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CrazyTalk Creates makes your photos lip sync with any audio you choose
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Nothing says unforgettable office joke than taking your boss’s picture and making it say what you want. Good fun! On the professional side I have used this program for mock ups where you need video of a person doing a mono log and don’t have the video yet. All files are also exportable to the web. I once used our shipping managers voice for a Jeff Gordon demo, priceless. The product is deceivingly simple to use yet overwhelming powerful and lifelike in facial responses.
Publisher’s description:
Create and control a virtual cast of live talking characters ready to deliver an animated vocal performance for your video, web, mobile or messaging projects. Just a single photograph, recorded or imported audio, combined with transitional effects, animated illustrations and expressive emoticons, and CrazyTalk’s powerful facial morphing animation technology is all you need to begin creating speaking actors, virtual guides, and digital hosts adding perfect personalities to any multimedia experience.
Firefox 2.0 Beta 2 Released
The award-winning Web browser is better than ever. Browse the Web with confidence. Firefox protects you from viruses, spyware and pop-ups.Enjoy improvements to performance, ease of use and privacy. It’s easy to import your favorites and settings and get started.
The latest version delivers easier navigation for everyone, including those who are visually or motor-impaired. Firefox is the first browser to support DHTML accessibility, which, when enabled by Web authors, allows rich Web applications to be read aloud. Users may navigate with keystrokes rather than mouse clicks, reducing the tabbing required to navigate documents such as spreadsheets. Firefox 1.5 (Windows version) is also the first browser to meet US federal government requirements that software be easily accessible to users with physical impairments.
Philips and Netgear have rolled out cordless phones which can place and receive Skype and traditional landline calls without a computer.
Philips and Netgear have rolled out cordless phones which can place and receive Skype and traditional landline calls without a computer.
VoIP leader Skype announced today at IFA 2006 that its partners Philips and NetGear have each launched cordless phones which can place and receive calls both from traditional landlines and via the Skype VoIP service—all without requiring a computer.
“We are broadening our reach to mass consumers by offering them the opportunity to communicate via Skype without having to be tied to the computer,” said Stefan Oeberg, Skype’s general manager of desktop and hardware in a release. “Skype has already introduced Wi-Fi phones and Skype for PocketPC wireless. Now Skype is taking the next step and working together with Philips and Netgear to introduce PC-free cordless phones. The cordless phones for Skype launched today, give Skype users the flexibility to enjoy free Skype to Skype calls and inexpensive calls to ordinary and mobile phones anywhere in the house, at any time without a running computer.”
The cordless phones are a new class of Skype-enabled devices, offering users better mobility throughout their home and/or offices without being ted to their computers, and users can have multiple cordless phones which enable several simultaneous conversations. Both the Netgear and Philips offers have Skype running on them “out of the box,” but also operate as standard landline cordless telephones—handy for accessing emergency services, for instance. The phones ship with a remove DECT base station which connects to both the user’s broadband Internet connection and their standard phone line; both phones feature color graphical displays which enable users to sing into Skype accounts, manage contacts, synchronize contacts, and more—both phones also offer speakerphone capabilities.
The Philips VoIP841 cordless phone should be available in time for the end-of-year holiday season; no word on the availability of the Netgear phone, and no pricing details have been released for either unit.
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Radio Shack fires 400 employees by email
Getting fired is traumatic enough, but imagine getting fired by email. Radio Shack emailed layoff Tuesday morning to 400 of its workers at the Forth Worth Texas headquarters. The company had warned on 10 August that it would cut hundreds of jobs.Employees were warned that the job layoffs would be sent via email. Hourly workers received up to 16 weeks of severance pay, while higher-paid salary workers were given 36 weeks.
Once an electronics giant selling circuit boards and transistor radios, Radio Shack is having tough time competing against more modern stores like Best Buy and CompUSA. A few years ago it tried to reinvent itself into a hipper mobile phone store, but it continues to lose money. Several hundred stores have closed in the past years.
Exclusive: New Mac Mini to Feature CABLE IN CARD
You heard it here first, Apple will be adding a “cable in†feature to high end Mac Minis. The hardware enabling this is an ATI card based on their 650 models but specific to Apple. The software behind the TV playback will play in Front Row and may eventually play in an iTunes interface allowing customers to download (buy) episodes they are watching (from supported carriers) commercial free. Apple will try and limit the “PVR†status and make the Mac mini more of a content aggregator.
Small processor bumps and hard drive increases will also be introduced. Stay tuned for some technical details and more news on a possible Mac mini “biggerâ€, apparently a larger Mac Mini with a black face and white body was seen. We will do some research and try to get to the bottom of this rumor.
Update: This is not to be confused with the unannounced Mac Mini upgrades reported today. Apple does showcase minor processor updates, and looks at those updates and a rev not a product update. The Mac Mini with a black face was actually a PVR testing model, makes you wonder what the benchmark is. We will work to get further updates.
Update: Mac mini to get new input - output feature. More to come.
Save time opening and viewing your PDFs
Publishers description…
Foxit Reader is small (the download is less than 1MB), so it downloads quickly. It doesn’t need any installation, so you can start to run it as soon as you’ve downloaded it.
And It starts up immediately, so you don’t need to wait for an annoying “Welcome” screen to disappear.
Foxit Reader is extremely easy to use, just double click it to start and then click open button to open your PDF document. If you want to print, click on “Print” button. If you want to change the page layout for printing, select “Print Setup” from “File” menu.
