Sharing your loved tunes is no problem nowadays with all the portable speakers and audio solutions available in the market that supports a variety of digital audio players, but what about videos? For the most part, user had to encode and burn it to a CD for it to be played on DVD players which is very cumbersome considering the length of time it takes to do both tasks.
It’s a good thing that the guys at SanDisk came up with this very nifty and portable solution. Just by click-and-dragging your files to the USB proponent of their new TakeTV, you are now done with the most tedious part of the entire process.
A cradle for hook up to a TV is just waiting for the USB to be plugged in for you to start enjoying all your saved media files. The TakeTV supports DivX, xVid and MPEG-4 video formats and has a maximum resolution of 720x576 (D1) with a bitrate of up to 7 Mbps. 4:3 and 16:9 aspect ratio are both supported as well. It even comes with a remote for complete wireless control.
With the SanDisk TakeTV, you can now say goodbye to those encoding days and say hello to hassle-free video sharing on the fly. For some hands-on impressions, the lucky guys at Engadget share their views on thise device.
For the paranoid among us:
Those of you who've bit the bullet and sprung for an iPod Touch (or an iPhone) and are concerned about the screen issue that has come up (faulty rendering of blacks and all) and can't tell if your new toy is one of the defective ones, or if you're just worried about stuck or dead pixels like we all are, there is a free online test that you can use to detect any problems. (Would that there were more of these free and useful things around, huh?)
Just pop on over to 
Don’t have an iPod yet? Well, this is first and foremost a watch so you don’t necessarily need to have an iPod to take advantage of this beauty of a timepiece. Of course, it would be a shame not to maximize its full potential, but hey, if an iPod isn’t in your list of priorities at the moment, then by all means, just get this uber cool watch for now.
In a 
CNN recently devoted a series of shows focusing on 
Probably a foreshadowing of sorts, the 
After six iterations and a number of other best-selling models evolving from it, Apple's franchise digital audio player marks its 6th year in the market. It’s quite amazing if you look back at the Ipod's humble beginnings and how the entire iPod line has grown from that single ground-breaking portable media player back then. From packing a measly 5 GB of storage coupled with a 2-inch monochrome backlit LCD to a now massive 160 GB of music and video with a bright and vibrant 2.5-inch colored LCD, every year seems to usher in new surprises for this every changing device. With the development of such unique and popular lines such as the Shuffle, Nano and the latest of them all, the Touch, Apple is surely poised in making its reign in the portable multimedia device arena untouchable. I can’t even imagine what Steve will think of next especially when the iPod hits its first 10 years in the business.
5th and 5.5 gen iPod owners are kind of feeling left out considering that most of the firmware updates only pertain to the latest DAP devices from Apple, not to mention that all the new line of iPods now sport a spanking new interface. Well, frown no more as those ingenious people who have a knack for getting into the heart of Apple’s firmware have come up with a way to update your iPod's user interface to the latest version minus the cover flow feature. Making use of the Windows-only iPodWizard, a 
It's official. Apple's made a habit of producing long, large and reasonably thorough introductory videos for major new hardware and software they're releasing.
It's great for hungry fanboys and tech journalists who can't get it elsewhere, and I guess for the growing number of folk who want a look at the stuff before plunking down coin for the new stuff coming out of Cupertino. Largely overkill, the hype usually should be enough for other manufacturers, but Apple tends to go overboard about these things (hey, new iPhone TV ads are still coming out up to now, man). Don't have a problem with it, though.
Recently, some of the better ones have been the iPhone and iPod Touch guided tours (although they need serious help sourcing less awkward hosts for these things - less of the hand gestures, guys! And seriously, we're sick of the black t-shirts.)
Now, they've just released on the Apple site a half-hour video for OS X Leopard, which is coming out on Friday. (For which I will take off from the Tokyo Motor Show and sneak out to the Ginza Apple Store on the 26th to see how they do a product rollout in Japan.) Cool. Us fanboys anticipate these videos like sequels to the Transformers movie.
Watch the Leopard Guided Tour in different resolutions or download it (108mb for iPods and 379mb for the bigger version) 
Despite getting RoHS approval, it looks like Apple is going to hear, again, from the folks at Greenpeace as the iPhone has been discovered to contain toxic brominated compounds which indicates the presence of brominated flame retardants, BFRs, and hazardous PVC. Of the 18 internal and external components tested, half the samples returned positive for brominated compounds. They also found traces of phthalates in the wiring of the vinyl plastic earphones at levels that are prohibited in young children’s toys in San Francisco and the European Union.
The much talked about and anticipated UMPC from ASUS simply known as the 
The interesting thing about this is that unlike traditional DVD media which usually just include typical behind-the-scenes and bonus material, this one will have multiple media formats saved on a single disk that will allow users to easily play it on other devices such as your home PC and portable media players.
However, there is no mention whether DRM will be used as copyright protection. If Warner does decide to go the DRM route, then you might want to rule out iPod use since DRM-protected media is only compatible with Windows Media Player. But let’s wait till they release official word on this. I would also like to believe that this will apply to international releases, but no confirmation on this particular matter either.
From the Now-We've-Seen-Everything Department
Your friendly Nameless and Shameless Chinese Cloner Corporation has made a Nintendo Wii clone called the Vii, according to Engadget China.
The clone apparently can do a good approximation of the Wii, although no one has really gotten their mitts on one to review it yet. The Chinese Engadget site is as yet untranslated so we can't make out much, but from the looks of it, it looks and works a lot like the real thing. From the available pics, some of the games are called Happy Tennis, Alacrity Golf, Fry Fish, Bird Knight, Fever Move, and my favorite, Free Craps.
Try and read through the Engadget report 
I'm at the Epson North Luzon Business Conference up here at Fort Ilocandia Resort in Laoag, Ilocos Norte, and while this event is wall-to-wall business, one of the things that floored me is an entertainment device. From Epson? Damn straight!
It's called the Epson EMP-TWD 3 Home Entertaiment Projector, and it's meant for creating a home cinematic experience, not a stuffy old Powerpoint presentation. It's more for watching 300 the movie rather than charting 300 sales targets for the year.
What makes it different? Senior Manager Mike Mondragon tells me that there's a world of difference between a projector made for a business presentation than one made for watching movies or TV, or for playing video games, and the EMP-TWD 3 is right at home doing the latter.
At first glance looking like a medium-sized subwoofer, it is actually a projector with integrated speakers and a DVD player. If your hackles rise up at the thought that what is Epson doing making a DVD player - stop worrying; they're the first to say that their core compentencies lie elsewhere; the DVD player part is a JVC product.
It connects by a single cable, and has a high luminance that you don't even need to turn down the room lights to use it. Imagine Halo 3 on this thing.
The best part? It costs less than half you'd pay for a large LCD monitor that you can't lug around and adjust sizes with. Cool stuff.
Now, get ready for the fusion of MMORPG and mobile technology as Level Up! together with Smart Telecom brings you 
It provides the avid Level Up! gamer with the necessary tools to be in complete control over his/her Level Up! account regardless of whether he/she is in front of the computer or on the road. In just a matter of a few steps, one can easily download the Level Up! menu to your Smart SIM and link it to a Level Up! account so that one can manage it while on the go and lock it for peace of mind against potential hackers. No need to memorize keywords because all the service options will be available in the downloaded menu that'll be saved on your SIM.
For full coverage of this amazing innovation, watch out for it in the upcoming issue of Mobile Philippines, and for the latest gaming news, check out the 
The WiiRider is a motorcycle game that comes bundled with the WiiConnect, a driver that allows your S60 device to recognize the Wiimote which you can 
Marketshare of the infamous IE has somewhat leveled of at around 20%-27 % while Mozilla's Firefox is slowly but surely gaining popularity now with 13%-16%. In the face of obvious threat breathing down Microsoft’s neck, what do they do? In the hopes of getting more individuals to start using Internet Explorer, they have removed the WGA check which, for all intents and purposes, blocks pirates from downloading the latest iteration of Internet Explorer, IE 7.
Similar to how I’m peeved at how Windows hangs or crashes at the most inopportune moments, IE suffers from the same problems. Instead of addressing such obvious glitches in the program, they remove WGA so more people will get irritated with IE and shift to FireFox or any similar browser that proves to be more stable and is continuously being improved as we speak. Way to go Microsoft!
For those who have patiently been waiting for the iPod Touch, we are happy to announce that 
I'm currently reviewing Apple's new iPod Touch, the so-called neutered iPhone, and while that's technically correct, I'm finding it to be a unique and completely different creature in and of itself. In fact I'm typing this on one online from a movie theater while watching the Pacquiao fight live.
The many preliminary bouts are a bit long and wearying. Bored, I pulled out the iPod and found a free signal labelled Gateway Cinema (why they'd have one here is beyond me) and began surfing. The mere fact I can do this on an iPod and not a laptop or smartphone or Blackberry is no less short of amazing.
That this is even doable underscores the usefulness of such a device that is neither a laptop or a smartphone. It's way handy and convenient for times like these so you can surf, blog or email easily anywhere with wifi with just this one gadget. I'm liking this thing more and more and I'm beginning to think that its most significant weakness - not being a phone - is actually its greatest strength.
More in the forthcoming review. In the meantime I have to go. Manny's fight is about to start. Kyla's singing.
It should be a no-brainer prediction that one of the high-capacity optical formats will be included in an impending iteration of iMac (nice alliteration, huh?) or other new Mac, but its still anyone's guess which of the two warring standards Steve-O will side with, and we won't likely know until the next Macworld Keynote. (Blu-Ray is emerging as the dominant format, but you never really know with notorious contrarian Jobs.) But for those portable Mac users with ginormous storage needs, you don't have to wait (well, maybe a month): 
Microsoft has just 
The flash Zunes will come in two variants: a 4 GB and 8 GB model which are aptly named the Zune 4 and Zune 8, respectively. It comes equipped with a slightly smaller 1.8-inch display compared to Apple’s new iPod Nano which has a 2.0-inch beauty. Both models will be available in pink, green, black and red. For a complete head-to-head comparison of the iPod line and Zune family, head on over to 
Nokia and Airborne Access have teamed up to provide N-Series phone users free Wifi access for up to 180 days provided that you’re first log-in is 
before the end of October 31, 2007. Of course, this is limited to Nseries models that are equipped with Wifi capability.
Personally, I find that Wifi is a better feature to have in a phone rather than 3G if you always want to be connected online where ever you go. With Wifi hotspots, and free ones at that, popping out of the wood work, it’s now more practical to use since it’s free and more efficient than 3G, which is costly.
Not wanting to be left behind, 
