Evernote for iPhone and iPad Update

Evernote for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch has been updated to include support in preparation for iOS 4.2 when it arrives sometime this month.

As well as supporting the new iOS, particularly multi tasking on the iPad, Evernote has also had a few new features added to it to make more useful than before.

New features in the Evernote iOS 4.2 update include the ability to add multiple photos, up to 5, to notes created. Audio notes have also been increased allowing up to 90 minute recordings to be captured if needed.

As well as the audio and photo sections getting an update, there’s also support within other apps such as Safari to open up PDF documents (and other types) in Evernote.

Evernote is a free app available from iTunes with a paid subscription model should you choose to want more transfer allowances each month.

Facebook Email

Facebook is about to launch a new email service in a move that could directly challenge the likes of Hotmail and Google’s Gmail, according to reports.

The social networking site is expected to unveil the new venture – dubbed the “Gmail killer” – at an event in San Francisco at about 6pm UK time.

Technology blog Techcrunch suggests Facebook, which has more than 500 million users, will offer a “fully-fledged” webmail service.

Email addresses would be expected to have the @facebook.com suffix.

The company has been involved in a number of disputes with Google – such as when it was banned from allowing Facebook users to import their Gmail contacts.

But one source “with knowledge of Facebook’s plans” has told the New York Times that the new service would not just be about email.

The source was quoted as saying: “They’re not trying to do a standalone rival to Gmail.

“They are building an integrated experience in everything they do.”

GTX 580 Review

It might not be November 9 all around the world yet, but NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 580 has already had its spec sheet dished out to the world, courtesy of CyberPower’s seemingly early announcement. The new chip will offer a 772MHz clock speed, 512 processing cores, and a 192.4GBps memory bandwidth, courtesy of 1.5GB of GDDR5 clocked at an effective rate of 4GHz. CyberPower is strapping this beast into its finest rigs, and for additional overkill it’ll let you SLI up to three of them within one hot and steamy case. Now let’s just wait patiently for midnight to roll around and see what the reviewers thought of NVIDIA’s next big thing.

Update: CRN has a $499 price for us and a recital of NVIDIA’s internal estimate that the GTX 580 bests the GTX 480 by between 20 and 35 percent. It seems, however, that the embargo for this hot new slice of silicon is set for early tomorrow morning, so check back then for the expert review roundup.

Update 2: Lusting to see one on video? How about two side by side? Skip past the break for the eye candy

iPod Nano watch

We’ve seen the iPod Nano turn into a wristwatch and that looked quite simple and basic. Now we are introduced to the new silicone bands from Hex which uses Nano’s potential like never before. You can now sit your iPods securely into the face without any hassle or worry. It features integrated control buttons and it comes in 9 different colors. The colors vary from subtle to funky, so there is something for everyone. If you want to be bold, go for the yellow or orange and for something more mellow, try the white or grey. These bands look like a lot of fun.

Call Of Duty Black Ops Review

Despite the phenomenal and underrated Call of Duty: World at War, Treyarch has not been able to shed the stigma that mark it as a study has been limited to collecting the seed sown by IW and its ability to move the franchise to a new level little or no. For many Treyarch is just the computer recycler previous Call of Duty to allow Activision to release a sequel every year, giving breaths IW 24 months to do the real leap in quality. 12 months have been forced to change the perspective, which has affected not only the Black Ops in question, but the future of Call of Duty. The neglect of multiple members of Infinity Ward has dismantled virtually the study, as Activision has had to turn the opening for Treyarch at the headliners, providing them everything they might need to make a delivery height.

This time the action takes place in the Cold War where the role of Mason will be part of the SOG (Special Operation Group). The SOG’s were the elite team responsible for carrying out the Black Ops, top secret covert missions that were intended to destabilize and weaken both the former Soviet Union and their allies. In this installment will travel from Cuba to the frozen tropical USSR, not forgetting to give us a walk in the heat of the Vietnam War, through other awake my prefer locations with your own eyes.

Maximum level of frenzy from the first mission, but sustained by the minute of play. That is really difficult. Most of the big games live on specific moments of showmanship that do not fall into oblivion, therefore, maintain that level of pure entertainment with no breaks and without wavering is what makes Black Ops in a game that exceeds the large category categorized as sublime. The key to ensuring that intensity has been guaranteed by the dynamics of changing environments and goals. Black Ops’s argument unfolds through flashbacks that put us in each of them in completely different scenarios, leading to a variety of actions, characters and locations. As soon as we are trying to assassinate Fidel Castro in Cuba in the first mission, trying to survive a riot in a Soviet prison as a hill to defend the attack from a horde of “Charlie.”

Call of Duty: Black Ops is a game of great visuals. No looks Uncharted 2, or the strength of Killzone 2, not the character models are like Kratos, however, the whole graph displays a high level of technical finish. Everything is good enough to draw a balance to conceal any gap. No deficiencies in bulk, no notable problems. What you need to highlight Black Ops is the immense task of location and level design. Vietnam, Laos, Cuba, the Arctic, ships, laboratories, bunkers, villages, etc.. A constant change of ambience perfectly recreated. Throughout our single player experience will seem to be playing multiple different games. A stunning artwork.

In this installment Treyarch has emphasized the recoil of weapons. Despite the targeted characteristic of the series attended, we must put some more effort in the shootings. Without being 100% realistic, the effect achieved when attempting to better reflect the weight of arms and the back is very important. In heavy elements such as rocket launchers have extended the drop effect. No longer sufficient to point to the goal, we must now adjust to the shoot weight of the shells. The real novelty in this game playable level is piloting the vehicle. In Black Ops not resist us or land or sea or air. Not only shooting and other titles in the series, but we will have total control of motorcycles, barges and helicopters. Something that has demanded that we actively and finally granted.

We played Black Ops on Normal, Hardened and Veteran. And we recommend for you to enjoy fully and extend the gaming experience, beginning in Tanning. In normal, just lose the life, thus shortening the useful life in excess of the campaign. In tanning, the AI will challenge us, our resistance is lower and this fire will substantially change our pace of play. Is fair and accurate measure of difficulty for us to feel comfortable with the game and have a correct duration. Veteran is, as happened with World at War-a challenge for the bravest. A difficulty level for losing his temper and destroy our control. No doubt there are that play, but not the way to start Black Ops.

Treyarch has another goal to accomplish: Black Ops should wipe sales. Modern Warfare 2 holds the Guinness record as the most successful video game of all time. That is, not only has to be good, but also has the obligation to reconnect with the public, offering something back to take a feverish mass in stores since the first day. Let there be no questions, no questioning, Black Ops should volatilize stores in a handful of hours.

Kinect Review

The Nintendo Wii made waves when it came out in 2006.

It wasn’t because of an exciting array of incredible launch titles – there weren’t any. And it absolutely wasn’t due to the Wii packing dazzling HD graphics – it doesn’t.

It was all down to the motion-controlled gaming interface which put players inside games for the first time.

Playing a tennis game suddenly became about swinging and hitting a ball, instead of using your fingers to hit the right buttons on a control pad in the right order. Gaming was revolutionised.

Four years and 75 million worldwide Wii sales later, Microsoft and Sony have now both released their high-tech answers to the Wii-mote, and they couldn’t be more different.

While Sony’s PlayStation Move uses the PlayStation Eye camera to detect and measure the location of high-tech and spatially-aware handheld controllers, Kinect has no physical controllers to speak of at all.

The idea is that your body is the controller. It’s up to the Kinect games and apps to use the camera and microphone to work out what you’re doing and what you’re saying, and to interpret your commands in the appropriate fashion.

How it works

The Kinect sensor contains an RGB camera and a depth sensor to track your movement. It measures the positioning of 48 key joints in your anatomy and by tracking the movements of these joints, it can work out exactly what position your body is in. What’s more, it sees in 3D by overlaying the input from the RGB camera with the depth sensor.

Meanwhile the built-in multiarray microphone monitors the room for your voice – yep, Kinect even allows you to control your Xbox 360 using voice commands alone.

It’s almost too good to be true, isn’t it? These are the hopes and dreams of every 6-year old child come-true. It’s the sort of technology we only dreamed about while watching ’60s TV series’ like The Jetsons as kids.

But this isn’t fantasy. This is real. And so what we nervously want to know is – does it really work, and is it any good?

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