Turn your iPhone to a dSLR


iPhone dSLR?

Well, sort of.

A company called iPhoneDSLR claims that you can do exactly as the claim with their product, an SLR lens mount for iPhones.

Apple releases iOS 4.0.1


iOS 4.01 now available to iPhone owners

iOS 4.0.1 is now available to iPhone owners, aiming to fix iPhone 4, 3GS and 3G signal meter. Apple claims that this new patch “improves the formula to determine how many bars of signal strength to display,” after announcing that they had been using the wrong calculation.

In short, it’s a visual fix to the iPhone 4‘s attenuation problems. That and the fact that you’ll still be dropping calls.

Asus Eee PC 1005PX


Asus introduces a new EEEPC Netbook with Intel’s N450 Atom Processor, the Asus EEE PC 1005PX. What makes the EEE PC 1005PX different? This new machine features a 10.1-inch LED-backlit matte, non-glare screen display for better view in direct sunlight. All other specs are similar to other netbooks in the market.

Gmail now supports Rich Text Signatures


Gmail‘s signatures have always been borderline boring because you can’t have anything fancy on it (unless you manually edit in on the actual message) as it only supports plain text. Thanks to the multitude of us that keep on asking for rich text signatures, Google has finally given us exactly that; Rich Text Signatures :) . Give yourself a nice pat on the back.

Microsoft releases Windows 7 Service Pack 1 BETA


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Microsoft has made the BETA release of Service Pack 1 for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 publicly available to TechNet, BizSpark and MSDN subscribers.

If you’re eager on testing the latest build for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, head to the MSDN download page. Otherwise (if you’re a consumer), just wait for the final version.

No new features will be brought to Windows 7 in the upcoming service pack, just bug fixes and general improvements. Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, on the other hand, brings Virtual Desktop Infrastructure enhancements that enable hardware-accelerated 3D graphics and video playback over a Remote Desktop Connection.

via Windows Team Blog, TechNet

Nvidia’s $200 GPU King: GeForce GTX 460


Nvidia GeForce GTX 460

The release of the very first Fermi cards brought in mixed reactions. While it received praise for the architecture, speed and raw power, a lot more were disappointed at the cost and power consumption of these cards.

Nvidia’s newest Fermi card, The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 packs a lot of punch for just $200.

MSI GT660 Gaming Laptop With Core i7 CPU


MSI GT660 Gaming Laptop

MSI’s aiming big with it’s brand new Gaming Laptop, the GT660.  If the distinctive exterior doesn’t tell you that this is a beast crunching numbers, the system specs should.  Read the full system specs after the jump.

Intel to Phase out Celeron Chips


Intel to Phase out Celeron Chips

It’s a long time coming but Intel may just phase out it’s Celeron line as early as next year in favor of upcoming Dual-core Atom processors.

Mozilla releases Firefox 4 Beta 1


Firefox 4.1 Beta

Mozilla has released Firefox 4 beta 1, the first public, stable version of its next major browser.  4.1  features a brand new UI with tabs on top (reminiscent of Chrome) but adds more HTML5 support as well as Google’s new WebM open video standard.  Another improvement is that plugins are now both easier to manage and no longer need a browser restart to load.

Download Opera 10.6 [Windows, Linux, OS X]


Opera 10.6

The Opera development team has released the final version of Opera 10.60 web browser for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and FreeBSD.. Opera 10.60 touts a highly optimized JavaScript engine that’s claimed to be 50% faster than the earlier, Opera 10.50 release.