Speaking of the iPod touch, if you are looking for a portable video and audio player that is not an iPod, Creative has one to consider — the Zen X-Fi. Some features of the Creative Zen X-Fi include:

• Weight: 2.4 ounces
• LCD: 2.5-inch TFT 16.7 million color LCD; 320 x 240 resolution
• Storage Capacity: 16 GB (4,000 songs or 60 hours of video) or 32 GB (8,000 songs or 120 hours of video)
• Battery Life: Up to 30 hours of continuous audio playback; up to 13 hours of continuous audio playback with speaker; up to 20 hours of continuous FM radio playback; up to 5 hours of continuous video playback; up to 4 hours of continuous video playback with speaker
• Video Playback Formats: MPEG, WMV, and MPEG-4, including properly encoded DivX and XviD; included software can transcode from other formats providing appropriate codecs are installed
• Audio Playback Formats: MP3, WMA, AAC5, WAV (ADPCM), Audible 2,3,4
• Photo Formats Supported: JPEG; included software can transcode BMP, GIF, PNG, and TIFF
• Wireless LAN Supported: IEEE 802.11 b/g with WEP, WPA-PSK, or WPA2-PSK security
• Battery: Built-in Lithium-Ion battery
• FM Radio: 32 preset stations
• Equalizer Settings: 8 presets and 5 band custom EQ
• Organizer: Calendar, Contacts, Task List
• Album Art: Yes
• Voice Recording: Yes
• Connectivity: USB 2.0

New Adjustments and Masks panels

Easily access every tool for nondestructive adjustment of color and tone. Quickly adjust specific image areas with easier access to all the tools for creating and editing nondestructive masks.

Nondestructive image editing

Experiment without harming your original photo. Visualize different effects and manipulate objects using nondestructive Smart Filters and Smart Objects. Preserve color and tone details as you correct with intelligent Dodge, Burn, and Sponge tools.
Better raw image processing

Enjoy superior conversion quality as you process raw images with the industry-leading Adobe Photoshop Camera Raw 5 plug-in, which now offers localized corrections, post-crop vignetting, TIFF and JPEG processing, and support for more than 190 camera models.
Quick Selection tool

Loosely draw on an image area and the Quick Selection tool automatically completes the selection for you. Then use simple sliders to preview and refine your selection.
Improved Adobe Photoshop Lightroom workflow

Select multiple photos in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom® software (sold separately) and automatically open them in Photoshop CS4 to merge them into a panorama, a high dynamic range (HDR) photo, or a multilayered Photoshop document. And seamlessly roundtrip back to Lightroom.
Extended depth of field
Easily create a single image from a series of shots that have different focal points with the enhanced Auto-Blend Layers command, which smoothly blends color and shading and now extends your depth of field, automatically correcting vignettes and lens distortion.
Auto-alignment of layers

Create accurate composites with the enhanced Auto-Align Layers command. Move, rotate, or warp layers to align them more accurately than ever before. Or use spherical alignment to create breathtaking panoramas.
Auto-blending of images

Combine a range of images, each with a different exposure, color, and focal point — with options to preserve tones and colors — into a single color-corrected image.
More powerful printing options

Get outstanding prints with superior color management, tighter integration with leading printer models, and the ability to preview out-of-gamut image areas. Support for 16-bit printing on Mac OS offers increased color depth and clarity.
Efficient file management with Adobe Bridge CS4

Get instant access to Adobe Bridge CS4 with faster start-up, use new workspaces to jump to the right display for every task, easily create web galleries and PDF contact sheets, and more.
Broad file format support

Import and export hundreds of file formats, including PSD, AI, PDF, NEF, CRW, TIFF, BMP, Cineon, JPEG, JPEG2000, FXG, OpenEXR, PNG, and Targa.
Extensibility

Get and share Adobe Flash technology-based panels that developers create to accomplish customized tasks. Plus, get tips and tricks from the thriving worldwide community of Photoshop users through the new Adobe Community Help online service.

The ThinkPad X200 notebook is packed with a host of new technologies that include a Solid
State Drive (SSD), an optional integrated camera, a new 9-cell battery and a larger ergonomic
keyboard for improved comfort and productivity. It also features an updated version of Access
Connections for improved and simplified connectivity. For added protection, ThinkVantage
Client Security Solution with an Integrated Fingerprint Reader is another innovative feature
that comes with this smart notebook to help secure data against potential intruders.
The new ThinkPad systems are also EPEAT Silver rated. Equally reassuring is the fact that
all ThinkPad X Series models enjoy worldwide, round-the-clock service and support and
come with an industry-leading warranty. Optional services like ThinkPad Protection which
provide repair and replacement services further help in protecting these assets.

Lenovo® recommends Windows Vista® Business.

Processor (Speed, L2 Cache, FSB)1
Intel® Core™2 Duo processor P8400
(2.26GHz, 3MB L2, 1066MHz FSB)
Intel® Core™2 Duo processor P8600
(2.40GHz, 3MB L2, 1066MHz FSB)
Preloaded Operating System2
Genuine Windows Vista® Home Basic 32
Genuine Windows Vista® Business 32
Genuine Windows Vista® Business 64
Genuine Windows Vista® Ultimate 32
Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium 32
DOS License
Display/Resolution
200 nit 12.1″ widescreen WXGA
with 1280×800 pixels
Serial ATA Hard Drives3
80, 160, 250, 320GB/5400rpm
200GB/7200rpm Full Disk Encryption (FDE)
64GB Solid State Drive
Memory4
Up to 4GB 1066MHz DDR3 memory
(3GB addressable with 32-bit OS)
Optical Drive
Only available in the ThinkPad X200 UltraBase™
DVD-ROM, CD-RW/DVD-ROM, DVD Burner,
Blu-ray
Video Graphics
Integrated Intel® X4500 HD
Available Integrated Communications
Gigabit Ethernet
Integrated WWAN (With GPS)5
Intel® Ultra Wide Band (UWB) available later
in 2008
Bluetooth® 2.0 EDR6
WiMax (available later in 2008)

Supported WLAN Cards7
Intel® WiFi Link 5100
Intel® WiFi Link 5300
Intel® WiMAX/WiFi Link 5350
ThinkPad 11b/g Wireless LAN Mini PCI Express
Adapter III
Other Features
Optional integrated camera; integrated digital
microphone; security cable slot
ThinkPad Shock-Mounted Hard Drive
Standard
ThinkVantage Client Security Solution
Standard
Integrated Fingerprint Reader
Optional
Keyboard
Full size ergonomic keyboard with palm
rest, TrackPoint® pointing device with
“Press-to-Select,” Internet Scroll Bar, intuitive
volume, ThinkVantage button and Windows® key
Limited Warranty8
1yr or 3yr system/1yr battery
Included Software (Preloaded)9
Adobe Acrobat Reader; Microsoft® Office Ready
2007; Microsoft Windows Live™ Toolbar & Search;
McAfee VirusScan® Plus with 30 days of virus
definition updates; Creator Business Edition
(combo models); Creator Business Edition +
MY DVD (Rambo); Intervideo WinDVD (DVD models
only); Intervideo WinDVD Creator (DVD models
only); PC-Doctor diagnostics; Sun™ JRE™; ThinkPad
Utilities (Power Manager and Presentation
Director); ThinkVantage® Access Connections™;
ThinkVantage Fingerprint Software; ThinkVantage
Productivity Center; ThinkVantage Rescue
and Recovery®; ThinkVantage System Update;
ThinkVantage Client Security Solution

Battery Life10
XP / V ista
4-cell battery life up to 3.3 hr/3.1 hr
6-cell battery life up to 6.5 hr/6.2 hr
9-cell battery life up to 9.8 hr/9.4 hr
Dimensions
295×210x20.7-35.3mm (4/6-cell Battery)
11.6×8.3×0.8 – 1.4″ (4/6-cell Battery)
295×233.8×20.7-35.3mm (9-cell Battery)
11.6×9.2×0.8 – 1.4″ (9-cell Battery)
Weight11
4-cell battery starting at 1.34 kg/2.95 lb
6-cell battery starting at 1.47 kg/3.24 lb
9-cell battery starting at 1.63 kg/3.58 lb
Ports
3 USB, Gigabit Ethernet (RJ-45),
VGA, Microphone/line-in, Headphone/line-out,
choice of 5-1 Media Card Reader with modem
or 3-1 Media Card Reader and no modem for
weight optimized system.

Engine

QR25DE 2.5-liter DOHC 16-valve 4-cylinder
Horsepower 175 hp @ 5,600 rpm [1]
Torque 180 lb-ft @ 3,900 rpm [1]
Emissions Tier 2, Bin 5 (LEV2-SULEV in CA)
VQ35DE — 3.5-liter DOHC 24-valve V6
Horsepower — 270 hp @ 6,000 rpm
Torque — 258 lb-ft @ 4,400 rpm
Emissions — Tier 2, Bin 5
Continuously Variable Valve Timing Control System (CVTCS)
Variable induction system
Nissan Direct Ignition System with iridium—tipped spark plugs
Electronic drive-by-wire throttle
Engine balancer system

Drivetrain
Front engine/front-wheel drive
6-speed close-ratio manual transmission with dual-mass flywheel
Xtronic CVT (Continuously Variable Transmission) with manual mode

Brakes
11.7″ Vented front disc/11.5″ rear disc brakes
4-wheel Anti-lock Braking System (ABS)
Electronic Brake force Distribution (EBD)

Suspension and Steering
Front: Independent subframe-mounted strut-type
Rear: Multi-link independent
Front and rear stabilizer bars
Sport-tuned suspension — retuned front struts and thicker front (24.2 mm) stabilizer bar
Vehicle speed-sensitive variable-assist power-rack-and-pinion steering

Lucy Hill (Renée Zellweger) is an ambitious, up and coming executive living in Miami. She loves her shoes, she loves her cars and she loves climbing the corporate ladder. When she is offered a temporary assignment - in the middle of nowhere - to restructure a manufacturing plant, she jumps at the opportunity, knowing that a big promotion is close at hand. What begins as a straight forward job assignment becomes a life changing experience as Lucy discovers greater meaning in her life and most unexpectedly, the man of her dreams (Harry Connick, Jr.).

A love story of bikes and one-night stands told through two African-American twenty-somethings dealing with issues of class, identity, and the evolving conundrum of being a minority in rapidly gentrifying San Francisco-a city with the smallest proportional black population of any other major American city.

Narrated by Joan Allen, Blessed Is the Match is the first documentary feature about Hannah Senesh, the World War II-era poet and diarist who became a paratrooper, resistance fighter and modern-day Joan of Arc.

Safe in Palestine in 1944, Hannah joined a mission to rescue Jews in her native Hungary. Shockingly, it was the only military rescue mission for Jews during the Holocaust. Hannah parachuted behind enemy lines, was captured, tortured and ultimately executed by the Nazis. Incredibly, her mother Catherine witnessed the entire ordeal - first as a prisoner with Hannah and later as her advocate, braving the bombed-out streets of Budapest in a desperate attempt to save her daughter.

With unprecedented access to the Senesh family archive, and through interviews, eyewitness accounts and the prolific writings of Hannah and Catherine Senesh, Blessed Is the Match recreates Hannah’s mission and imprisonment. The film explores Hannah’s childhood against the backdrop of significant historical events resulting in a rich portrait with several interlocking strands.

The film shows British-controlled Palestine and explores how the Kibbutz Movement drew Hannah and other idealistic Jews there in the hopes of building a Jewish state. Israeli President Shimon Peres, who knew Hannah as a young pioneer in the 1940s, appears on camera.

Blessed Is the Match retraces the perilous mission of Hannah and 31 other Jewish-Palestinian parachutists. Two of Hannah’s fellow parachutists, Reuven Dafni and Surika Braverman, along with renowned historian Sir Martin Gilbert, appear on camera and recount the mission’s aims, successes and failures.

Finally, through Hannah’s diary entries and poetry - and through her correspondence with her mother - Blessed Is the Match looks back on the life of a uniquely talented and complex girl who came of age in a world descending into madness. ‘God, may there be no end,’ Hannah writes in her 1942 poem Eli Eli, …to sea, to sand, water’s splash, lightning’s flash. The prayer of man.’

FROM: blessedisthematch.com

Touch to go

Choose how you want to use your phone. Make a call,
listen to a song, visit a Web site. Use the key control
- or just touch the screen with your finger to make it happen.
Quality pictures

The 5 megapixel camera lets you take print-quality photos.
Set your picture’s focus area by touching the screen.
Take your photo, then share - blog it.

Quick Notes

What you can do with pen and paper, you can do with your G900.
Press the Notes key and use the stylus to write in your own
handwriting. Quick and easy, no keyboard needed.

Screen

- 262.144 color TFT
- 240×320 pixel

Memory

- Phone memory 160MB*
- Memory Stick Micro™ (M2™) support (up to 8 GB)
* Actual free memory may vary due to phone pre-configuration.

Networks

- GSM 900
- GSM 1800
- GSM 1900
- UMTS 2100

Available colours

- Dark Red - Dark BrownPossible limited market availability.

Sizes

- 106.0 x 49.0 x 13.0 mm
- 4.2 x 1.9 x 0.5 inches

Weight

- 99.0 gr
- 3.5 oz

From: sonyericsson.com

AMD Phenom™ II Processors Product Brief

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Enjoy entertainment beyond your media library. Get HD content online, offline, wherever you want it, however you want it. Your system can handle whatever you dish out - and serve it up on screen in full, high definition glory.*

Perfect chemistry. Combine AMD Phenom™ II processors and ATI Radeon™ HD graphics to really see the difference. Enjoy smooth video, brilliant videos and immersive games. AMD unleashes visual clarity and responsiveness for what you want to do.

PERFORMANCE
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ENERGY EFFICIENT
Make a choice you can feel good about. AMD Phenom™ II processors were designed with energy efficiency in mind. Capitalizing on AMD’s leadership in energy efficiency, they incorporate all of the latest technology that gives you performance when you need it and save power when you don’t.

Look for ENERGY STAR® with AMD. Thanks to AMD’s power-saving innovations, you can count on machines based on AMD Phenom™ II processors for the energy efficiency you want and the performance you need.

From: amd.com

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