Nightly Tech Reading - tech
(hx) 03:34 AM CEST - Sep,23 2002
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- Physicists create antimatter -
At least
50,000 anti-hydrogen atoms have been created since the experiment began in
August, said Dr. Jeffrey S. Hangst, from Aarhus University in Denmark, who
coordinated efforts by 39 physicists from 10 institutions in a collaboration
named Athena. A paper on their results has been accepted for publication in
Nature and was posted on its Web site.
- Yahoo! to Launch Videogame Service -
In its latest move to generate revenue outside online advertising, Internet
portal Yahoo! is
launching a fee-based service Monday that lets users download and play
videogames on demand. The service will offer well-known titles that can be
rented for a few days or weeks at a time and run as if the CD-ROM were bought
at a store and popped into the personal computer, said Daniel Hart, Yahoo's
senior director of games and entertainment. Most of the data required to
run each game is streamed to the PC over the Internet before the game is
started for the first time. The program then runs off the hard drive,
downloading additional files as needed. It expires at the end of the rental
period.
- QCast Tuner adds DivX support to PS2 - There is pretty interesting
scan about it -
check it out.
- Turtle Beach To Show AudioTron Digital Music Player At CEDIA -
Turtle Beach has announced that it will showcase its AudioTron(tm) digital
music player at the CEDIA Expo, held September 27 to 29, at the Minneapolis
Convention Center. Designed to organize and play up to 30,000 digital audio
files stored on a networked personal computer -- as well as Internet audio
streams through TurtleRadio(tm) - the AudioTron transmits and receives data
through an Ethernet 10BaseT or 10/100BaseT network.
- TFT-LCD Prices Down - The current trend is that
TFT-LCD prices will continue to drop," said Jeff Hsu, a vice president at
Chi Mei Optoelectronics Corp., Tainan, Taiwan. "Nobody can say if the
situation will improve in the December quarter. The visibility is really low."
- GF4 4200 Roundup -
All
GeForce 4 Ti4200 cards produce a high quality image, but we nitpicked and
made the table you see above. The judgments are harsher than they should have
been, so we recommend that you don't take them for granted. If we would have
to pick a card that has the best 2D image, it would be the Leadtek models,
followed by Abit Siluro and Prolink. A bit less sharp, but still great were
ASUS, Gainward and Microstar, who we would like to commend as they have been
known earlier for series that produced a blurry image.
- MX440 Shootout - OverclockersClubCanada has published
a four way MX440 Shootout to help you choose a decent performance budget
card.
- Albatron's GeForce4 Ti4200P-Turbo 128MB -
Leadtek has done well with its Ti4600 card; the cooling permits
significant overclocking by sustaining low temperatures. You also get a decent
package of software, including games and DVD software.
- Leadtek GeForce4 Ti4600 - It seems that Albatron has taken a liking
to the blue PCB's, and I for one say they look pretty awesome! The Albatron
GeForce4 Ti4200P-Turbo is a tad pricer then the average Ti4200 at $270 CDN
($185 US) but that's to be expected. After all, the 8-layer PCB is more
expensive to produce and it also uses higher quality 3.3ns BGA DDR RAM of
which there is 128MB in this version. If looks could kill, the
Albatron GeForce4 Ti4200 Turbo would be on FBI's 10 most wanted list!
- haha LOL.
- Thermaltake VGA Highest Performance Coolers - Would you like
to
replace you current NVIDIA Geforce4 Ti Cooler?
- TwinMOS 512mb PC3200 DDR400 - PC3200 modules have got to have a
very good PCB in order to achieve such high speeds, 200MHz DDR, so the
TwinMOS PC3200 RAM makes no exception.
- EPoX 4G4A+ Review - EPoX have been long time manufacturers of
affordable solutions. They have a reputation for creating products that
perform exceptionally at an incredibly reasonable price. Usually some extra
features (like onboard LAN and Audio) are sacrificed. This however is
definitely not the case with
the 4G4A+, it is absolutely bursting with added extras..
- Monitor Buying Guide -
Your eyes are very important, and a small cheap 15 monitor will strain
your eyes after a long stint in front of the screen. Good quality monitors are
becoming easier to get hold of without spending large amounts of cash, TFT's
are still too new and a little out of the general reach of Joe public...
- How to install and run an HTTP server on Windows - Well, there are
a myriad of reasons
someone may want to have a Web server, including: having a private
website, hosting a site for yourself or someone else, testing purposes, or
just for the fun of fooling around and learning from it.
- Windows XP Professional / Home Edition Service Pack 1 Utility -
Windows XP Home Edition startup disks will not work for Windows XP
Professional installations and vice-versa. Download:
WinXP Professional with SP1 Utility: Setup Disks for Floppy Boot Install /
WinXP
Home Edition with SP1 Utility: Setup Disks for Floppy Boot Install.
- Tweak-XP v2.0.2 -
Tweak-XP (download)
was developed to combine both tweaking and optimizing features to increase the
speed of your Windows XP system.
- Partition Magic v8.0 -
PartitionMagic includes BootMagict allowing you to effortlessly switch
between multiple operating systems safely and without compatibility problems.
You can password protect your boot process as well as change start up options
and menu items for all your operating systems. All within a graphical
interfacce -- a comfortable and easy-to-use environment.
- Zoom Player 2.90 Alpha 3 -
Zoom Player (changelog)
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.
- Free BIOS Tool SMBIOS 3.02 -
The
System Management BIOS/Desktop Management Interface (DOS
version) provides a mechanism to display a wide variety of information
about the current system including serial numbers of component parts (to the
extent that they are machine-readable), BIOS information (capabilities,
version, etc.), CPU information (capabilities, version, etc.), Slot
information, Physical memory and Cache information, Port connectors,
Motherboard information, and numerous other information.
- IsoBuster v1.1 -
Freeware IsoBuster
lets you explore a CD's File System while by-passing Windows This way you get
better Error handling and several retry-mechanisms to aid you in getting the
data anyway (or at least partially), more CDs stay 'readable' after problems
(such as Buffer Underrun), read and extraction from CD-i, VCD, SVCD, CD-ROM,
CD-ROM XA, DVD, DVCD, mpg (*.dat) Extraction and dat2mpg 'in one', Short
File-names <-> Long File-names, recursive directory extracting, and more.
- PowerStrip 3.28 Beta Build 339 - PowerStrip
3.28 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.
- Fantom CD 1.2.1 Build 1860 -
Fantom CD is a program for reading CDs and running CD programs without a
CD by creating a virtual CD-ROM drive on the hard disk using software methods.
This emulator allows you to run CD-ROM applications from your hard drive or
network server.
- Flash your Lite-On 24103S/32123S to a 40125S - An user of our forum
called Maik has
posted a
firmware on his site that allows you to flash your Lite-On 24103S/32123S
to a 40125S. Several people (also two of our moderators/experts) have already
confirmed that it works.
- VIA Audio drivers - VIA Tech has released
new drivers for the internal AC97 sound in their chipsets i.e. south
bridges VT686A, VT686B, VT8231, VT8233, VT8233A, VT8233C and VT8235. The
version carries the 3.11c number and works on Windows 9x/ME/2K/XP and
Linux.
- NVIDIA Detonator drivers 31.40 - I just noticed
31.40
driver for Windows 2000/XP has appeared online. This one is dated
30/08/02, so only 3 days newer then the 40.41 driver.
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