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- Computer spy methods found in LED lights - Scientists have
discovered a way to remotely eavesdrop on computer data by monitoring optical
signals from the little flashing lights on everything from monitors to modems and
routers.
- Online virus generator will return - The creator of the now
infamous online virus
generator, shut down earlier this week after vnunet.com's exposé, has vowed to bring
the site back. The 15 year-old Romanian coder, who only identifies himself as Smecher
Piratul, which translates as 'sly pirate', told vnunet.com that "the site will be
resurrected for sure somewhere else".
- Holes found in Sony's online game plan - Sony Computer
Entertainment of America (SCEA) executives announced that a PS2 network adapter, with an Ethernet port for broadband Internet and
a modem for dial-up access, will go on sale in August, along with games from Sony and
third-party publishers that support online play. The network adapter will work with any
ISP (Internet service provider), and Sony's installation CD will include software for
automatically setting up customers of popular online services such as America Online and
EarthLink, SCEA President Kaz Hirai said in a conference call.
- No Pain, No Game - Have you ever had a hankering to play a
computer game that allows you to inflict real pain on your opponent? Ever wondered how
it would feel to shock, burn and lash your opponent into submission? Well, wonder no more.
Two German designers have addressed this yawning gap in the gaming industry with a
fiendish invention called, appropriately enough, the Painstation..
The concept is simple. Two players eyeball each other over a table console. The left-hand
is positioned on a sensor field -- otherwise know as a PEU, or Pain Execution Unit. When
both players have made this electric contact, the game, and the real fun, commences.
- Online population nears half billion mark - The company said
some 498 million people could surf the web from home by the end of 2001, a
jump of 5.1 percent from the figure in July-September.
- Teen Anarchist Back Online Despite FBI & Big ISPs - Sherman
Austin has not been charged with breaking any laws, but that hasn't stopped two of the
biggest Internet service providers (ISPs) from running the California teenager off their
property for his anarchist views. Last month, after incarcerating Austin, 18, for more
than a week, federal prosecutors decided not to file charges against Austin for publishing bomb-making
information at his site Raisethefist.com and hacking into several sites to post
revolutionary calls to arms.
- Removable dreams come true - As predicted on the news pages this
week, eight firms, among them some of the largest names in Japan's electronics industry,
have formed a consortium to promote and license a
new removable hard disk system. Prototype systems look to give modular, scalable hard
drive capacity at the consumer and small office home office (SoHo) level. One version of
the vision looks very similar to a small, cutesy Raid array system (pictured).
- Raytown Corporation Anti-Keylogger 1.12 - Fight back! New
software promises to disable
the spyware that monitors keyboard strokes.
- Compex WP11 - WLU11 Wireless Network Review - Both of these
products are based on the 802.11b wireless networking standard, the most popular standard
for wireless LANs. These products are designed for home users, or small office networks -
where great transfer speeds are not required. A maximum theoretical throughput of 11Mbps
(claimed effective throughput is 7.5Mbps) will not be fast enough for running large
applications over a network, but will be enough
for tasks such as network gaming, file sharing, internet sharing etc.
- Abit BD7 Raid I845 DDR Review - BD7 Raid's
overclocking ability is amazing! I was able to push our good old P4 1600Mhz to 1944
Mhz stable around 121 FSB.
- MSI G4MX440-T Review - Hardware Mania has written a review
of MSI G4MX440-T video card.
- Abit Siluro GeForce4 MX440 Review - TweakTown has posted a review
of Abit Siluro GeForce4 MX440 Video Card.
- Visiontek GeForce 3 Ti500 Review - Viper's Lair has posted a review
of Visiontek's GeForce 3 Ti500.
- Hercules 3D Prophet FDX 8500LE Review - T-Break has posted
a review
of Hercules 3D Prophet FDX 8500LE graphics card, based on the ATI Radeon 8500 chipset with
a clock/core speed of 250MHz.
- Eizo FlexScan F931 21'' Monitor Review - The
Eizo Flexscan F931 with it's 31.0kg weight is certainly one of the bigger if not one
of the biggest competitors in the CRT monitor market but in our opinion is one of the most
desirable one's because of it's excellent technological features like the capability to
display a resolution of 1600 dots x 1200 lines flicker-free at 104 Hz which is most
ergonomic and eye pleasing or the ability to connect two PC's to the monitor. If you now
feel like your old 17'' CRT monitor has grown of ages maybe it's time to head for a bigger
one.
- Canon Photo Printers: S900 and S9000 Review - The start of a new
year seems to have given Canon the inspiration to pull out all the stops in its inkjet
printer offerings. While Canon's competition is remarkable for its absence (i.e., none of
them announced any new products), the Japanese manufacturer has launched no less than six
new models.
- Operation Flashpoint Tweak Guide - Operation Flashpoint was one
of the big PC Game hits of last year, thanks to a healthy combination of good AI, realism,
squad management & some great missions. 3D Spotlight's guide will take you through the
mass
of options available for the Game, along with other tips & hints.
- Turn Your Creative SB Live! 2 SB Audigy - Well if you want to
know how to do this and how to modify the driver hit read more
- Unchecked Buffer in Windows Shell Could Lead to Code Execution -
download patch
- The All-Seeing-Eye v1.7.5 - This
popular game server browser has been updated to support: Shadow Force Razor Unit (demo
& retail), C&C Renegade (demo & retail), Star Trek: Bridge Commander,
Half-Life Steam (Counter-Strike 1.4 beta).
- Tweak XP 1.29 - This new version
features: Integration of the new 'Minimizer-XP' application, several internal
optimizations and fixes to a few tweaks, updated language files and several changes.
- Customizer XP v1.7.8 Final - Customizer XP is an
integrated suite of programs that can help you to tweak your Windows 2000/XP to its
fullest potential performance or just keep it running like new.
- BlindWrite v1.2.3 - BlindWrite suite is a
tool designed to perfectly reproduce most CD. RAW mode is needed to produce perfect
backups of some protected CDs! DAO mode is even better.
- NTFSMax 2000++ - A program that speeds up NTFS
filesystems a great deal by tuning the filesystem at the registry level in many areas
to stop NTFS from having to make some entries on each time a file is accessed, thus less
entries made & less time spent by the filesystem drivers having to do them. It also
tunes whether the Operating System itself pages itself to disk as well, thus keeping it in
RAM for faster access/reaccess as well.
- dRAMatic 6.1- It allows you to optimize (not just free) your system
memory with its advanced defragmentation and garbage collection algorythms.
- pcTuner 1.8 Beta 2 - With pcTuner you
will able to configure hundreds of Windows 9x/ME/2K hidden settings, from the Start Menu,
Desktop, Accessories, Windows Explorer.
- Matrox Tweak Utility 4.03.002 - A tweaking tool
for Matrox Video cards.
- Asus Tweaking Utility 3.50 - This utility is
provided for fine tuning your ASUS display card.
- ATI Refresh Rate Fixer 0.99 Beta - This programs main
function is to set refresh rates under Windows 2000 and XP in OpenGL and Direct3D modes.
Supported videocards: - ATI RAGE 128/RAGE and 128 PRO/RADEON
- Alcatel Speed Touch USB Modem 1.6 Beta Drivers - A new 1.6 beta drivers for the Alcatel Speed Touch USB modem are available.
- ATI BIOS Editor RadEdit v1.0 - This is the first universal BIOS editor for
Radeon-based videocards. This program let you modify clock speeds and BIOS fonts for
any videocard based on R100, RV100, RV200, R200 chips.
- VIA PCI Latency Patch 0.19d - This version is
designed to maximize the performance of RAID IDE and SCSI controllers. It has not been
tested for compatibility with sound cards. Please use this on a trial basis only, and
report your findings to Feedback. Be sure to mention which
version of the patch you are trying, and what model of motherboard is in your
computer. This version has a known issue: copying from a PCI network card to a local RAID
hard disk is slow.
- NVIDIA Tech Demos - Nvidia has released 3 small effects demos -
Explosions, Cloud Cover and Brushed Metal.
- NVIDIA Linux Drivers - New Nvidia Linux Drivers
1.0-2802 has been released. This new drivers features GeForce4 and Quadro4 Support
(see products supported list), OpenGLr 1.3 with NVIDIA extensions, Improved IGP and mobile
support, Overlay support for Quadro products, MPEG acceleration for GeForce4 MX and
Anisotropic filtering support.
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