Toshiba New Mini NB200 Netbook

The Japanese electronic manufacturer, Toshiba has added new Mini NB200 netbook to its UK lineup, which has similar specification with the just announced Dynabook UX for Western markets. The NB200 is featured with 10.1-inch wide screen LED-backlit display with 1024 x 600 resolutions.

Powered by 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270 processor, Toshiba NB200 netbook is also integrated with a 945GSE mainboard. It boasts a 160GB hard drive with free fall sensor, supports Wi-Fi and mobile broadband radios.

Besides, it is Bluetooth enabled built-in 0.3-megapixel webcam, integrated with three USB 2.0 ports and 3-cell battery with 4 hours of life.

Available in brown, black, white and pink, the netbook is expected to be available in UK in May and is priced at about $465.

Lenovo Unveiled New IdeaCentre A600 Desktop Computer System

Lenovo has just unveiled the expansion of its Idea brand with the addition of a new all-in-one IdeaCentre A600 desktop computer system. The new Idea Centre is claimed by lenovo as the thinnest all-in-one desktop personal computer.

The IdeaCentre A600 features a 21.5 inch frameless screen with 16:9 aspect ratios and 1920 x 1080 pixel full HD resolutions. It also powered with Intel Core 2 Duo processor, up to 4GB of DDR3 Ram, optional ATI Radeon graphics and up to 1TB of hard drive capability. For providing better multimedia effect, it has integrated speaker system with a bass sub-wofer and Dobly Home Theatre audio certification. Additionally, it comes with built in digital TV tuner for watching and recording TV programs.

Others features of Lenovo A600 includes optional Blu-ray player, WiFi connectivity, 6 in 1 card reader, VeriFace facial recognition technology, USB, FireWire ports and optional Lenovo 4 in 1 remote controller that can be used as VOIP handset.

The Lenovo IdeaCentre A600 will be launched in April with a starting price of $999.

Infinity Announced First Movie Title On Hybrid Blu-ray/DVD For Japan

A Japanese entertainment software developer, Infinity has announced the first movie title on a hybrid Blu-ray/DVD disc in Japan. The movie title should be available in February 2009. The Hybrid Blu-ray/DVD disc is a combination of a traditional DVD with the new high-definition BLu-ray format. The new hybrid disc was developed two years ago by JVC, where the top of the disc has blue laser layer of 25GB, while the underneath have two more layers just like an ordinary DVD(8.5GB). The Blu-ray and DVD layers are separated by a semi-reflective film that reflects blue light while it allows the red light to pass through the DVD layer underneath.

Infinity also has noted that discs containing a couple of Blue-ray layers and a solitary DVD layer are also possible in the future. However, the first hybrid releases will be quite expensive. The hybrid HD discs that will be released in February includes a set of four hybrid discs (encoded in MPEG-4 AVC, Dolby Digital, 534 minutes in total) will cost around $406, while DVD version (7 DVD discs, 534 minutes, Dolby Digital) will retail for $266.

How To Easily Create GIF Animator

GiftedMotion is a small, free and easy to use GIF Animator that able to design a funny animation from a series of digital images. GiftedMotion is simple to use and straight forward, the user just need to load the pictures and adjust the frames as you like such as position, time to show and method to dispose previous frames.

The key features of GiftedMotion as below:

• Support Microsoft Windows, Linux and Mac OS.
• Support English and German.
• Able to create animated GIFs from the following images types: PNG, JPG, BMP and GIF.
• Easy to adjust size of the resulting animation.
• Easy to adjust position of images within frames.
• Able to preview animation.
• Full control over all aspects of the animated GIF.
• Able to edit existing GIF animations.
• Best dithering results, if working with images of more than 256 colors.
• Free to use, no licensing costs, no installation required, just download giftedmotion-1.6.jar file and put on your desktop then start it. It requires Java to run.

The New ASUS USB-N11 Wireless N USB adapter

ASUS, the producer of top-notch wireless devices, has released the new ASUS USB-N11 wireless N USB adapter. ASUS USB-N11 built in with a WPS button for simplify the setup by allowing users to setup a protected networking environment with ease by push the WiFi Protected Setup (WPS) button on the adapter and the router. Additionally, the USB-N11 is fully 802.11 compliant which allow users to have easy interoperability with all draft-N devices and it also supports a whole range of different operating systems such as Windows OS(Windows 2000/XP/Vista 32/64bit versions) , Linux (source code provided for driver build) and Mac OS ( WiFi Utility - Mac 10.3/10.4/10.5 and drivers).

According to report, about over 70% of WI-FI adapters not supporting Linux or Mac operating systems, users often find it frustrating to setup wireless networks with hardware other than PCs.

With fully certified 802.11n wireless standard, the USB-N11 can provide data transfers of up to 5 time’s faster throughput (90Mbps) than 11g standards. This is ideal for wireless multimedia streaming, file sharing and online gaming.