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Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Antec Unveils the Three Hundred Two Enclosure


Fremont, Calif – January 24, 2012Antec Inc., the global leader in high-performance computer components, announces the Three Hundred Two enclosure, the latest addition to their Gaming Series. This sleek, black chassis is designed to handle today’s and tomorrow’s high-performance systems that are custom built for gamers from the inside-out.

The Three Hundred Two enclosure is perfect for gamers, system integrators and casual builders alike because of its extensive cooling advantages and expandability.

High Performance Cooling Advantages- The Three Hundred Two is built for maximum cooling thanks to its perforated front bezel, included dual TwoCool™ fans, and four optional fans, including a 120 mm CPU exhaust fan behind the motherboard, to ensure gamers can play beyond the long hours of the night

Extensive Compatibility and Expandability- The Three Hundred Two utilizes eight expansion slots for up to three 12.5” (318 mm) graphics cards for compatibility with the largest GPUs.


Friday, January 20, 2012

Mujjo Next-Generation Touchscreen Gloves Now Available in the US



Austin, Texas - Fountainhead International, LLC today is pleased to introduce Mujjo Next-Generation Touchscreen Gloves. Created by Dutch company Mujjo, the high-tech conductive gloves allows the wearer to "use all fingertips, knuckles and even the palm of the hand" while wearing the gloves to operate a touchscreen device. The new touchscreen gloves by Mujjo provide the wearer with more options for use since all areas of the glove are usable.

Mujjo developed the Mujjo touchscreen gloves as an effective solution for touchscreen device users to comfortably answer calls, send text messages, take photos, get directions, play games or scroll through music on their phones without taking off their gloves. Mujjo's touchscreen compatible winter gloves work with all capacitive touchscreen devices including the iPhone, Blackberry, Samsung, HTC, LG and any other touchscreen phone available. They also work on larger touchscreen gadgets like the iPad.

Capacitive touchscreens work by sensing the conductive properties of the user's skin. Mujjo gloves are made of high-quality silver-coated nylon fibers knitted into the entire fabric of the glove. These silver-coated nylon fibers make the gloves conductive and therefore touchscreen compatible. Regular touchscreen gloves functionality is restricted to one or two fingertips. Mujjo touchscreen gloves enable its wearer to use all fingertips, knuckles and even the palms of their hands.

AntiCrop for iPhone - First Photo Uncropping App in Existence

Lviv, Ukraine - Announcing that Adva-Soft, the developers of AntiCrop, has released an excitingly unique product for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad users. AntiCrop is a new launch and the first application of its kind, offering users the ability to uncrop their photos on the go. The app is enough for anyone to use, requiring users to simply drag photo borders in any direction they want to expand the picture. AntiCrop also allows photo cropping and can be used to create unique pictures.

AntiCrop is a new title in the App Store, one that has the distinction of being a leader in its field. The application is the first of its kind, offering highly intellectual content filling algorithms never before possible.

Users are able to edit photographs from their handheld devices in a unique way with AntiCrop. They can take a snapshot with their device camera, or select a photo from their library then uncrop it with a simple drag of the finger to expand the borders in any direction.

Any cropped image can be easily uncropped but Adva-Soft offers some advice for using the application. "We highly recommend the app for all kinds of backgrounds and homogeneous textures, it works great for those. People will also be really happy with the results when they are working with nature landscapes, backgrounds, portrait photos and so on, too. AntiCrop really is something that people haven't seen before," said Maksym Davydov, Adva-Soft President.

In simple terms, AntiCrop recognizes elements on the outer edges of a photo then replicates them and adds border strips to the picture, enlarging it. The quality is excellent, with no discernible seams.

Dropico Mobile Releases Facebook Timeline Cover Designer For iPhone



Herzeliya, Israel - Facebook users who have already switched over to the updated Facebook Timeline layout are being invited to include a cover for their new and improved profile.

The cover is the large image that appears at the top of your new Timeline. This is the section where Facebook users can let their creativity shine. It's also a perfect opportunity to let Facebook friends and followers know a little more about each other.

To give Facebook users a creative edge, Dropico Mobile has just released Facebook Cover Designer for iPhone, the only app that lets users create high quality Facebook Timeline covers for their profile with virtually no effort. Just shot a photo or use the app's social feature to pull one in from your camera roll, Picasa, Flickr, Photobucket or Instagram. Rotate zoom in/out, shift & tilt, apply filters and publish directly to your Facebook profile. It's just that easy.

Thursday, January 19, 2012

Apple Unveils All-New iTunes U App for iPad, iPhone & iPod Touch


Entire Courses from Top Universities Now Available in One App

NEW YORK—January 19, 2012—Apple® today announced an all-new iTunes® U app, giving educators and students everything they need on their iPad®, iPhone® and iPod touch® to teach and take entire courses. The all-new iTunes U app lets teachers create and manage courses including essential components such as lectures, assignments, books, quizzes and syllabuses and offer them to millions of iOS users around the world. The iTunes U app gives iOS users access to the world’s largest catalog of free educational content from top universities including Cambridge, Duke, Harvard, Oxford and Stanford, and starting today any K-12 school district can offer full courses through the iTunes U app. iTunes U has already become an incredibly popular learning tool for students with over 700 million downloads. 

“The all-new iTunes U app enables students anywhere to tap into entire courses from the world's most prestigious universities,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of Internet Software and Services. “Never before have educators been able to offer their full courses in such an innovative way, allowing anyone who’s interested in a particular topic to learn from anywhere in the world, not just the classroom.”

Apple Reinvents Textbooks with iBooks 2 for iPad


New iBooks Author Lets Anyone Create Stunning iBooks Textbooks

 NEW YORK—January 19, 2012—Apple® today announced iBooks® 2 for iPad®, featuring iBooks textbooks, an entirely new kind of textbook that’s dynamic, engaging and truly interactive. iBooks textbooks offer iPad users gorgeous, fullscreen textbooks with interactive animations, diagrams, photos, videos, unrivaled navigation and much more. iBooks textbooks can be kept up to date, don't weigh down a backpack and never have to be returned. Leading education services companies including Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, McGraw-Hill and Pearson will deliver educational titles on the iBookstore℠ with most priced at $14.99 or less, and with the new iBooks Author, a free authoring tool available today, anyone with a Mac® can create stunning iBooks textbooks. 

“Education is deep in Apple’s DNA and iPad may be our most exciting education product yet. With 1.5 million iPads already in use in education institutions, including over 1,000 one-to-one deployments, iPad is rapidly being adopted by schools across the US and around the world,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing. “Now with iBooks 2 for iPad, students have a more dynamic, engaging and truly interactive way to read and learn, using the device they already love.”


Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Dell's Alienware X51 Desktop Brings HD Gaming Starting at $699

ROUND ROCK, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Alienware, Dell's high-performance, PC gaming brand, invites customers to join in the ultimate gaming experience with the Alienware X51, its smallest gaming desktop ever with outsized performance capabilities. The latest in Dell's PC gaming portfolio, the X51 is designed to deliver an exhilarating 1080p high definitioni and 3D gamingii experience of today's top-tier game titles while the new, smaller chassis design offers the flexibility to turn nearly any living space, from the living room to the dorm room, into an entertainment and gaming mecca.

The Alienware X51 gives customers the freedom to focus on the game with the performance expected in an Alienware gaming PC and a thoughtful design for post-purchase upgrades, and the latest in performance technology. The versatile design of the X51 enables customers to achieve high performance computing in virtually any living space with a dual-orientation chassis supporting 7.1 surround-sound audio and an optional Blu-Ray disc drive.
"The Alienware X51 allows us to bring the exciting nature of high-definition, immersive gaming within reach of more gamers than ever before," said Arthur Lewis, vice-president, Alienware and Product Management for Consumer, Small and Medium Business. "With the X51, we've expanded our gaming desktop offering to cater to all gamers in addition to our core enthusiast and competitive gamers. Now everyone can enjoy the latest games on a sleek, powerful, compact and customizable system. The X51 desktop delivers an incredible feature set for its size and price."