Review of the ASUS Eee Pad Slider SL101 Android Tablet

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Review of the ASUS Eee Pad Slider SL101 Android Tablet

There are many Android tablets on the market today, what sets the ASUS Eee Pad Slider SL101 apart is the built-in keyboard. And here is our review.

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  • NVIDIA® Tegra 2 1.0GHz dual-core CPU for excellent multitasking & HD video playback
  • Android™ 3.1 Honeycomb OS(3.2 upgradable) with Adobe® Flash® support
  • Full QWERTY keyboard and built-in USB port. Preloaded Polaris Office for mobile productivity
  • Ultra-wide 178⁰ viewing angle IPS panel protected by scratch resistant Corning Gorilla Glass.
  • USB port, MicroSD Card Reader, and one year unlimited ASUS WebStorage for easy sharing & expandability
  • Supreme SRS Sound with max bass response

Who are ASUS?

From their website:

ASUS comes from the last four letters of Pegasus, the winged horse in Greek mythology that represents the inspiration of art and learning. ASUS embodies the strength, creative spirit and purity symbolized by this regal and agile mythical creature, soaring to new heights of quality and innovation with each product it introduces to the market.

Specifications

Operating System : Android 3.1

Display : 10.1″ LED Backlight WXGA (1280×800) Screen, 10 finger multi-touch support
Scratch resistant glass

CPU : NVIDIA® Tegra™ 2

Memory : 1GB

Storage : 16GB/32GB, Unlimited ASUS Web Storage

Wireless Data Network : WLAN 802.11 b/g/n@2.4GHz , Bluetooth V2.1+EDR

Camera : 1.2 M Pixel Front Camera, 5 M Pixel Rear Camera

Audio : High Quality Speaker, Supreme SRS Sound, High Quality Mic

Interface : 1 x USB 2.0, 1 x Mini HDMI, 1 x Audio Jack (Headphone/Mic-In), 1 x Card Reader : Micro SD

Sensor: G-Sensor, Light Sensor, Gyroscope, E-Compass, GPS

Application : Multi-Task Support : Yes, Flash Support : Yes,
Software :
– ASUS Launcher
– MyLibrary
– MyNet
– MyCloud
– File manager
– Kindle books
– Zinio Magazine
– PressReader
– Polaris Office
– ASUS sync

Battery : 8 hours; 25Wh Li-Polymer Battery

Colour : Brown, White

Dimensions : 273 x 180.3 x 17.3 mm

Weight : 960 g

What’s in the Box?

Along with the Slider is a USB charger, power plug, docking connector to USB cable, user manual and warranty card.

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A Patch for Plex on the Google TV

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A Patch for Plex on the Google TV

Today the guys over at Plex have posted about a patch for Plex on Google TV.

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Here is what they posted:

To bring in 2012 we’ve got a couple announcements (below) and a stability patch.

The Patch

We’ve addressed a couple issues and added a couple little features to help make Plex a little nicer until enhanced HLS support arrives (more on that below):

NEW: zoom options using the zoom keys or ‘z’ cycles through: scale to fit and full screen.

FIX: Direct Play from secure remote server – so you can now access your friend’s shares on your Google TV.

FIX: don’t (yet) show channels on the home page if they absolutely require HLS.

FIX: give a sensible error message if the user attempts to play a video that requires HLS.

NEW: Alert the user if they go into “More Channels” but they don’t have HLS support.

FIX: an issue where connections were sticking.

FIX: an issue where video was improperly resized after seek/scrub on some devices.

FIX: Artist appears again in Notifications as music plays.

NEW: If no channels are installed there is now a button allow you to install them from home page.

Coming Soon – Enhanced HLS Support for Google TV

For many the Plex for Google TV release has been somewhat frustrating because it’s hard to know which items from your media library are supported on the platform and which are not. Some of the enhancements in this patch release will help with that the fact remains that you’ll have some media that doesn’t play. We’ve talked about the fact that when the Google TV supports enhanced HLS that Plex will be able support transcode and therefore will allow Plex for Google TV to play media it cannot support natively.

Unfortunately we’ve not been able to tell you if and when that will be… until now… So we are very happy to announce:

YES – Google IS working on enhanced HLS in a future update for Google TV. We’ve done early tests with the enhanced HLS for the patch and are happy to report that indeed it works great with Plex! Now – we’re not allowed to say when this will hit the streets – but it is coming!

What does this mean for you? Well – it will mean that you’ll be able to get all the Plex goodness that you’ve come to know and love. Plex for Google TV will be a full fledged Plex Client. Specifically with enhanced HLS the following will begin to work for you:

All video containers, codecs, formats that Plex supports will be streamable to your Google TV.

A much broader set of video channels will begin to work! All those that work on Plex for Android will work here on the Google TV.

Subtitles will work – so you can understand what they’re saying in those foreign flicks!

Audio Stream selection – will allow you to choose the audio track in cases when your video has multiple languages.

And one more thing…

As we announced here – we priced Plex for Google TV at $.99 for one week (normally $4.99). This was to ease the pain for those who bought our Plex for Android product solely to use on the Google TV and were then forced to move over to the new Plex for Google TV. Obviously we decided to keep Plex for Google TV at this price point and it will remain at that price point – for now.

So – it’s still less than a buck for all current and future Plex goodness on your Google TV!

http://www.plexapp.com/

Sony Drop $100 from the Sony Tablet S Price

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Sony Drop $100 from the Sony Tablet S Price

Sony have just announced a permanent $100 price drop from it’s Tablet S. Is this is the beginning of the end for this tablet?

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Sony only launched the Tablet S in September, so to drop $100 off the price already says to me that either the Tablet S is not long for this world, or Sony have something up their sleeve for CES next week.

Either way, you can now buy the the 16GB Tablet S for $399 and the 32GB Tablet S for $499. Sony are also throwing in ten free PlayStation Classic games, a 180 day subscription to the Music Unlimited streaming service, five free movie rentals and an $8 voucher to purchase more.

Now might be a good time to pick one up though if you want to play around with Android 4.0.

Happy 30th Birthday Commodore 64

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Happy 30th Birthday Commodore 64

When I was a kid I had a ZX Spectrum – our arch rival was the Commodore 64, and today it turn’s 30!

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The Commodore 64 made it’s debut at CES (where we are off to again next week) and it took until the Autumn to actually get released.

Did you have a Commodore 64? Share some of your memories with us…

LG Unveils Much Anticipated 55-inch OLED TV for First Time at CES 2012

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LG Unveils Much Anticipated 55-inch OLED TV for First Time at CES 2012

The World’s largest OLED TV from LG offers more realistic colours, brighter picture and a faster speed, and it’s set to be unveiled next week at CES.

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Here is the press release:

SEOUL, Jan. 2, 2011 – LG Electronics (LG) will present the future of TV technology
at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas with the unveiling of the
world’s largest OLED TV with a display size of 55 inches. By incorporating the
company’s 4-Color Pixels and Color Refiner features with LG Display’s advanced
OLED (organic light-emitting diode) panels, LG OLED TV generates the most natural colors of any TV set at a much lower price point than could have been achieved using the standard manufacturing process.

“Working closely with LG Display, we have a product which not only delivers on all
the advantages of OLED over LCD but at a significantly lower cost than what could be achieved using existing OLED manufacturing technologies,” said Havis Kwon,
President and CEO of LG Electronics Home Entertainment Company. “OLED is clearly the future of home TV entertainment and LG is very focused on making this exciting technology as easy as possible for consumers to embrace.”

What sets LG’s TV picture apart from other OLED TVs is 4-Color Pixels and Color
Refiner which work together to generate natural and accurate colors that are sharp and consistent. The 4-Color Pixels feature allows for more accurate color depiction by using a set of four colors (red, green blue and white) in comparison to the RGB setup used by other OLED TV manufacturers. Color Refiner ensures consistency in colors from a wider viewing angle via an LG algorithm which improves and refines hues and tones. This is in contrast to other OLED TVs which often exhibit drastic changes in hues from different viewing angles and abnormal color gamut.

Boasting an infinite contrast ratio, LG’s OLED TV exhibits vivid colors and the
smallest details regardless of the overall luminance of the on-screen image. In turn, colors and details throughout an entire image are preserved with utmost clarity and
sharpness, even when displaying scenes with dark lighting. Such color capabilities are technically impossible with LED and LCD display panels. And at 1,000 times faster than LED/LCD displays, LG’s OLED TV shows crystal clear motion without any blurring or bleeding.

And LG’s OLED TV is as aesthetically pleasing as it is technologically sophisticated.
LG’s Slim and Narrow Bezel design gives the TV a sleek, minimal look and at only 4
mm thin and a mere 7.5 kg, LG’s OLED TV practically blends into the wall.

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No news yet on specific prices or release date, but expect more news next week. And don’t forget that LG have also announced the worlds largest 3D UD TV for CES as well.

Apple’s 12 Days of Christmas : Day 8 – One Direction

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Apple’s 12 Days of Christmas : Day 8 – One Direction

Apple’s annual 12 Days of Christmas continues, and for Day 8 and it’s the One Direction single Gotta Be You.

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You and your friends can download a fantastic selection of songs, music videos, apps and books for free. Each download will only be available for 24 hours. Get our special 12 Days of Christmas app to make it even easier to access your gifts while you’re on the go. Don’t have an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch? Don’t worry. Come back 26 December to download gifts from your computer.

You need to download the app and then each day for 12 days there will be something free.

Day 8 – One Direction : Gotta Be You

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I wonder what it will be tomorrow?

ISO Mounter Add-in for Windows Home Server V1 and 2011 Updated to Version 1.2

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ISO Mounter Add-in for Windows Home Server V1 and 2011 Updated to Version 1.2

Jim from Electrogoo has been in touch tonight to say that ISO Mounter has been updated to version 1.2.

ISO Mounter is a software add-in for Microsoft Home and Business server that allows you to mount ISO files (DVD and CD images) stored on your server so they can be viewed directly through your servers folder share on all of your PC’s and laptops.

Are you tired of burning ISO images onto physical CD and DVD and media?

Would you prefer not to install ISO mounting software containing ad-ware and annoying toolbars on all of your PC’s and laptops?

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Product features

  • Supports Windows Home Server (V1)
  • Supports Windows Home & Small Business Server 2011
  • Integrates directly into the Server Console/Dashboard for simple administration
  • File system browser allows you to search and manually select any ISO file
  • Mount any ISO file (CD or DVD image) directly on the servers file system
  • Configurable “Auto-mount” folders to allow automatic mounting of new ISO files
  • ISO files will appear directly in the Server folders as a browsable read-only folder
  • Simple, easy-to-view heads-up status display to monitor status
  • Quick-launch feature allows viewing contents of ISO files directly from the Dashboard
  • Supports Windows Small Business 2011 Essentials and Storage Server 2008 R2
  • “Relocation folder” to view all mounted ISO files in a single folder (WHS/SBS 2011 only)

New Features

• Burn ISO images to removable USB devices
• New “Unmount all” button to simplify unmounting of multiple images from the server Dashboard
• New “Rescan watch folder” to allow mounting of all pre-existing ISO image files in a watch folder

Enhancements

• Cleaned up the user interface.  Moved some tasks from the main view into a separate “More Settings” dialog view
• Fixed crash when browsing for ISO files on Servers with a non-standard Share layout (e.g. server Shares are not stored in D:\ServerFolders)

Buy ISO Mounter from here

Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Award 2012

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Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Award 2012

Well it’s that time of the year again. I have been lucky enough to be awarded MVP from Microsoft again for Windows Home Server.

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Congratulations as well to all those new MVP’s and re-awarded MVP’s.

It is a great honour to receive this award, for the fifth year running, and I look forward to all the challenges the current year will bring.

Niveus SiriusXM Beta Free Windows Media Center PlugIn

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Niveus SiriusXM Beta Free Windows Media Center PlugIn

Niveus are giving away their SiriusXM beta Windows Media Center plugin for free to anyone – previously you could only get it if you had Niveus hardware.

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All you have to do is Like them on Facebook and you can then download the plugin for free.

Apple’s 12 Days of Christmas : Day 7 – Snapseed

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Apple’s 12 Days of Christmas : Day 7 – Snapseed

Apple’s annual 12 Days of Christmas continues, and for Day 7 it’s a photo app called Snapseed.

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You and your friends can download a fantastic selection of songs, music videos, apps and books for free. Each download will only be available for 24 hours. Get our special 12 Days of Christmas app to make it even easier to access your gifts while you’re on the go. Don’t have an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch? Don’t worry. Come back 26 December to download gifts from your computer.

You need to download the app and then each day for 12 days there will be something free.

Day 7 – Snapseed

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I wonder what it will be tomorrow?

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