Wednesday Tech Madness - tech
(hx) 11:45 PM CET - Dec,04 2002
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- China blocks news not porn online - Chinese internet surfers have
almost unfettered access to pornography, but news, health and education sites
are routinely blocked, US researchers have found. The team from the
Harvard Law School tested more than 200,000 websites to find out what content
was banned in China.They found that
nearly 20,000 sites were inaccessible, showing that China had an effective
system of blocking sensitive material.
- Bush signs child Net safety law - President George W. Bush on
Tuesday signed into law legislation to
create a new kids-safe "dot-kids" domain on the Internet.
- Revolutionary New Theory For Origins Of Life On Earth -
A totally new and highly controversial theory on the origin of life on earth,
is set to cause a storm in the science world and has implications for the
existence of life on other planets. Research by Professor William Martin of
the University of Dusseldorf and Dr Michael Russell of the Scottish
Environmental Research Centre in Glasgow, claims that living systems
originated from inorganic incubators - small compartments in iron sulphide
rocks. The new theory radically departs from existing perceptions of how life
developed and it will be published in Philosophical Transactions B, a learned
journal produced by the Royal Society.
- Novel fridge cools with sound - Some of the coolest sounds in the
world are coming out of a laboratory in Pennsylvania. At the lab, two US
researchers are working on ways to use sound to chill food. They have
produced
a sonic fridge that converts very loud sounds to directly cool a fridge
containing ice cream. The researchers hope that their work will end
reliance on gases that can contribute to global warming.
- ABIT AMD 333 Contest - ABIT is proud to
announce the ABIT AMD 333 Contest! From December 2nd to December 22, 2002,
we're giving away 3 ABIT AMD motherboards, 3 Siluro VGA cards, and 3 AMD
Athlon XP 2700+ CPUs with 333FSB support every week for (3) three weeks!
- ATI Announces New ALL-IN-WONDER VE - ATI announced the
new ALL-IN-WONDER VE, now shipping to retail outlets across North America.
ATI's newest value multimedia video card, ALL-IN-WONDER VE, is available for
USD$129.00 and complements the ALL-IN-WONDER 9700 PRO at USD$449.00, the
ALL-IN-WONDERR RADEONt 8500DV at USD$199 and the value-priced ALL-IN-WONDERR
RADEONt 7500 at USD$149.
- The Flip-Pad Voyager -
The Flip-Pad Voyager
is the next step in the evolution of the computer. The revolutionary quad -
fold design is the ultimate convergence of the latopand desktop. The
Flip-Paf's unique dual portrait displays and vast workspace combine in a
portable folding form factor. This architecture allows for faster, easier
multitasking, exchange information better ( rotating screen for interactive
presentations), and actually enjoy our work (comfortable, stylish design).
Specifications: AMD Mobile Athlon 1.2-1.6GHz, 512MB SDRAM, 40GB Disk,
Video Dual 13.3" TFT, 1536 x 1024 total resolution, 16 MB video memory etc
etc... If I had $5,000 to blow I would buy it :P (thanks
Madville.com)
- Ultra miniature Kanguru Micro MP3 USB player - Interactive
Media Corporation today
announced its
ultra miniature Kanguru Micro MP3 USB player with built-in flash memory.
The device supports USB1.1, weighs just 46 g and has 92x30.4x26 mm dimensions.
It also features the built-in NAND memory and the 500 mA rechargeable battery
(up to 6 hours of operation). Capable of resisting 1000G shock, the player can
have 64Mb, 128Mb, and 256Mb capacities. It's interesting that it doesn't
require drivers for Windows 2000/ME/XP, Mac OS 8.6+, Linux 2.4.0, they are
necessary for Windows 98/98SE only. Besides storing and playing music, Kanguru
Micro MP3 can also be used as a usual flash trinket. 64Mb Kanguru Micro MP3
costs $99.95, 128Mb and 256Mb versions - $139.95 and $199.95, respectively.
- SEGA ~ PS2 Party Coverage - Japanese gaming website Watch-Impress
has posted coverage from two events that were held in
Japan by Sony and
SEGA with details of the latest games to be released for the PS2.
The website is entirely in Janapese, so use
BabelFish and check
many screenshots.
- Understanding the Microprocessor - Nice article,
check it out...
- VIA AGP 4.40 Driver Preview - The test system for this
article consisted of the KT400 powered Abit AT7-MAX2, 2 x 256 MB of Corsair
XMS3500 memory, an ATI Radeon 9700 Pro graphics card and all the other usually
odds and ends. The only difference between the two system setups is version of
the AGP drivers used.
In our first run, we used the VIA 4-in-1 drivers version 4.43, which
includes AGP driver version 4.30a. The new driver that I received was the AGP
driver version 4.40. That means, for our benchmark graphs, the AGP 4.40 is the
new, updated driver and the 4in-1 4.43 version is the older one, despite the
names and numbers used.
- PGP 8.0 Final -
PGP
Freeware is a single-user product that includes the same core PGP Mail
software that can be found in our PGP Personal, Desktop, and Enterprise
packages. PGP Freeware allows you to encrypt files as well as the contents of
the clipboard, and also provides the ability to create and manage PGP keys.
PGP Freeware does not include any plug-ins for integration with electronic
mail or instant messaging clients, nor does it include PGP Disk.
- Experience Visual Studio .NET Free Online -
Visual
Studio .NET can help you with (nearly) every part of your job. But, don't
take our word for it.
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most difficult development challenges you face today. With the Visual Studio
.NET Hosted Experience, for three hours, you will have unlimited access to
Visual Studio .NET Enterprise Architect edition, as well as a library of other
valuable tools, resources, and code samples.
- Outlook 2002 Dec4 Update -
The Outlook 2002 Update: December 4, 2002 offers the highest levels of
stability and security available for Microsoft OutlookR 2002. This update
fixes an instability problem introduced in Office XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) that
affects Outlook POP3 / SMTP clients. This update also fixes a vulnerability
that could allow an attacker to send a malformed message which would make the
user's Outlook session unresponsive.
- Defrag for Windows 1.0 -
Defrag for Windows (download_trial
~ screenshots)
is an easy-to-use complete defragmenting utility to make your Windows run
faster by defragmenting the fragmented files. Defrag for Windows is fully
automatic and as user-friendly as a one-button-click. Just click a button and
go to launch or bed. Defrag for Windows will do all the neccesary operations
and depending on you choice restart or shut down your PC.
- VCool v1.8 Beta 10a -
This little utility
will cool your Athlon/Duron processor on Via KT133 or KX133(A) (VT8363,
VT8361, VT82C691/693A/694 or VT8371 +VT82C686x) chipsets during idle.
- Overnet Win GUI 0.41 - A public test version of
the new GUI is
up now. It no longer uses .Net and it is much prettier! There is also now
a Mac version on the download page.
Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 6.1 Update - Dreamweaver MX version 6.1 (download
15.5MB ~
release_notes) includes performance improvements and enables
collaboration with Macromedia Contribute. In addition, several outstanding
issues discovered since the release of Dreamweaver MX have been addressed in
this version.
RockNES v2.10 - This piece of software is a Nintendo Entertainment
System 8-bit (NES) videogame emulator for PC machines.
RockNES is a full rewrite
of original RockNES (old xNes). It was designed to be very compatible and as
fast as possible.
Creative PlayCenter NOMAD MuVo Plugin -
This is a plug-in for NOMAD MuVo to be used for on all languages of
PlayCenter 3.02.58 and above.
Powerstrip3.30 beta -
PowerStrip (download)
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. It's the only program of its type to support multiple graphics
cards from multiple chipset vendors, simultaneously, under every Windows
operating system from Windows 95 to XP.
Clone CD 4.2.0.2 -
CloneCD 4 by Elaborate Bytes is the ideal CD copy program to make backups
of your Music and Data CDs. It writes in RAW mode, allowing full control of
the written data. CloneCD 4 produces real 1:1 copies of your CDs. CloneCD 4
works with almost all CD Writers, is rock-solid and very fast. CloneCD 4 does
not need an ASPI driver.
AVG Free Edition 6.0 Build 426 - Grisoft.com has released a new
version of AVG 6.0 Free
Edition.
DVDXCopy v1.2.1 - There's a
new update
for Registered Customers Only. No words on what's new or fixed.
Lite-On CD-RW Firmware - LiteOn have released a
new CD-RW firmware updates for Lite-On LTR-52246S ( 52X/24X/52X ) and Lite-On LTR-48246S ( 48X/24X/48X).
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