Now Get Some Apple Flavor In Your Speakers

Want to have some apple flavor in you speakers ? After all an apple a day keeps the doctor away lol :) Wouldn't it be great if it you had Apple speakers ? These apple look alike speakers consume just 2 watts of power in total and are compatible with mini audio and portable MP3 players.

Here are some specifications:
* Sensible and Characteristic design.
* 2 Channel Multimedia speaker system for PC and Portable audio.
* Easy to control Volume and Power with front control buttons.
* Compatible with Mini audio and Portable MP3 players.
* DC 5Voltage Power through USB port.
* RMS : 1W * 2
* Impedance : 4 ohm
* Drive Unit : 2 inch
* Dimension : 112x104x56mm(WxHxD)-Symmetrical size

They come in two colors- red and green. No info on pricing though. But you can check out this site for more info, it’s in German though.

Skype 2.0 Beta For Linux Available For Download

Finally the Linux users will be a little happy about skype. This version of skype supports video calling, which makes Skype to support video on Windows, Mac and Linux.

Download this release-v2.0.0.12 here.

Features:
1. Videos
2. Option to automatically answer incoming calls (under Options -> Privacy).
3. Use user’s desktop locale if a locale hasn’t been set in client.

Video features:
1. Video Devices options dialog.
2. Video Accept/Decline dialog.
3. Full-screen video.
4. Double-clicking on video window toggles full-screen video.
5. Double-clicking on video preview in Options dialog will reveal full-screen myself preview.

Improvements:
1. Add missing translation for Sign in window title.
2. Change Calls Forwarded icon.
3. Clean up button spacings in myself/credit bar.
4. Don’t render Contact popups together.
6. Remove dependency on libsigc++.

Download Opera Mini 4 Now

Finally after a long Beta of the Opera Mini 4 version the final version has come out. Opera Mini 4 is based on the same rendering engine as the Opera 9.5 desktop browser. The install size is also pretty small- lesser than 100kb. Whether you want to access your mail, RSS feeds or bank information, Opera Mini is fast, safe and secure. Opera Mini 4 delivers several new features for quicker scrolling, navigation and page rendering.

Here are the highlights of this release:

Sync Your Digital Lifestyle

View Pages in Landscape mode

Optimized for Blackberry Users

Give Your Phone A Mouse

Enhanced Small Screen Rendering

Create Custom Search Shortcuts

Tools and support for web designers

Power Scrolling Shortcuts

NBC Universal Unhappy With iTunes Profit

More dirt has emerged regarding the Apple/Universal deal that turned rotten. According to an article in Variety, the deal went south when NBC Universal wanted to raise the price of hot properties like "Heroes" by a dollar, to $2.99, in addition to requesting a cut of Apple's hardware profits. On both counts, Apple refused. And the head honcho of NBC Universal, Jeff Zucker, was none too happy: "Apple sold millions of dollars worth of hardware off the back of our content and made a lot of money."

Less than satisfied with his company's cut of Apple's pie--$15 million in revenue over the last year--NBC Universal opted to pull out of iTunes and spend who-knows-how-much to launch its own online video site called Hulu, which is headed into beta this week. "We don’t want to replace the dollars we were making in the analog world with pennies on the digital side." Hey, anytime someone wants to throw $15 million in pennies my way, please go right ahead.

HD DVD Breaks The $100 Barrier (With a Little Help From Wal-Mart)

If you'd asked me a week ago -- and as a matter of fact, someone did -- I'd have said that you could sum up the high-definition disc war like this: Blu-ray is selling a lot of software, and HD DVD is aggressively pushing hardware. Essentially, each side has banked on either the chicken or the egg.

In scenarios like these, industry observers look for knockout punches (rare), or potential tipping points (a bit more common). We may be witnessing one right now: as part of its "pre-Black Friday" promotion, Wal-Mart will be offering Toshiba's entry-level HD-A2 player (soon to be replaced by the HD-A3) for a mere $98.97 -- making it a lot easier for cash-strapped consumers to get into the HD world at their own pace.

Should Blockbuster start restocking their shelves to take advantage of a potential wave of new HD DVD owners? I guess we'll find out pretty soon.

Porn-Induced Malware Attacks Leopard

Apparently at least some of the Leopard security vulnerabilities have already been exploited, but only through the aid of stupid hornball Mac users. Was that childish of us to call porn-craved Mac users "hornballs" and imply that some of them are stupid? Maybe. And the image of of Justin Long doing the dirty certainly won't fit nicely in our next Mac fantasy, but we're just doing our job here.

Security company Intego discovered that the OSX.RSPlug.A Trojan horse malware is infecting users on certain porn sites who agree to upgrade their video codec. Oh, and it's not a simple button press, either. Users need to agree, download the file, mount the .dmg and install it on their dic- disk. When the malware is setup properly, a computer's DNS settings will change, redirecting browsers to phishing sites and ads for porn.

Cry me a river. This isn't some dangerous Trogan horse, it's pornographic Darwinism. [CNET]

New Yahoo Messenger 9 Beta Released

The all new Yahoo Messenger 9.0 Beta is out. Now you can talk for hours by making free PC to PC calls. The file transfers between contacts can be as large as you want, instead of limited to one gigabyte in size. New emoticons and skins have been added in this version. I just downloaded this today and installed it.

*The Changes*

1. The add a contact button has been moved to the bottom of the messenger.



2. New Skins - There is a small round button on the top which is next to the minimize, you can change the skins of your messenger with the help of it. There are 7 cool skins that you can change.



*New Features*

1. Now you can also add emoticons in your status messages.



2. Now if you just paste the image link while chatting with your friends, they can see the image without actually clicking on the link. The image appears inside the chat box. Aint this great?



Download Here - Yahoo Messenger 9 Beta