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IceRocket Official Blog | Every Search is a Direct Hit New search engine, looks alot like google, and has built in website thumnails. Normally an adding for firefox and IE.

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News From CES - Palm-sized DLP Video Projectors Attract Attention

News From CES - Palm-sized DLP Video Projectors Attract Attention: "Palm-sized DLP Video Projectors Attract Attention In what may turn out to be a very interesting new consumer electronics product category, both the Texas Instruments and InFocus booths at CES displayed working prototypes of small palm-sized DLP video projectors. The projectors shown were powered by a TI DLP chip with an LED light source instead of a high wattage lamp, to reduce heat generation and power consumption. Although not as bright as their larger cousins, both units on display were capable of projecting a solid 27-inch image in a darkened room setting. Although specifications are still being finalized, the Mitsubishi and InFocus branded projectors are expected to hit store shelves by the end of 2005, with an expected price of about $600."

DVForge GuitarPlug & MicPlug USB Audio Adapter For Electric Guitars & Mics

DVForge GuitarPlug & MicPlug, originally uploaded by seafoam.

"With more people using recording software, like Apple's GarageBand or Logic, to build music tracks at home, we realized that an entirely new approach was called for to connect instruments and microphones to the computer, something much smaller and simpler than anything else that's available. Our patent-pending approach to creating small, but high quality digital interface products has resulted in the GuitarPlug and the MicPlug, for connecting an electric guitar or dynamic microphone, respectively, to any modern computer using a simple USB cable.

Plug In Your Guitar
The GuitarPlug is the perfect device for connecting your electric guitar or bass to a computer, for home recording, or even for live play-through. It works with any audio software that accepts a 16-bit, 48KHz USB audio signal. And, the sound quality of the the analog to digital conversion, and the low-latency have to be heard to be believed. Your guitar has never sounded so good."

Dolby demos Dolby Digital Plus 13.1 channels

Dolby demos Dolby Digital Plus - News at GameSpot: "Dolby Digital Plus builds on the original Dolby Digital specifications, allowing for higher bit rates and more channels. Dolby Digital Plus has a maximum bit rate of 6mbps and supports 13.1 channels. In comparison, Dolby Digital caps out at 640kbps and 5.1 channels. So Dolby Digital Plus essentially provides 10 times the bandwidth of the original Dolby Digital. The new format also allows for extremely low bit rate multichannel sound for streaming on the Web or over the air. The benefits of the Dolby Digital Plus codec include transient prenoise processing, enhanced channel coupling, adaptive hybrid transform processing, and channel and program extensions."

Amazon Light

Amazon Light: "Amazon Light v2.0 makes extensive use of dynamic HTML to fetch information from Amazon.com's catalog and return it to this page, redrawing only the relevant areas. What does this mean? Speed - by only fetching a small amount of script (text), and only repainting a small part of the screen, Amazon Light v2.0 is speedy. It also means context - and loads of it. If you are searching for a good book for instance, you can quickly find yourself looking at the details of a specific book in the center area - while it is surrounded by related / similar / contextual links and information. You can see your current and recent search results, Amazon.com Listmania lists (themed lists compiled by Amazon.com customers), your history, or clickstream in real time, and a tree-format listing of sibling categories and subcategories."

MoleSter 0.0.4 - now 6 lines, 466 bytes

MoleSter 0.0.4 - now 6 lines, 466 bytes: Crazy Perl h@x0r5

"Dr. Edward Felten recently posted a piece of code called TinyP2P, which demonstrates how easy it is to create a peer-to-peer filesharing application by doing it in just 15 lines of Python. However, TinyP2P uses a ready-made XMLRPC server library, which seems to me to be taking the easy way out. Here's my response: MoleSter, a non-trivial filesharing application in 6 lines of Perl, using no protocol library more sophisticated than TCP."

Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts File

Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts File: "The Hosts file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. This file is loaded into memory at startup, then Windows checks the Hosts file before it queries any DNS servers, which enables it to override addresses in the DNS. This prevents access to the listed sites by redirecting any connection attempts back to the local machine. Another feature of the HOSTS file is it's ability to block other applications from connecting to the Internet, as long the the entry exists."

HOSTS Manager 1.4

HOSTS Manager 1.4: Haven't tried it yet, but this looks like an interesting app since it prevents duplicates. I use my HOSTS file to get around lots of crap and for people that I setup computers for.

"Edit and update your Windows HOSTS file with new websites/servers names without losing or duplicating your existing entries. The 'HOSTS' file is very useful to block certain websites providing advertising, virus, malware, dialers, web tracking, illegal content, porno, spammers, counters, etc."

KODAK EASYSHARE-ONE Zoom Wireless Digital Camera

KODAK EASYSHARE-ONE Zoom Digital CameraMore information on the new new Kodak camera. Looks like the Wifi is through the SDIO slot you will need to swap your SD card for an optional SDIO wifi card when you want to use that feature.

• 4.0 MP (2304x1728 pixels)
• SCHNEIDER-KREUZNACH C-VARIOGON 3.0X optical zoom, 6.0-16.6 mm (35 mm equivalent: 36-100 mm)
• 3.3X advanced digital zoom
• internal storage: 256 MB internal memory
• external storage: SD/MMC card expansion slot
• SDIO WiFi 802.11b
• 225 g (7.9 oz.)
• WxHxD: 103x63x26 mm (4.1x2.5x1.0 in.)

Program Benefits

Program Benefits: "The Microsoft Partner Program delivers more value to support all stages of your business. We are committed to providing a set of benefits that fit the needs of each individual solutions partner, regardless of your organization's business size or focus. Just as each partner organization is different, so are the tools required for you to conduct business."