Evening Tech Reading - tech
(hx) 01:55 AM CET - Nov,11 2002
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- "Rapunzel" CD-ROM Lets Barbie Free Her Prince - There's a crisis in
Barbie Land: The world's most famous doll, starring in the fairy-tale role of
Rapunzel, has lost handsome Prince Stefan. He's been kidnapped and
turned to stone by the evil witch Gothel. If that wasn't bad enough, is almost
time for the masquerade ball! So how does Barbie respond to this devastating
tragedy? She redecorates, of course!
The weird thing about Barbie's interior design strategy is that it
actually makes sense when playing the "Barbie as Rapunzel" game ($30,
Windows/Macintosh). [do you like Barbie? :P ~ hx hides ...] :))
- Silicon Valley's Jobless Rate 7.9 Percent - The technology downturn
continues to hammer California's Silicon Valley, where the unemployment rate
in
October was 7.9 percent, the highest level since 1983 and well above last
month's statewide average of 6.4 percent.
- Sun's rays to roast Earth as poles flip - Earth's magnetic field -
the force that protects us from deadly radiation bursts from outer space -
is weakening dramatically. Scientists have discovered that its strength
has dropped precipitously over the past two centuries and could disappear over
the next 1,000 years. The effects could be catastrophic. Powerful
radiation bursts, which normally never touch the atmosphere, would heat up its
upper layers, triggering climatic disruption. Navigation and communication
satellites, Earth's eyes and ears, would be destroyed and migrating animals
left unable to navigate.
- Stargate SG1 Season 7 Confirmed - It's official! Stargate SG-1 will
go on another year,
according to an announcement made today by The Sci-Fi Channel. The cable
network will hold on to the long-running science fiction series -- it's
highest-rated original show -- for a seventh season. The last half of Season
Six starts January 10 on Sci-Fi, with the season finale expected to air in
March. Season Seven should begin airing in June.
- AMD Athlon XP Processors 2600+ and 2700+ With 333MHz FSB For Sale in
Japan -
According to this translation at Xbit-labs, AMD Athlon XP processors with
2600+ and 2700+ model numbers appeared in Japanese retail. Both CPUs are
intended for 333MHz system bus and run at 2083 and 2166MHz respectively. It
worth to mention that there are very few 2600+ chips with 266MHz FSB support
all around the world at this time, hence, it may eventually appear that AMD
will offer its products with this model number only for the 333MHz system bus.
The Athlon XP 2700+ processor is priced at Y50800 ($420), while its lower
speed brethren costs Y42800 ($354). It seems that the novelties are a bit
overpriced, since officially AMD sells such devices for $349 and $297
respectively in quantities starting from 1000 pieces.
- Extreme Overclocking of Hercules 3D Prophet 9700 Pro - The video
card was
overclocked with the RivaTuner program. Half an hour later the card
reached the maximum frequencies - 420/375 (750) MHz at which all the tests
were fulfilled without failure.
- ADSL Slow? This may be the solution -
ADSLGuide has an
update from the popular broadband ADSL offering ISP Zen Internet, which
relates to an issue where some ISP subscribers were experiencing slower speeds
where it should be fast. BT have completed a series of tests on a number of
end users connections that have been experiencing slow download speeds and
have discovered the reason that some people are suffereing from sub-standard
performance. If you want to find out the cause and solution
read more.
- How to fix 60 Hz Refresh Rate Bug In Win2K/XP - Theoretically
this
fix should be display-driver/adapter independent, since it modifies
settings for the monitor rather than display-drivers/adapter itself.
- PGP 8.0 Public Beta 2 -
PGP encrypts
electronic mail, files, and instant messages, and also provides the ability to
create and manage PGP keys.
- n.player v1.0 -
Freeware n.player is
a versatile media player that plays DVD, audio CDs, MP3, WMA, AVI, DiVX, or
any media with the preisntalled DirectShow decoder.
- Tripex3 v3.12 Plugin For WinAmp -
This plugin is a fading ambient demo-style effects (Requires DirectX 7).
It features 12 effects, including metaballs and free direction tunnel.
- True Launch Bar v2.0 -
True Launch Bar (download)
is a Superior replacement for the standard Quick Launch bar. It allows you to
combine your shortcuts into groups. This feature looks like popup menus. This
vastly improves the management of your shortcuts and save working space on
your desktop.
- WinRAR 3.10 Beta 3 -
WinRAR
has been updated to version 3.10 Beta 3.
- Tweak-XP Pro 2.05 -
Tweak-XP
Pro bundles more than 37 different utilities in one: it was developed to
combine both tweaking and optimizing features to increase the speed of your
Windows XP system.
- MagicTweak 1.96 -
MagicTweak (download)
is a special program designed to optimize and personalize Microsoft Windows.
This unique software makes it easy to tweak hundreds of hidden settings in
Windows,
- TVTool 6.8.2 - A new
version 6.8.2
of TV Tool has been released. This is the program that enables your video
card TV-Output and seems to be the best external one.
- PowerStrip 3.30 Beta Build 354 -
PowerStrip 3.30 provides advanced, multi-monitor, programmable hardware
support to a wide range of graphics cards - from the venerable Matrox
Millennium I to the latest SiS Xabre and Radeon 9700.
- KaZaA P2P 2.0.2 -
The KaZaa Media Desktop (download)
is a second-generation peer-to-peer file-sharing service with which you can
search and download media files from other KaZaa users.
- SavageIX/MX Drivers v7.15.30 - S3 Graphics has released
a new drivers (Win9x/ME) for SavageIX/MX.
- SiS 648 Chipset IDE / AGP Drivers - SiS has released some
new
drivers for the 648 Chipset (648 + 963) - both certified under Windows XP
- Asus Promise S-ATA150 Driver v1.00.0.14 - Asus has released a new
Promise S-ATA150 driver version 1.00.0.14 for Win9X/ME/2000/NT/XP.
- Massive Samsung CDRW/CDROM/DVD Firmware Update - Samsung has
released
a new firmware for the following drives - Samsung CD-ROM SM-316B/EXP T306,
Samsung SLIM SN-324B/EXP U100, Samsung CD-RW SW-240B/COM R501, Samsung COMBO
SM-304B/COM T100, Samsung DVD-ROM SD-616T/COM F305 and Samsung COMBO
SM-332B/EXP T403.
- Nvidia GeForce 4 Go Drivers 40.72 - You can
leech&try
but remember that these drivers are not official GeForce4 Go drivers and
are in fact the desktop drivers, adapted so that they will work on laptop
systems.
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