WinZip® is the original and most trusted file compression software for Windows. No other compression utility is as easy-to-use or offers the comprehensive feature set and productivity-enhancing approach that has made WinZip the gold standard in file compression tools. The new WinZip  14  provides deep integration with Windows, including Microsoft’s latest operating system – Windows 7 – as well as innovative features that improve zipping security and simplicity.

WinZip

With WinZip 14 you can quickly zip and unzip files to conserve storage space, speed up e-mail transmission, and reduce download times. In addition to state-of-the-art file compression, WinZip 14 offers strong AES encryption for securing sensitive data, the ability to bundle files into convenient, compressed packages, and an automated data backup facility to prevent data loss. WinZip creates Zip, LHA, and Zipx files – the smallest Zip files ever – and it opens Zip, Zipx, RAR, 7Z, BZ2, CAB, JAR, IMG, and most other compressed file types.

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parkes radio telescope

parkes-radio-telescope_john-sarkissianThe world’s largest array of radio telescopes are joining together for 24 hours in order to observe some quasars.

In the next 24 hours, 35 telescopes on all seven continents will be linked to listen to 243 specific quasars. The point is to establish a baseline for further observations, since the quasars are stationary in the night sky, and provide a good basis for mapping.
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microsoft xbox 360 elite

All hail the Sky Player for Xbox. As well as being a video-on-demand system online, Sky Player has been streaming live channels for over a year to PC users, and Sky Player for Xbox tries to replicate that experience on a games console.

It’s a nice idea – and it effortlessly makes the best possible use of the Xbox 360’s luscious new interface to create a service that’s lots of fun to use.

It’s expensive to non-Sky subscribers though and certainly a niche product in the mass market, but for Sky converts it’s essentially a VoD solution for the home (or a second home) that beats Sky Anytime hands-down.
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PCF233-radeon

Have you read our coverage of AMD’s new Radeon HD 5870 graphics card? If you have you’ll already be marvelling at the sheer, giddy silliness of the frame rates it’s capable of, not to mention basking in the glory of nearly three teraflops of raw processing power.

It’s simply the sexiest slice of silicon since a sliver of Megatron’s mainboard accidentally slipped down Megan Fox’s frilly bits. Of course, the 5870 is also the very first graphics card to support DirectX 11.

For the uninitiated, that’s the latest in a long line of multimedia APIs from Microsoft and apparently it’s going to rock more than just your PC gaming world. At least that’s what both AMD and Microsoft would have you believe.
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Honda P-NUT concept

The forthcoming Los Angeles Auto Show will mark the debut of Honda’s Personal-Neo Urban Transport (P-NUT) concept, the company has revealed.

Designed at Honda R&D Americas’ advanced design studio in Southern California, the P-NUT is a futuristic design study for an ultra-compact, aggressively designed coupe, according to the Japanese automaker.

Dave Marek’s team at Honda’s advanced design studio is credited with North American-specific models like the Pilot, Ridgeline and Element as well as the FC Sport concept (pictured) revealed at last year’s LA Auto Show.

We’ll bring you additional information and photos of the P-NUT concept once they become available.

Hiren's BootCD

Hiren’s Boot CD is a boot CD containing various diagnostic programs such as partitioning agents, system performance benchmarks, disk cloning and imaging tools, data recovery tools, MBR tools, BIOS tools, and many others for fixing various computer problems. It is a Bootable CD; thus, it can be useful even if the primary operating system cannot be booted.
Hiren’s Boot CD has an extensive list of software. Utilities with similar functionality on the CD are grouped together and seem redundant; however, they present choices through UI’s differences and options in what they can do.

Hiren’s BootCD – All in one Dos Bootable CD which has all these utilities:: Partition Tools, Disk Clone Tools, Antivirus Tools, Recovery Tools, Testing Tools, Hard Disk Tools etc.
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dell xps adamo

That’s right, the world’s thinnest notebook that Xavier checked out on video the other day is now available through Dell for $1,799. Though it’ll take some time to ship; I just tried adding one to the cart and the preliminary ship date is listed as 12/24/09, which is more than a month from now. Maybe they are really building these things as you order them… who knows. You can’t customize any of the hardware of the Adamo, but I would say this is understandable considering that they probably have to custom work many of the pieces to get it to fit inside this iPhone thin laptop. Full specs below the image and a shot showing the incredibly thin Adamo after the specs.

HP Envy

For all those techies out there feeling like it’s about time a little luck came your way, head on over to Luxurylaunches.com and check out the new HP Envy 13 laptop contest. With features like a 1.86GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Processor SL9400, A 3GB DDR3 system memory and a 250GB SATA drive amongst many many more, you can’t afford to miss out on the opportunity. To win this notebook, that’s incidentally worth $1,700 and comes preloaded with Windows 7, our American readers have to but leave a simple post on the site telling us about – “The first thing that makes you envious about a lappie”. So all you have to do is jot down just ONE thing that tops the list of features that you look for in a perfect notebook. It’s a pretty simple deal really. The contest is open only to US residents and readers will need to submit their answer by leaving a comment on this blog post itself.