Adobe has brought out its latest PDF creation and editing tool, the Adobe Acrobat X Pro, and it comes with a set of exciting features. Acrobat X Pro comes with a series of new features including exportability between Microsoft office documents. It enables users to save PDF files as Microsoft Word or Excel files with improved preservation of formats. It helps in combining multiple file types including audio, video and rich media content. This feature will be much helpful for creating impressive portfolios. By enabling insertion of Flash player compatible video into PDF files,

If you’re managing a WordPress blog, you are probably aware of the power that plugins can have on your website. These can range from adding Twitter feeds to allowing visitors to choose their own look for the site, and range from free (by far and away the most common) to shareware. There is, quite literally, a plugin for every purpose. For instance, I recently redesigned and rebuilt a blog, and to do this took a copy of the database, converted it into WordPress, installed a fresh copy of WordPress on a secondary webserver and restored the database so that I would have a good

Waspmote from Libelium brings unprecedented performance to ZigBee wireless sensor networks (WSN) New sensor modular platform from Libelium with a radio range of up to 40 km and outstanding power consumption enables environmental monitoring in adverse conditions. Zaragoza, Spain – January 19th, 2010 – Libelium, a technology leader in distributed wireless networks, announces the launch of the Waspmote modular platform for wireless sensor networks. With radio modules offering a range of up to 40 km and with ultra low power performance, Waspmote sets new

We brought up the issue of underperforming Latitudes (E6400 and E6500) from Dell a few days back, and it seems that there is some good news for owners of those laptops. Dell has come up with a BIOS update to fix the problem. Aside from that performance issue, it seems that Dell has also taken the chance to sort out the issue of noisy Seagate drives in its notebooks, and the update should quiet the hard disk operation noise.

3M is one of the leading developers of pico projector technology. Recently, the company announced that they have developed a color-conversion technology that doubles the efficiency of green LEDs. Because of the specific wavelength that the color green requires, the efficiency of the green LED is significantly lower, which is why when red, green, and blue LEDs are grouped together, there are almost always two green LEDs. The new high performance LED will help improve color performance, energy efficiency, heat dissipation and reliability. The high efficiency LED is not actually

Microsoft has finally given out some details regarding its next browser – Internet Explorer 9. It seems that the main thing that they will be touting is the boost in JavaScript speed, which has always been far behind the other browsers. Apparently JavaScript speed is almost as fast as competing browsers. Aside from then, the Acid3 scores have improved from 24/100 to 32/100, but it’s certainly worth noting that Chrome and Safari score 100/100 and Firefox 3.6 beta hits 92/100. Regardless of whether IE9 can match the other browsers

The Jaguar supercomputer at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory was recently upgraded with new AMD processors that gave it enough performance to move up the top 5 supercomputers list. The Jaguar is a Cray XT5 supercomputer and is now the fastest machine in the world. Jaguar previously used quad-core AMD processors and was upgraded to 6-core processors. The new upgrade gives the supercomputer a theoretical peak performance of 2.3 petaflops/s. The performance on the Linpack benchmark was 1.75 petaflops/second. The second place computer on the list is the Roadrunner using dual CPU

If you are the lucky owner of an uber-fast Intel SSD drive, it might just get better: Intel has just announced an SSD Optimizer firmware update to is 34nm X25-M 160GB SSD that can boost performance by %40 in sequential writes under Windows 7. If you are running under Windows XP or Vista, you can get the same benefits by installing the Intel SSD Toolbox software. The SSD Toolbox will provide better disk health management under all operating systems as well.

Intel has made sure that their 34nm X25-M Gen 2 SSD will perform better than ever thanks to the new SSD Toolbox that will include an SSD Optimizer which allows users to monitor and manage the SSD’s health more effectively. Apart from that, the 160GB model will be able to experience a performance boost to sequential write speeds of up to 100MB/sec – that’s a cool 40% faster compared to what you’re getting from existing firmware.

Monster, a famous brand in the audio and home theater market, has recently introduced a new set of headphones called the Turbine Pro In-Ear Speakers. These headphones deliver reference-quality sound needed to meet the demands of music pros today and audiophiles. The Turbine Pro is engineered to deliver extended low frequency sound at real life volumes, without any distortion. The headphones retail for $299.95 or for $329.99 with the additional Monster ControlTalk cable. [Slashgear]