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SEOUL, Korea (AVING) — Logitech Korea(www.logitech.co.kr) has released its latest gaming keyboard ‘G110′ in Korea market.

Backlighting with customizable colors lets you locate the right keys even in the dark. Plus, you can configure up to 36 single keypresses or intricate macros per game on the programmable G-keys, and use the MR key to record new macros on the fly.

Integrated USB audio makes it easy to strategize with teammates or trash-talk enemies; while the Hi-Speed USB 2.0 hub port lets you connect your favorite gaming mouse or other peripherals directly to the keyboard. And, to avoid accidentally exiting your game, you can disable the Windows/Context Menu keys with the game/desktop mode switch.

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SEOUL, Korea (AVING) — Canon Korea announced ‘EOS 550D’, a new addition to its world-famous EOS range of Digital SLR cameras, which incorporates technologies and features more commonly found in semi-professional DSLRs into the compact, lightweight body.

With a newly-developed 18-megapixel APS-C CMOS sensor, coupled with Canon’s advanced DIGIC 4 image processor and the ability to shoot Full HD movies, photography enthusiasts are empowered to explore new levels of creativity.

Canon’s advanced DIGIC 4 image processor and 18MP sensor support standard ISO settings of 100 – 6400 (expandable to 12800), while enhanced in-camera noise reduction technology boosts performance in low light conditions.

For swift and accurate focusing, the EOS 550D…

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SEOUL, Korea (AVING) — Samsung Electronics launched its 23-inch premium LED monitor ‘Syncmaster PX2370′ in Korea market.

The PX2370 is designed with a simple, sophisticated black and transparent shell. It also incorporates a range of innovations to make it one of the most eco-sensitive LED monitors on the market, while providing an unrivaled user experience with excellent image quality. The monitor contains a number of features to maximize energy efficiency, including Samsung’s Smart Sensor Technology, with both proximity and Ambient Light Sensors (ALS), which automatically turn it on and off when not in use. As a result of these innovations, the PX2370 has been awarded with Energy Star and EPEAT Gold Certification.

The display uses Samsung’s…

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Say hello to the Seagate Savvio, a 600GB enterprise HDD that doubles the capacity of current enterprise drives and sports a rocking 10,000 RPM and a 2 million hour MTBF. All this raw, reliable spinning power is packed into a diminutive 2.5 inch frame which lowers rack space requirements and, when combined with the drive’s improved power efficiency and data protection, will make many a system admin happy.

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In a landslide victory that shouldn’t be surprisng to anyone, iTunes beat down the competition with a majority vote of 51%. Following iTunes was the Zune software with 17% of the vote. Being tied to the two major players in the portable music player game definitely helps boost the popularity of the top two—-try loading podcasts on an iPod without iTunes, it can be done but it’s quite an exercise in patience and your desire to live an iTunes-free existance.

Following the stranglehold iTunes and Zune had on the top of the chart, Miro and gPodder nearly tied with roughly 9% of the vote—367 votes and 349 votes respectively. Rounding out the bottom was Juice with 7% of the vote. Keep in mind that despite getting single-digit percentages these runners up are all great tools that merited inclusion in the Hive Five—facing off against iTunes is no easy task. Check out the full Hive Five for additional information and great reader comments.

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SEOUL, Korea (AVING) — LG Electronics has announced the launch of its new QWERTY messaging phone ‘LG GT350′ with built-in applications for major social networks, all optimized for its 3-inch full touchscreen.

The LG GT350 improves upon the earlier LG KS360, a messaging phone that has sold over five million units worldwide since its launch in August 2008. Both phones have slide-out full QWERTY keypads designed specifically for the textually-minded.

More powerful than its predecessor, the LG GT350 includes upgrades to its messaging and social networking experience. Opening its slider reveals a large, comfortable four-line QWERTY keypad, versus a three-line keyboard on the earlier model, which makes typing messages almost as easy as on a comput…

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SEOUL, Korea (AVING) — LG Electronics announced its new phone ‘LG Mini(model: LG GD880)’ that accentuates its trendsetting design with a full complement of intelligent features.

LG Mini is the smallest and slimmest 3.2-inch full touchscreen phone on the market today, making it the perfect handset for people who want all the communication features that today’s technology has to offer without the bulk and heft of a traditional fully-loaded handset.

Thanks to a slim, compact form factor made from the highest quality materials, the LG Mini easily slides in a shirt pocket or small handbag while still feeling reassuringly solid to the touch. Textured metal accents on the sides of the LG Mini add to the phone’s eye-catching looks without detracting…

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Before heading out the door, jump on the internet and enter the addresses of all the places you need to stop or fire up the iPhone app (more on that below). Route4Me plots your whole route for maximum efficiency. It will also map out a round trip so you can get back to where you started, without trying to backtrack using the initial directions. For a more global approach to navigation—if you’re traveling beteween cities, for instance—furnish airport codes, landmarks, cities, or even zip codes, to find optimal routes.

The free web-based service is pretty slick, but its iPhone app really shines. It uses Google Maps to plot out your stops for you and is a great way to access Route4Me when you don’t have an internet connection (like in the car).

Route4Me figures out where you are using your iPhone’s geo-location feature. If you want to skip that step and enter your own starting location, you can do that, too. Then simply add the addresses of everywhere you want to go and the app does the rest. You’ll get estimated trip time and mileage to help you plan ahead, and turn-by-turn navigation so you won’t get lost along the way.

Route4Me stores your favorite locations so you can return to them quickly in the future. it also snags addresses from your phone’s contact book and tracks places you’ve visited recently to make adding destinations really easy.

The app runs $1.99 in iTunes but it’s a handy tool to have on-hand when you need it. It’s perfect for getting organized before you run errands, but it’s also a terrific way to plot out impromptu carpooling situations, and great for sightseeing while traveling.

What tips do you have for optimizing your errands and multi-destination car trips? Share them in the comments.

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If you’ve read Lifehacker for a bit, you know we’re admirers of Paint.NET. It’s lightweight, free, and does most of what the average home user would want out of a photo editing and painting application, without making them learn an entire realm of commands and advanced photography terminology. It opens Photoshop files, it touches up images nicely, and it doesn’t cost $500, so we dig it.

Pinta is an open-source, multi-platform attempt to recreate the Paint.NET experience. It’s described as “early in development,” but for a 0.1 release, feels majorly on its way. It supports multi-layer editing, runs on Linux, Mac, and Windows (with some additional support installed), and a lot of the interface is already in place. I tried it out to edit, crop, and tone some images for this morning’s Lifehacker posts, and I could see working it into my rotation, as it’s a bit lighter and easier to get around than the GIMP, the other cross-platform image editor of note.

Pinta is a free download for Windows, Mac, and Linux systems. Ubuntu and Fedora readers should hit the via link for a quick tip on making installation easier than compiling from source.

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The above image is a remix of photos by DeclanTM and Daniel Morrison.

Over at Carolyn Blogs, the personal blog of a college student studying computer science, Carolyn highlights some of her reasons for using paper-based notes:

Call me old-fashioned, but I like to take notes with a pen and paper. As I’ve discussed previously, the act of writing helps cement the lecture material in my mind better than passive listening does, and studies have shown that it’s not just me [pdf]. Still, I know that my old-fashioned ways are quickly going out of style.

I decided at the beginning of last year that it would be nice to bring my laptop to class so that my notes would be neatly organized (and actually legible for once), and changed my mind after only one or two classes. I could never type fast enough to keep up with the professor, and every five minutes I found myself cursing at not being able to copy the diagram on the board.

In contrast to that, I’m an all-computer-or-nothing note taker—although in fairness my areas of study don’t require diagrams or technical schematics of any sort so I haven’t run into the wall that Carolyn has. I take all my notes in Microsoft OneNote—even using it for GTD!—and keep it synced between my netbook and my desktop via Dropbox.

Where do you fall on the note-taking spectrum? Are you a heavy computer user? Can’t imagine taking notes without a legal pad and pen? Take paper notes but then transcribe them? Cast your vote in the poll:

Do You Prefer Handwriting or Typing Your Notes?(surveys)

If you have a favorite note-taking tool or technique, analog or digital, let’s hear about it in the comments.

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The above image is a remix of photos by DeclanTM and Daniel Morrison.

Over at Carolyn Blogs, the personal blog of a college student studying computer science, Carolyn highlights some of her reasons for using paper-based notes:

Call me old-fashioned, but I like to take notes with a pen and paper. As I’ve discussed previously, the act of writing helps cement the lecture material in my mind better than passive listening does, and studies have shown that it’s not just me [pdf]. Still, I know that my old-fashioned ways are quickly going out of style.

I decided at the beginning of last year that it would be nice to bring my laptop to class so that my notes would be neatly organized (and actually legible for once), and changed my mind after only one or two classes. I could never type fast enough to keep up with the professor, and every five minutes I found myself cursing at not being able to copy the diagram on the board.

In contrast to that, I’m an all-computer-or-nothing note taker—although in fairness my areas of study don’t require diagrams or technical schematics of any sort so I haven’t run into the wall that Carolyn has. I take all my notes in Microsoft OneNote—even using it for GTD!—and keep it synced between my netbook and my desktop via Dropbox.

Where do you fall on the note-taking spectrum? Are you a heavy computer user? Can’t imagine taking notes without a legal pad and pen? Take paper notes but then transcribe them? Cast your vote in the poll:

Do You Prefer Handwriting or Typing Your Notes?(surveys)

If you have a favorite note-taking tool or technique, analog or digital, let’s hear about it in the comments.

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In Windows Explorer, you can jump to a file by typing the first few letters of it’s name at any time—Listary expands on this method by adding a search box that makes this “quick search” far more powerful. It runs in the background and allows you to start typing at any time, and when you do, a search box pops up in the corner. Listary will show you items in the list that correspond to what you’ve typed, and you can scroll through the results with tab. You can insert wildcards with the * or ? symbol, giving you the same control you’d get with the full Windows Explorer search bar, but with much greater speed and ease. It even has a few commands, such as /cd, which will let you change directories without even taking your hands off the keyboard.

At first you may not be entirely clear on how to use it, but it just takes a few minutes to understand how it useful it can be. For example, when searching through a list of files using Listary, you have to either start with the first character of the filename or use a wildcard (like you can see I’ve done in the screenshot above). Similarly, getting used to the one-word autocomplete using tab takes a minute—but just like many programs that keep your hands on the keyboard (such as Quicksilver or Launchy), after just a bit of initiation, you’ll find that sifting through files becomes extremely fast and easy.

Listary is available as a free version and a pro version available, but the free version has the features most of us would want to use—however, the pro version does include regular expressions and exporting list content to CVS files.

Listary is a free download, Windows only.

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Lifehacker reader re404 gets stuff done in a work collective located in Rotterdam. His workspace is inside an almost entirely empty loft space in a commercial/industrial area. The emptiness is the most notable thing about the workspace, he and his office mates have a huge amount of licencse when it comes to arranging their space—the table in the second picture below is a ping-pong table created from wood they salvaged from the previous occupants remodeling of the space.

If we’ve ever featured a workspace that begged to be used for lunch time games of Laser Tag, this is certainly it. What would you do with an “office” that was 90% open space?

If you have a workspace of your own to show off, throw the pictures on your Flickr account and add it to the Lifehacker Workspace Show and Tell Pool. Include some details about your setup and why it works for you, and you just might see it featured on the front page of Lifehacker.

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The Dog-e-Minder is a 3 button backlit device that attaches to your pet’s collar. It has buttons for feeding, walking and medicine. Anytime your dog does one of these activities, you can press the button so the time will be recorded. It makes a great training aid or as a reminder for busy pet owners, multi-pet homes and pet-sitters/walkers. When idle, the Dog-e-Minder also acts as a dog identification tag, displaying important pet name and owner contact information. It is available in several colors and you get two for … [visit site to read more]

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Dog-e-Minder is a wearable PDA for your dog originally appeared on The Gadgeteer on February 9, 2010 at 2:42 pm.

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The idea got its start thanks to a clever idea from graphic designer Beste Miray. She came up with the idea of making making a mailing envelope that, when opened, shows the geographical location of where the letter came from.

These clever envelopes are a snap to make. Enter the address of your choice into Google Maps and choose “satellite view.” Google Maps’ print option uses only the street map view, so you’ll need to take a screen shot of the satellite view for this project. Then, just print out the page using a full-color printer.

Craftbits has step-by-step instructions on how to fold an envelope out of a standard sheet of paper, including how to make an envelope pattern so you can whip up several of these bad boys at once.

If this clever use of Google Maps intrigues you, don’t stop there. Make a paper wallet from a map of your office, and use it the next time you don’t want to tote the entire contents of your wallet with you somewhere—like a sporting event or amusement park. If you lose your temporary wallet, some Good Samaritan just might bring it back.

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