Year: 2005

Answers.com releases beta Dashboard widget

GuruNet, creators of the Answers.com, an answer-based search engine, today announced the beta release of a Dashboard widget for Tiger users. The Answers.com widget provides access to Answers.com content drawn from Wikipedia, American Heritage Dictionary, Roget’s Thesaurus, Columbia University Press Encyclopedia as well as maps, company snapshots, stock prices, legal, medical, nutrition, and many other sources.

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WiebeTech announces reloadable RAID for SATA and IDE

WiebeTech today announced TrayDock Extreme and TrayDock eSATA — RAIDs with either 2- or 4-bay reloadable drive trays. TrayDock Extreme provides a hardware based Striped RAID for IDE/SATA drives and attaches to any FireWire host. TrayDock eSATA offers a software RAID for SATA drives and attaches to eSATA hosts. Pricing on the 2-bay versions start at US$349.95. The 4-bay versions start at $449.95. Both versions will begin shipping July 6, 2005.

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Sanyo VPC-C5 now available in the US

Sanyo today announced that its VPC-C5 5-megapixel camera in now available in the US. The new thin camera offers full-motion MPEG-4 video camera, built-in digital image stabilization and a 2-inch trans-reflective LCD screen. Users can also select real-time interpolation up to 10 megapixels which allows photos to be enlarged to “bigger than life” proportions without sacrificing image quality.

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Alias SketchBook Pro 2 now shipping

Alias today announced that SketchBook Pro 2, the newest version of the company’s paint and drawing software application, is available for purchase globally from the Alias web site and authorized Alias resellers. Version 2 offers users better usability and a number of new features, including: enhanced brush controls, new image layers and image types, new image import options, lasso select, interactive brush resize, image and canvas resize, and undo/redo up to 75 brush strokes or actions. Alias SketchBook Pro 2 is priced at US$199.

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