If you’ve paid attention to the last few reviews you may have noticed that the watermark I use for our pictures has changed a bit, I’ve finally got a nice, inexpensive solution for batch watermarking.

Bytescout Watermarking Software is an easy to use and very inexpensive solution to most of your watermarking needs. There are many choices for styles of marking and numerous customizations options as well. For under $20 I can easily recommend you getting this product for quick and easy watermarking of your photos.

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The G-Pen M609 and G-Pen M712 offer more multimedia functions than most tablets on the market and have a 4000 LPI resolution for the best graphic design and performance

MIAMI (April 29, 2008)– Genius (www.geniusnetusa.com), a brand division of KYE Systems Corp., today announced two new additions to the company’s extensive line up of digital tablets, the G-Pen M609 and G-Pen M712, for graphic designers and artists. Both are dual-mode and come with extensive multimedia functions that make creativity a breeze. Plug and play ready, both G-Pen’s come with both Window’s Vista and Mac software. The unique dual-mode feature, which can switch the screen from wide to standard and back again, and the high resolution (4,000 LPI), make these new multimedia tablets the ultimate canvas for serious designers. 

Available in two sizes, the G-Pen M609’s screen size is 9” x 5.5” (wide) / 7.25” x 5.5” (standard); while the sophisticated G-Pen M712 is a bit bigger with a screen size that measures 12” x 7.25” (wide) / x 9.5” x 7.25” (standard). The G-Pen M712 (34 hot keys) has eight more “fast shortcut keys” than the M609 (26 hot keys). The fast shortcut keys are used to access Office, the internet and Vista or Mac functions. Both come with rolling pads at the top of the tablet (scroll, zoom, volume) and hot keysthat can use when creating, writing and drawing, sketching and signing emails, and both come with stylish design, top class digital, cordless pen.

The G-Pen M712 is priced at $249.00 (MSRP) and comes with PhotoShop Elements 5.0, PhotoImpact 12SE, Macro Key Manager and Office Ink/Free Notes, the G-Pen M609 comes with all the same software, except PhotoElements 5.0, and is priced at $195.00 (MSRP). Interested shoppers can go to New Egg.com, Amazon.com, Tiger Direct, Buy.com or other retailers and distributors listed at http://www.geniusnetusa.com/buy.php.

More information on all of Genius’ tablet line, www.geniusnetusa.com.

ABOUT KYE Systems Corp

Founded in 1983, KYE is an international leading company in computer peripherals and famous for its Genius brand. KYE had expanded its portfolio of innovative peripherals to consumer electronics with continued leadership in design and quality. 2007’s sales revenue of KYE posted its sixth consecutive year of record sales, US$417 million. KYE Systems Corp. is a Taiwan public company, 3 yearsawards (205, 2006, and 2007) Taiwan Top20 Global brands.

Title: SendStation iPod Dock Extender @ BRnR

Link:

http://www.barrys-rigs-n-reviews.com/reviews/2008/accessories/docext/1.htm

Quote:

“So you’ve purchased a case to protect your iPod from the wear and tear of daily usage. Except it prevents you from using your iPod Dock and similar accessories. You could do things the hard way and remove your iPod from the case every time you want to dock it—Or you could do things the easy way by picking up this great little accessory - the SendStation iPod Dock Extender.”

Overclock3D have just published a new article titled: The Computer Council - Clocked Gamer Quad.

Quote: “Fitted with top quality components and overclocked to 3.3ghz, the Clocked Gamer Quad offers top performance at a reasonable price.”

Link: http://www.overclock3d.net/reviews.php?/misc_content/the_computer_council_-_clocked_gamer_quad/1

Title:
Head-Direct RE1 Earphones

Link:
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Head-Direct/RE1

Brief:
Head-Direct has just released their RE1 earphones which are quite different compared to all the other in-ears on the market today. The special thing about them is that they are based around some very unique performing drivers that scale particularly well. The better your amplifier is, the better their sound, leaving the competition behind in the dust - if you have a good amp.

Title: Phoronix Test Suite 0.4.0 Released @ Phoronix
Direct Link: http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=12268
Summary: “Following last week’s release of Phoronix Test Suite 0.3.0 and the 0.3.1 hot-fix, a surprising amount of changes have wound up in this week’s development release known as version 0.4.0. In fact, there are 21 major changes in this new release not counting general development work and minor bug fixes. Among the changes are new test profiles, a number of new PTS options, PTS External Dependencies support for new Linux distributions, reworking how results are saved, and the graphs are now rendered locally when saving the results.”

Western Digital VR150 300GB Velociraptor Review

Author: Doc Overclock Date: 04-24-2008

It seems as if the folks at Western Digital have been working late night in their R&D department as the new Velociraptor takes the Raptor series to the next level. The Raptor series of drives were already a hall of fame winning product and with new drives with basically twice as fast overall performance levels these new Velociraptors will take their rightful place alongside their predecessors. The new Velociraptor is also very quiet running; you can barely hear it when engaged, always a good thing. Games were accessed faster, files transferred quicker and Music ripped seamlessly.

Review Link: http://www.motherboards.org/reviews/hardware/1770_1.html

Title: OpenSolaris 2008.05 Gives A New Face To Solaris @ Phoronix
Direct Link: http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=12269
Summary: “In early February, Sun Microsystems had released a second preview release of Project Indiana. For those out of the loop, Project Indiana is the codename for the project led by Ian Murdock at Sun that aims to push OpenSolaris on more desktop and notebook computers by addressing the long-standing usability problems of Solaris. We were far from being impressed by Preview 2 as it hadn’t possessed any serious advantages over a GNU/Linux desktop that would interest normal users. However, with the release of OpenSolaris 2008.05 “Project Indiana” coming up in May, Sun Microsystems has today released a final test copy of this operating system. Our initial experience with this new OpenSolaris release is vastly better than what we had encountered less than three months ago when last looking at Project Indiana.”

itle: Noctua NF-P12 Case Fan at Modders-IncSummary:  Noctua has come up with another uniquely designed fan, the NF-P12. Although some might mistakenly think these are similar to their NF-S12 fans due to the colors used. They are completely different in design.

Articles URL: http://www.modders-inc.com/modules.php?name=NDReviews&op=Story&reid=191

Site URL:  http://www.modders-inc.com

Title: NorthQ Siberian Tiger Water Cooler at Jonnyguru.com

Summary:  The Siberian Tiger water cooling system is a sealed CPU water cooling system that takes a lot of the headaches out of water cooling. You don’t have to worry about filling or draining the system every time you need to pull your rig down.

Articles URL:  http://www.jonnyguru.com/modules.php?name=NDReviews&op=Story&reid=86

Site URL:  http://www.jonnyguru.com

OCIA.net has posted their review of the Cyber Snipa Sonar 5.1 Headset.  Below is a direct quote from the review:

Title: GIGABYTE GA-EP35-DS3P Motherboard Review @ Virtual-Hideout

Review link: http://www.virtual-hideout.net/reviews/Gigabyte_GA_EP35_DS3P/index.shtml

Quote: “The Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS3P Motherboard is an aggressive, extreme, yet efficient platform. It’s a shock to see this board do so well and do it even better at more extreme frequencies. It’s more affordable than most P35 overclocking motherboards and has plenty of the top end features a power user could want. There is a large void out there for energy conscious users who still want real power. This is absolutely the best choice for those on a budget who didn’t think they could afford extreme performance.”

NEW CONTENT (Casing & Cooling) - GIGABYTE G-Power 2 Pro CPU Cooler

QUOTE: “The GIGABYTE G-Power 2 Pro was first presented to me with a flash presentation detailing the functions and basically letting me know that it was not a mediocre product. From the start I was interested, and now that I am finished with my testing I can make you interested too.

The G-Power 2 Pro is the third in a series of G-Power products. The first and second, the G-Power Pro and G-Power Lite were both good products, but when it came to design they followed in the footsteps of other traditional CPU heatsinks. The latest version, 2 Pro steps away from what’s traditional and looks to prove that innovation leads to higher performance.”

For more information, please visit - http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/1399/gigabyte_g_power_2_pro_cpu_cooler/index.html

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The TweakTown Team
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