Archive for January, 2004

Portable Media Centers: “Introducing Portable Media Centers

All of your media. Here. There. Everywhere.

Portable Media Centers put all of your favorite video, music, and pictures at your fingertips wherever you are. Take digital entertainment from your PC with you on the go, including recorded TV shows, downloaded videos, home movies, music, and photos. With Windows Mobile? software featuring an easy-to-use, familiar Windows Media Center Edition interface, Portable Media Centers let you enjoy immediate access to all of your favorite entertainment anytime, anywhere. “

“CeBIT 2003: SanDisk also yesterday announced additions to its standard SD card range in 512MB and 1GB sizes which use one gigabit NAND flash memory chips, based on multi-level cell (MLC) technology. MLC allows two bits of data to be stored in one memory cell, doubling memory capacity. The 512MB and 1GB SanDisk SD cards have suggested retail prices of $169.99 and $329.99 respectively. The 512MB SD card is expected to be available in the second quarter while the 1GB SD card is expected to be available in the third quarter.

Press Release:

SanDisk Introduces 1 Gigabyte And 512 Megabyte SD Cards

New Memory Cards Give Consumers Enough Capacity To Store Large Amounts Of Digital Images, Music And Video”

DVD to Pocket PC Software: “DVD TO POCKET PC

Now you can convert your DVD’s to your Pocket PC and watch them in great quality, with stereo sound and in full screen landscape mode. A memorycard as small as 128 Mb is sufficient to store a full length feature film, up to a hundred minutes. Take your DVD’s on the plane, train or automobile, watch them on vacation, at work or at school. With only two clicks, this PC software converts the content of your DVD to a super small movie file, which will play on any Windows Mobile 2003 device, such as HP iPaq, on a postage stamp size memory card. You can use a headset or the built-in speaker to listen to the sound. Subtitled and foreign language DVD’s are also supported. You wil have to see the quality to believe it, using Microsoft’s supreme Windows Media 9 encoding, feature films look crisp and sharp on your Pocket PC and still fit on a relatively small Secure Digital card. On a 512 SD card, you can even crunch 4 films!

Software runs on: Windows XP “

DNA/HHGG Infocom Adventure

The Hitchhiker’s Guide was renowned as one of the most fiendishly complex adventure games ever released. Many considered it a signal achievement even to get out of the house at the start. The Java version you have here won’t let you save or restore a game, so I’m afraid you’re stuck with starting from scratch each time you play. If you’d like to be notified when the full shareware version becomes available, please e-mail Richard Harris at TDV (rh@tdv.com).

If you aren’t familiar with the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy you will likely be very confused. If you are familiar with the HHGG, you will also be very confused – while the game starts similarly to the book, it soon diverges. In summary, you play the part of Arthur Dent a rather ordinary and ineffectual Earth being with a liking for tea. The game starts when the local council makes a spirited attempt to demolish your house to make way for a bypass. While you’re trying to cope with that, your friend Ford Prefect drops past to tell you that your efforts are pointless, as the Earth itself is about to be demolished to make way for a Hyperspace bypass. The rest is up to you!