Sunday Evening Tech Reading - tech
(hx) 01:04 AM CET - Jan,20 2003
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- Microsoft's next frontier: wireless - After dominating the desktop,
burrowing into the Internet and bursting into the video game market,
Microsoft Corp. is making progress at getting firmly into the palm of your
hand. Already a force in software for personal digital assistants,
Microsoft is ramping up efforts to provide the operating systems for those
devices' close relative: the next generation of "smart" cell phones that can
handle e-mail, digital photos and other data. Microsoft splashed into the
smart-phone scene in Europe last year with a device sold by the British
wireless carrier Orange.
- Chilling Effects Clearinghouse -
Do you know
your online rights? Have you received a letter asking you to remove
information from a Web site or to stop engaging in an activity? Are you
concerned about liability for information that someone else posted to your
online forum? If so, this
site is for
you.
- Denon Goes MP3 - DENON announce the launch of
two new
machines - the DN-C615 and the DCM280, both geared to MP3!
- Project Dreamix announced -
Project Dreamix
will turn the Microsoft Xbox into the ultimate home entertainment center. Here
is a list of features they plan to complete before Beta release: PVR
Features (Scheduled recording, fast forward, rewind, pause Live TV), Video
Playback (Based on Linux MPlayer - all popular file formats), Audio/Music
Playback (Based on Linux MPlayer - all popular file formats), Image Viewer
(Slideshow + Photo album), Setup Menu (All configuration will be done with the
Xbox controller and/or DVD Remote with the use of a graphical keypad).
Although Dreamix will be based on Debian Xbox-Linux, all necessary libraries
will be included in the distribution of the CD image and will auto-excecute
upon being inserted into the Xbox DVD drive. This will allow for a friendly
install by the average user.
- GeForce FX Derivatives NV31/NV34 Will Not Support All DirectX 9.0
Features? - The situation around the GeForce FX-based products is finally
more or less clear: the first graphics cards should start to appear in
February, while in March there will be a lot more of such solutions, as
Nvidia's partners will finally get more cards to sell. Now we should talk a
bit about the derivatives from the NV30 architecture, namely the
code-named NV31 and NV34 VPUs.
- Barton 2500+ Pictures/Info/Benchmarks -
Taiwan PC Home website has posted some info&pictures and benchmatks of
Barton 2500+ CPU. The whole site is in Chinese(?) :), but check
the pictures :P
- ABIT Siluro Ti4200 OTES: Voltage modifications - As many of you are
aware...not
all Ti4200 layouts by individual manufacturers are the same....so though
many use the same voltage regulators, placement of components can be
completely different, or components themselves may be different.
- OpenOffice 1.0.2 -
OpenOffice.org (download
Win32 /
Linux ~
releasenotes) is the open source project through which Sun Microsystems is
releasing the technology for the popular StarOffice productivity suite. It is
an international office suite that will run on all major platforms and provide
access to all functionality and data through open-component based APIs and an
XML-based file format. The OpenOffice.org project establishes the necessary
facilities to make this open source technology available to the developer
community.
- Coding Workshop Ringtone Convertor 3.9.5 -
The Ringtone Converter (download)
is a software program for both Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac systems that
allows you to add new ringtones to your mobile phone without the need for
cables or expensive premium rate SMS services. The Ringtone Converter supports
most makes and models of phone including Audiovox, Alcatel, Ericsson, HTC,
Kyocera, Motorola, Nokia, NEC, Panasonic, Philips, Sagem, Samsung, Sony,
Sendo, Sharp and Siemens handsets, with more added every month.
- jv16 PowerTools 1.2.0.180 Final -
jv16
PowerTools (download)
is the next generation of RegCleaner. A full set of tools to keep your
computer and your LAN up and running. jv16 PowerTools is basicly the Tool to
control your computer. Until now your computer might had been the one who is
in charge, but with jv16 PowerTools you can take the control. The program
contains all the tools needed for monitoring and cleaning the Registry and the
file system.
- MagicTweak 2.00 -
MagicTweak is a
special program designed to optimize and personalize Microsoft Windows. It
provides one-stop, instant access to a variety of Windows settings that can be
altered for a friendlier Windows environment.
- Powertoy for WMP 9 - The Ratings
Migration Power Toy for Windows Media Player 9 Series is an unsupported
utility that allows you to copy user ratings from Media Library to MP3 and WMA
files.
- HD_Speed v1.2.0.29 -
HD_Speed is
a Freeware tool (download)
to measures both sustained and burst data transfer rates of your hard disks,
cd/dvd-roms and floppy.
- FoxServ 3.1 Beta 1 -
FoxServ (download)
is an Apache / mySQL / PHP installer package for Windows. Unlike NuShpere or
PHPTriad, FoxServ features the latest version of all included pacakges, user
defined configuration during installation, PHP as a module, PEAR, and the Zend
Optimizer.
- TVTool 6.8.4.3 - A new version of
TV Tool (download)
has been released. This is the program that enables your video card TV-Output
and seems to be the best external one. This minor update fixes some bugs like
the compatibility with GF4-MX460 cards, the standby mode for the monitor or
the timing for Chrontel TV-chips.
- FlashFXP 2.0 Build 908 -
FlashFXP is the most
powerful and popular FTP & FXP Client for Microsoft Windows 9x/Me/NT/2000/XP
on the market today. This new version adds Priority Transfer Queue (This
allows you to rank files /wildcard matching/ to determine the transfer order,
and more. The new version is available via Flash FXP Live Autoupdate
and should be available soon from
here.
- Matrox Parhelia Drivers v1.03.01.002 - Matrox have released
new drivers for the Matrox Parhelia version 1.03.01.002 for Windows 2k/XP.
- Barton 2500+ > BIOSes -
Abit AT7-MAX2 12/3 (3000+FSB333) |
Abit KD7-B 12/3 (3000+) |
KD7-G 12/3 ~
KD7-S 12/3 (3000+) |
MSI KT4 Ultra 1/6 (2800+ FSB333) |
KT4V 12/25 ~
KT3V 12/25 (2800+FSB333) |
MSI K7N2 12/19 (XP2500+FSB333) | MSI K7D (MP 2600+) |
Soyo K7V Dragon Plus 1/8 (Fixed T-BRED 1.5V CPU) |
Soyo KT333 Dragon Plus 1/17 (Fixed T-BRED 1.5V CPU) |
Soyo KT400 Dragon Ultra 1/15 (Fixed T-BRED 1.5V CPU) |
Soyo KT400 Dragon Ultra Platinum Edition 1/15 (Fixed T-BRED 1.5V CPU)| Shuttle AK37 1/8
(thanks AMDZone).
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