Sunday Tech Reading - tech
(hx) 08:02 PM CEST - Sep,07 2003
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- Prices Drop on Console Games -
The good news for computer game players is that prices have come down
significantly and are likely to stay down throughout the coming holiday
season, especially if the U.S. economy continues to struggle. The trend has
been obvious for months. A year ago, it was almost impossible to find a game
for Xbox, GameCube or PlayStation 2 with a list price under $50. Today, it's
much easier to find a game for $40, or less. For example, most of the 21
GameCube titles -- 71 percent -- scheduled for September release will cost $40
or less. About half of the 29 PS-2 games and 28 Xbox games coming out this
month will be under $40. GameBoy Advance titles, which have typically sold for
$30, are dropping in price as well; 10 of the 26 new titles will be selling
for $20.
- The TV Tech Tussle - Coming to a Screen Near You -
At least three flat-screen technologies are vying to replace the boxy
television set as TV makers accelerate their biggest design change since they
replaced black-and-white with color. With screens just a few inches thick and
often measuring 40 inches or more diagonally, TVs using plasma or liquid
crystal display (LCD) technologies are one of the most desirable products to
reach electronics showrooms in years.
- BA flights cancelled as computers crash - Hundreds of British
Airways customers have had their flights cancelled or delayed after a
world-wide computer failure.
Screens went blank at BA check-in desks across the globe as the company's
computerised passenger and baggage handling system failed. BA said a problem
within the hub of their system, based near Heathrow, led to a power outage.
- Google celebrates fifth birthday - It is now an internet giant,
used by millions of people every day in more than 80 languages. The search
engine site moved to its first office,
actually a garage, in Menlo Park, California on 7 September 1998. This
move was helped by the $1m in funding it received from investors, family and
friends shortly before.
- Deadly Inspiration? -
The family of a slain motorist has filed suit against the maker (TAKE 2)
of a video game that two teens claim inspired them to shoot at passing cars on
a Tennessee highway. Grand Theft Auto, a video game that allows players to
"fire" on people and cars in realistic, shoot-'em-up fashion, is a cash cow
that propelled manufacturer Take Two Interactive to the top of the video game
industry. For the middle and high school students who play the game for hours
on end, it's a means of escaping the mundaneness of teenage life. But for two
stepbrothers, 16-year-old William and 14-year-old Joshua Buckner, that escape
turned deadly earlier this summer. They told police they were emulating Grand
Theft Auto on the night of June 25 when they took shotguns to Interstate 40,
near their Newport, Tenn., home, and opened fire on vehicles.
- Cooltech Idrastation Liquid Cooling System Video Review -
The Cooltech Idrastation Liquid Cooling System is an all-in-one solution
but installation does require some case modification. Unlike normal liquid
cooling setups which take up valuable space inside the case, this product is
external. Overall this product is very well built and offers excellent
performance.
- Zalman CNPS7000 Heatsink Review - Voided Warranty has posted
a review of Zalman CNPS7000 Heatsink.
- Thermal Paste Comparison - OCAddiction takes
3 of the more popular brands of CPU thermal paste to see what type of
performance you can expect from each. " It is good to know that the Ultra II
is not electrically conductive. This makes it safe to spread over video card
GPUs and Northbridge chips. It would be dangerous to spread conductive paste
over video cards GPUs and Northbridge chips because if even just a tad amount
touches electrical bridges, shortage will occur. This has happened to me
before. I was lucky my video card didn't end up cooked."
- How To Destroy Your Computer -
This article will
explain to you, the user, the most common ways by which you can cause your
computer to cease to function. Follow the instructions carefully and you will
shortly find yourself making appropriate contributions to the all-important
service sector.
- Spyware Protection and Removal Guide - I spy with my little eye...
IP xx.xx.xx.xx reading this page right now,
so learn how to protect, and remove software that keeps tabs on you. -
Version 1.0.0
- The Tweaking Experience 2.0 - Formerly known as Lex's tweaking
guide, from windowsxp.homedns,
The Tweaking Experience is now bigger than ever, while actually being
smaller than ever.
The now 5 meg file contains an easy to read tweaking guide packaged in a
simple installer (hence is an executable).
- Knoppix 3.3 (Pre-release) [Linux] - Klaus Knopper has released a
pre-release of
Knoppix 3.3 (changelog
~
download) Kernel 2.4.22 with xfs and HIGHMEM (4GB) support; cloop 1.02
(block layer rewrite); katomic reinstalled (got lost somehow in the past
release); unofficial new development boot options for testing: toram,
tohd=hda1 (copy CD to ram/HD and run from there); wipe (though it's useless.
;-); pon gprs option for GPRS internet access.
- Messenger Plus! 2.21.0054 -
Messenger Plus!
Extension (download)
is a program that adds functionalities to the MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
chat program. Some of the added features are logging, personalized Away
Messages, transparency effects, and a feature to minimize all MSN Messenger
windows to the system tray.
- DVD Region-Free 3.05 (SHW) -
DVD
Region-Free (what's
new ~
download trial) is an unique, effective and easy-to-use DVD tweaking too
that allows you to watch all region DVDs on any DVD drive(especially RPC2)
even if it has been locked. You don't need flash firmware which is sometimes
dangerous, useless or unavailable.
- DVDIdle Pro 3.05 is (SHW) - DVDIdle
(download)
extends the lifetime of your DVD drive and makes DVD drive keeping cool and
quiet.
- File Scavenger Hard Drive Install v2.1 (SHW) -
File Scavenger (download)
is the most comprehensive award-winning file undelete and data recovery for
NTFS disk volumes on WinNT/2k/XP. Due to the simplicity of our software,
you do not have to be an expert to recover files overwritten or lost by
accidental deletion, a virus, corrupted hard drives, a broken RAID, accidental
hard disk reformatting, etc.
- Ranish Partition Manager 2.44 Beta -
Partition Manager is
a freeware program that partitions hard disks. It will help you to install and
dualboot Linux and multiple copies of Windows. For example, it will let
you to run Win ME, Win 2k, and Linux on a single box. Also, using Partition
Manager you can copy, move, and resize disk partitions.
- Opera 7.20 Beta 9 build3106 - A new Beta-version (w/o Java)
of
Opera 7.20 is available (download
beta9).
- MAME v0.73 -
MAME stands
for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator, and currently runs 1800+ classic (and
even some not so classic) arcade games.
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