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(hx) 01:43 AM CEST - Jul,03 2002
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- Microsoft's Freon project is an Xbox, with extras - What Freon
stands for is a souped-up
successor to the Xbox console — capable of playing games but also offering
television capabilities, such as pausing live TV and recording shows onto a computer hard
drive, say people familiar with the effort. Such a device, which could cost around $500,
would have another big advantage: It could beat video-game market leader Sony Corp. to the
punch.
- Start-up spins MP3s for Game Boy - Santa Monica, Calif.-based SongPro
plans to launch
a device that will sell for less than $99 this fall that will play digital music in
various formats on any of the tens of millions of Game Boy game consoles worldwide.
- Can a chip help computers see in 3D? - A Silicon Valley start-up
believes it can give
stereo vision to video cameras by encoding a processing scheme into a custom-designed
chip. Ready for a robot with depth perception?
- Xbox mod-chips still on the menu - Last week we reported on Xbox
mod-chip group Enigmah's decision to withdraw its product from the market, citing a
consultation with lawyers as its reason for pulling back from the legally delicate area of
console modification. However, it transpires that
Enigmah hasn't cancelled its mod-chip plans after all, and the team has merely renamed
to "X-ecuter" in order to launch a new chip. This is significantly easier to fit
than previous efforts - so easy, in fact, that anyone with a basic knowledge of soldering
could do it (unlike previous Xbox chips or the PS2 Messiah chip, which required precision
micro-soldering equipment to fit).
- Intel moves 2.80GHz Pentium 4 into 2002/Q3 - The most recent Intel
roadmaps show that the firm is continuing to scale its Pentium 4 chip, with a
2.80GHz processor now slated for this quarter, quarter three. Intel ascribes the
shift to a "healthy" 130 nanometer process and good engineering. That means it's
now highly likely that Intel will be able to introduce a 3GHz Pentium 4 for the fourth
quarter, as the chip dates shuffle forward. The 2.80GHz Pentium 4 will kick off at
$637, with the 2.66GHz/2.6GHz processor costing $562, and the 2.53GHz/2.5GHz processors
dropping to $433, when bought in quantities of 1,000.
- MSI GeForce 4 Ti 4600 Review - The G4Ti4600-VTD
comes with a good line up of games, exceptional software, good performance, and solid
overclockability to keep the gamer worried less about frame-rates and more about fragging.
MSI did not only market the G4Ti4600-VTD at the hardcore gamer, it also had the media
enthusiast in mind with its release. The card comes packed with all the connections and
software one would need to start manipulating video.
- Menuet - Free OS - Menuet
is a fully 32 bit assembly written, graphical OS for asm programming, distributed
under General Public License. Since Menuet fits to a single floppy, you only need one
blank 1.44 M diskette. Your hard disks are not affected in any way. Assembly programmers
unite
- ASPI Fix For Windows 2000/XP - I've done a small guide for how
to fix ASPI under NT/2K/XP because installing the latest Adaptec ASPI doesn't create
some of the necessary keys that many programs, such as AudioCatalyst, CDRWIN, Exact Audio
Copy and others need before they can actually discover your drives. This is a problem that
has been annoying the hell out of a lot of friends of mine, so I thought there must be
many others out there grieving over lack of AudioCatalyst functionality if nothing else.
- New IE spy progie exploits DCOM - A group of Japanese security
enthusiasts has developed a little
tool called IE'en which exposes traffic between an IE user and any server he's contacting,
including logins and passwords over HTTPS.
- CDex 1.50 beta 5 - CDex is a freeware application, which is able to extract audio tracks
from a CD-ROM digitally, and save those files to disk as either regular WAV file or MP3
files. CDex reads the digital audio data directly from the disc, which can be stored in
either a WAV file or a MPEG (MP2 or MP3) sound file.
- FreeRAM XP Pro 1.11 - FreeRAM XP Pro
is a freeware application designed to defragment and free up your system's RAM.
- RefreshForce v1.0 -This is a complete generic fix to the Windows 2000/XP refresh problem and
doesn't need to run in the background. It does NOT depend on specific graphics card and
drivers, and it does not require usage of the Plug & Play monitor drivers to get over
85Hz.
- ICQ 2002A Build 3728 - Mirabilis today released the latest version of their instant
messenger software ICQ.
- ICQ Lite Alpha Build #1019 - ICQ Lite
is pure messaging: It includes only the most popular features of ICQ, such as instant
messaging, file transfer, SMS and meeting people, for super-quick communication. It is a
small download of 1.4 Mb, installation is quick and easy and it takes minimal memory to
run. Because it's so small and has everything good about the full-featured ICQ made easy,
it's the perfect version to send to your friends and get them on ICQ. It is a new
experimental version of the ICQ software and is still under development, may be unstable
and is likely to contain bugs. Contains no advertising. (This is not the ICQ Web-based
client that has been renamed to ICQ2Go!).
- Nvidia Keyhole EarthViewer 3D - Keyhole's EarthViewer
3D harnesses the power of NVIDIA GPUs. Fusing high-resolution satellite and aerial
imagery, elevation data, GPS coordinates, and overlay information about cities and
businesses.
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