by Josh Bancroft

Electronics Gadgets That Affect Us

Today’s technology has revolutionized almost everything in man’s daily life.  Quintessentially, devices for communications, entertainment, gaming, and other devices we popularly call “gadgets” or “gizmos” are the common focus for upgrades and never-before-seen technological breakthroughs.

From iPod electronics and Wii’s to digital cameras and HD TVs, people seem to never get enough of today’s latest gadgets.  With this comes the popularity of tech blogs which features perspectives from bloggers and users within an active community.  Also, there are web sites and portals featuring cool electronic gadgetswhere people can learn about the gadget’s functions and specifications with just a click of a button.  They can also buy directly from these sites, pay online, and wait for their goods to be delivered right at their doorstep.

Finestelectronic.com is an excellent website with a great selection of Consumer Electronics and other gadgets.  It offers fast processing and shipping of orders through time online ordering and real time online inventor.

Finest electronicis a reliable electronic distributor for Apple electronics such as Apple iPod Touch, iPhone, iPod, and macbooks.  It also sells the popular brands of digital cameras such as Nikon, Sony, and Olympus.  For laptops, the latest model of Sony’s, Toshiba’s and many others with the latest processors and top-of-the-line technology are available.  There is also a wide assortment of television sets, LCDs, and famous gaming consoles as the Super Mario Wii, and Xbox 360 to choose from.  Services associated with these technologies are also available such as DirectTV, web-conferencing systems, and loads of information on other trends such Google functionalities and more.

The website also contains reviews and related videos on many items which should provide useful information and guidance to discerning customers.  New products are also regularly featured providing the reader knowledge on what’s hot, new, and in trend.

Finestelectronic is affiliated with PCMall, BestBuy, and other trusted stores.   One does not have to physically go to shops or stores as virtually all gadgets can be purchased through Finestelectronic.com.

What to do with that enormous collection of anime AVIs you collected in college? You can’t just throw it away! And it’s mouldering in heaps of CD-Rs at your parents’ house. Okay, maybe not everybody has this problem, but surely you have something like it. Spend a day stuffing all those old 235MB files onto an old external hard drive, get a sweet off-brand all-purpose media player, and you can relive your Robotech days 2009 style.

The MG-M²TV from MediaGate (thanks to Engadget for the proper name, I never can get superscripts right) supports pretty much every video format ever made, and of course all the audio and image ones as well — for $100. And because it’s off-brand, you can expect a level of support and reliability you can’t from the big brands. Yes, I mean that — these kinds of guys update their firmware and have an active community that will make this little box a powerhouse.

Check out the codec lineup: RealVideo 10 RMVB, VC‐1, H.264, WMV9, MPEG1/2/4, AVI (Xvid, AVC), MKV, MOV, TP, TS, ISO, ASF, VO.

It doesn’t mention x264, but I get the feeling it’s supported. One thing it doesn’t do is .flv files, but I guarantee someone will put out a hack for that.

[via Dvice]

The GP2X handheld gaming emulator gets a little more mainstream this week as a product now available from ThinkGeek.com.

If you’ve not heard of the GP2X, it’s basically about the size of a Gameboy Micro, features 1GB of storage expandable via SD cards, and is open-source. You load emulation software onto it followed by ROM after ROM of old-timey games.

You can do a bunch of other stuff with the GP2X, too — music, movies, etc. — but the big draw is the amount of emulators available: Arcade, GameBoy Advance, Genesis, NeoGeo, NES, TurboGrafx, PlayStation, Sega Master System/Game Gear, Vectrex, DOS, and more. There’s a pretty active community for the device as well.

Retails for $180 plus shipping.

GP2X Wiz MAME/Amiga/Console Emulator [ThinkGeek.com]

World of Warcraft players are a notoriously picky bunch. They know what they like, what they don’t like, and have absolutely no issue with telling you exactly how they feel. Loudly, and with many, many petitions and forum postings. And that’s just the basic game. When you get into modifications, you’re into a whole new ballgame. And just making sure you have the most up to date software installed can turn into a major undertaking.

Some guilds won’t even let you go on a raid unless you have the proper addons, and anyone who’s had to try to help the less, shall we say, technically inclined know that getting everything to work right is sometimes half the battle. Now of course, we have software like the Curse Client Addon manager.

Put simply, the Curse.com’s software client allows you to manage all your favorite addons without making it complicated. Click the refresh button up at the top of the screen, and the client automatically checks all of your installed addons for new versions, and gives you the option to update them if a newer version is available. When you are looking for something new, you can search via name, category, or author. The interface then displays the description of the addon, the version number, and has a link to the addon where it is hosted. Curse hasn’t forgotten the Mac players either, there is a version of the client that works with the Mac OS as well.

There are a few things that set the Curse client apart from the other addon management software out there. Yes, you have to log in to download the addons, but registration for the website is free. The Curse.com website also has a very active community on their forums, and many times you can discuss future versions of the addons directly with the authors themselves. Curse also has a subscription option, which adds the ability to update all of your addons at once, removes the advertisements, and allows you priority access to the servers when it’s time to download. The subscription price varies based on the time period you are signing up for, but it runs anywhere from $2.45 a month (the best deal, billed annually) to $4.95 a month (billed month to month). The subscription fees help to cover bandwidth costs, and a percentage is passed on to the addon author, making it easier to help support your favorite.

As a WoW player myself, I feel confident recommending the Curse client over the other options available. I’m also able to show you something very something very special, a sneak peek of the new 4.0 client which is still in alpha, and won’t be available for download for about 1-2 months. All I can share with you is a screenshot, but having used the new client myself, I can tell you it is significantly faster then the 3.0 version, and works great with Windows 7 and Vista.