We recently featured a Free White Noise Generator by Speech Privacy Systems on Gizmos for Geeks, and now we’ve had chance to review the premium version and let you know what we think – is it worth $15 a year?
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Hot on the heels of Internet Explorer’s v9 release, Firefox 4 is out. The highly anticipated latest version of the Mozilla Foundation‘s flagship product, Firefox has a slew of new features, and in particular touts its huge boost in speed that puts it back on par with Google’s Chrome browser.
What’s New?
Firefox 4 boasts a slew of new features and you can read the full list in the release notes, while we point out the highlights:
That is just a taste, and developers in particular will be chomping at the bit to test out some of the new HTML5 and CSS3 support, so look forward to even more websites moving into the new era as older browser fall by the wayside.
You can download Firefox 4 right now and add to the more than 11 million as of the time of this writing!
Using your phone in your hand while driving is illegal in many countries around the world, but sometimes it is all too tempting to reply to that text you just got. Especially if you’re on a long straight road and can see where you’re going, right? Only thing is, you’re actually 23 times more likely to crash when holding your phone than not.
That’s where tXtBlocker comes in. This software blocks texts to your phone when you’re engaging in certain activities to make you and others around you a whole lot safer.
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If you suffer from distracting background noise where you’re working you might want to take a look at Speech Privacy System’s White Noise Generator. The website does exactly what it says in the name – generates white noise so that you can ‘concentrate’ on your work.
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Microsoft has just released the latest version of Internet Explorer, version 9. IE 9 is a major release with significant improvements but still has some issues that Microsoft needs to tackle if it wants to continue competing with the likes of Google, Mozilla and even Apple.
What’s New
Performance: IE 9 is a major overhaul whose performance especially in the JavaScript rendering arena is now more on par with current products such as Google’s Chrome. This will naturally improve the responsiveness of JavaScript-heavy Web 2.0 sites.
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If you’re looking into home automation you might want to consider Indigo 4.0 INSTEON-compatible software for Macs. The software works with INSTEON, X10 and their respective related devices and uses the existing wiring set-up in your home.
The list of features is impressive, with the ability to attach commands to an array of variables such as events being triggered by times, or by sunset or put it on a random schedule for when you’re on holiday. It will also allow for motion events such as switching lights off after x minutes of inactivity. If you remember us telling you about Light Show Master back in 2006(!), Indigo 4 has absorbed the features from this as Light Show Master is no longer available.
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How would you like to carry a portable music studio with you? Using the Garageband App on the iPad, you can!
This next generation iPad app provides value by allowing iPad user’s to create music content rather than just consume by turning the iPad into a collection of touch instruments including Guitars, Basses, Keyboards and Drum Sets and use the app as a full-featured recording studio that allows you to mix up to eight tracks to create songs you can easily share.
The track layout allows you to trim and place musical regions exactly where you want them to play and fine-tune individual track volumes including turning the track into a solo or muting and adjusting pan, reverb and echo. Garageband also includes 250 professional prerecorded loops to enhance your song.
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Watch this 90 second clip of Paul Graham, of Y Combinator, Viaweb, etc., talking about how he worries about Apple and Steve Jobs becoming the ‘dictator’ types that they once mocked in the 70s and 80s when they were a young company.
I and others have been saying this for ages. It’s ironic, but also how human nature and corporations tend to play out given the circumstances.
Bloomberg has disabled embedding of the video, so just hit the link to watch directly on YouTube.
If you’ve never heard of Paul Graham, it’s worth checking out his fantastic essays on all things computer- and startup-related. He has also written and published a book, Hackers & Painters, which is also worth checking out.
Steve Jobs returned from his medical leave absence to show off the latest “insanely great” product by Apple – the iPad 2. Of course the audience provided Steve Jobs with a standing ovation when he came on stage and it’s good to see him looking fairly healthy, albeit a little thin.
Jobs started the announcement talking about Random House and their 17 thousand books are joining the other publishers to provide content for iBooks. Additionally, in less than 1 year, 100 million books have been downloaded.
Always wanting to show value for the App Store developers, Jobs then mentioned that Apple now has over 200 million Apple ID accounts with credit cards linked and ready to purchase using 1-click purchasing. He questioned whether Apple or Amazon had the most accounts with a linked credit card. Next he mentioned that over $2 billion has been paid to developers cumulatively. To further drive home his point of providing a marketplace with built in consumers for Apps, Jobs mentioned that over 100 million iPhones have been shipped.
With that out of the way, Jobs then started talking about the iPad 2…
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If you’ve turned on Google’s 2-step verification as we recommended, you may have noticed that since then your installation of Google Chrome crashes and/or many of the individual tabs crash.
The likely reason for this is that you have Chrome’s sync feature turned on, and unfortunately, that does not yet work with 2-step verification and therefore, syncing won’t work in any case, so you may as well turn it off.
You can do that by clicking on the wrench icon in the top-right corner of any Chrome window and going to Options -> Personal Stuff -> Sync and then clicking the Stop Syncing button (see screenshot below).
