Sunday Tech Reading - tech
(hx) 12:18 PM CET - Nov,23 2003
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- "Modern Day Gamer 2" film released -
The main
purpose of this documentary is to ask whether we will ever see gaming
become a mainstream spectator sport. The film (157MB
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features the Four Kings Wolfenstein squad as they compete at Quakecon 2003.
They follow the team as they progress through the event & talk exclusively
with them about tactics before their games. Featuring interviews with: John
Romero, Sujoy Roy (iGamesUK), Paul 'Locki' Wedgwood (Splash Damage), David
Mitchell (Intel UK), Toby Aldridge (4K^Zommy) & many other 4K players.
For more info on the film check out
this interview on PQ3.
- DVD Jon unlocks iTunes' locked music (updated) - Jon Lech Johansen,
better known as DVD Jon for his authorship of the DeCSS decryption software,
has turned his attention to Apple's locked music format. While he hasn't
decrypted the DRM which Apple uses, he has produced a simple Windows command
line utility which will install a DLL which dumps the output of a QuickTime
stream to a file.
The short C program is called "QuickTime for Windows AAC memory dumper".
An application called MyTunes already performs much the same function, but
Johansen's is open source.
- War driving kiddie porn downloader busted using other peoples wireless
networks - Toronto police have charged a man with theft of
telecommunications in
a bizarre case that involves downloading child pornography from a laptop
in a moving car and using other people's computer networks to obtain the
images.
- Michigan Wi-Fi hackers 'try to steal credit card details' -
Federal officials this week
accused a third Michigan man of conspiring to steal credit card numbers
from the Lowe's chain of home improvement stores by taking advantage of an
unsecured wi-fi network at store in suburban Detroit. The new defendant, Brian
Salcedo, 20, was named by the original suspects, Paul Timmins, 22, and Adam
Botbyl, 20, in an FBI interview following their arrest, according to a
government affidavit filed in the case.
- RIAA smells victory Case transfer would aid music industry - A
federal judge in San Francisco said Friday
she is leaning toward a ruling that would give the recording industry a key
victory in its quest to seek out and sue individuals who allegedly are
illegally sharing music on the Internet.
- Electronic Nose May Replicate Dog's Sniffing Skill -
A new device called a "dog on a chip" may combine the benefits of
technology and nature by not only detecting dangerous or illicit substances
but by providing the electronic equivalent of a dog barking, researchers said
on Friday. The device is more accurate and faster than other electronic
sensors and drug-sniffing dogs, a team at the Georgia Institute of Technology
said. The dog-on-a-chip works with antibodies by looking at their molecular
structure, Hunt said. In this case the researchers tested cocaine antibodies,
which change in structure and mass if they come into contact with cocaine
molecules.
- Young scientists put SA on innovation map - This year's Expo
for Young Scientists, for which Intel is one of the major sponsors, proved
that innovation is alive and well and living in the minds of young South
Africans. Held in October at the University of Pretoria Sports Complex, the
expo showcased the abilities of local learners in the fields of science,
engineering and information technology. The winning projects included a unique
Multi-Pixelled Disk (MPD) capable of
storing up to 64 times the amount of data that a DVD can hold at present
and an innovative computer-controlled robotic soccer player called Robosoccer.
- SIS755 Chipset Preview -
SIS’s dual chip
solution consists of their brand new 755 north bridge that connects to the
existing 964 south bridge that made its debut a couple of months ago. The 755
communicates with the A64 via a 16bit HT link that operates at 800 MHz like
VIA’s K8T800. Compared to the nForce 3’s 16 bit down/8 bit upstream 600 MHz
link, SIS is at an advantage. Since the memory controller is embedded into the
processor, the 755 only contains the AGP interface. Like every other chipset
available on the market, the 755 is AGP 3.0 compliant which provides support
for AGP4x/8x cards.
- Creative Zen NX: Let There Be Music! - THG conclusion is that
the
Creative Labs Zen NX is the best-designed portable player around. Its
perfectly acceptable size, gigantic storage capacity, good looks, good
ergonomics and, above all, outstanding quality playback make this the best
device of its kind on the market.
- New Alpine MP3/WMA Hard Disk Drive Player For The Car -
Alpine
Electronics' new in-dash HDA-5460 player with a 16GB removable hard disk
drive enables people to take upwards of 3,000 of their favorite MP3/WMA/.WAV
music files on the road with them. The Alpine HDA-5460, available nationwide
at Alpine authorized dealers in early December (target retail price $1,000),
is the quintessential holiday gift for any MP3/WMA music enthusiast.
- Crucial Gizmo! 256MB Portable Storage - It
handles file transfers with speed and efficiency and has the added benefit
of securing sensitive and confidential information. Its small size makes it
easy to tote from PC to PC and even from home to work. The included dust cap
and hard plastic case make it unlikely that a drop or throwing the unit in
your junk drawer will cause any stability problems.
- Plextor PX-708A DVD+R/+RW Recorder Goes 8X - Plextor offers a
product of excellent quality with the fastest DVD+R write speed to be found at
the moment. Its speeds are also the best in DVD+RW, DVD-R and DVD-RW modes.
And the
CD mode ranks the PX-708A as one of the best...CD recorders! It also has a
lead for speed in the + format which will only be reached by the - format in
2004. Like any exclusive new product, the PX-708A is sold at a high-end
price, of $249 (270 euros to 290 euros) depending on the version. Exclusivity
will always cost you.
- 3D Prophet 9800 Pro 128MB review - OnlyNewZ has posted
a review of 3D Prophet 9800 Pro 128MB video card.
- Mad Dog Multimedia Entertainer 7.1 DSP Soundcard - VIA´s Envy24HT-S
chip is powering some new soundcards out there,
MadShrimps take a look at its features and see how it performs when put it
up against a Hercules Fortissimo III 7.1 / SoundBlaster Live 5.1 and nVidia's
Soundstorm
- Build your own Windows PE (WinPE) Boot-CD -
Bart's PE Builder
helps you build a bootable Window CD-Rom or DVD from Windows XP or Windows
Server 2003 very suitable for PC maintenance tasks. It will give you a
complete Win32 environment with network support, a graphical user interface
(800x600) and FAT/NTFS/CDFS filesystem support. Very handy for burn-in testing
systems with no OS, rescuing files to a network share, virus scan and so on.
- Overclocking Your P4 800FSB - Dev Hardware has published a
Pentium 4 overclocking guide. "With the 2.4C's and 865PE/875P boards, it's
almost like a return to the days of the Celeron 300A and 440BX mobo's. Fifty
percent overclocks are not exactly commonplace, but with the right hardware
combinations, it's definitely achievable. So, without further ado, lets get
this party started."
- Video BIOS Shadowing and Caching - Adrian's Rojak Pot let us know
he has posted a
major update of the Video BIOS Cacheable and Video BIOS Shadowing BIOS
options.
- HighMAT Extension for WinXP CD-Writing Wizard -
The HighMAT
Extension for Windows XP CD-Writing Wizard can be used on a computer
running the Microsoft® Windows XP operating system to create a HighMAT CD that
contains mixed media content (such as audio, video and image files).
- Nero CD-DVD Speed 1.11 -
Nero CD-DVD Speed is
a benchmark which can test the most important features of an optical drive.
Tests include: Transfer rate, Seek times, CPU usage, Burst rate, DAE quality &
Spinup/spindown time. CD Speed also has a function to check the CD media
quality.
- The Cleaner 4.0 Professional - MooSoft Development LLC has released
the latest version of the award winning anti-trojan/worm/spyware product.
The
Cleaner 4.0 Professional adds many new features such as a stealth mode to
defeat firewall/av killers, a quarantine system, a scheduler and a totally
redesigned GUI.
- Foobar 0.7.4 -
Foobar2000 is an
advanced audio player for the Windows platform. Some of the basic features
include ReplayGain support, low memory footprint and native support for
several popular audio formats
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