Sony Vaio SR Series

The Sony VAIO SR Series 13.3-inch consumer laptops, based on Intel Centrino 2 technology, are now available for preorder.

Starting at 4.14 pounds, the 1-inch thin VAIO SR features the latest Intel Core 2 Duo 45nm processor, the GMA 4500MHD integrated graphics, up to 4GB of DDR2 memory, a 320GB hard drive, and DVD burner. Its 13.3″ display has LED backlight and a resolution of 1280×800 pixels.

The laptop sports the Intel WiFi Link 5100AGN (802.11a/b/g/n) wireless module, Ethernet LAN, Bluetooth, and a 56K modem, as well as a built-in web camera, fingerprint reader, and the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 1.2.


Other features include 2 USB ports, an ExpressCard slot, Memory Stick Duo media card reader, SD card slot, Firewire port, and VGA output.

Sony says the VAIO SR provides up to 6 hours of battery life with a standard capacity battery or up to 9 hours with a large capacity unit.

The new notebooks have magnesium alloy casing and come in five colors – night black, sunset pink, glossy pink, classic silver and glossy silver.

Sony’s VAIO SR runs Windows Vista operating system.

The laptops are expected to hit the market in early August and are available for preorder through Sony’s official online store. The starting price is $1,399.99.
Sony VAIO SR Series*
(some models) VGN-SR165E/B VGN-SR165E/P VGN-SR165E/S VGN-SR190EBJ VGN-SR190EBQ
CPU (Intel Core 2 Duo) P8400
2.26GHz P8400
2.26GHz P8400
2.26GHz P8600
2.4GHz P8600
2.4GHz
Memory (DDR2) 3GB 3GB 3GB 4GB 4GB
Storage (HDD) 320GB 320GB 320GB 320GB 320GB
Color Black Pink Silver Glossy Pink Glossy Silver
Current Price (US$) 1699.99 1699.99 1699.99 1749.99 1749.99

AMS Photo Effects

AMS Photo Effects

Photo Effects is a new program for processing photos with the help of various filters. With it, you can completely transform any image. The program allows you to use more than 50 effects, including both traditional and original ones. You will be able to take a look at your photos in the rain and snow, in fog and up in the sky, add some sun light to it or swirl it in a typhoon...

You can combine effects and create truly fantastic compositions. It is possible to apply the selected filters both to the entire image and to its parts highlighting the most important fragment of the photo. Photo Effects will help to decorate your home photo album, website and will even allow you to create an original greeting card.

Photo Effects makes it possible to not only process, but also decorate photos. It offers you more than 100 frames and masks that will decorate portraits, landscapes and even simple casual shots. It is important that you can apply effects both before and after you decorate a photo. Combining effects and frames is one of the main features of the program. For example, you can apply a classic frame and then use lighting effects to add realistic sunlight to its contour. Try to use this feature more often and you will see how pretty the images Photo Effects creates are.

Apple Iphone 4G

Some say rumours travel faster than light. While there is no actual way to prove this, the whole Apple community lives and thrives on them. It even seems to have found a way to actually harness the power of rumours to stay afloat. And now, following the recent appearance of the possibly hi-res iPhone 4G (iPhone 3,1) in Apple’s firmware, the future versions of the OS have been spotted in the wild as well. All of this may also point to the iSlate.

For those of you still in the dark, the developers of San Francisco’s public transportation guide, iBart, have been mining device information for quite some time now. And about a month ago, they announced that a previously unknown iPhone has been sending back information. This iPhone is designated iPhone 3,1 by Apple and coincides with the appearance of the iPhone 2,1 (more commonly known as the iPhone 3GS) about a year back. These reports have also been confirmed by Pinch Media. And Apple’s long-time production partner, Foxconn, are rumoured to have started stamping out the new iPhone.



And this just in – the admins over at boygeniusreport.com have uncovered traces of future iPhone OS versions in their server logs. Along with the old iPhone OS 2_2 and the more current iPhone OS 3_0_1 the yet not generally available iPhone OS 3_1_3 and iPhone OS 4_0 have been spotted. And while a minor OS update is anticipated, 4.0 has come out of the blue. What did the big boys at the bad A add to feature list to warrant another major release? Beats me! Here are just some shots in the dark:

Full-featured multitasking (like is available to the Jailbreak community using Backgrounder + Multifl0w)
Themes
Full-featured file browser (at least of a limited folder, like the Photoalbum, iTunes, etc.)
SMS tones customization and individual assignment
SMS Delivery Reports
Native To-Do Application
Taskbar notifications of things like missed calls, sms, etc.
Quick toggle of various iPhone functions (like SBSettings)

iTunes sync of various app data (like eWallet, PocketMoney, various Notes apps, etc.)
Most probably, 4.0 alpha is being tested on a similarly alpha version of the next-gen iPhone 4G. So what could it look like? I’ve assembled some mock-ups from around the web for your pleasure. Make sure to comment what you’d like to see in the 4G iPhone with the new 4.0 software.

Nokia N 900

The Nokia N900 is a mobile Internet device and smartphone from Nokia that supersedes the N810. Based on the Maemo platform, it runs Maemo 5 Linux as its default operating system and is the first Nokia device based upon the TI OMAP3 microprocessor with the ARM Cortex-A8 core. Unlike the Internet Tablets preceding it, the Nokia N900 is the first Maemo device to include phone functionality (quad-band GSM and 3G UMTS). It functions as a 5 mega pixel camera, a portable media player, and a mobile Internet device with email and full web browsing. It was launched at Nokia World on September 2, 2009 and was released on November 11, 2009 in the United States and 9 European countries.

The N900 was launched alongside Maemo 5, giving the device an overall more touch-friendly interface than its predecessors and a customizable home screen which mixes application icons with shortcuts and widgets. Maemo 5 supports Adobe Flash Player 9.4, and includes many applications designed specifically for the mobile platform such as a new touch-friendly media player.
The Nokia N900 will be the last mobile communication device running the Maemo 5 operating system, which is in its final version. The N900 will continue to be supported with updates when necessary.