Hwrms’ Tech Blog

Maybe you already realized, the home page of Blizzard.com already changed to a splash flash of Diablo 3.
Now its a long time waiting ahead of us.

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Promotion from Avira, end date unknown.

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According to a promotion poster from K-Mart, XBox 360 20GB version will have a $50 price drop, from $349 to $299. Details of price adjustment of other versions of XBox consoles are not yet released.

Computer Mosquito Repellent

This program releases sound waves that have similar frequency as mosquitoes’ predators such as bat of dragon fly through computer speakers.  The program claims that it can effectively repel mosquitoes up to 20 meters around the computer speakers. The sound waves are claimed to be unheard and harmless to human beings.

Virtual Hypnotist – The program that makes you sleep better.

This program is intended to make you fell in sleep in no time. It uses different methods to do so. Graphic and Sound mode employs puzzle-like graphic patterns along with sound patterns to make you feel virually tired and eventually fell to sleep. It can already play boring speeches or video clips to give you a quality nap.

Dream Translator – What does a dream mean to your life?

This program is made just for the fun of it. It can ‘translate’ your dreams to some inspirations and predictions of your future. You just have to input your dream’s plot and setting, it will give you the full explanation. The program translate the dream according to a ancient Chinese novel that talks about dream translating.

OKAO Vision – Tells your age and gender through your photo

OKAO Vision is a face sensing program that utilizes several technologies to detect your gender and age. It can find your face from your photo, analyze your eyes, eyebrows, and mouth, compare your face with the database, and eventually estimate your gender and age.

This is a promotion from Microsoft.com and you can register from here.

All you have to do is submit your email and you will receive the genuine key and download link.

Download size: 225MB.
Requirements: Windows XP/2003 Server/Vista.

As recently seeing some mysterious pictures leaked from blizzard.com, gamers feel that something big is gonna come out from Blizzard. And now we have the answer.

We recently found Diablo characters on one of the  posters from Blizzard, and we are predicting a most likely Diablo 3 to be announced on WWI 2008.

Even though Firefox 3 Final just came out days ago, Firefox developing team already starts going on the next big update, Firefox 3.1.

The new alpha version of Firefox 3.1 has already gained few more new features, but the big excitment is how much 3.1 improved in the Acid3 test comparing to Forefox 3.

Firefox 3 Final:

Firefox 3.1 Alpha:

Xunlei is THE most popular download manager in China, not only because it has a user-friendly interface, multi-protocol support, and powerful managing tools, but also because it uses P2P to speed up ordinary HTTP downloads.

After you adds a download task to Xunlei, it searches for other users who are downloading this file and other servers that also store this file. Xunlei will then make attempts to connect to the servers and users. If the connection is established, Xunlei will start to transfer data from these sources.

This new innovative downloading method not only speeds up the speed of downloads, it also resolves some of the dead links by finding alternative sources to download.

Xunlei also supports Bittorrent and Emult download as well.

Here are two screenshots of Xunlei in application (click on the images to view details):

Download English Xunlei 5 Portable, (thanks to HeHeHunter for the translation pack)

We recently found a mysterious picture named ice1.jpg, which we doubt is related to one of the Blizzard’s new games.

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