Pioneer Unveils Its Most Powerful BD Writer

Japanese company Pioneer has announced today the release of its new Blu-ray Writer drive, on its official website. The new drive is connected through the classic SATA  interface. The device is called BDR-2207 and is able to write a single layer BD-R at a speed of 12x. A double-layer BD-R will be written at a fast 12x, while triple-layer BD-R TL/QL and BD-R LTH discs can be written at a maximum of 6x. The BD-RE SL/DL/TL discs with four layers will be recorded at a maximum speed of 2x. The read speed in in general 10x for Blu-Ray discs and 16x for normal DVDs. The BDR-2207 features PowerRead technology that provides smoother movie playback when a disc is marked with fingerprints or has minor surface scratches.  When...

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Script: Sisyphus.js

Webmasters can feel safe their forms are user friendly when using Sisyphus.js. This jQuery plugin takes advantage of the localStorage system implemented with HTML 5 in most major browsers. The plugin automatically saves form data to localStorage as soon as the visitor enters it in a field. This ensures that if any navigation problem is encountered, the data will always be on the user's computer. So let's say the power goes down and the visitor was filling in a 20+ fields registration form, when he re-accesses the form, all entered data will be pulled from localStorage and entered in the proper fields, so he can continue the registration process without filling all the previous fields. A demo can be tested here. Sisyphus.js...

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System76 Sells Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Notebooks

System76, a company that manufactures Ubuntu preinstalled laptops, desktops, and servers since 2005, is now shipping its products with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin).  System76 has two laptops available for its customers called Lemur Ultra and Pangolin Performance. They're are nothing fancy, but the products are interesting nonetheless. Lemur Ultra has a 14.1" display, comes in two different flavours based on the included processors (2nd generation Intel Core i5 and i7 CPUs), Intel High Definition Graphics, Intel Centrino 802.11 b/g/n, multitouch with two finger scrolling, and 204 pin Dual Channel DDR3 @ 1600 MHz. Pangolin Performance features a 15.6" display, 2nd generation Intel Core i5 and i7 CPUs, Intel High...

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Nokia Lumia 800 Receiving 12072 Firmware Update, Fixes Volume Bug

All Lumia smartphones have been plagued by numerous bugs since their launch on the market. Nokia Lumia 800 was no exception to this as owners have previously reported issues with the sound, power management and battery life. Although the Finnish company delivered a few updates for its Windows Phone device, there are still some problems left unsolved.  Moreover, some of these issues have been introduced by Nokia’s software updates, which leads us to believe that the company’s poor execution was directly proportional with the time it took to release these updates. In this regard, the latest 12070 update for Lumia 800 was meant to solve several critical bugs that made the smartphone almost unusable. Nokia promised this update...

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RIM Officially Debuts BlackBerry 10 OS

As expected, Research In Motion (RIM) has just taken the wrap off its new BlackBerry 10 operating system, formerly known as BBX. Based on PlayBook OS, BlackBerry 10 was unveiled at the BlackBerry World conference in Orlando, Florida. For the time being, developers can download a toolkit for native and HTML5 software development, which will soon be available for download here.  Although RIM announced the availability of these SDKs, the download links are not live yet, so developers might want to wait a few more hours before they become available.  According to RIM, the new toolkit offered to all devs who wish to create apps for the newly announced platform, includes the Blackberry 10 Native SDK with Cascades, which...

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