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The New Nikon S630

admin — Wed, 20 May 2009 06:08:47 +0000

The S630 is a little thicker than usual for Nikon’s S-series cameras. That extra depth is for the 7x zoom lens out front, but it doesn’t stop this camera from easily fitting in a pocket or small handbag. Available in five colors–black, blue, purple, silver, and red–it looks more stylish head-on than from the back where things get more functional. The right side swoops out a bit leaving a large thumb rest that was appreciated more and more while using the zoom ring around the shutter button on top of the camera.

Performance is on the slow side for the S630. It takes just shy of 4 seconds from power on to first shot. Its shot-to-shot time is 3.1 seconds; using the flash adds 0.3 second to that time. Shutter lag is OK at 0.5 second in bright conditions and 0.8 in dimly lit situations. In its regular continuous shooting mode at full resolution, the camera can capture 0.8 frames per second.

The S630’s photo quality is good. If you’re viewing photos primarily on a computer monitor, digital photo frame, or making prints up to 10×13 inches, you likely won’t be disappointed. Viewed at full size, however, offer-center subjects can look over-processed and soft, where you’ll also see an increase in purple fringing and ghosting. Center sharpness and fine detail are very good, though, as is color. Typical for its class, the lower ISOs are best on this camera, which is why it’s nice to see the inclusion of an ISO limiter in Auto mode for keeping sensitivity below ISO 200 or ISO 400. Noise suppression starts making things soft and smudgy at ISO 400, but you still can get a decent photo at ISO 800–good enough for small prints or Web use at least.

The good: Excellent design; 7x optical zoom in a compact body; ISO range limiter; good photo quality up to ISO 400.

The bad: Slow performance; photos can look over-processed, soft.

The bottom line: The Nikon Coolpix S630 puts a little extra zoom in your pocket, but you might not find the high-resolution photos it shoots out pleasurable.

CNET flashes the Nikon S630 a score of 7/10 while TestFreaks.com gives it a generous rating of 8.5/10. I agree the camera is totally worth the money for a photo enthusiast looking for design and quality.

Foobar2000 Download

sumit — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 23:02:44 +0000

Foobar2000 is a audio player with some of its basic features such as ReplayGain support, low memory footprint and supports several audio formats which includes WAV, AIFF, VOC, SND, Ogg, MP3, MP2, MPEG-4 and many more.

Foobar2000’s Features:

* Open content architecture
* Unicode support on Windows NT
* ReplayGain
* Low memory footprints
* Efficient handling of playlist
* Customizable Keyboard shortcuts
* Audio formats support through addons: FLAC, Ogg FLAC, Monkey’s Audio, WavPack, Speex, CDDA; Extraction from RAR, 7-ZIP and ZIP archives.

Foobar2000’s Technical Info:

Title:                       Foobar2000 0.9.5.6
File name:            foobar2000_0.9.5.6.exe
File size:                2.72MB (2,853,682 bytes)
Requirements:    Windows XP/2003/Vista/XP64/Vista64
License:                  Freeware
Home page:           www.foobar2000.org

MediaMonkey 3.0.5.1186 Download

arpan — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:50:05 +0000

MediaMonkey is a new jukebox or a music manager, that includes a CD ripper, CD/DVD Burner, and audio converter , and manual/automated playlist editors for creating music mixes and supports your CDs, OGG, WMA, MPC, FLAC, APE, WAV and MP3 audio files. It offers an intelligent tag editor which looks up missing Album Art and track information via Freedb and the web and hundreds of Winamp plug-ins and visualizations, which supports Winamp as the default player. MediaMonkey’s player can automatically adjusts volume levels and offers a portable audio device synchronization technique where user can easily synch tracks and playlists with iPods and other portable audio devices.

Features:

* Powerful interface
* Can store more than 50,000 files
* Audio converter
* Easy to use and quickly sychronized with Pods / MP3 players
* Automatically lookup and tag Album Art
* Supports various audio file formats

* Tag editor

MediaMonkey 3.0.5.1186 Technical Info:

Title:              MediaMonkey 3.0.5.1186
Filename:   MediaMonkey_3.0.5.1186.exe
File size:      6.55MB (6,871,808 bytes)
Requirements:    Windows (All Versions)
License:                 Freeware
Homepage:         www.mediamonkey.com

Windows Live Messenger 2009 Beta Download

arpan — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:15:03 +0000

Windows Live Messenger 2009 Beta another new MNS Messenger that will help you to chat online instantly in real time with your near and dears. It also features chatting with webcam and sending text message to mobile phones as well as it aslo offers you to create your personal cool avatar along with various emotions and backgrounds.

Features:

* Send text to mobile phones
* Creating picture
* New and cool smileys

Windows Live Messenger 2009 Beta’s Technical Info:

Title:              Windows Live Messenger 2009 Beta
Filename:                wlsetup-web.exe
File size:               991KB (1,014,272 bytes)
Requirements:       Windows XP/2003/Vista/XP64/Vista64
License:       Freeware
Homepage:    messenger.msn.com

Maxton Internet Browser

sumit — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:24:26 +0000

Maxthon Internet browser is another tabbed browser with customizable interface. It is based on internet explorer browser engine that means you will find no difference working in the IE browser or Maxthon browser.
Some additional features :

* Tabbed Browsing
* Drag n Drop
* Privacy protection
* RSS reader
* IE extension support
* Utility Bar

Maxthon’s Technical Info:

Title:                              Maxthon 2.1.4.443
File name:                   maxthon.exe
File size:                       5.23MB (5,489,248 bytes)
Requirements:           Windows (All Versions)
License:                        Freeware
Home page:                 www.maxthon.com

Hamachi

sumit — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 20:47:13 +0000

Hamachi let you organize two or more computer with an internet connection into a virtual network for secure communication. Access computers remotely, play LAN games, FTP servers and many more. It is fast, secure, simple and Free

Features:

* LAN over Internet
* Secure peer-to-peer
* Zero-configuration VPN

Hamachi’s Technical Info

Title:          Hamachi 1.0.3.0
File name:               HamachiSetup-1.0.3.0-en.exe
File size:                   988KB (1,011,784 bytes)
Requirements:       Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/XP64/Vista64
License:                    Freeware
Home page:             www.hamachi.cc

7-ZIP Beta

sumit — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 20:33:59 +0000

7-Zip is an file archiver for Windows. It provides two interface as command line program and graphical user interface. This application supports many formats such as 7z, ZIP, RAR, ARJ and many more. It also features integration with the windows shell.
Features:

* High compression ratio
* Self-extracting capability
* Integration with Windows Shell
* Localization for 55 languages
* Supported formats: 7z, ZIP, RAR, ARJ, GZIP, ISO, BZIP2, Z, TAR, JAR, CPIO, RPM, DEP etc
* Powerful file manager and command line

7-Zip Technical Info:

Title:                            7-Zip 4.60 Beta
File name:                 7z460.exe
File size:                    902KB (923,547 bytes)
Requirements:        Windows (All Versions)
License:                     Open Source
Home page:              www.7-zip.org

Microsoft Windows Defender

sumit — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 20:19:51 +0000

Microsoft Windows Defender is a security application which provide protection for windows users from spyware and potentially unwanted software. This application reduces effect caused by spyware which can be slow pc performance, pop-up ads and unauthorized access to your private data.
* Reduces effect caused by spyware
* Improves Internet browsing safety
* Protect against potentially unwanted software
* Remove known spyware

Windows Defender’s Technical Info:

Title:                              Windows Defender 1.1.1593
File name:                    WindowsDefender.msi
File size:                        4.95MB (5,186,048 bytes)
Requirements:            Windows XP/2003
License:                         Freeware
Home page:      www.microsoft.com

uTorrent Beta

arpan — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 20:02:34 +0000

uTorrent is BitTorrent client for Windows. It is an efficient and was developed for small system with less memory while offering maximum functionality.

uTorrent offers some features:

* Multiple Downloads
* bandwidth scheduler
* Global and per-torrent speed control
* Trackerless support
* RSS downloader
uTorrents Technical Info:

Title:                                    uTorrent 1.8.1 Beta 12320
File name:                         utorrent-1.8.1-beta-12320.upx.exe
File size:                             264KB (270,640 bytes)
Requirements:   Windows (All Versions)
License:                              Freeware
Home page:                       www.utorrent.com

Review: Motorola ZN5 Candybar Phone

arpan — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 20:14:33 +0000

Motorola and Kodak introduces the Motorola ZN5, a new candybar 5-megapixel camera phone featuring a Wi-Fi connectivity with Quad-band GSM and EDGE support, Bluetooth 2.0, 350MB internal memory and a TV-out port. The Motorola ZN5 is a 5 megapixel auto focus camera with Xenon flash boasts support for continuous shooting. The ZN5 offers you to shoot in RAW mode, unprecedented in cameraphones which helps in producing lower resolution photos. The Motorola ZN5 sports a Kodak lens, Xenon flash, multi-shot mode, low-light setting and a shutter speed of 1/60 to 1/1000 seconds in auto mode. It also offers a panorama feature which automatically matches continuous shots taken on horizon line into a single image.

The Motorola ZN5 comes with a 2.4″ QVGA display screen capable of showing 262K colors at a resolution of 240 by 320 pixels and a morphing keypad, similar to the ROKR E8. In phone mode, the Motorola ZN5 boasts CrystalTalk technology to help callers hear and be heard.The Motorola ZN5 also offers a new Linux-based “full HTML” browser.

Features:

* ModeShift Technology
* 5 megapixel camera, auto-focus, low-light setting, digital zoom
* Shutter speed: 1/60 – 1/1000 seconds in auto mode
* Multi-shot mode
* Capture modes: panorama, macro, multi-shot
* Editing effects: grayscale, sepia, negative, reddish, greenish, bluish,brightness, sharpen, contrast, blur
* CrystalTalk Technology
* Wi-Fi enabled/ WLAN: 802.11 b/g/i
* Windows Media Player 11
* Video-C/P 15fps, MPEG4, H263
* TV out