Acer Ferrari One Notebook

Acer launched the new Ferrari One notebook PC to U.S. customers. An Acer exclusive, the Ferrari One is a full-featured, 11.6-inch notebook PC utilizing the same exquisite details and performance features celebrated by Scudetto Ferrari, the world’s most prestigious racing team.


Racing Performance in a Notebook PC

 In the true spirit of the Ferrari racing team, the Ferrari One notebook combines performance and extreme portability. Fueled by VISION technology from AMD, the notebook delivers highly responsive, balanced multitasking performance via the AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 dual-core processor with low-power CPU designed for long-lasting battery power. ATI Radeon™ HD 3200 Graphics provides high-definition visual quality coupled with up to 4GB of DDR2 667MHz system memory to drive digital and multimedia features and other demanding applications with ease. The Ferrari One comes equipped with Windows 7 Home Premium and 250GB hard drive.

Along with its 11.6-inch HD widescreen display, the Ferrari One notebook features a sleek, ultraportable design, measuring about one inch thin and weighing only 3.31 pounds. The look and feel of Formula 1 racing is shown throughout the notebook’s detailed design, including the checkered palm rest extending into a comfortable full-size keyboard, the metallic LED-lit power button and yellow prancing horse emblem that perfectly complements the notebook’s red cover. Ferrari enthusiasts will also note the tire-shape grips underneath the notebook’s body, racing-inspired wallpaper and calendar, as well as a quick access key to Ferrari.com.

The notebook features enhanced stereo speakers and Dolby Home Theater Audio Enhancement, which deliver vibrant surround sound and bass effects to bring a true cinema-style experience to movies, music and casual games.

The Ferrari One notebook’s integrated 802.11a/b/g/Draft-N wireless technology and Gigabit LAN facilitates smooth and trouble-free emailing and web browsing. The Acer Crystal Eye webcam and Video Conference solution enables high-quality video chats and VoIP with friends, family and work associates, even in noisy environments. The notebook’s Ferrari-engraved Multi-Gesture Touchpad lets users pinch, flick and swirl fingers on the touchpad for intuitive navigation. It also allows users to scroll, zoom in and out and flip through web pages, photos, spreadsheets and more.

“Both Acer and Ferrari have a tradition of designing products built on passion, innovation and performance,” said Chris White, senior director of U.S. business management for Acer America. “The new Ferrari One notebook blends the ideas of racing and technology into a superior PC product.”

Acer Ferrari One Notebook Specifications

•  AMD Athlon 64 X2 dual-core processor L310 (1.20 GHz, 1 MB L2 cache, 800 MHz FSB)
• Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
• 11.6" HD Widescreen CineCrystal™ LED-backlit Display
• AMD M780G Chipset
• ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 3200 Graphics
• 4096MB DDR2 Dual-Channel Memory
• 250GB 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive
• Multi-in-1 Digital Media Card Reader
• Acer InviLink™ 802.11a/b/g/Draft-N Wi-Fi CERTIFIED®
• Integrated Acer Crystal Eye Webcam
• Two built-in stereo speakers
• 3rd Generation Dolby Home Theater® audio enhancement
• Full-size Acer FineTip Keyboard
• Multi-Gesture Touchpad supporting circular-motion scrolling, pinch-action zoom and page flip
• 3 - USB 2.0 Ports
• 1 – VGA port
• 6-cell Li-ion Battery (5600 mAh), up to 5-hour battery life2
• 3.31 lbs. (system unit only)
• 11.2 x 8.03 x 0.9/1.2 inches 

Acer Ferrari One FO200-1799 notebook is available now via Acer’s authorized resellers and at major retailers nationwide, with prices beginning at $599.99. The Ferrari One comes with a one-year limited warranty.

Free: remote recording via the Freebox HD

Free customers who have the last Freebox dated now have the ability to schedule recordings of TV programs remotely via the management console to access their account online at the website operator. This feature is open to all holders of the last Freebox HD. It offers the following options: immediate registration with the planning of playing time, delayed registration or registration for the program schedule.

Depending on the chain which is capture the signal, it will be possible to opt for a record in standard definition or high definition streams compressed version called "low speed".

For subscribers whose line is strong enough, Free also claims that it is possible to make two recordings simultaneously on a single box TV. Finally, the ISP states that this registration can be done on the hard disk drive to the Freebox, or an external storage device connected to USB. Subscribers to the offer optional Multi TV (4.99 euros) have about them the opportunity to choose the box on which registration must be done.

"Free again enriches its services without changing the price of the package (29.99 euros / month), welcomes the operator, who recently made the subject of a new legal proceedings initiated by the UFC Que Choisir, on the grounds that its offer "all inclusive" sometimes reveals some unexpected surprises. Meanwhile, subscribers eligible for Free television service via ADSL should appreciate.

Dragon Age: Origins coming to the Macintosh

Considered by many PC gamers as one of the best RPGs of recent years Dragon Age: Origins should make fun of other fans very soon. Through a quick post on the official forums of the game, Chris Priestly - Community Coordinator at BioWare - announced the good news: the game comes very soon on the Mac.

For now, it does not seem to matter that a version of the game, but we bet the French localization will soon come when the game is already available for pre-order. If you believe some dealers as GameTree, the output is even planned for next December 21 when BioWare merely a holiday season. Mac gamers will also have rights to both versions of the game: the standard edition and deluxe edition that includes the DLC Fortress Guards of shadows over the Amur Dragon's Blood and The Prisoner of Peter in the present 'basic editing.

Office 2003: patch to play protected files

Following the occurrence of bugs, Microsoft launches a fix so that Office 2003 users can again access to documents protected by technology security services RMS.

Since last Friday, users of Office 2003 productivity suite has been facing a small blunder in conjunction with the Microsoft RMS technology. Although the public concerned is very focused.

Rights Management Services is a protection technology that allows data encryption and may limit the scope of operations allowed for a file (copy, print ...). Only a group of people may have authorized access to such documents. This technology implementation at the server level for most large companies. Users must have a compatible application as may be Office 2003.

The problem revealed Friday that Microsoft has prevented users Office 2003 (but not Office 2007 or 2010 beta) to have access to documents protected by RMS. In an attempt to open, they were treated to an error message indicating the occurrence of an unexpected error.

Microsoft does not let things drag on, and the day after his announcement published a series of hotfixes for Office 2003, viewers Word and Excel 2003.

Google also shortens the URL

 With a view to share on social networks and others, Google proposes to shorten the URL via the toolbar and FeedBurner.

Google offers a new version of its toolbar for Internet Explorer and Firefox. For now in beta, this toolbar 7.0 offers several new features. While Firefox already includes a similar feature, the Google Toolbar provides location-based Internet Explorer, subject to the express agreement of the user who will travel for example on Google Maps.

Sidewiki, which allows to comment on the Web, is translated into new languages, while the toolbar is seeing another sharing feature. A Share button lets you share a web page with his contacts through blogs, webmail or unavoidable social networks including Facebook, MySpace but also Twitter.

For the microblogging service with the maximum number of characters is fixed at 140 per message, the toolbar is linked to a valuable service to reduce the URL. This service, which does not stop at Twitter, is also backed by FeedBurner but can not be accessed directly from the browser, unlike other URL reducers like TinyURL or bit.ly.

With Google URL Shortner a shared shortened URL takes the form http:// goo.gl / ... (. Gl is an extension of Greenland). According to Google, the service is stable, secure (protection against malware and phishing pages) and quick. Side privacy, Google reserves the right to display various data anonymous as the number of clicks to a URL shortened. If nothing is decided yet, Google URL Shortner could enter into real competition with other services such as becoming a full service (standalone).

While it is rumored that Facebook will also provide a service to shorten URLs (but only for the Facebook pages), one wonders if Google URL Shortner be used by users who entrust and a little more Web Workplace google.

Samsung S5600 in the new version

Samsung is preparing to release a new version of mobile phone Samsung S5600, which will be called Samsung My Touch Custo Special Edition.

The model differs from the original design on the back of the case made by the famous Spanish designer Custo Dalmau. Characteristics of the apparatus remained the same. The model supports the 3G network and has a 2.8-inch touch screen with a resolution of 320x240 pixels, 3.2 megapixel camera, slot microSD, interface TouchWiz.

In the complete set of the European model Samsung My Touch is available in the memory card of 2 GB.