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- AMD Phenom II Overclocked to 6.5GHz With Liquid Helium -220C (video)
- Team Finland and Pete Hardman and Sami Makinen from AMD, use a
combination of liquid nitrogen and liquid helium to reach CPU tempertures of
-232 degrees Celsius in order to attain
CPU clock speeds
of 6.5GHz and smashing the world record for 3DMarks with 45,474 3DMarks
in a test!
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 in Tri-SLI Tested - Does this mean that
Tri-SLI is the best option? - No, not really.
But SLI is a
great option and manages to offer some serious power.
- Western Digital Launches World-First 2TB Hard Drive -The
WD20EADS has a formatted capacity of 2,000,398 MB, which is provided
across four 500 GB disks that offer a storage density of 400 Gb per square
inch - the highest offered in any production drive at this time. The
suggested retail price of the WD20EADS is $299. 3-disk and 2 disk versions
with three or two platters and 1.5 TB or 1 TB capacities are available as
well.
- A look at four X25-E Extreme SSDs in RAID -
Sure, it only
packs 32GB of storage, and yes, you'll pay a princely sum for the
privilege. But with a smart storage controller, near-instantaneous seek
times, and the ability to sustain reads at 250MB/s and writes at 170MB/s,
the X25-E actually represents good value if you quantify its performance per
dollar.
- USB Flash Drive Comparison part 2 - FAT32 vs NTFS vs ExFAT
- Looks like
the best choice is FAT32 - it seems to give us the best average
performance overall.
- Vista SP2 postponed -
Windows Vista
Service Pack 2 may not be out until May or June
- Windows Internet Explorer 8 RC1 - According to the overview,
IE8 is faster,
easier, more private and more secure.
- Gmail Goes Offline -
If you live in Gmail, but don’t always have a broadband connection
available, today should be a happy day for you. Google is rolling out a new
system for letting Gmail users access their accounts offline
- Microsoft May Face $8.5B in Damages for 'Vista Capable' Case - US
District Court Judge Marsha Pechman released
figures from the
class-action lawsuit. An expert witness calculated that it would cost
between $3.92 billion up to $8.5 billion to upgrade affected machines so
that they can run a premium version of Vista. Wow.
- Malware Found In Pirated Photoshop - Not only has malware popped
up in pirated copies of
iWork 09, it
is also in the
pirated version of Photoshop as well.
- Monster Hacked, User Info of 4.5M People Stolen -
Monster.com has
been hacked and the names, user ID, phone numbers and e-mail addresses
of 4.5 million people have been compromised.
- HTC Touch Pro Getting Firefox Mobile Next Week -
Firefox Mobile
is already in Alpha 2 status, so it won't be all that long before they
launch the first beta version of the mobile web browse
- iPhone Gets Bluetooth File Transfers via iBluetooth (video) -
iBluetooth
is in no way endorsed or affiliated with Apple itself and you can't even get
this useful application through the regular Apple App Store. Instead, you'll
first need to have a jailbroken iPhone and then you can find iBluetooth
through the iSpazio repository on Cydia. It's a bit of a workaround, but at
least it works
- iPhone 2.2.1 Update Available Now, Fixes Bugs -
The iPhone 2.2.1
update just hit, and it promises to fix various Safari, Mail and Camera
bugs
- Multi-touch support released for Android (unofficial) -
It's still in
the proof-of-concept phase, but the load does include a multi-touch
version of Android's excellent browser, probably the single app that could
use two fingertips more than any other. Needless to say, you should be
installing this jazz at your own risk.
- DSTL1 Android Smartphone Is Battlestar Galactica's iPhone -
A stunning
design and features combination that may convince regular consumers to
choose the Android platform over iPhone.
- Teleporting accomplished at an atomic level -
Teleportation works because of a remarkable quantum phenomenon, called
entanglement, which only occurs on the atomic and subatomic scale. Let's
hope this technology is perfected up to a 100% and then travel the globe in
an instant.
- Giant Ant Colony is a World Wonder (video) -
A cool excerpt
from an anthropological dig on one of the biggest ant colonies ever
cataloged--the ant equivalent of the Great Wall of China
- Uslan Plans next Batman in 2011 -
Michael Uslan
is officially the only person signed on for the next Batman movie, though
many are confident that Bale and Nolan will return. So the first bit of
official news comes from the only guy with a contract a la Bat. The plan is
to have Batman sequel out in 2011
- Hacking programmable road signs -
They often have
unlocked instrument panels, a text-entry system that is easily accessed,
and are often protected with uncomplicated, or unchanged default passwords
- How to Make Flash Paper! (video) -
Flash paper
is used by magicians however it is very expensive to buy, here's how to make
it the easy way!
- President Obama's First Weekly Video Address -
In his first
weekly address since being sworn in as the 44th president of the United
States, President Barack Obama discussed how the American Recovery and
Reinvestment Plan will jump-start the economy.
- Google Street View Image Of The Day -
There can only be one! ;-)
- Aww Cute Dog...Oh Wait! (pics) -
It's a Dogue de Bordeaux (aka
French Mastiff) for anyone who wants to know. They're not typically
aggressive, but make good guard dogs.
- Ethernet Cable Soldier (pic) -
Pretty cool stuff don't you think?
- The PopCrunch 100 Hottest Women of 2009 -
check it out
- Jessica Jane Clement posing for OK! Magazine -
Jessica-Jane
Clement (b. 24 February 1985 in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England) is
an English glamour model, actress, and TV presenter. She attended High
Storrs School in Sheffield. Height: 5' 2" (1.57 m)
- Miss America's Katie Stam In A Bikini -
Here's the
winner of Miss America, Katie Stam of Indiana in her bikini. I didn't
watch it on TV so I don't really have anything to say....
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