iPod dock
b. With video output capability

2. JamDock is a unit great for live music setup in small footprint.
a. Allows you to mix iPod and instrument for practice use

3. iMultimix 8USB/16USB is the product most garage band would like to have.
a. A compact mixer with build-in iPod docking station for both record and playback
b. 8 or 16CH professional mixer
c. comes with Cubase LE 4

4. MultiPort make your iPod a part of your recording studio
a. Musicans, DJs, house of worship and corporations can now utilize their iPod for more.

5. ProTrack is lover to news reporter and videographer.
a. capture stereo sound to your iPod anywhere and anytime,
b. 16 bit, 44.1kHz or 22kHz with built-in stereo microphones,
c. A pair of combo XLR-1/4″ inputs with built-in Phantom power, give unlimited connectivity to any sound source.

6. TransActive Mobile is the perfect PA System for mobility
a. With build-in rechargeable battery
b. Mix your instrument, microphone and your iPod together.

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Friday, January 16, 2009 by henry.

Google search engine is well known in the internet world. Now you can use Google Desktop Search (a free tool) to simplify the way in searching and save time in finding file in your computer.

Here is the web link: Google Desktop Search

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Friday, January 16, 2009 by henry.

We all know the power of Blackberry, lots of peoples cannot live without it. There are 10 free appications that can make your Blackberry even better:
1. Viigo - a RSS feed reader allows you to enjoy all the custom news.
2. Vlingo - is an enchanced voice recognition app, its application is far beyonds in just dialing numbers. With Vlingo you can run web search, open calendar and more.. by your voice.
3. Google Mobile - is an one stop access to all Google services, Gmail, Map, Search and …
4. BBNotePad - this is a plain text editor. it allows you to open the file in your computer. Files are saved in “.TXT” format.
5. GridMagic - this app allow you to create data/information table on the move. And it supports wide range of mathematical functions.
6. Opera Mini - a web browser process request through utilizing Opera’s server and surf  web quickly than the original.
7. Mobipocket Reader - it is an e-book app, it makes the text easy to read in a small screen.
8. iSkoot - it makes your Backberry able to send and receive Skype calls on the go.
9. TwitterBerry - allow you to keep in touch with your twitter friends.
10. WebMessenger - allows you to chat with your friend who is using any porpular IM network. (MSN, Yahoo, Skype, ICQ, and …)

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Friday, January 16, 2009 by henry.

Google is going to remove two free services:
1. Google will stop letting user to upload video to “Google Video” in few months time, due to its redundant as Youtube. But the search and view service will remain.
2. Development on “Jaiku” will be stopped. This application allow people to post short message through cellular phones or on line chart programs.

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