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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 05, 2005
Page
25
Sony offers free downloadable video clips on psp connect but the selection is weak. Consumers want to copy personal videos to PSP from PCs and Sony sells Image Converter 2 for 19 dollars to convert files to PSP MPEG-4. Free programs and online guides circulate, but detailed instructions deter casual users.
Turner Broadcasting will launch Game Tap in the fall offering hundreds of older games including Pac-Man and Sonic the Hedgehog. The service requires high speed Internet on Windows PCs and uses keyboard mouse or USB joystick with a $10 to $20 monthly subscription. Skype also starts selling global phone numbers for 39 a year and Skypeln calls from traditional phones to computers.
Gazette wire services note a Welsh village name linked to a record long domain and promote SnipURL as a free service to shorten web addresses. It shows a shortened link if the URL has already been snipped. The piece emphasizes free usage.
Anick Jesdanan reports Netscape releases a test version 8.0 blending elements from Internet Explorer and Firefox. The browser seeks a comeback amid widespread IE use and ongoing security concerns with that rival.
Netscape 8 combines Firefox and IE engines to offer tabbed browsing while blocking ActiveX. It uses a green shield for good sites and a yellow shield for sites not on its list, with red shields and warnings for bad sites. The browser blocks cookies and turns off Java and JavaScript on risky sites and includes multiple customizable toolbars.
Reader asks how to tune in to a California station on a computer and save the broadcast for later. The piece lists Replay Radio at about $30 with TiVo-like recording, Applian’s higher priced MP3 creator, Audio MP3 Recorder for on the fly MP3s, and notes various download options and demos.
SanDisk's ImageMate 12 in 1 Reader/Writer consolidates multiple flash memory formats into a single USB 2.0 device. It supports Windows with a driver, Mac OS X out of the box, shows green LEDs for card recognition, and lets users interface with cards as external storage.
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