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- ATi Radeon HD 5870 will be cheaper than GeForce
GTX 285 - According to Donanimhaber.com,
ATi Radeon HD 5870 (Code Name: Cypress XT) will be cheaper than GeForce
GTX 285 and will come with $299. And also same source underlines that
ATi R800 (Code Name: Hemlock - 2x RV870) will launch in Mid-Nov.
- Western Digital WD TV Mini Media Player Video
Review - Where's
my - Back a few months ago, Western Digital impressed us when it
launched its very first media player, the WD TV. It was an affordable
device that allowed you to playback HD movies, music and pictures on
your display through a USB storage device, such as a pen drive or
portable hard drive. Fast forward a little and Western Digital has just
come out with the WD TV Mini. It is a smaller, more portable and
cheaper version compared to the WD TV, but it lacks one very important
feature - HD support and HDMI output. It does, however, impress in
certain areas - especially with 1080i upscaling and a very small size
and attractive styling.
- Verbatim 2-Disk RAID External Hard Drive 2TB
Review - During test period Verbatim external drive didn't get too hot or even warm
thanks to 40mm fan present at the back. The same fan is almost
noiseless since it generates no more than 25dBA
- 18 Cool Things Windows 7 Does That Vista Doesn't -
TechRadar has posted a list of 18 cool things
Windows 7 does that Vista doesn't do. Obviously the native ISO burner,
Jumplists, new task bar and the Windows XP mode are the more talked
about features but some of these other ones like ability to Stream
Music directly to another computer, Pin just about anything to the new
Windows Taskbar and Improved Touch Navigation are cool too.
- Guides: Upgrading Your Notebook Hard Drive To An
SSD - In reality, the
software side of a notebook SSD upgrade is perhaps the most complex part
of the process. Mechanically, swapping out drives is pretty
straight-forward. If you take the path of actually cloning your
existing hard drive's partition(s) over to the new SSD, you need to
ensure you set the cloning software application, in our case it was
Clonezilla, to resize the new partition on the target drive to size of
the SSD. Norton Ghost from Symantec has this setting selected by
default but in the screen shots above, you can see how to set it up
with Clonezilla. Also, if your new SSD is actually smaller than the old
hard drive, Clonezilla won't let you map the partition over, even if
the data area is smaller. In this case, Norton Ghost works a bit better
and is in general a bit more elegant to work with.
- Google Docs Can Now Translate - Need to
translate a document? Now you can use Google Docs to get the job done.
- Ziploc iPod Headphones Eliminate Tangles - Lee
Washington is
a product design student from London and he has come up with a solution
that will effectively eliminate cord tangle when it comes to
headphones. Rather than having two separate cords leading to each ear,
these two cords can snap together not unlike what
you get with a Ziploc bag.
In doing so, you get a single, unified cord when you have your
headphones stowed away, making for absolutely zero tangles. When it's
time to pump up the jam again, you simply unzip the headphone cords,
just as you would undo the seal offered by a Ziploc bag.
- Two new Get a Mac ads - Apple responds
to Microsoft's PC hunter ads with two
new ads.
- iMac Goes Up In Smoke (video) - Imagine
what could have been if this had happened during the night? :\
- Why has Microsoft photoshopped this? - It
appears Microsoft has photo-shopped an image
on the Polish version of its Business Productivity site. If you visit
the US business site you will see the image below (top) and if you
visit the Polish site you'll see the same picture (bottom) but the man
in the middle is no longer black. Why has Microsoft done this?
Microsoft has said on Twitter that it is in the process of taking down
the image, calling it a 'marketing site photo mistake.' Hmmm...
- iPhone 3GS Shot with 9mm and Burned (video) - As
if putting four 9mm rounds into a 32GB iPhone 3GS
wasn't enough, this guy set it on fire afterwards. iPhone destruction
at its finest!
- Connecticut man consults Apple Genius and gets
arrested - A man in Stamford, Connecticut is now in police
custody after taking his PowerMac G5 computer to an Apple store for
repairs relating to problems with image files. Raymond Miller took his
computer to the Genius Bar at his local Apple store saying that he was
having trouble with image files; when the technician started to look
over the computer he found child pornography and
alerted the local police.
- Swede caught with 10,000 films in file sharing
raid - A 33-year-old man from Vasteras
in central Sweden has been arrested for alleged crimes in breach of
copyright legislation. Local media report that police uncovered up to
10,000 films hidden in the man's cellar.
- The Pirate Bay Taken Offline By Swedish
Authorities - According to TorrentFreak,
Stockholm's district court took action to completely remove The Pirate
Bay from the Internet. The court ordered the site's major bandwidth
supplier, Black Internet, to disconnect TPB from the Internet or face
penalties of 500,000 kroner ($70,600). The ISP complied, saying that it
had no choice but to uphold the law.As expected, The Pirate Bay site relocated
and is back online...
- Awesome International Trailer for Zombieland! - I
know we've already seen at least two trailers so far - a teaser and a
red band - but this just looks better and better
the more we see from it! This new one is similar to those last few
trailers, but features a voiceover from Jesse Eisenberg and a few more
new scenes that we haven't seen.
- War of the Worlds: Goliath Trailer - War
of the Worlds: Goliath is an animated steampunk epic and
unofficial sequel to War of the Worlds.
- Teaser Trailer for Christopher Nolan's Inception -
Inception is both written and
directed by acclaimed Oscar nominated British filmmaker Christopher
Nolan, of Memento, Insomnia, Batman Begins, The Prestige, and The Dark
Knight. Nolan previously wrote the scripts for Memento, Batman Begins,
The Prestige, and The Dark Knight with his brother Jonathan Nolan.
Warner Brothers is bringing Inception to theaters everywhere starting
on July 16th, 2010 next summer.
- Brand New Japanese Trailer for Roland Emmerich's 2012
- An academic researcher leads a group of
people in a fight to counteract the apocalyptic events that
were predicted by the ancient Mayan calendar. Cast includes John
Cusack, Amanda Peet, & Chiwetel Ejiofor. Sony Pictures is
bringing 2012 to theaters everywhere on November 13th this year!
- On board the Radical SR8LM's
record-setting Nurburgring lap (video) - Some
of the best sportscars on the road are those derived from racing
machinery. But by the time you take them back to the racetrack...well,
that's just backwards thinking. At least, that's how it seems when
you look at the Radical SR8LM.
Instead of making life imitate art that's imitating life, Radical cut
the shortest distance from A to B. The SR8LM is that product, and as
you may have heard, it holds the new record for the fastest lap time at
the Nurburgring.
- Acura NSX submarine (video) - At one
point, the water, which
came as the result of a torrential downpour in Orange Park, Forida, was
up to the side mirrors. The real payoff, when the video goes from sad
anger-inducing to hilarious comes about 33 seconds in, when
you can clearly see water pouring out of the closed doors of the NSX.
It stuns us to think that someone would think it would be a good idea
to drive a low-slung supercar through a flood zone, but it probably
shouldn't.
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