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I am writing this post on my iPhone while on vacation. After not being able to find anything on television for the kids to watch, I remembered that I had ripped a copy of Ice Age 3 on my iPad for testing a while back. Thanks to the wonders of Apple's iPad case, the iPad is now serving as the ultimate portable DVD player, and I am able to write this while sitting on the couch.

iSkysoft Studio announced the release of DVD Creator, available for both Windows and Mac OS X. iSkysoft DVD Creator helps both Windows and Mac users easily design their personal DVD menus and burn DVDs out of various video formats with excellent output quality.

iPadinTouch, a professional iPad blogger, recently announced the review of DVD to iPad Converter. The review is dedicated in helping iPad users to choose the best DVD to iPad converter software to convert and enjoy DVD movies anywhere.

While the MacBook Air's blend of portability and functionality is hard to top, its puny hard drive, lack of an optical drive, and dearth of USB ports put it far behind a normal notebook in terms of everyday usefulness. Apricorn aims to change this with its new Aegis NetDock, a compact, 3-in-1 USB docking station designed for notebooks, ultra-portable notebooks, and tablet-style PCs.

Samsung has just announced its new 512GB solid state drive that boasts read and write speeds so fast that two "standard length" DVD movies can be stored to this SSD within 60 seconds.

Lenovo announced its first 3D laptop on Thursday. The Lenovo IdeaPad Y560d features the TriDef 3D technology solution which includes a 3D screen, 3D glasses and of course software. "Fun is a notebook that brings multimedia to life-and the IdeaPad Y560d does this in a dramatic fashion with a truly unique 3D viewing experience," said Dion Weisler, vice president, business operations, Lenovo.

8linx provides a very detailed web site with step-by-step instructions on how to build your own cnc hot wire foam cutter. The design is a low cost fastest to put together robust steel model that can cut EPS, XPS and EPP foam blocks

The arrival of Apple's iPad at the end of last month sent shock waves through Japan's publishing industry. In the ensuing 2 1/2 weeks, dozens of publishers have announced plans to digitize magazine and other content, while others have set up think tanks to ponder their changed marketplace. Even the National Diet Library succumbed to iPad-mania: Its director announced last week that he wanted to start collecting digital books from 2011.

It's not quite clear where this new Azure appliance is going to fit in with Microsoft's other products. Certainly, there might be some interesting conversations between server salespeople and those hawking Azure unless Microsoft can get a consistent message across.

E-mail sent by Harford County Public School employees to recipients outside of the school system weren't reaching their destination last week, thanks to a spammer from Hong Kong and the subsequent blacklisting of e-mail coming from HCPS by companies such as AOL, Comcast, Verizon, Yahoo and Hotmail.

VHS won the battle, but ever-evolving technology has brought an ever-growing list of cultural revolutions: The rise of the movie rental business. The fall of the movie rental store to online ordering and Internet streaming. "Time shifting" TV viewing that lets you record one show and watch another - and now lets you pause live TV and zap through commercials. And let's not forget, a whole new way to make fun of your parents, who weren't smart enough to program a VCR.

Toshiba may not have an enormous share of the North American notebook market, but it has often distinguished itself with fine engineering and design. The company may be raising eyebrows again with its new Portégé R700 ultraportable notebook, which the company is claiming is the world's lightest notebook with a 13.3-inch display and an integrated DVD drive.

Doremisoft, a professional multimedia software developer, has announced Doremisoft DVD to MKV Converter for mac 1.0, the powerful DVD converter and editor for Mac OS X. Doremisoft DVD to MKV Converter for Mac is designed for converting DVD videos to MKV (Matroska Video), MKV HD and other popular video formats, like DVD to AVI(Divx/XviD), MOV, WMV, H.264/MPEG-4/AVC, SWF, MP4, FLV, 3GP, M4V, MPEG-2, 3G2, MPEG-1 and rip DVD audio into MP3, WAV, AAC, MP2, FLAC, AIFF, MKA, M4A, etc for fancy watching DVD movies on multimedia devives, such as Mplayer OS X, iPad, iPod, iPhone, Apple TV, PSP, Zune, mobile phone and others. With Doremisoft DVD to MKV Converter on Mac, you can play DVD video or HD DVD video on QuickTime, iMovie, Final Cut Express(FCE)/Final Cut Pro(FCP), Adobe Premiere Pro, iDVD, iTunes or upload converted video on YouTube, Hulu, My Space, etc. In fact, the possibilites are endless using this magical DVD video converter. What's more, Mac DVD to MKV Converter is not only DVD Converter/Ripper, but also good video editor just like a nice iMovie alternaive that has powerful editing functions with fast-easy-to-use interface. DVD to MKV Converter enables you clip unwanted parts, merge multi video files into One, crop image size, add special effect (old film, emboss, gray,etc) on the movies, set exact video and audio parameters to meet various needs, take snapshots and save image as JPG or BMP. Feature highlights include: * Convert DVD/ HD DVD/Blu-ray video to all regular formats other than MKV/MKV HD. * Rip DVD files to iPad, iPod, iPhone, Apple TV, PSP, Gphone, Palm, iRiver,Blackberry , Zune, Mobile Phone etc. * Rip dvd to iMovie, Final Cut Express(FCE), Final Cut Pro(FCP), iDVD, QuickTime and iTunes for further editing, saving, playbacking and managing DVD videos. * Trim DVD video clips by setting Start Time and End Time or by dragging the timebar, get your favorite clips or episodes from your video. * Combime two or more video files into One by simple click.

LG Electronics has proven itself to be the most innovative manufacturer of Blu-ray players in the world. It was first to market with an HD DVD/Bluray Disc combo player (BH100), a player with Netflix streaming (BD300), and a player with 802.11n Wi-Fi (BD390).

Mainstream media ignored important additional research related to the video of a U.S. Apache helicopter shooting civilians in Iraq that was leaked to the Wikileaks Web site, according to its founder and editor, Julian Assange.

"Ever since 2008 when Blu-ray and HD-DVD were battling for consumer mind share, Mac users have been speculating about Apple's next optical drive technology," Adam Jackson reports for TheAppleBlog.

The 40gb Ps3 comes with increased Wireless and Bluetooth range and reliability, and new components that reduce energy by 32.5% of previous models.

Toshiba has a bunch of different notebooks. The company is big in the electronics market and was the major firm behind the defunct HD DVD format. Toshiba has gone in the Blu-ray market now and has announced the industry's first PC that supports Blu-ray 3D.

Blu-ray is a format that is clearly catching on, although it has yet to reach the figures of DVDs to date (which we are convinced that it will overtake given due time as more and more people take up the format), the number of Blu-ray playback devices are getting more and more common. Toshiba, who used to back the HD DVD format before it experienced an untimely demise, has since rolled out some Blu-ray players with two more models to join their ranks today. We're talking about the BDX2500 and BDX2700 models which will be a great addition to any modern home theater setup.

A new book called Greening IT - freely available online - provides a handy overview of Green technology.