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For our review this week, SonicGear has provided us their latest model of CD-Radio Home Audio Systems, the mid-level DA-500 model of the Sonic Space series. As technology advances, we see our electronic devices merging, overlapping and performing multiple functions besides their main purpose. Home Audio Systems have evolved beyond playing audio CDs or radio. We have more choices than ever with the introduction of USB drives and SD memory cards as storage devices, as well as MP3 as the new format for encoding audio files. SonicGear has previously introduced the SD/MMC memory card playback as a secondary feature to Sonata v1000 vacuum tube radio. The Sonic Space series brings USB drive and MP3 playback functionalities to the homes of consumers.
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A specially tooled semi-wood subwoofer with unbelievable bass and Audio Controls
High Energy Audio from a very compact enclosure Audio tuned by SonicGear Audio Lab personnel.
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A good article at TechRepublic about MySQL vs. Microsoft SQL. Overall, the article is pretty well-rounded. Good reading. (And short!)

The author based the review on several features, including:

• Licensing Cost
• Performance
• Replication
• Security
• Recovery

Both xVM VirtualBox 1.6 and VMWare Server 2.0 are excellent free SMB/Personal virtualization solutions, each with its own set of advantages and disadvantages. Let’s put them into the ring on Virtualization smackdown: Sun xVM VirtualBox 1.6 vs. VMWare Server 2.0 Beta 2

If it happens to you that you lost your softcopy of certain documents perhap due to harddisk crash, you search around and found the hardcopy of those documents. Most likely you would not want to retype the documents, the solution is OCR (Optical Character Regonation).

Before you can OCR a document you need to scan the document using a scanner. Now a day scanner is quite common, those 3-in-1 printer will already come with scanning capacity. After you have scanned the document, it appears as image file in your computer folder. The best image format suitable for OCR is TIFF. The next step is to run OCR software to convert the TIFF image into text. When you OCR bear in mind that you can either convert the image to tokens of text or you can also retain the layout of the document such as table and columns.

Most scanner bundle with some sort of OCR software. If it doesn’t, no fear, there are several free OCR software you use.
1. FreeOCR from Softi Software
2. SimpleOCR from Simple Software
3. Microsoft Document Imaging System bundle with Microsoft Office 2003 or 2007. Note: Office XP does not have this program.

I would recommand MDIS because it has better layout support and it output to Microsoft Word directly. On top of that MDIS has better OCR result perhap due to it embeded OCR engine from ScanSoft Inc. ScanSoft is the producer of popular OCR software called OmniPage, it is top in the world. The comapny has later renamed to Nuance Communications.

Whoaaa, Even though prices for everything is going up, PC Fair still can successfully be held smoothly with crowded people in all 3 days. I want to give some review for Sonic Gear as this brand really caught my attention. Well, as usual, Sonic Gear is the largest booth compare to the others. The design of the booth, placement of the products, Sonic Gear done a beautiful job for that.
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After snapping up virtualization company InnoTek at the beginning of the year, Sun has recently released VirtualBox as a fully functional and highly polished free GPL open source x86 Virtual Machine. It can host 32- or 64-bit Linux, Windows XP Vista and 98, OpenSolaris and DOS. It runs on Mac OS X, Windows, and Unix platforms. The download is just 27MB. A review of it on MacWorld, showing HD movies playing inside windows XP on a mac, demonstrates performance visually indistinguishable from VMware.

A Wi-Fi Detector shirt from Thinkgeek!!
Haha…who would have thought!

I think its a great idea to have a wifi detector shirt only because we are all lazy to open up our laptops just to find out if there is any Wifi in close distance. Its such a pain.

If you’re wearing this! I’m sure you’d be the coolest kid on the block!

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The Apple Mac is one of the most famous and easily recognisable personal computers ever manufactured. This photo gallery takes a look inside Mac Classic – and what technology was like in 1991.

WinMagic’s SecureDoc product line encrypts a user’s entire hard disk to ensure protection for confidential and sensitive data on portable systems, desktop PCs, laptops and PDA devices by employing authentication from password to hardware token, biometrics, and PKI commencing right at pre-boot time .

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