For three weeks now, Android fans have been fidgeting impatiently. Specifically, ever since ASUS chairman Jonney Shih took the stage at last month’s AsiaD conference and teased the next-gen Transformer tablet. Though he only gave us a quick glimpse, he recited a laundry list of specs: a 10.1-inch display, 8.3mm-thick body, mini-HDMI output, microSD slot and an update to Ice Cream Sandwich by the end of the year, if not sooner. Not to mention, it’ll be the first tablet packing NVIDIA’s hot-off-the-presses Tegra 3 SoC, making it the first-ever quad-core tablet.

Well, that day has come, and so have the juicy details. We just got word that the tablet will go on sale worldwide in December, starting at USD$499 with a beefy 32GB of storage, moving up to USD$599 for a 64GB model. (That signature keyboard dock you see up there will cost USD$149.) In addition to those basic specs Mr. Shih revealed last month, we now know this has a 1280 x 800, Super IPS+ Gorilla Glass display with a 178-degree viewing angle and a max brightness of 600 nits. It also packs 1GB of RAM, GPS, a gyroscope, SonicMaster audio and a 1.2 megapixel front-facing camera. Rounding out the list is an 8MP shooter with an auto-focusing f/2.4 lens and a back-illuminated CMOS sensor that captures 1080p video. Touch-to-focus is also an option here, and ASUS claims a 30 percent boost in color enhancement over competing tabs.

As for battery life, we initially heard reports of 14.5-hour runtime, but ASUS is now saying the tablet alone can squeeze out 12 hours thanks to a 22Wh battery, and that the dock will add an additional six hours of juice. In addition, the slimmed-down, 1.2-pound dock brings all the other benefits the last-gen model offered, including a touchpad, USB 2.0 port and full-sized SD slot. Software-wise, it’ll ship with Android 3.2 and apps such as SuperNote and Polaris Office, and we’re told we’ll learn more about that ICS update in “early December.”

In terms of design, you may have already noticed the Prime sports the same spun aluminum digs as the company’s Zenbooks, though this is the first time we’re seeing clear, close-up shots of it — and in two colors, no less! At 8.3mm (0.33 inches) thick and 586 grams (1.29 pounds) without the dock, it’s a smidge skinnier than the iPad 2 and Galaxy Tab 10.1, which means, unsurprisingly, that your old Transformer dock won’t be compatible.

Finally, ASUS coated both the display and metal cover with a hydro-oleophobic coating that makes it more fingerprint-resistant. For now, we’ve got photos below and if you can wait a few more weeks, we’ll most definitely be putting this thing through its paces in a full review. And if you’re looking for something a little less expensive, well, the original Transformer should be getting Ice Cream Sandwich soon, and we wouldn’t be surprised if Santa brought a few holiday rebates.

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Screenshots: http://www.swiftgear.com/ltfviewer/screenshots.html
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Dorgem v2.1 – 410KB
Dorgem is a webcam capture application for Windows 9x and up. Any Video for Windows compatible webcam (or other digital camera) is supported.It has unlimited storage events that can put the captured image on an FTP site as well as a local disk, all with their own time interval. It can put a unlimited texts and bitmaps on the captured image before the image is stored. Although it is a little difficult to configure, there is no other program that does it as well as this one.

Dorgem supports an unlimited number of simultaneous cameras. It has a built-in webserver for still images and can be used as security camera because of its motion detection.

Requirements:

• Windows 9x/ME/2000/XP. It has not been tested on Windows NT 4.
• Video for Windows compatible webcam/camera.
• The FTP storage is based upon WinInet, therefore you need Internet Explorer to be installed on your machine.

Website & Screenshots: http://dorgem.sourceforge.net
Download: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/dorgem/dorgem210.exe

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Try also:
Set Game
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For me, these are the add-ons that I have installed on Firefox, and I recommend you try them out as it really increases productivity.

• Adblock Plus
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• Better Gmail 2
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• British English Dictionary
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• Download Statusbar
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• FlashGot
  - Download all the links, movies and audio clips of a page at the maximum speed with a single click, using the most popular, lightweight and reliable external download managers. (samliew: works well with the above plug-in. I use this to download YouTube videos and embedded MP3 from websites)
• Greasemonkey
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• FastStone Capture (freeware version) – Screenshot capture
• FastStone Image Viewer
• Picasa
• ImgConverter
• Firm Tools Shell Extension Converter
• Image ReSizer
• The GIMP
• Blender 2.44
• Paint.NET
• Corel Snipefire 1.2 – Image organizer, editor and viewer
• Acala Video MP3 Ripper

• Mega Sound Recorder – Sound recording
• EXPStudio Audio Editor Free – Audio editor
• Audacity
• GOM Player
• OrangeCD Player
• Ashampoo Clip Finder
• FinalBurner – Burning tool
• ImgBurn Burning tool
• Azureus Vuze -torrent client and video player NEW
• VeohTV – watch and record internet videos NEW

• DVDFlick - Convert videos to DVD
• Dvd Decrypter 3.5
• Dvd Shrink 3.2

• Free YouTube to MP3 Converter – NEW

Computer Security

• AVG Anti-Spyware
• Spyware Blaster
• Lavasoft Ad-aware
• Spybot Search and Destroy
• AVG Anti-Virus
• Avast Home Edition
• Active Virus Shiels
• Avira Antivir personal edition
• ClamWin
• Jetico Personal Firewall – (now Vista comp.)
• PC Tools AntiVirus Free Edition
• PC Tools Firewall Plus
• Comodo Firewall
• Comodo Antivirus
• Androsa FileProtector – file and folder protector -NEW

Computer Maintenance Tools

• Advanced Windows Care Personal – System Maintenance
• Auslogics Disk Defrag
• Auslogics Registry Defrag
• Iobit SmartDefrag
• Defraggler – file and folder defrag. – NEW
• BackUp Maker Standard Edition
• DriveMax – Backup your computer’s drivers
• nCleaner – Disk Cleaner
• Wise Disk Cleaner – Disk cleaner
• Starter - Startup manager
• RegToy – Tweaking program
• Vispa – Tweak your Windows Vista
• TweakVI Basic -Tweaking program
• SoftPerfect File Recovery
• Vista Shutdown Timer
• FileMenu Tools – Contex menu enhancement
• FreeCommander 2006.06 b – Explorer replacement
• 7-Zip

Education

• Lingoes Translator -Free word and text translator
• Vocabula – Improve your vocabulary skills

Desktop, Office, HTML, Editors and News

• Adobe Digital Editions – Read and manage your eBooks
• Fresh Feed Reader – Ajax rss reader running on Adobe AIR.
• Crsspy – RSS Reader
• YeahReader – RSS Reader
• GreatNews Rss Reader
• FeedDemon RSS Reader – NEW
• JustHTML – Html editor
• OpenOffice.org
• Post2Blog – Blogging software
• Sticky Notes
• iQ-Notes – Sticky notes
• EverNote
• Notepad++
• Mozilla Sunbird Calendar
• EssentialPIM Free 1.95 – Organizer
• doPDF – PDF converter
• ObjectDock – task manager and a program launcher
• Thunderbird 2 – Email client
• GMail Notifier
• GMail Drive Shell Extension
• FolderGuide – right click menu

Network, FTP and P2P

• FTPDrive
• FTP Commander
• Filezilla
• Net Tools – Network monitoring software
• WinWSD WebSite Downloader
• Mozilla Firefox
• Avant Browser
• Maxthon

IM and Telephony

• Google Talk
• Yahoo Messenger

Not one to be upset by its competitors, ASUS has released its newest model of the Eee PC series, the Eee PC 900. You may have seen our coverage of the launch of the Eee PC just recently, so you’re probably aware of the newer features the Eee PC 900sports, such as the 1.3-megapixel camera and the larger 8.9-inch screen. ASUS has also increased the storage capacity of the 900 series to around 20GB for the Linux version and 12GB for the Windows version.

Read about it more, photos, and specs at:

http://www2.hardwarezone.com/articles/view.php?cid=14&id=2543

The easiest way is to download A-Patch, which is actually an utility to customize visual and functionality aspects of Windows Live Messenger or MSN Messenger.

http://www.apatch.org/downloads.php