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From the makers of the Swiss Knife that all outdoors men love, Victorinox has released their Slim and Slim DUO. So what do you expect from a knife maker in terms of a usb gadget? Well it is topped by their logo and it slides out of it’s protective shell as if it were a knife blade. The nifty thing is the DUO version which actually has two usb drives in one package so you get two for the price of one.
You don’t need to worry about it much for it is made with the same robustness as their knives. For frequent travelers, don’t fret for the drives are TSA approved so no security teams surrounding you and your baggage at the airport. The SLIM has a capacity ranging from 4 to 64 Gigabytes with the DUO at a max of 128 Gigabytes.

The days of the old USB 2.0 standard are numbered with motherboard manufacturers and other PC related hardware makers starting to adopt the USB 3.0 standard. It does everything that a version 2.0 device/port can do except for one single fact, it can offer up to 100 watts of power on the port.

More juice allows faster charging for usb gadgets and more power for other peripherals you attach to your PC. This has been a major problem for USB gadgets like external drives that do need a lot of power when you plug it in. To get them going, you need a separate USB hub with it’s own adapter but the new standard would eliminate that. You may have to lessen your tinkering a bit with those USB gadgets for 100 watts can be a whopper indeed.

Well, for charging purposes that is for it would be more likely that we’d have a gadget or two than a spare toothbrush charger in our bags when we travel. Most people travel with laptops and other usb gadgets in their pockets and people at Philips have caught up on the idea and have included a very convenient usb charging port for their Sonic Brand of cordless toothbrushes.

Never run out of juice once again to keep your pearly whites clean, the charger was designed from the down up around the usb port that gives it a similar look to an iPhone with a charger that has a USB jack. Need juice, no problem, just plug it into your laptop or usb hub for a top up and you are on your way to brushing your teeth in no time!!!

It is expensive and wasteful to hire humans to answer or guide callers. This is when the beauty of automated natural sounding text-to-speech software is realized. Text-to-speech conversion with high-quality, natural sounding voices for hand-held, desktop, and server applications adds a lot of value to business telephony with Asterisk PBX.

Text-to-Speech voices are available in 6 languages and 18 different characters including “Allison” the standard Asterisk voice. These voices are sizable and can range from 4 MB for embedded applications, to 100 MB for server-based installations. Text-to-Speech voices are tested on all major telephony platform operating systems including: Windows Server, Windows XP, Linux (32 & 64 bit), Solaris (Sparc and x86), and Mac (PowerPC and Intel). Read the rest of this entry »