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Monthly Archives: January 2008

iStorez – A Brand New Way to Shop

iStorez

I just got this email from Anand Jagannathan, CEO of Kriyari Inc., a venture funded company based in Silicon Valley. They have just launched a new consumer shopping site, iStorez.

iStorez is a unique consumer shopping site that collects and organizes shopping newsletters from hundreds of stores and brands and presents them as ‘on demand’, visual and searchable storefronts. At iStorez, visitors can discover the latest products, browse current promotions and find special deals at their favorite stores.

A very neat feature of iStorez is that any visitor can quickly create a shopper profile and add their favorite stores to this profile. Now, iStorez will deliver a peronalized shopping experience, everytime the visitor comes back to the site. iStorez combines a ‘patent pending’ storefront creation engine with Web 2.0 technologies to deliver continually fresh, relevant and unique content into a visitor’s personal mall.

Qtrax download songs for free

Qtrax, a new legal online file-sharing service that allows fans to download songs for free, will launch with 25 million to 30 million copyrighted tracks with backing from major labels.

The free service will be funded through advertising revenue that Qtrax will share with the music companies.

Qtrax executives said the company’s digital rights management technology will count the number of times each song has been played in order to fairly compensate artists and rights’ holders, without restricting consumer use.

The company has focused on ensuring that its network is free of spyware or adware such as pop-ups common on many peer-to-peer networks to improve the customer experience.

Gift Ideas from RadioShack

Valentine’s Day is the perfect time to show that special someone you care; however, finding the perfect gift can be challenging. Last year, an estimated 214 million roses were produced for Valentine’s Day (Insight Floral Trends Consumer Tracking Study). And while flowers and candy will always remain a Valentine’s Day staple, this year, try creating an even more personalized gift or the perfect date by using the latest in digital technology.

RadioShack offers several creative ideas for Valentine’s Day, from using a digital camcorder to shoot a customized love note for your Valentine to sending them on a romantic scavenger hunt using a GPS device.

Speed up your new (or old) PC

 

 

We’re all looking for better performance from our PCs, right? Whether you have a snazzy new computer or a trusty PC with a few years under its belt, there are ways to make it run more efficiently. Here are some ideas for both Windows Vista and Windows XP, starting with this article on how to optimize Windows Vista for better performance.

>Pinpoint performance bottlenecks in Windows Vista
>More ways to improve performance with Windows Vista
>6 ways to speed up your Windows XP-based PC
>Turn off certain features to make Windows XP run faster
>Maintenance tasks for better performance with Windows XP

Sarotech DVP-260 Media Player problem solved

I finally figured out why the Sarotech DVP-260 Media Player could not be detected by my laptop. It was coz there was a power drain by the other USB ports that had a notebook cooling pad and USB hub connected to it. Once I took those out, the Sarotech DVP-260 Media Player could be detected by my WinXP on the DELL and the correct driver was installed. Phew. Its pretty crazy. The disk sounded a bit cuckoo and it made a weird noise. Thank goodness it works now.

Sarotech DVP-260 Media Player problem update

Sarotech Digital JukeBox DVP-260 Media Player

I am still having problems with my Sarotech Digital JukeBox abigs DVP-260 Media Player and the old 60GB Western Digital (WD WD600 WD Scorpio) hdd. It still won’t detect correctly on my laptop.

1. I’ve tried to format the 60GB WD hdd as Fat32 via fdisk but it won’t do that since its bigger than 32GB. (Windows can only format FAT32 up to 32 Gb)
2. Then I tried formatting the WD drive as NTFS but when I plug in the hdd into the Sarotech DVP-260 Media Player and attach it to my laptop, the error “Drive cannot start occurs”
3. Then I downloaded the mkdosfs for Windows to format the WD drive again as FAT32 and the same error above still occurs – “Drive cannot start occurs”

I am going out of my mind. I need to get a second-hand Hitachi or Samsung hdd drive to try on the Sarotech DVP-260 Media Player. Will be trying to get one at a shop in Tesco Puchong tomorrow. Wish me luck