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- 1 TB Hard Disk Drive Round-Up - The
big winner from the 1 TB hard disk drive round-up was clearly
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12.
- ATI HD Audio reduces 3D performance - In
general the option ATI Function Driver for High Definition Audio is
enabled in Windows equipment manager, although you have an intern or
extern sound card. If you disable the feature and
look in six games (Crysis Warhead, Far Cry 2, GRAW 2, GTA IV, HAWX und
Stalker: Clear Sky) under 1920x1200, 4xAA/16xAF, you will notice
that the performance will increase in average 2-3%. Especially
in modern games like Crysis Warhead we can measure up to 5% performance
boost.
- Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Sound Cards
Tested - PCI Express itself does not give any benefits to
the cards. But X-Fi Titaniums, owing to Creative's efforts,
provide extra protection from cracking, which was a serious
problem with previous X-Fi PCI cards. Still, the X-Fi Titanium cards
are good as all-purpose devices as well. If you want a universal sound
card without sacrificing much quality, we can also recommend Auzentech
products with hardware X-Fi DSPs.
- Why Do You Need More Than 6GB of Memory? -
HardOCP's Kyle has started a discussion about
the benefits of running more than 6GB of memory. Currently Kyle is
running Windows 7 and one of the points he made in this thread is how
having more than 6GB of memory makes it possible to run upwards of 15
applications at a time, even when performing memory intensive tasks
like encoding a Premiere Pro movie sequence. Who needs the Quick Launch
bar in Windows 7 when you are running 12GB of RAM? Have an opinion?
- Why Can't We Get an Accurate Battery Life Test for
Laptops? - Ever wonder why that advertised '8 hour battery
life' never equals more than 4 hours in real life?
- Microsoft's free anti-malware beta to arrive next
week - The service works like traditional antivirus
products in which client software monitors programs on a PC.
When something changes on the computer, such as files being downloaded
or copied or software trying to modify files, the system checks against
a set of malware signatures in the client program to see if the code
matches the signature for known malware. If so, it blocks it from
getting downloaded. The service will be free and remain free
even after the beta period is over.
- Firefox 3.5 Due By The End Of June - Pocket-Lint
reports that Firefox 3.5 is coming out
at the end of this month. There is also a release candidate out now
(here) that is supposed to be pretty close to what you can expect from
the final product. The new features total over 5,000, Mozilla claims.
The biggest among them include video built in, local storage for
offline web apps, private browsing (dubbed "porn mode" by some),
geolocation functionality, the previously-reported "About:me" page and
improved performance. Mozilla's also talking about what's going to
happen after 3.5. The successor, codenamed "Namoroka" is planned to
include Chrome's process isolation features (so if one tab dies, your
whole browser doesn't crash) and a 64-bit version of Firefox for OSX.
- OTOY In Action (video) - Remember that
announcement from AMD and
OTOY back in January about AMD's Fusion Render Cloud? Well, you can see
the tech in action in this video:.
- MySpace Slashes Jobs As Growth Slows Down - MySpace is laying off nearly a third
of its U.S. staff, or about 420 employees, as the once highflying
Internet business tries to rein in costs and contend with fast-growing
rival Facebook Inc. The cuts will leave the social-networking site with
about 1,000 employees in the U.S. MySpace declined to say whether it is
also cutting back its international operations, in which the company
has invested heavily in recent years. No word on how many jobs will be
cut overseas.
- RIAA awarded $80,000 for each file-shared song -
In her second, but almost certainly not final, trial, Jammie Thomas-Rasset (née Thomas)
has now been ordered by a federal jury to pay $1.92 million
to the RIAA for the 24 songs she is charged with sharing online. That
comes out to $80,000 per track, considerably more than the $208.33 per
track the RIAA, according to their legal summation at trial, had
offered to let her off with in their original "pay or we sue" letter.
- Layar - worlds first mobile Augmented Reality
browser (video) - Layar
is derived from location based services and works on mobile
phones that include a camera, GPS and a compass.
- iPhone firmware 3.0 released /more details/ -
Apple's much anticipated
release of 2009 for the iPhone
and iPod Touch is here. Apple has released the latest major firmware
for the iPhone and iPod Touch available for download through iTunes.
The latest 3.0 firmware adds hundreds of new features including a
landscape keyboard, MMS, Internet Tethering, full Bluetooth support,
Cut, Copy & Paste turn-by-turn GPS navigation, a kill switch
for
lost handsets and many more.
- iPhone 3GS taken for a spin (video) - The
video
shows the new White 16GB iPhone 3G S stretching its legs with some
digital compass action, voice memo demo (sorry, couldn't resist),
higher-resolution pics with video recording and a slew of additional
iPhone OS 3.0 features. Seeing as how video recording seems to work and
the digital compass is fully functional, there's little doubt that this
vid is legit (those are hardware-dependent features on the iPhone 3G S).
- The Mp3 Experiment Six (video) - For
our Sixth Annual Mp3 Experiment,
over 2,000 people of all ages downloaded the same mp3, pressed play at
the same time, and had a blast together. This year's event took place
on Roosevelt Island, a thin strip of land in the middle of the East Rive
- Pixar grants girl's dying wish to see 'Up' - Colby
Curtin, a 10-year-old with a rare form of cancer, was staying alive for
one thing - a movie. From the minute Colby saw the previews to the
Disney-Pixar movie Up, she was desperate to see it. Colby had been
diagnosed with vascular cancer about three years ago, said her mother,
Lisa Curtin, and at the beginning of this month it became apparent that
she would die soon and was too ill to be moved to a theater to see the
film. After a family friend made frantic calls to Pixar to help grant
Colby her dying wish, Pixar came to the rescue. The company flew an employee with a DVD of
Up, which is only in theaters, to the Curtins’
Huntington Beach home on June 10 for a private viewing of the movie.
- First Trailer for Ruben Fleischer's Zombieland!
- Sony
has debuted
the first trailer for Zombieland starring Jesse Eisenberg and
Woody
Harrelson and Emma Stone. This kind of looks like if Adventureland and
Shaun of the Dead and I Am Legend were mixed together into one undead
comedic masterpiece. Sony will be bringing Zombieland to theaters on
October 9th this fall.
- Batman 3 in 2013? Without Nolan? - With
good reason, it
seems that everyone just assumes that Nolan will be sitting in the
comfy chair for Batman 3, but as it seems the third chapter of this
wildly popular take on Batman will be a ways off in the distance. Like
4 more years away. And it may not have Nolan on board.
- Red Band Trailer for Park Chan-wook's Thirst - Focus
Features has debuted the official US trailer for Park Chan-wook's
Thirst.
Thirst is directed by South Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook, of Joint
Security Area, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Oldboy, Sympathy for Lady
Vengeance, and I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK previously. The screenplay
was co-written by Park Chan-wook and his writing partner Jeong
Seo-Gyeong. This first hit theaters in Korea back in April. Focus
Features will debut Thirst in limited release starting on July 31st.
- New Fame Trailer Online - A
new trailer
comes forward for Fame, the remake of the film and TV series from the
80s that revolves around the aspiring superstars of a prestidgious art
school in NY.
- Alessandra Ambrosio in InStyle - Alessandra
Ambrosio heats things up in InStyle magazine.
- Christina Milian in Maxim - I guess
that it's pretty safe to say Christina
Milian is one hot woman!
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