Monday, May 4, 2009

Samsung Release LED LCD TVs in India

Samsung India announced the introduction of three LED TV Series – 6, 7 and 8 in the Indian market. While the Series 6 and 7 are being launched today in 40" and 46" screen sizes, Series 8 will be available in 55" screen size and will be launched in May’09. These new TVs use LEDs as their primary light source, rather than traditional Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamps (CCFL). Benefits of using LEDs include ultra-high contrast ratios, slim depths that allow for more artful designs, plus increased energy savings.

Each of the three Samsung LED HDTV Series for 2009 boast Mega contrast ratios, complements of Samsung’s LED TV Engine. Compared to a traditional CCFL, LEDs do produce darker blacks that appear endlessly deep to the eye. They also have a feature called Ultra Clear Panel, which further claims the preservation of every detail even in brightly-lit, imperfect viewing conditions. Samsung’s entire LED HDTV line-up incorporates a number of features to reduce motion blur and image judder.

At just over an inch thick (1.16 inch or 29.9 mm thickness), the sets remain trim without cutting back on connectivity options and include a built in tuner. Also, Samsung created an ultra-slim wall-mount solution – reducing the gap between the TV and the wall to around 0.6 inches, down from the two inches.

With the USB 2.0 movie feature, it will be possible to view videos and photos from a camcorder, play music from a media player or access multimedia files from a portable drive possible. The DLNA Wireless feature in the Series 7 and 8 lets the user seamlessly watch content from the PC without any wires or cables. The Samsung LED TVs comes with a built in Content Library Flash which includes pre loaded content.

While the Series 6 Samsung LED Full High Definition TVs are priced in the range between Rs. 1,25,000(40”) to Rs. 1,50,000(46”), Series 7 LED TVs are priced in the range between Rs.1,40,000 To Rs.1,80,000. Series 8 LED TV will be available in 55” screen size next month priced at Rs.350,000/-.

Sunday, April 26, 2009

App Runner: Run Apps easily on Debian/Ubuntu (Linux)

After almost a week tweaking and preparing this, it is finally out!
Have you have felt frustrated because it is hard to run files on Linux/Ubuntu?
Then App Runner is for you! it is a very small program that can launch any type of program/script (.elf .bin .sh .run .py , etc…)

Installing it is very easy, and it currently is packaged for Debian/Ubuntu (but it should work on any other system with nautilus, get the “source” package and just follow the instructions there: no compiling required!!!)

Homepage: http://hacktolive.org/wiki/App_Runner

Screenshot:
App Runner

App Runner 0.2 released! Run files easily on Linux (Debian/Ubuntu)

New version of App Runner is out: App Runner 0.2!

App Runner is just a small program to easily launch any executable file (.sh, .elf, .bin, .py, etc… ) on Linux (Debian/Ubuntu)

Changelog:
*Dropped “beta” status
*New installer easier to use: everything is now inside the ”.deb” file
*Automatically checks if gnome-terminal is installed, and uses ”xterm” if ”gnome-terminal” is not detected

Note: If you already have an older version, you can install “on top” of that

Homepage/download/screenshots:
http://hacktolive.org/runner


cd2usb 0.5 out

cd2usb 0.5 out

April 26, 2009

cd2usb
New version of the Live USB creator (for Ubuntu and Super OS ) is now out.

New features:

*syslinux updated to version 3.75
*Option to download ISO now updated to be able to download Ubuntu 9.04
*Small tweak to allow cd2usb to run from a CD/DVD (just like the Super OS DVD)

Homepage/download:
hacktolive.org/cd2usb


Super OS 9.04 (the new Super Ubuntu) is now out!

April 26, 200Super OS 9.04

DVD Menu under Windows
Super Ubuntu has just became Super OS!
And the new version (a remaster of Ubuntu 9.04) is now out!

New features:
*New name: Super OS
*Remaster of Ubuntu 9.04
*Many software was updated (OpenOffice, Furius ISO Mount, GParted, Java, Flash, Wine, Firefox, Brasero, Pidgin, GIMP, gufw, Startup Manager, NTFS driver, etc, etc…)
*An official repository is now available (it is now easier to keep your system updated)
*cd2usb is now included on the DVD menu (under Windows)
*apturl support on Opera
*Fixed Ubuntu bug: windows programs weren’t properly associated with wine
*New software: libdvdcss, wine-gecko, App Runner, Gears for Firefox, Moonlight on Opera and on Firefox

Upgrading from Ubuntu and older versions of Super Ubuntu is also possible (but a fresh install is recommended): http://hacktolive.org/wiki/Super_OS_Upgrades

Homepage/download: http://hacktolive.org/os

PS: thanks to all the suggestions for the new name, I had some good ones (that I might even use in the future!), but I went with Super OS to keep it simple. Cheers to all!