Fast Five Cars, Fast and Furious 5 – Fast Five Cars List

Fast Five Cars. The Fast and The Furious is a action film about illegal street racing in Los Angeles, California that dominated by exotic cars. The fifth series of the Fast and the Furious movie, Fast Five, is ready to debut this summer, unleashing another round of “nos”-fed hilarity. In anticipation of the promised vehicular mayhem, they guys at Inside Line caught up with Dennis McCarthy, the man behind the stable of hot rods featured in the movie.

The first is a one-off, tube-frame monstrosity of an offroad car hauler lovingly dubbed “Mongo.” Mongo was designed to assist Vin Diesel and Paul Walker in filching exotic cars from a moving train. To our eyes, Mongo looks ready to do just that, sporting a 600-plus-horsepower 502-cubic-inch Chevrolet V8, 7:10 gears and 18 inches of suspension travel. According to McCarthy, Mongo did his own stunts, completing a 75-foot jump and driving away unscathed. Wow.

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Car coordinator Dennis McCarthy is no stranger to the Fast and the Furious franchise. He was the picture car coordinator on Tokyo Drift, Fast & Furious and returns for the hat-trick on fast five The latest installment will feature a hefty 21 cars, including Dom Toretto’s trademark Dodge Charger.

In the last chapter of Fast Five week, we take a look at the many cars of Fast Five during an interview with the film’s car coordinator, Dennis McCarthy. If the last three films don’t give him enough credibility, McCarthy is also the man behind the vehicles of death race.

chrome 11, Google Releases Chrome 11 Stable for Linux

The Google Chrome developers at Google proudly announced last evening (April 27th) the stable release and immediate availability for download of the Google Chrome 11.0.696.57 web browser for Linux, Windows, Macintosh and Chrome Frame platforms.

The new Google Chrome 11 browser contains some interesting improvements, such as speech input through HTML, which helps developers to create useful and innovative web applications like the Google Translate’s speech feature.

"The Google Chrome team is happy to announce the arrival of Chrome 11.0.696.57 to the Stable Channel for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame. Chrome 11 contains some really great improvements including speech input through HTML." - was stated in the official release announcement.

"Speech input through HTML is one of many new web technologies in the browser that help make innovative and useful web applications like Google Translate’s speech feature possible." - said Josh Estelle, Software Engineer at Google.

Google Chrome 11 Now Available

Chrome 8 is still the official stable version and more adventurous users can grab the Chrome 9 beta or even the cutting edge Chrome 10 dev channel release. But if you want an even fresher build, you're in luck, there is now a Chrome 11 Canary build and the latest Chromium builds are sharing the version number.

Those that follow Chrome's development closely will know that version numbers mean very little for the Google team. Still, they represent a milestone and a new development cycle. And you get the bragging rights for running a build three major versions ahead of most people.

This is the first step towards Chrome 11, which is still a few months away. The Christmas holidays are responsible for a delay in the regular release schedule, so Chrome 9 is still not stable, despite being in beta for a month and a half now.

ubuntu 11.04, Final pre-release version of Ubuntu 11.04 arrives

The Canonical development team has released the second and final beta for Ubuntu 11.04, code named "Natty Narwhal. As previously reported, there will be no release candidate for Ubuntu 11.04.

Following public discussions about any last minute reasons to pull Unity as the distribution's default desktop and use the classic GNOME desktop instead, the developers have decided to move forward with Unity, which is developed in-house by the Ubuntu developers. The ARM version of Ubuntu will ship with Canonical's new Unity 2D interface by default. The Unity Launcher, a sort of 'dock' meets taskbar and notification area, can be used to launch applications pinned to it or switch between running applications; file type aware drag-and-drop is also supported.

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Upgrade from Ubuntu 10.10

To upgrade from Ubuntu 10.10 on a desktop system, press Alt+F2, type in "update-manager -d" (without the quotes), and press Enter. Update Manager will open up and display the message, "New distribution release '11.04' is available." Click Upgrade and follow the on-screen instructions. 

To upgrade from Ubuntu 10.10 on a server system, install the package update-manager-core if it is not already installed. Then execute the command sudo do-release-upgrade -d, and follow the on-screen instructions. Note that the server upgrade is now more robust, and thus will utilize GNU screen and automatically re-attach in case unexpected problems arise, e.g. dropped connection problems.

The same instructions apply to all other editions of Ubuntu (such as Kubuntu, Xubuntu, etc.)

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Acer Iconia A500.

If you've been waiting for Android tablets to catch up with Apple's iPad, the wait might be over.

I wasn’t overly impressed with the first batch of Android tablets. They reminded me of the early Android smartphones like the HTC Dream - brimming with potential but not quite ready for the big time. After spending some time with the sleek new Acer Iconia Tab A500 running Android 3.0 “Honeycomb”, I feel it’s safe to say Android tablets have come of age.For now Acer is selling the 16GB wifi-only A500 for $579 and the 32GB wifi-only for $678 - impressive pricing compared to the first-gen Android tablets. The A501 wifi/3G models should be available in June.

sony s2

Sony inadvertently spilled its tablet ambitions last week with the leak of the Sony S1, a Honeycomb tablet boasting a curious wave line design. It looks like Sony doesn’t intend to leave things there, though, as the latest run of rumors now indicate the existence of the Sony S2, which won’t just compete with the iPad… it’ll compete with the Nintendo DS.

According to sources speaking to Engadget, the Sony S2 will boast a pair of 5.5-inch displays sandwiched together into an oval cross-section hinged chassis. Hardware-rise, it’ll run NVIDIA’s Tegra 2 SoC, as well as boast the ubiquitous 3G and WiFi wireless connectivity.

Software-wise, the S2 will run Honeycomb… but obviously a heavily modified version of Honeycomb. Double displays on an Android install indicate multitasking, and Sony’s engineers are working hard to make this happen, as well as modify existing Android apps to work with two displays (for example, in Gmail, the client might split the message list to one display and the preview to the other).

Asus Transformer Tablet

When it comes to tablets, we're not really ready for software keyboards, are we? Or maybe the developers of software keyboards aren't yet ready for us.

This week, we received the Asus Eee Pad Transformer tablet. Like with most new tablets that enter this building, it was immediately pounced on by a pack of ravenous wolves group of my coworkers.

What made the Transformer's debut more exciting than most was its primary claim to fame and origin of its namesake: the keyboard/dock accessory.

PSN Back Up

Sony Needs to answer Why PlayStation Network is Still Down, and When Iy Will Be Back Up 

As the PlayStation Network (PSN) outage enters its fourth day, there seems to be some light at the end of the tunnel. Sources suggest that some major restructuring work has almost been completed, and the servers will start to be switched back on in the next 24 hours or so. It’s believed that Japan will be first to get service restored, some time on Monday, with the US and Europe following on Tuesday. If those timings prove to be correct, the network will have been out for almost a week.

With spring break hitting this week, the PSN downtime has come at the worst possible moment for many gamers. There are still few details of the exact nature of the outage, other than the suggestion that Sony deliberately shut it down in response to an ‘external intrusion’ event. In other words, hackers didn’t pull the network down, but Sony did, probably because they were worried about what the hackers either had done or might do.