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(hx) 03:24 AM CEST - Aug,12 2002
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- The Brain as User Interface - Recent experiments have shown
that direct control of prosthetic limbs by the brain
may be less difficult to achieve than was supposed. In early May,
neuroscientist John Chapin and his colleagues at a Brooklyn, N.Y., medical
center used a wireless receiver and electrodes implanted in a rat's brain to
steer the rodent anywhere they wanted it to go. About a month later,
bioengineer Andrew Schwartz of Arizona State University (Tempe) announced a
method to quickly train a small number of cells in a monkey's brain to
accurately control the 3-D movements of a dot on a monitor.
- Afrotech's Hard-disk Sound System - Why pay 500$ for
Klipsch's latest speaker system? You can make something that looks way cooler
for the price of a DIY amplifier and some HDDs out of a dumpster. It doesn't
sound quite as good but who cares! There really isn't much to say
about this project...
- Trident Interview - Gamer's Depot have posted
an interview with Trident's VP of marketing about their upcomming XP4 GPU.
They state the XP4 will provide about 80% of the performance of ATI's Radeon
9700 PRO at less than 1/4 of the cost.
- Vantec IceBerq Chipset Coolers -
The IceBerq comes with the CCB chipset sink (copper or aluminum depending
on which one you have), two smaller more traditional looking passive heatsinks,
a three to four pin Molex adapter, Thermal tape, push pins, and a spooge of
silicon thermal paste. As you can see in the pic below, what was especially
cool about the passive sinks was that they were colored to match the red
tinted aluminum or the high shine copper of the active chipset coolers. The
copper colored passive sink is NOT made of copper but rather aluminum.
- HW Round-up -
XFX
GeForce4 Ti4600 /
Albatron
GeForce4 Ti4600 /
Gainward
GeForce4 Pro/450 TV /
Leadtek WinFast A250 Ultra TD GeForce4 Ti4600 MyVIVO
Edition.
- Money 2003 for Pocket PC v 2.01 (FREE) -
Money for the Pocket PC will help you track your expenses, monitor your
investments, and take control of your finances from anywhere.
- Zoom Player v2.80 Beta 1 -
Zoom Player provides special zooming
functions to improve TV-Output quality by eliminating overscan. Zoom Player's
scaling system allows you to exactly match the video area to your screen's
dimensions in real-time with adjustable background color in order to test for
brightness bleeds. You can also fast forwarding (even on MPEG4 type formats
such as DivX), 10 Keyboard accessible presets to automatically adjust the
video area to pre-defined settings, customizable control bar with graphical
time-seek controls, keyboard mapped controls, aspect ratio support for correct
playback of anamorphic video and out of aspect-ratio content.
- TVTool 6.5.2 - This new version of
TVTool fixes Sync problem with Chrontel chips (some users got a worse
picture quality on TV with version 6.5), Adaption to big fonts and the
position for NTSC 768x576 mode is saved now, and also adds some new features
such as Option for deactivation of the screensaver, Enhanced sound options,
Command line parameter /standby.
- Visio 2000/2002 Viewer -
The Microsoft Visio Viewer 2002 allows anyone to view Visio drawings and
diagrams (if created with Visio 5, 2000, or 2002) inside their Microsoft
Internet Explorer version 5.0 or later Web browser.
- MSN Messenger Build 5.0.340 -
download.
DirectX 9 Beta 2 Web Installer - It should
lessen the
amount
you need to download making it easier on dialup users.
Nero Burning Rom 5.5.9.6 RC -
A new a build (another
link) of Ahead Software Nero Burning Rom v5.5.9.6 has been leaked.
Nero InfoTool 1.01.4 -
Nero InfoTool is very usefull for getting a quick overview about your
system configuration. It will display important Information for the purpose of
discovering error sources.
Nero Ping 1.07 - This
handy utility list all SCSI and ATAPI devices on your system, and works
under Win9x, WinNT, Win2000 and WinXP.
Diet Kazaa v1.03 -
Diet Kaza (formerly
known as KaZaA Tap) v1.03 has been released. Diet Kazaa is a utility
that removes all advertising, speeds up searches, gives more results and takes
out useless icons (i.e. Shopping).
SpeedFan 4.06 -
SpeedFan
is a freeware program that monitors fan speeds and temperatures in computers
with a known monitoring chip. Its main feature is that it can control the
speed of the fans according to the temperatures inside your pc, thus reducing
noise and power consumption.
ATi WDM Capture Driver Build 6.13.10.6125 V4 - Supported ATI Cards:
ALL-IN-WONDER RADEON 8500DV, ALL-IN-WONDER RADEON 8500, ALL-IN-WONDER RADEON
7500, ALL-IN-WONDER RADEON, RADEON 64MB DDR VIVO.
Download.
Nvidia Omega Drivers 1.1.84 - Omegadrive has posted a newly updated
Omega Drivers v1.1.84,
which are based on the 30.84 leaked drivers (same as official). (9x/ME/2k/XP).
ATI Catalyst Radeon (7.74) Reference Drivers WinALL -ATI have
released their Catalyst Radeon (7.74) reference drivers (Windows
XP /
Windows 2000 /
Windows ME) and the
ATI Control Panels 6.13.10.3017 for Windows 98/ME/2000/XP that should work
on all ATI Radeon cards from the RADEON VE to the latest RADEON 9000 PRO.
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