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Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ28 camera review

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The Panasonic Lumix FZ-28 has a sensor resolution of 10.1-megapixels from a 1/2.33-inch RGB CCD image sensor, and Panasonic has coupled this to an image-stabilized, Leica DC Vario-Elmarit-branded 18x optical zoom lens with a useful range all the way from a 27mm wide angle to a 486mm telephoto. As you’d expect for a long-zoom camera, there’s a choice of both an electronic viewfinder and an LCD display. The Panasonic FZ28’s electronic viewfinder is a 0.20-inch LCD type with 201,600 dots of resolution, and yields a 100% field of view. There’s also a 2.7-inch LCD display with 230,000 dot resolution, which again has 100% coverage. The Panasonic FZ28’s lens has a maximum aperture that varies from f/2.8 to f/4.4 across the zoom range.

Photos of Next Gen iPhone in Action? Auto-Focus and Compass

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A Chinese-language blog UMPCFever posted what it claims are the first photos of the next generation iPhone in action. According to the rough automated translation these images show the new iPhone but as it is a prototype the external design may change is not therefore not featured.

According to the report, the new iPhone does contain an autofocus camera that is uses an on-screen square that can be moved by the tap of a finger to chose the object of focus. Also shown is the long rumored digital compass as well as compass software (pictured above). Those features seem to be specific to the next generation iPhone, though the site also demos MMS and Copy/Paste with Images.

NVIDIA GPU resurrected after 10 minutes at 425�F

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We've seen some pretty weird stuff in our years on this planet -- heck, we've revived our own drenched Sony DAP by burying it in rice for 48 hours -- but this is easily one of the most bizarre gizmo resurrections we've ever come across. As the tale goes, one valiant NVIDIA GPU owner apparently bit on a myth which suggested that a pinch of time in the oven (quite literally, might we add) would repair faulty GPUs that were throwing up oodles of vertical lines. After purchasing another GPU to replace his ailing 8800GTX, he figured he had zilch to lose and gave it a shot; lo and behold, the temporary warmth seemingly melted the solder points and healed micro-fractures that were causing the unwanted lines.

PSP Go Leaked: Slider With 16GB of Flash Storage and Bluetooth

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Live images have leaked of Sony's PSP Go, set to launch at next week's E3. Looks like those rumors were true: It's a UMD-less slider with 16GB of memory, and it'll ship this fall. No price yet, but that should come with the official announcement next week.

All this leakage stems from the June issue of Qore, which is a bit of a slip-up on Sony's part. The Go looks to keep the single analog joystick, though the overall design is quite a bit more playful and, well, circular than previous iterations of the PSP. Notice we didn't say "attractive": the circle section that houses the start and select buttons especially has kind of a late-90s feel to it, but we'll have to see how it looks in the hand.

Microsoft Silverlight 3 launch event set

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Microsoft is planning a launch event on July 10 for its Silverlight 3 technology and the accompanying Expression Studio 3 toolset, a company representative said Friday evening.
The company has not yet announced official ship dates for the two technologies, the representative said. But the launch event, planned for the San Francisco Bay Area, is intended as an opportunity to highlight the work customers and partners have been doing with Silverlight and Expression Studio, and to tout features of the two releases.

VirtualBox 2.2.4

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VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).

Presently, VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh and OpenSolaris hosts and supports a large number of guest operating systems including but not limited to Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4 and 2.6), Solaris and OpenSolaris, and OpenBSD.

Bashing Bing, whacking Wave

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Industry titans Microsoft Corp. and Google Inc. are getting rave reviews this week about innovative new approaches to Internet search and communications, respectively.

Even Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Wozniak told a reporter that Microsoft's new Bing search engine looks "astounding" and that he's "a big fan, now."

There's much to like. In a nutshell, Bing does more to surface information you're probably looking for than Google does. For example, if you search for a company, one of the top results will present links to customer service, store locator -- that kind of information.

If you haven't seen it, go here to see the Microsoft pitch for Bing.

Looks great, right? What's not to like. Well...

Zip Repair Tool version 3.3 software

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The zip file format offers much in terms of data storage and network transfer, but its potential weakness, however, lies in the fragility of the file structure. If for any reason some part of a zip file becomes damaged, standard zip tools will be unable to extract it.

Zip Repair Tool provides the user with a cutting edge technology that helps repair zip structure and extract zipped files. Full automation of the zip repair process and a user-friendly interface make zip repair a snap. After the user locates zip files, the program scans each file to assess the damage - then Zip Repair Tool deploys its robust engine to recover zip files wherever possible. High speed and accuracy are the distinguishing features of the technology. The zip repair engine can fix zip files of any size and number.

Microsoft ditches Windows 7 Starter app limit

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Windows 7 Starter Edition took some criticism with its three-application limit. Today, however, Microsoft announced on its Windows Team Blog that it would be removing the three-application limit on Windows 7 Starter, and that it will be available worldwide for use on "small notebook PCs," which presumably means it'll be geared toward netbooks.

There were some rumblings earlier in the week that Microsoft would remove the three-app limit, but with today's announcement, Microsoft made it official.

N97 disassembled on video...

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Are you dying to see Nokia's latest, the N97 ripped to shreds in glorious moving pictures? Well, that's too bad: we don't have that. What we do have, however, is a series of photographs of said shred-ripping, turned into a video. A creepy, silent film, if you will, complete with subtitles. Lack of movement and sound aside, it gives us a pretty great look at the innards of the handset, if that's what you're into.