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(hx) 08:11 PM CEST - Apr,13 2003
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- Nintendo to Give Away 'Zelda' with GameCube - Struggling Japanese
games company Nintendo Co. Ltd, having fallen well short of its sales goals
for the GameCube video game console, said on Friday
it will give away one of its most important games for free with the purchase
of the hardware. Nintendo, which has been offering a free game from a
small selection with the purchase of the $149.95 GameCube for a few months,
said it will add "The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker" to the giveaway pool as
of May 4 and continuing through July.
- Final Fantasy XI Public Beta Test -
Square USA has
updated its website with this announcement: "Welcome to the
application for the PlayOnline, Tetra Master, and
FINAL FANTASY XI Public Beta test. The goal of this Public Beta process is
to test connectivity to the PlayOnline network as well as give a few lucky
players a sneak peak at the FINAL FANTASY XI and the PlayOnline network. To be
considered for participation in the Public Beta test program, you must
completely fill out and submit the online application form below."
- WEIRD: Sex life of worms reveals Chernobyl effect -
Worms contaminated by radioactivity from the Chernobyl nuclear accident
have started having sex with each other instead of on their own. According to
Ukrainian scientists, they may have changed their sexual behaviour to increase
their chances of survival. It is one of the first pieces of direct evidence on
how wildlife is affected by radioactive pollution.
- AMD releases Opteron chips and prices through distribution -
According
to TheInquirer, Quantities of AMDs Opteron microprocessors have already
become available through large US distributors for system integrators to buy,
a week ahead of the official launch on the 22nd of April.
Reliable sources tell the INQUIRER that both Bell and Avnet say chips are in
stock with prices for the parts, in trays, available too. It appears that AMD
will also offer boxed Opteron server microprocessors through its channel
distributors as well. The distributor price for the Model 240 is $275, for the
242 $670, but the 244 won't be available through the channel until May. The
OSA240BOX system, which AMD calls a "processor in a box", will cost $295,
while the OSA242BOX will cost $690.
- IBM Plans Sneak Attack On Microsoft Office - IBM, not exactly a
powerhouse in desktop applications,
has its own attack on the desktop planned for later this year. IBM
Software and its Lotus Software Group have built J2EE-based spreadsheet,
document and presentation graphics "applications" that will be bundled for
free with the company's WebSphere portal, sources said.
- Radeon 9800 Pro Boxshots - GZEasy has posted
some
boxshots of various Radeon 9800 Pro boxes including Powercolor, FIC and
Sapphire.
- Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 160GB S-ATA Drive Review -
VR-Zone saw the Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 160gb Serial ATA Hard Drive
actually score up to 30% faster than the Seagate Barracuda V 120gb Serial ATA
Hard Drive, essentially killing it in every benchmark except for HD Tach
2.61's minimum read speed benchmark.
- Zonet Wireless USB Network Adapter - Wireless networking
might not seem like the most invigorating subject for a review, but its
usefulness knows no bounds. When I decided Id rather be writing reviews in the
garden during this fine spring, I set about looking at the various options
open to me. The first and most obvious is to connect your modem to
a wireless
router and then have a PCI / PCMCIA daughter card which connects to said
router. Due to the high cost of such a setup however, I decided to look into
getting a more affordable peer to peer setup.
- Mobile Athlon XP with Geforce4 Go420 and VIA KT266A - Tom's
Hardware Guide has posted
a review on the Sony Vaio NVR-23 notebook.
- Some more GeForce FX 5200 Go and Mobility 9200 numbers - Gamer's
Depot has posted
some benchmarks of the GeForce FX 5200 Go and Mobility 9200.
- How to change a PSU fan - There is
a beginner's guide to changing out a fan in a Power Supply Unit.
- OpenOffice.org 1.0.3 -
OpenOffice.org 1.0.3 (release
notes) incorporates bugfixes and represents a micro enhancement. No new
features are included. For new features, such as save to PDF, SWF, or RTL
(right-to-left), and CTL, please download
the stable beta.
- WINner Tweak 1.3.2 - Freeware software for tweaking, optimizing,
tuning Windows NT/2000/XP. With
WINner Tweak you can easy increase performance and manage your system
using utilities such as WINner Tweak Disk Cleaner and WINner Tweak Startup
Manager.
- PC Accelerator 4.5 -
PCXL helps you optimize your computer to increase system performance.
Improve Internet performance, and web security. Provide convenient tools to
tune up and ease your computer use. PCXL also provides special security
features to protect your system. Available in Standard, Deluxe, and Extreme
versions.
- DivX Player 2.1 - DivX has released the new DivX player with added
fullstream support. DivX player 2.1 is bundled with the current
DivX 5.03 bundle
packages.
- Nvidia Detonators 43.51 for Win2k/XP - Guru3D have got their hands
on a new set of
Nvidia
Detonator Drivers 43.51 for Windows 2000/XP. The archive's files are dated
2 April 2003 which makes this the newest set available. Furthermore all nVIDIA
graphics cards to date are compatible with these drivers which includes the
new GeForceFX 5200, 5600 and 5800 series.
- TV Wonder drivers and MMC - ATI has released new TV Wonder
drivers version 1.11 (WinXP
~
Win2k ~
WinME/9x), as well as a new version of the ATI Multimedia Center (version
7.9).
- Logitech MouseWare 9.76 Build 046 - This is an automated
self-installer of
Logitech MouseWare. This release (03/26/2003) of MouseWare features
support for Windows XP. For your convenience, Logitech has localized versions
of this software.
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