Year: 2006

Big Nerd Ranch announces Perl Bootcamp in July

Posted by | Mar 28, 2006 | |

Big Nerd Ranch today announced Perl Bootcamp with brian d foy July 10-14, 2006. “While plenty of training manuals are available for learning Perl, the Big Nerd Ranch has condensed the learning process into a single week of complete immersion in Perl programming,” notes the announcement. “Students should expect to work hard and return to the world as Perl programmers.” Perl Bootcamp is a five-day intensive course exploring the underlying structures and advanced features of the Perl programming language.

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Royal introduces new USB 2.0 Flash/Jump drives

Posted by | Mar 28, 2006 | |

Royal Consumer Information Products today announced the launch of a new category of USB 2.0 Flash/Jump drives with a scrollable window display enabling consumers to view stored file names without a computer connection. With a built-in, scrolling two-line display (patent pending), the EZVue Vista series makes it easy for consumers to quickly see the names of the stored files. Files are viewed within their respective directories or subdirectories that are clearly identified on the display.

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iPod Film Festival voting begins, free movie downloads

Posted by | Mar 27, 2006 | |

The Flux today announced that voting has opened in the world’s first iPod Film Festival, as well as free downloads of all the entries. Entries from eleven countries are available for download and iPod playback in three categories: student film, indie film, and music video. Voting will be open to the public until April 15th. Those votes will determine the winner of a MacBook Pro, as well as iPod winners in each category. All of the entries are pre-formatted for playback on the iPod video, or online viewing.

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G-Technology announces eSATA PCI-Express adapter

Posted by | Mar 27, 2006 | |

G-Technology today announced its Mac OS X-compatible host bus adapter featuring two external eSATA ports and PCIe connectivity. This high-speed adapter enables users to attach G-Tech G-SATA storage solutions to the latest Power Mac G5’s and support multi-stream uncompressed video editing workflows. Features of the new adapter include: two external eSATA ports; data rates to 125 MB/sec when used with G-Tech G-SATA storage solutions; single-lane (x1) PCI-Express transfer rates up to 2.5 Gbps; and more.

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