Looking for a PMP that does everything you expect, and absolutely, positively nothing you don’t? Well in that case, get ready to fall madly in love with the hyper-familiar Shenzhen Liuniu Technology MD300. In its defense, it does offer a pretty high-res screen (clocking in at the awkward 960 x 240), which should make viewing the plethora of video formats (MPEG1, MPEG2, DivX, XviD, AVI, MPG) a pure joy. The player further breaks “convention” by offering no SD or MiniSD slot, rather, it relies on a CF or 1-inch micro hard drive for storage — making this a bigger pain than it should be. The player also does the standard MP3s and WMA files, of course, plus line-in recording (audio and video, apparently), as well as e-book support. No word yet on price or availability.

[Via PMP Today]

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Hosts: Steve Gibson with Leo Laporte

Steve looks at Verisign’s Personal Identity Provider, an OpenID service that works with the Paypal token, and talks about updates to his Perfect Password page.

For 16kpbs versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve’s site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6.

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Running time: 53:09

Hosts: Steve Gibson with Leo Laporte

Steve looks at Verisign’s Personal Identity Provider, an OpenID service that works with the Paypal token, and talks about updates to his Perfect Password page.

For 16kpbs versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve’s site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6.

Security Now is brought to you by Astaro Internet Security.

Bandwidth for Security Now! is provided by AOL Radio.

Running time: 53:09

Filed under: GPS

Looking to keep all its bases covered, TomTom’s now followed up its just-announced high-end Go 920 T navigator with the decidedly lower-end TomTom ONE 3rd Edition. From the looks of it, the big additions this time around are support for TomTom’s Map Share technology (previously seen on the company’s higher-end units), a new “enhanced UI,” and a new “HELP ME!” feature, which apparently includes everything from directions to the nearest hospital to car maintenance information to first aid instructions. Otherwise, you’ll get the same 3.5-inch touchscreen as before, along with 1GB of internal memory, an RDS-TMC connector, and leather case and strap to “protect you TomTom device in style.” Look for this one to be available sometime next month for the budget-friendly price of $249.

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Filed under: Peripherals

Philips hopes to put an end to the chaos of having a different charger for every device you own, but unfortunately the “solution” includes eight different confusing product options to get that juice to your gadgets. The new Power2Charge line consists of five different chargers, two for plugging into you car, and three plugging into the wall. The Power2Charge line flagship is the SCM7880, which includes the universal USB charging kit of its buddies, six connector tips, and fifteen extra hours of battery for up to 5V of power. If a portable battery is more your style, Philips’ Power2Go line, headed by the pictured SCE7640, includes power packs across the board, all the way up to 21V and 60 hours. Both the Power2Charge and Power2Go lines include some snazzy looks and LED charge indicator lights, but it remains to be seen if these things can indeed rescue us from charger hell.

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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!