QNAP Updates Compatibility List

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QNAP updated its compatibility list for Turbo NAS again, and this time added 45 IP cameras!  Read on for details.

 

QNAP continues to add more items to their Turbo NAS compatibility list, and this time they added 45 IP cameras from ACTi!  Here is the QNAP announcement:

QNAP Expands its Turbo NAS Peripherals Compatibility List, Adding a New 3.5-inch Internal SATA Hard Drive, a 2.5-inch internal SSD and Forty-five Network Cameras

Taipei, Taiwan, September 27, 2012 – QNAP® Systems, Inc. is extending the number of compatible peripherals for its Turbo NAS products, the additions including one Western Digital® 3.5-inch 1TB internal SATA hard drive, one Samsung® 2.5-inch 512GB internal SSD and forty-five ACTi ® network cameras.

The compatible 3.5″ internal SATA hard drive is listed below:

  • Western Digital® – WD1000DHTZ (1TB)

The compatible 2.5″ internal SSD is listed below:

  • Samsung® – MZ-7PC512 (512GB)

The compatible Network Cameras are listed below:

  • ACTi ® – ACTi ACD-2000Q, ACTi ACD-2100, ACTi ACD-2200, ACTi ACD-2300, ACTi ACD-2400, ACTi SED-2120, ACTi SED-2140, ACTi ACM-1011, ACTi ACM-1231/ 1232, ACTi ACM-1511, ACTi ACM-3001/ 3011, ACTi ACM-3211, ACTi ACM-3311, ACTi ACM-3401/ 3411/ 3511, ACTi ACM-3601/ 3603, ACTi ACM-3701/ 3703, ACTi ACM-4000/ 4001, ACTi ACM-4100, ACTi ACM-4200/ 4201, ACTi ACM-5001, ACTi ACM-5601/ 5611, ACTi ACM-5711, ACTi ACM-7411, ACTi ACM-8201/ 8211, ACTi ACM-8511, ACTi AEK-1001, ACTi CAM-5201/ 5221/ 5301/ 5321, ACTi CAM-6510/ 6610/ 6620/ 6630, ACTi CAM-7300/7321/7322, ACTi KCM-5111, ACTi TCD-2500, ACTi TCM-1231, ACTi TCM-1511, ACTi TCM-3011, ACTi TCM-3401, ACTi TCM-3511, ACTi TCM-4101, ACTi TCM-4201, ACTi TCM-4301, ACTi TCM-5001, ACTi TCM-5311/5312, ACTi TCM-5611, ACTi TCM-7011, ACTi TCM-7411, ACTi TCM-7811

Now if they would only add some more TRENDnet cameras, I’d be happy!

QNAP Press Release

CloudBerry Backup Adds Amazon Glacier Support

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CloudBerry Backup Adds Amazon Glacier Support

CloudBerry’s backup solution has added Amazon Glacier support.  Read on for details.

CloudBerry has added support for Amazon’s Glacier service, which is lower cost than S3.  Here is what CloudBerry announced:

CloudBerry S3 Backup is a powerful Windows program that automate backup and restore processes to Amazon S3 cloud storage. Now with Amazon Glacier support.

Amazon Glacier, a secure, reliable and low cost storage service designed for data archiving and backup. In order to keep costs low, Amazon Glacier is optimized for data that is infrequently accessed and for which retrieval times of several hours are suitable. With Amazon Glacier, you can reliably store large or small amounts of data for as little as $0.01 per gigabyte per month.

The latest release of CloudBerry Backup comes with full support for Amazon Glacier. Using the product you can move your files to Glacier vaults taking advantage of the extremely low cost storage .

Note. Current version of CloudBerry Backup doesn’t allow you:

1. Restore the files stored in Glacier Vaults and updated version with the Glacier restore is coming shortly. You should use CloudBerry Explorer to restore the files

2. Doesn’t allows you to encrypt and compress files yet. This is also coming in the future release.

This is good news as Amazon S3 can get a little pricey, but I think I would wait to jump on this until encryption is fully implemented.  If you are interested, cruise on over to CloudBerry and check it out!

CloudBerry Blog Post

Sky adds new Catch Up TV service to Sky+ and launches 2TB Sky+HD box

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Sky adds new Catch Up TV service to Sky+ and launches 2TB Sky+HD box

Sky+, Britain’s most popular personal video recorder, is getting even bigger and better with the launch this week of a brand new Catch Up TV service, more personal storage and new ways for customers to interact with their favourite TV shows.

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The wave of new features marks the latest stage in the ongoing development of Sky+, which is now enjoyed in over nine million homes – more than all of the other competing pay TV services added together. In the last two years, Sky+ has introduced TV on demand, hundreds of the latest DVD releases to rent through Sky Store and a new EPG making it easier to find what to watch. More than a decade after launch, Sky+ was heralded by T3 magazine this month as retaining its place as ‘King of the TV services jungle’. Last month alone, Sky+ generated more than 1.2 billion sessions of time-shifted viewing as customers took control of their own TV schedule.

Catch Up TV

 

From today, Sky+ is giving customers even more flexibility by adding a new 7-day Catch Up TV section to its On Demand* service. Customers will be able to keep up to date with their favourite Sky shows and also get programmes from ITV Player and Demand 5. With BBC iPlayer coming this autumn and 4oD arriving in early 2013, the Catch Up service will keep getting better, with programmes from the most popular free-to-air and pay channels all seamlessly integrated into the Sky+ experience. Sky’s On Demand service also includes access to box sets such as Mad Men, An Idiot Abroad and Mad Dogs available at no extra charge to Sky customers.

Everything is separated into simple categories so it is easy to find what you want to watch and search by most popular, by genre and by day. So if customers hear about a show they missed or forget to record a crucial episode, it will be ready and waiting for them. All they need to do to access Catch Up is to activate On Demand and connect the Sky+HD box to their broadband router – all for no extra monthly cost.

More personal storage

Coinciding with the roll-out of Catch Up TV, Sky customers will now also be able to store more of their favourite shows than ever before with the launch this week of a new Sky+HD 2TB box. In response to customer demand for extra space to store their favourite TV shows, the Sky+HD 2TB box provides six times more storage than a regular Sky+HD box.

The Sky+HD 2TB box offers more personal storage than any other subscription TV provider, for example customers can record three times more high definition (HD) TV than with Virgin Media. Sky customers will be able to use the massive capacity to store up to 350 hours of HD content, equivalent to more than two weeks’ worth of HD TV viewing.

New ways to interact

Meanwhile, away from the main TV screen, Sky+ customers will also be able to start using the exciting new Sky+ app for iPad that lets them connect to online communities around virtually every show on TV, across Sky and other channels. Through the app, which goes live this week, Sky customers can interact more fully with content than ever before, following and contributing to online chat via an in-built Twitter feed, plus gain easy access to a range of extra information related to the show they are watching. So whether a Sky customer wants to find out more about a particular actor in a drama, or buy a piece of music featured on a TV show’s soundtrack, they will be able to use the Sky+ app to find out more.

 

The immersive second-screen functionality – powered by the augmented TV specialists zeebox – is available in addition to existing features offered by the app which hand more control back to Sky customers over their viewing experience. These include being able to use the app to change the channels on their TV through a swipe of their fingers on the iPad, as well as browse their Sky+ planner through the app, adding and deleting shows without interrupting their viewing on the main TV set. The Sky+ app for iPad is available to Sky TV customers at no extra charge.

UbiSoft Rolls Out “Holiday From Hell” Far Cry 3 App on Facebook

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UbiSoft Rolls Out “Holiday From Hell” Far Cry 3 App on Facebook

UbiSoft has rolled out a Facebook app that lets you create and share a holiday card with a Far Cry 3 theme.  Read on for details.

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UbiSoft has rolled out a Facebook app that lets you create and share a holiday card with a Far Cry 3 theme.  Here is the announcement:

Make your own Holiday from Hell postcard and keep it as a souvenir!

 

Become Vaas’ hostage, buried up to your neck in sand or bob along to the sound of your ukulele as a Wahine bobblehead as Ubisoft’s new Far Cry 3 Facebook app lets you create and customize your own ‘Holiday from Hell’ postcard and share it with your friends.

The first 2,000 people to create their postcard can also have it printed and sent via Royal Mail free of charge! Through the app you can also create your own Facebook timeline header image, share your postcard to friends’ walls or send it as an email.

Create your own at http://apps.facebook.com/holidayfromhell/.

So if you are up for a Far Cry 3 holiday card, click here and enjoy this Facebook app!

INRIX Helps Consumers Navigate Busy UK Roads

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INRIX Helps Consumers Navigate Busy UK Roads

Are you in the UK?  Do you need help navigating the roads and public transport options?  INRIX may be for you.

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INRIX is a free mobile app, available on iOS, Android, Windows Phone and BlackBerry, and it helps you to navigate around London.  It includes public transportation information and current traffic results.  Here is some information about INRIX:

About INRIX

INRIX® Inc. is the largest global traffic intelligence platform in the world, delivering smart data and analytics to solve transportation issues worldwide. INRIX crowd sources data daily from nearly 100 million drivers to deliver traffic and driving-related insight, as well as sophisticated analytical tools and services, across six industries in 31 countries.

As the primary source of traffic and travel information on TV and radio nationwide, INRIX is providing consumers some useful tools that give them instant access to the fastest routes, worst delays and best modes of travel when they’re on the go including:

INRIX Traffic for iPhone, Android, Blackberry and Windows Phone. INRIX Traffic is a free app that helps travellers determine the fastest routes and avoid the worst delays with real-time traffic information.  The app also provides useful traffic forecasts that help travellers know what to expect on the roads ahead of their next trip.  Travellers using INRIX Traffic on iPhone also can send their actual arrival time via text or email to people they’re on the way to meet with just a few taps. Download the free app here.

INRIX Travel Radio. In addition to reporting on live traffic conditions on most of the commercial radio stations in the U.K., INRIX provides travellers with on-demand access to real-time travel conditions across all modes of transportation 24/7.  Whether travelling by road, rail, sea or air, INRIX travel radio provides real-time updates on the latest travel conditions nationwide.  Travellers can download the TuneIn Radio app here to listen on demand over their smartphone or tune in online at http://www.travelradio.org.uk/.

@travelradiouk on Twitter.  Consumers can follow @travelradiouk to get the latest updates on travel conditions across all modes of transportation.

Netccentric Launches New “Social Blog Stalking” App

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Netccentric Launches New “Social Blog Stalking” App

Netccentric has launched a new service for keeping tabs on blogs, called NuffnangX.  Read on for details.

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Netccentric has launched what they are calling a social blog stalking app, called Nuffnangx.  It operates as a blog aggregation service.  Here is the announcement:

Social blog stalking revolutionising the blogosphere

NuffnangX launched to bring social and mobile layers to the blogosphere 

London, 18 September 2012 – Netccentric, one of Asia’s largest online social and media ventures with a community of over one million bloggers, has today launched NuffnangX, the new ‘social blog stalking’ app that allows users to find, follow AND communicate with fellow bloggers and readers. NuffnangX aims to revolutionise the blogosphere by bringing together all aspects of blog discovery and consumption in to one user-friendly, on-the-go platform.

The beauty of NuffnangX lies in its ability to take the hassle out of blog interaction with three key features:

Find new reads – The Internet is literally swarming with blogs and content to discover; however, likelihood suggests that a large percentage of it won’t be of interest to you personally. Without sifting through each blog individually, there has been no way to pull out blogs and content to read, until now.

NuffnangX’s recommended lists, highlight new, high quality content from over 20 categories such as fashion and shopping to technology and food – NuffnangX trawls the blogosphere so you don’t have to.

Follow your favourites – Everyone’s favourite blogs are now available in one place and can be added to the user’s feed so they are always up to speed on the latest news, views and reviews. NuffnangX patent pending algorithm pulls that sentence which most accurately reflects the content of the post (the ‘elevator pitch’), instead of using the often unhelpful first line of the blog, so users can quickly decide whether a post is interesting enough to read – a great time saver that takes the guess work out of reading content on new blogs.

Enhance communications – NuffnangX Conversations allows users to communicate with each other, friends and the actual writer behind the blog. Gone are the days of scrolling through pages of irrelevant comments to find the relevant response. With NuffnangX, users can carry on a conversation with others in a private window or can read other archived conversations.

Discussing the motivation behind the new social blog stalking app, Cheo Ming Shen, founder of NuffnangX comments, “The popularity of blogging has gone through the roof in recent years. Although this has led to an abundance of high quality and varied content, which can only be a good thing, it has meant searching for the right blog content for you can be a long and arduous task. The aim of NuffnangX is to allow people to easily access their favourite blogs on the go and perhaps even strike gold with some great new content in the process.”

“At Netccentric, we are also wary that the popularity of social sites, such as Twitter and Facebook, could see the death of prose as we know it today. Short-form communication is becoming more and more prevalent and we’re looking to encourage users to reengage with the written word through blogging and social blog stalking.”

NuffnangX is available to download on Android and iOS for FREE and can be accessed online at http://www. nuffnangx.com/

Win a signed and framed Sleeping Dogs print by Tyler Stout and a copy of the game

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Win a signed and framed Sleeping Dogs print by Tyler Stout and a copy of the game

To celebrate the launch of Sleeping Dogs, a gritty and visceral open world cop drama videogame set in the vibrant city of Hong Kong, Connected Digital World has teamed up with Square Enix to offer one lucky winner the chance to win a signed and framed Sleeping Dogs print by Tyler Stout (60cm x 90cm) and a limited edition copy of the game.

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Famed artist Stout’s credits include alternative movie posters for The Avengers, Blade Runner and Inglorious Basterds, and his design of the Sleeping Dogs box art is his first foray into the world of videogames.

Sleeping Dogs, which catapults players into the role of an undercover cop, has a movie quality storyline voiced by a fantastic cast including Emma Stone and Lucy Liu. Players assume the identity of Detective Wei Shen, tasked with infiltrating the underground Triad society and bringing them down. The game has been developed in collaboration with legendary mixed martial arts (MMA) champion Georges St-Pierre to bring a thrillingly realistic element to the combat elements of the game, and offers players an awesome driving experience fit to rival any bespoke racing game!

Additional limited edition Xbox 360 copies of Sleeping Dogs are up for grabs for four lucky runners up; simply enter now to be in with a chance of winning the ultimate open world action game!

So what do you have to do?

To be in with a chance of winning these cool prizes, all you have to do is follow us on Twitter and tweet the following:

I want to win the Sleeping Dogs print and game with @aedney, CDW and Square Enix. Visit http://bit.ly/URQf4t and RT for your chance to win.

Or just click the Tweet button below to do it automatically.

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If you don’t have Twitter, just click on contact button at the top of the page and send us an email and we will enter you that way.

And if you want an extra chance of winning (and why wouldn’t you), subscribe to our You Tube Channel!

The giveaway runs until the 7th October, so good luck!

And a big thank you to Square Enix for the prizes.

Rules

Our usual competition t’s and c’s apply, you must be following us on Twitter if you enter that way, and because the game will only run on a UK Xbox 360 it’s only open to those in the UK – sorry to everyone else, we will be running some other cool giveaways over the next few weeks for you!

Check out our review of Sleeping Dogs here

Adobe announce Photoshop Elements 11 and Premiere Elements 11

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Adobe announce Photoshop Elements 11 and Premiere Elements 11

Adobe Systems  today announced Adobe Photoshop Elements 11 and Adobe Premiere Elements 11, newly designed versions of its No. 1 selling consumer photo- and video-editing software.

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Photoshop Elements 11 offers a complete solution for editing, organising and sharing photo creations while Premiere Elements 11 offers easy creation of engaging home movies with professional flair. Available as stand-alone products, Photoshop Elements 11 and Premiere Elements 11 can also be purchased together in a low-priced bundle, providing powerful, easy-to-use tools that simplify editing and turn everyday snapshots and videos into sensational photos and home movies, creating memories that can instantly be shared with friends and family. Both solutions are available for Windows and Mac.

Create Great Photos with Powerful, Intuitive Tools in Photoshop Elements 11
Make photos look their best with editing options that offer virtually everything from quick fixes to a number of creative possibilities:

· A completely refreshed, user-friendly interface featuring the same engine as Adobe Photoshop – the industry standard for digital imaging – includes easily-navigated Quick, Guided and Expert editing modes; one-click options; a helpful Action bar; and big, bold icons to help users get the most from their shots

· Organise photos based on people, places (via Google maps geo-tagging) or events easily and intuitively

· New Guided Edits make pro-level effects like tilt-shift, vignettes and high and low-key easy to create

· New filters – Comic, Graphic Novel and Pen & Ink – inspire creativity by turning photos into stunning illustrations

· Intelligent Photoshop technology makes it easy to extract objects from different photos

· Easily share photos via email, Facebook, YouTube, Vimeo and more

Pro-quality Videos Made Easy with Premiere Elements 11
Create attractive, pro-level videos with automated moviemaking options to take the work out of editing:

· An entirely new and improved user interface including many of the same updates found in Photoshop Elements 11

· Add polish with a wide range of great-looking effects, transitions, themes, titles, disc menus and professional-level effects and sound

· Give videos Hollywood movie styles with FilmLooks; easily apply slow and fast motion effects; dial-in colours with slider controls; effortlessly integrate blends for seamless transitions; and make adjustments with Quick Presets

· Show off finished creations with integrated video sharing on Vimeo

Pricing and Availability
Adobe Photoshop Elements 11 and Adobe Premiere Elements 11 software for Windows and Mac is available now at www.adobe.com/uk, and will soon be available at retail outlets such as Amazon.com. The Photoshop Elements 11 & Premiere Elements 11 bundle is available now for a suggested retail price of £95.30 (ex VAT), with upgrade pricing of £78.63 (ex VAT). Adobe Photoshop Elements 11 and Adobe Premiere Elements 11 are available individually for a suggested retail price of £63.54 (ex VAT), with upgrade pricing of £51.62 (ex VAT). (Prices listed are the Adobe direct store prices in the U.K.; reseller prices may vary. Prices do not include tax or shipping and handling.)

App Update: Demand 5 now at version 2.2.0

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App Update: Demand 5 now at version 2.2.0

The Demand 5 app for catching up on Channel 5 programs on iOS has been updated to version 2.2.0.

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Catch up on Channel 5 programmes in this Demand 5 app for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch.

• This app provides up to 30 days of free and unlimited access to a wide selection of Channel 5 programmes.
• To ensure you are provided with the best viewing experience, this application requires Wifi.
• Rights restrictions around content mean that not all programmes can be made available and that this application is restricted to use within the UK.

What’s New in Version 2.2.0

Along with general bug fixes and tracking improvements, this update provides retina graphics for iPad 3 users and amends the memory management of the iPhone version to improve performance.

Download now from the Apple App Store

Sony’s UK Subsidiary Announces Contest for Little Big Planet Internship

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Sony’s UK Subsidiary Announces Contest for Little Big Planet Internship

Are you in Europe or the UK, and have an interest in landing an internship for a month working for the developer of Little Big Planet?  Then read on for the details of Sony’s contest!

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Sony Computer Entertainment UK has announced an internship with the developer of Little Big Planet for the PS Vita.  To enter the competition, just design a mini-game for the PS Vita version of Little Big Planet.  If your minigame is chosen, you get a one month internship working for the developer of LBP for the Vita!  Cool, huh?  Here are the details:

London, 25th September 2012: Sony Computer Entertainment UK has today revealed details of a search for PlayStation’s next intern – sure to be sought-after by anyone looking to gain experience in the gaming industry. The month-long position, hosted by Swedish Studio Tarsier, will be awarded to the applicant who can create the best mini-game using upcoming PlayStation®Vita title, LittleBigPlanet™PlayStation®Vita.

Sackboy’s first PS Vita adventure will be let loose on September 19th. Once the game is launched, would-be interns will have one month to get to grips with the all-new minigame creation feature and submit their efforts for consideration.

To test and review each entry PlayStation has assembled a crack team of portable gaming aficionados from across Europe. These PlayStation Judges will put each minigame through its paces before selecting a top five from each country. The final decision will then be handed over to the team at Tarsier – the studio behind LittleBigPlanet™PlayStation®Vita – to choose the overall winner. Submissions will be judged on gameplay, originality, and commercial appeal.

PlayStation has collaborated with Moleskine to create custom edition LittleBigPlanet notebooks. The top five finalists from each participating country will each receive one of these.

The overall winner will be flown to Sweden where they’ll spend one month working within the different departments of Tarsier, polishing their title from amateur excellence to a fully-fledged piece of official DLC.

Elliott Linger, Product Manager for LittleBigPlanet PlayStation Vita said: “Gaming is an exciting and fast-growing industry but it can be tricky to get your foot in the door. This internship offers a whole month’s experience at a great studio, all for creating an awesome minigame. We’re expecting hundreds of entries and can’t wait to see what players of LittleBigPlanet™PlayStation®Vita come up with.”

To enter would-be interns should head to http://lbpinternship.eu.playstation.com/, fill in a few details and include the unique LBP.me URL for their minigame. Applicants are advised to be inventive, PlayStation expects a ton of entries from the ultra-productive LittleBigPlanet community – make sure your minigame and application stand out!

To keep up with all the latest LittleBigPlanet news and the LittleBigPlanet internship log onto www.littlebigplanet.com.

So if you are interested, go ahead and develop a minigame and go here to enter the competition.  And may the best game win!

By the way, I have been playing Little Big Planet for the Vita and have a review coming soon, so be on the lookout for that.

Click Here to Enter the Competition
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