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Automatic Chinese/English Voice Translation, Thank’s to Jajah

Image via Wikipedia Techcrunch is reporting that the instant voice translation service from Jajah is working surprisingly well. They asked a TechCrunch intern Matthew Schulz, who is fluent in Chinese, to do the test with them. His conclusion? The service work surprisingly well as long as he enonciated a bit more his chinese sponke sentence. This might be helpfull with [...]

Cisco to Acquire Pure Networks

Image via Wikipedia Cisco today announced its intent to purchase privately held Pure Networks, a Seattle-based leader in home networking-management software and tools. Pure Networks’ home networking-management solution allows users to easily set up and manage a home network and connect a range of devices, applications and services within a home. “With the rapid proliferation of networking technology [...]

Microsoft release Windows Home Server Power Pack 1

Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 (PP1) is a major functional upgrade to WHS, offering a number of important and major new features: x64 client compatibility that was a curiously missing pieces in the original shipping version of WHS. PCs running Windows Vista with Service Pack 1 (SP1) are no longer incorrectly identified as “Longhorn Server” in [...]

Intel’s microprocessors vulnerable to remote attack

Image by trekkyandy via Flickr Security researcher and author Kris Kaspersky plans to demonstrate how an attacker can target flaws in Intel’s microprocessors to remotely attack a computer using JavaScript or TCP/IP packets, regardless of what operating system the computer is running. The proof-of-concept attacks will show how processor bugs, called errata, can be exploited using certain [...]

Kodak Introduces 50-Megapixel CCD

Sorry Kodak Digital Trends report: Professional photographers will soon be able to take shots at an astounding 8176 x 6132 resolution with Kodak’s record-breaking image sensor. Professional photographer, no resolution is ever really “enough” has been answered by Kodak on Tuesday with the introduction of the world’s first 50-megapixel CCD for professional cameras, the KAF-50100, which [...]

Could you be tracked by your iPhone 3G

During WWDC 2008 there was a great presentation given about a new social application, Loopt, that utilize GPS technology to show you friends/contacts around you. Using location-based technologies, Loopt lets you know where your friends are by automatically updating maps on your mobile handset. Loopt even lets you send messages to nearby friends or receive automatic [...]

Howto encode Screenflow presentation for Vimeo HD

Image via Wikipedia This short screencast tutorial will show you how you can produce Vimeo HD friendly movies. Vimeo is rather strict on what can be considered HD and this guide will show you how to hit a bullseye with your screencast in HD. What will you need: Screenflow Vimeo account Simply listen to the below presentation. You [...]

Howto add Presentation Title to ScreenFlow

I recently discovered this amazing program called Screenflow. It allow you to produce tutorials like the one I make for this site. One thing I noticed it was missing was the ability to add ScreenCast Titles. So I decided to make a ScreenCast of one go about adding Titles to a Screenflow presentation. What you [...]

How to convert your DVD using Handbrake on Leopard

This tutorial will show you how to easily convert your dvd to a proper version that will play on you iPod, iPhone, Apple TV or even your XBOX 360. What will you need: 1. A copy of Handbrake 2. A DVD 3. Some free time How to do it: Simply what the following HD Tutorial of how to install and use [...]

How to install ZFS on OSX Leopard 10.5.3 (in HD)

Image via Wikipedia You migh already know this… but Leopard retail include support for ZFS. Unfortunatly this support is only for read access. During the last WWDC 2008 conference it was mentioned that Snow Leopard would introduce Read/Write support for ZFS in the server version. I decided that I needed to look at ZFS a little bit [...]