Adobe Photoshop CS6 Sneak Peak: Content Aware Move Tool (video)

Adobe has released another sneak peak at its new Photoshop CS6 software, with the launch of a video demonstrating the softwares new content-aware move feature. In addition to a new Patch Tool for selecting where you want to Content Aware Fill from, Photoshop CS6 will also come with a new feature called a Content Aware Move tool that lets you easily move portions of your photographs around and extend them intelligently. Watch the video after the jump to see it in action.

Photoshop Senior Product Manager Bryan O’Neil Hughes, has created a video to demonstrate the new feature, and shares how to seamlessly move or remove an object from an image.

Adobe still has yet to announce a release date for their new Photoshop CS6 software, but the new features being showcased by Adobe will also be available in the new Adobe Creative Cloud service that will roll out later this year.

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Genius Cavimanus Virtual 7.1 Vibrating Gaming Headset Announced (video)

Genius has announced the addition of a new headset to its range in the form of the Cavimanus, a virtual 7.1 professional gaming headset.The virtual 7.1 channel system is equipped with 40mm neodymium driver units, together with a unique vibration function. 

Specifications include: microphone sensitivity of -39+/-3 dB, and speaker frequency response: 20Hz~20KHz, impedance: 32ohm and sensitivity: 96dB.

The Genius Cavimanus virtual 7.1 professional gaming headset is also fitted with a handy easy to reach volume control on the ear cup and a fold-away microphone which can be moved out of the way when not in use, and is uni-directional to capture voice audio without any background noise.

The Genius Cavimanus virtual 7.1 gaming headset is now available to purchase for around $80 and comes complete with a anti-corrosive gold-plated USB jack on a 2.5m cable, to provide a high quality connection. You can also view the range of other pro gaming peripherals created by Genius in the video below.

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Android Market Now Installs Apps On Officially Unsupported Devices

Google has this week rolled out a new update for its Android Market place, which has added support for additional unofficially supported devices. The new devices to now be included within the Android Market for applications to be installed on them include : HP TouchPad, Barnes & Noble NOOK Tablet, and Amazon Kindle Fire.

So if you have loaded Android on to any devices that didn’t originally ship with Android, you can now enjoy a simple install process directly from the Android Market.

But be aware the Android Market will also recognise some apps you might have installed from non-Android Market sources, and will try to update them but will fail.

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SanDisk X100 SSD Promises Speed and Storage Capacity

Earlier today, we talked about the new SanDisk Extreme SSD that debuted and briefly mentioned the X100. I am going to talk a little bit more about the X100 now. The new SSD will be offered in capacities from 32GB to 512GB and uses MLC technology inside. The drives plugin to various ports depending on the model.

SanDisk will offer the new X100 in several form factors, including designs for the desktop, netbook, and notebook user. The drives are very power efficient needing 150mW when active and 75mW when on standby. The drives are rated for up to 2 million hours mean time between failure.

Performance is up to 500 MB per second sequential read and up to 420 MB per second sequential write. It appears that the drive will be offered to PC makers in volume shipments only, no retail pricing is offered.

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Sky Go UK Arriving On Android February 22nd

If you are looking forward to the launch of Sky Go in the UK for Android devices, you will be pleased to learn that you will not have to wait much longer. The Sky Go app will let you watch on demand content from Sky on your Android smartphone or tablet and will be arriving next week.

Sources close to the launch of the new Sky Go Android application in the UK have now revealed to the Tech Radar website. That the new Sky Go application will be arriving in the Android Market on or slightly before the 22nd February.

Sky have said that the application will be available for a number of different devices at launch which include the HTC Desire, Desire S, Desire HD, Incredible S, the HTC Sensation, Samsung Galaxy S and the Samsung Galaxy S II, with other device being added after launch.

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LaCie 2big Thunderbolt Series Storage Now Available

LaCie has today started shipping their new LaCie 2big Thunderbolt storage solutions with the 4TB LaCie costing $650, and the larger 6TB costing a hefty $800. Originally announced during CES 2012 back in January, the LaCie 2big offer speeds up to 327MB/s, together with hot-swappable disks, RAID security, and of course the ability to daisy chain them together using the new Thunderbolt ports.

To offer a comparison the LaCie 2big offers speeds up to three times faster than FireWire 800, and daisy chaining multiple 2bigs can can provide you with up to 676MB/s. Meaning 1TB of data – equivalent to nearly 235,000 MP3′s, 750 iTunes movies, or more than 450,000 photos, can be transferred in less than an hour.

The LaCie 2big Thunderbolt storage solutions feature two Thunderbolt ports and will sport dual cooling methods, one of which will be achieved through its heat-dispersing aluminium shell, and the other using a fan.

The LaCie 2big Thunderbolt Series is now available to purchase at the LaCie Online Store and LaCie Storage Partners, worldwide, and an 8Tb version is currently being developed by LaCie and will be available soon they say.

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LG X3 Tegra 3 Smartphone Benchmarks And Specifications Leaked

The LG X3 which is LG’s first quad core Android smartphone was recently leaked, and now the guys from MoDaCo have some more details on the device including some benchmarks.

According to the report the LG X 3 will feature a 4.7 inch HD multi-touch display with a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels, processing will be provided by a quad core NVIDIA Tegra 3 processor.

The NVIDIA Tegra 3 will apparently run at 1.5GHz on a single core and 1.4GHz when two to four cores are used, plus the fifth SMP Core or companion core which is used for idle task operations and is designed to save battery life.

Other specifications include a massive 2,000 mAh battery, 16GB of built in memory and a microSD card slot, plus dual cameras, with an 8 megapixel camera on the back and a 1.3 megapixel camera on the front.

The LG X3 will come with Android 4.0.3 Ice Cream Sandwich and the device is expected to be unveiled later this month at MWC 2012.

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Call of Duty: Police Warfare Fan Made Game Concept Takes CS:S To The Next Level (video)

If you are a fan of Counter-Strike Source or any Activision first person shooter game. You might enjoy this new fan made game concept which has been created that takes the idea of Police verses terrorists to the next level.

Dubbed Call of Duty:Police Warfare the new concept takes the CS:S ideas and combines it with Modern Warfare 3, creating a very interesting concept that I would definitely enjoy playing. Watch the concept after the jump to see what the game would include.

Unfortunately no details has to who is responsible for the concepts creation have been revealed at the moment, part form YouTube user : swedishtaco85 who has published the videos detailing the concept below. Lets hope it gets made into a real game very soon. Enjoy!

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Mass Effect 3 Demo Now Available To Play (video)

Gamers waiting patiently for the launch of the new Mass Effect 3 game, will be pleased to know that the highly anticipated demo is now available to download and play. Providing you with a glimpse of what you can expect and whetting your appetite for the launch of the official Mass Effect 3 game on March 6th in US for PS3, Xbox 360 and PC and on March 9th globally.

The Mass Effect demo is around 1.76GB in size and is available on Xbox Live right now, and will be arriving on PC and PS3 sometime today, offering up two single player missions and a slice of the multiplayer gameplay as well. Xbox Live explains a little about what you can expect in the demo:

“The demo begins in dramatic fashion with the spectacular attack on Earth, followed by a mid-game section showcasing the groundbreaking interactive storytelling, adrenaline-pumping action, ruthless and intelligent enemies, and deep customization that make Mass Effect 3 the must-have title of 2012,”

Currently the multiplayer part of the Mass Effect 3 demo is only available to the gamers that registered your Battlefield 3 online passes. But don’t worry it will soon open up to everyone else on February 17th.

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SanDisk Extreme SSD Announced

SanDisk has added another solid state drive to their range with the launch of the SanDisk Extreme SSD, which is a 2.5 inch solid state drive that features a 6GB/s SATA connection.

The SanDisk Extreme SSD features read speeds up to 550MB/s and write speeds up to 520MB/s and it will be available in a choice of storage sizes which include a 120GB version, a 240GB version and a 480GB version.

The 120GB and 240GB models will be available shortly, and SanDisk will launch the 480GB model later in the year. The 120GB SanDisk Extreme SSD will retail for $189.99 whilst the 240GB version will retail for $399.99,

When the 480GB model launches later in the year, it will retail for $749.99, and SanDisk also announced the launch of the X100 which is a new Solid State Drive designed for ultrabook manufacturers.

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LibreOffice Rolls Out Version 3.5 Calls Its “The best free office suite ever”

The fantastic free and open source package LibreOffice has this week rolled out a new update to its suite of software, that brings with it a number of new features and tweaks, improving the package even further.

LibreOffice developers Document Foundation have announced the launch of their latest version as “The best free office suite ever” and marks the third major release. New features in the update include a built-in Grammar checker for English and several other languages, together with improved typographical features, for professional looking documents.

Also for the first time LibreOffice, developers will be enabling a new online update checker, which informs users when a new version of the suite is available. Caolán McNamara, a senior RedHat developer who is one of the founders and directors of TDF explains:

“We inherited a 15 years old code base, where features were not implemented and bugs were not solved in order to avoid creating problems, and this – with time – was the origin of a large technical debt,” – “We had two options: a conservative strategy, which would immediately please all users, leaving the code basically unchanged, and our more aggressive feature development and code renovation path, which has created some stability problems in the short term but is rapidly leading to a completely new and substantially improved free office suite: LibreOffice 3.5, the best free office suite ever.”

The new features and the improvements are described in the infographic which can be downloaded from here. For more information on all the new tweaks and features jump over to the LibreOffice website for a full list.  LibreOffice 3.5 is available to download from here.

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Google+ For iOS Gets Updated

Google has released a new version of their Google+ application for Apple’s iOS devices, and the app is compatible with the iPhone and iPod Touch running iOS 4.0 and above.

The new Google+ iPhone app brings a range of new features to Apple’s iOS devices, which include the ability to so who has +1′d a post, a new what’s hot stream, plus a new instant upload feature for photos.

The instant upload feature will let you select when to upload photos, you can choose over Wi-Fi or Wi-Fi and 3G, if the feature is activated, any photos that you take on your iPhone or iPod Touch through the camera app and  a range of other supported applications will be instantly uploaded to Google+.

The photos will then be stored in a private folder on Google+ and you can then choose to share the photos from the private folder on Google+.

You can find out more information about Google+ for the iPhone and iPod Touch over at iTunes.

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Google Public DNS Service Now Processes Over 70 Billion Requests A Day

Back in December 2009 Google launched its Google Public DNS a free, global Domain Name System (DNS) resolution service. But today Google’s DNS service is now longer an experimental service, and has become the worlds largest DNS service.

An Internet DNS service acts like a giant phone book allowing users to look up hundreds or thousands of entries everyday, and now Google’s DNS service is processing over 70 billion requests on a daily basis.

Google Public DNS service is particularly popular internationally, with around 70 percent of its traffic arriving from outside the U.S. Google also has a strong presence in North America, South America and Europe, and increased its presence in Asia. As well as adding new access points to parts of the world that previously didn’t have Google Public DNS servers installed, including Australia, India, Japan and Nigeria. You can find more information about Google DNS service over on the official website here.

“Shortly after launch, we made a technical proposal for how public DNS services can work better with some kinds of important web hosts (known as content distribution networks, or CDNs) that have servers all of the world. We came up with a way to pass information to CDNs so they can send users to nearby servers. Our proposal, now called “edns-client-subnet,” continues to be discussed by members of the Internet Engineering Task Force. While we work with the IETF, other companies have started experimenting with implementing this proposal.

Google Public DNS’s goal is simple: making the web—really, the whole Internet!—faster for our users. If you’d like to try it yourself, please see our page Using Google Public DNS. For more information, please see our Introduction to Google Public DNS and Frequently Asked Questions.”

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Quadrant 2.0 Benchmarking App Now Supports ICS And Multi-core Processors

Aurora Softworks have this week rolled out a new update to their Quadran Standard Edition benchmarking application for Android devices taking the software to version 2.0. Bringing with it support for Google new Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) and multi-core processors.

The Quadrant 2.0 software is a CPU, I/O and 3D graphics benchmark system that allows you to compare the speeds and performance of Android devices. The Standard Edition requires an Internet connection to compute benchmark results and require a device with a GPU to function.

With the launch of Quadrant 2.0 you will need to note that its results aren’t directly comparable against those produced by earlier versions. Aurora explains that scores are tallied differently from their 1.x version of the application. Because of this, some may seem results that don’t make any sense at all. Aurora say they will soon be updating their results browser to reflect the new scoring system, so just be patient.

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Google+ Circles Update Brings New Page Layout

Google has today rolled out a new layout design to the Google+ Circles section of its social networking site. Google designed the Circles section of Google+ to make it easy for users to customise your existing connections, as well as discovering new ones.

The new update brings with it a new left-hand navigation menu, together with quick access to your email address books. As well as a new feature that shrinks Circles down when they are viewed on smaller screens.

As well as the layout features Google has also added quicker methods to locate people within the Google+ social network. Googler Sean Purcell explains in his blog post announcing the new changes:

“building on earlier work by +Simon Tong, +Jeff Dean and +Sanjay Ghemawat we’ve made lots of improvements to “Find People.” Simply type the name of a person or page you’re interested in, and we’ll suggest related individuals and organizations to add to your circles. We’re always working to make Circles fast, fluid and fun, so let us know what you think in the comments, and keep the feedback coming!”

Find out more over on the Google blog post by Sean Purcell.

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Angry Birds Game Lands On Facebook (video)

As announced back in January Angry Birds has today arrived on Facebook, enabling you to now enjoy a little gaming on the social network. As you can imagine the new addition to Facebook incorporates the same gaming style Angry Bird fans enjoy. Together with some additional features added to bring a more social gaming experience to the popular game. Watch the trailer for the new Facebook Angry Birds game after the jump.

Rovio the developers of the Angry Birds game was founded back in 2003 and its popular Angry Birds game has been downloaded 700 million times since its release in December 2009. Rovio Entertainment Ltd is now looking to maybe go public this year and is estimated to be worth a cool $1 billion, according to CMO Peter Vesterbacka.

If you fancy giving Angry Birds a go on Facebook you can start playing by clicking here. Enjoy!

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