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- New Version of Fraps Fixes Micro Stutter and Other Annoying Bugs
- ViewSonic Tips 22-inch Android Tablet with Ice Cream Sandwich
- GameStop Stocks Over 1,600 Locations with Android Tablets, Google Nods Approvingly
- Facebook Eyes Browser Acquisition, Wants to Throw an Opera Party
| New Version of Fraps Fixes Micro Stutter and Other Annoying Bugs Posted: 28 May 2012 06:57 AM PDT
Beepa's April 2012 update to Fraps brought the program up to version 3.5.0 and introduced support for large AVI movie files greater than 4GB on NTFS drives, along with a handful of bug fixes. It also ushered in new minimium system requirements that call for a CPU with SSE2 and dropping support for Windows 2000. Three more updates would follow, including version 3.5.3 introduced on Sunday. Like the one before it, version 3.5.3 doesn't add any new features, but fixes a spattering of bugs, including:
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| ViewSonic Tips 22-inch Android Tablet with Ice Cream Sandwich Posted: 28 May 2012 06:41 AM PDT
Our friends at Engadget got their mitts on a Computex invitation from ViewSonic, which teases the 22-inch "smart business tablet monitor" as part of its Touch and Connect series. Other than the screen size and partial shot of ICS, ViewSonic is keeping tight lipped, choosing not to reveal any other hardware specs or special features. Still, we can ponder whether a 22-inch tablet is simply too big, or an awesome display of where technology is headed. On one hand, the trend has been towards smaller sized tablets in the 7-inch category, though part of that has been out of necessity in terms of lower costs. At the same time, a 22-inch screen size opens up new possibilities on the business side for presentations and notebook-like productivity, provided you supply a Bluetooth keyboard. What are your thoughts on a 22-inch tablet form factor? Image Credit: ViewSonic via Engadget |
| GameStop Stocks Over 1,600 Locations with Android Tablets, Google Nods Approvingly Posted: 28 May 2012 06:14 AM PDT
"Android tablets purchased at GameStop come loaded with valuable extras including a hand-picked selection of free games, like Sonic CD and Riptide, the Kongregate Arcade gaming app and a free issue of Game Informer Digital," GameStop points out. " As with all products sold by GameStop, these items can be purchased with trades of games, consoles and even an old iPod, iPhone or iPad." With a million and one different Android tablets in the wild, GameStop can't possibly stock them all, though it does carry slates from Asus (Transformer, Transformer Prime, and Transformer Pad 300 Series), Acer (Iconia), Samsung (Galaxy), Toshiba (Excite), and ViewSonic (VPad7) with prices starting at $230 (Acer Iconia 7-inch). GameStop also stocks and sells pre-owned iPad devices, starting at $285. You can view GameStop's entire collection of tablets here. |
| Facebook Eyes Browser Acquisition, Wants to Throw an Opera Party Posted: 28 May 2012 05:51 AM PDT
Word of a possible acquisition comes from Pocket-Lint.com, which is getting its information from one of its "trusted sources." This "man in the know" tells Pocket-Lint that Facebook wants its own browser, one that would allow its users to interact with the site through baked-in plug-ins and special features on the menu bar. This would be an interesting move for Facebook, which added more than $16 billion to its treasure chest since its IPO, and it would have implications in the browser wars, where Internet Explorer is the top dog (in terms of market share), followed by Chrome and Firefox. Opera barely registers a blip on the radar, despite having a staunch following of enthusiasts. However, Opera has a major mobile presence, which is something that's obviously attractive to Facebook. All told, Opera Software says it has 200 million users spread out on all of its platforms; Facebook boasts nearly a billion members. |
The code monkeys at Beepa have been going bananas with updates to the company's Fraps real-time video capture and benchmarking utility, having rolled out four new versions of the popular app in the past month. Prior to this recent flurry of activity, it wasn't unusual for six months or more to pass without an update, the last of which was released on October 22, 2011 before kicking off a string of updates starting on April 26, 2012.
If the motto to live by is 'Go big or go home,' don't bother putting out a dinner plate for ViewSonic. The company has chosen to go big in the tablet market, teasing a ginormous 22-inch Android powered slate rocking what looks to be Ice Cream Sandwich, the latest version of Google's mobile operating system, at least until Jelly Bean (Android 5.0) comes out later this year.
GameStop is best known for selling used games, oftentimes much to the chagrin of game publishers and developers who have had to get creative in order to cash in on aftermarket game sales. But GameStop is also trying to get in on the ground floor of the whole tablet movement, announcing that it now carries a selection of Android slates in more than 1,600 U.S. stores.
Fresh off Facebook's acquisition of Instagram for a whopping $1.17 billion and following a lackluster initial public offering punctuated by more fizzle than sizzle, Mark Zuckerberg and company are reportedly interested in scooping up Opera Software, the Norwegian outfit behind the semi-popular Opera browser, and the only browser maker that puts out entertaining press releases.| You are subscribed to email updates from Maximum PC - All Articles To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
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