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| (hx) 01:08 AM CEST - Jun,04 2003 |
- Sony announces UK PS2 online details -
The PlayStation 2 will finally go online in the UK on June 11 as the
Network Adapter kit arrives at retail, priced at L24.99, with two
multiplayer-enabled titles available at launch and several more to come.
The two games available at launch will be SOCOM: US Navy SEALs and Twisted
Metal Black Online. SOCOM, a military action title which includes a voice
communication headset, has proved massively successful in the USA, with over a
million copies sold. It will be sold separately from the Network Adapter kit,
priced at L49.99. Twisted Metal Black Online, however, will be launched as a
cut-price product - sold as a standalone title for L24.99, or available with
the Network Adapter kit for L39.99.
- The "Sobig" Worm Is Back -
The
"Sobig" worm spreads itself via e-mail in the form of a file attachment as
well as over local area networks. To spread over LANs Sobig copies itself to
shared network drives, while via e-mail the worm scans infected computers for
files containing e-mail addresses and then clandestinely sends copies of
itself to the found addresses. To draw users into launching the file
attachment containing the infected code, "Sobig" employs various social
engineering techniques, among which is a message disguised as a technical
support message sent from Microsoft.
- Nullsoft founder left his own company - Gnutella author
Justin Frankel is considering quitting Nullsoft, the company he founded
and sold to America Online, following repeated clashes with his corporate
parent over software projects. Frankel's comments come less than a week
after AOL pulled a program he authored called Waste that enables small groups
of people to create secure networks for sharing computer files. Calling coding
"a form of self-expression," Frankel said he could no longer put up with AOL's
interference. "The company controls the most effective means of
self-expression I have," he wrote in a note posted on his personal Web site.
"This is unacceptable to me as an individual, therefore I must leav (sic).
- Atheros Shows New Wireless Tools - Atheros Communications in San
Jose will introduce
a universal chip set that covers all WLAN standards, including 802.11a, b,
and g. WLANs that adhere to the 802.11b/g standards operate in the 2.4-GHz
frequency band, with raw data rates of 11 megabits per second and 54 mbps
respectively. WLANs that use the 802.11a standard operate in the 5-GHz band
and have a raw data rate of 54 mbps.
- Wear the Web on your wrist - Microsoft, along with watchmakers
Citizen Watch, Fossil and Finland's Suunto,
on
Thursday is expected to show off the new products. More details on pricing
and service providers also are expected to be revealed. The companies will
start to release the wristwatches in the fall, sources close to Microsoft
said. Smart Personal Objects Technology (SPOT) products are household and
personal items--such as refrigerators or portable stereos--that can receive
and display information from the Internet beamed over a nationwide FM radio
network. With SPOT, for example, your alarm clock could have informed you
about Martha Stewart's legal problems after you pushed.
- Start-up brings hard drive to the masses - The Longmont,
Colo.-based start-up has
developed a 1.5GB, 1-inch diameter hard drive for consumer-electronics
devices that the company says will be cheaper, smaller and hold more data than
some other mini-hard drives or flash-memory cards.
- GeForce FX Go5600 in Toshiba's notebooks - NVIDIA today announced
the
NVIDIA GeForcet FX Go5600 graphics processing unit (GPU) with 64MB DDR
video memory, has been selected by Toshiba's Computer Systems Group (CSG), a
division of Toshiba America Information Systems for the SatelliteR 5205-S705
notebook PC.
- Western Digital Raptor WD360GD SATA reviews - Both
Digit-Life and
Tom'sHardware Guide have posted a review of Western Digital Raptor WD360GD
SATA HDD.
- Samsung SyncMaster 172T LCD display review - Dan's Data has posted
a review on
the Samsung SyncMaster 172T LCD display.
- Logitech MX300 Optical Mouse review -
The MX300 provides improved precision, virtually eliminating skips and
lags. This advancement in precision allows for even greater accuracy in
gaming, websurfing, and everyday use. I personally bought this mouse myself,
and I can tell you that it is definitely worth the price.
- Olympus Stylus 400 review -
The Olympus Stylus 400 ($499 list) is an elegantly styled, beautifully
crafted 4-megapixel digital camera designed to be used in any weather.
Although it comes with only a basic set of features, its outstanding
ergonomics and very good image quality will appeal to users who want a camera
that looks as good as the photos it takes.
- MSI GeForce FX5200 TDR128 review - HotHardware has posted
a review on the MSI GeForce FX5200 TDR128 video card .
- FutureMark: Nvidia didn't cheat - It's official: Nvidia didn't fix
its 3DMark 03 figures after all. So says no less a source than 3DMark 03
developer
FutureMark, in a jointly issued press release put out this morning. It
appears the two companies had "detailed discussions" following FutureMark's
announcement last month that its investigation into Nvidia's driver software
had revealed that the graphics chip company had tailored its code to generate
higher frame-rates in 3DMark 03 tests at the expense of image quality.
FutureMark discovered eight instances of cheating, which improved the
performance of Nvidia's Detonator FX and WHQL drivers by as much as 24.1 per
cent..
The statement can be found at FutureMark website.
- phpMyAdmin 2.5.1 Final -
phpMyAdmin (changelog)
can manage a whole MySQL-server (needs a super-user) but also a single
database.
- Ad Muncher 4.5 Build 7000 Final -
Ad Muncher (download)
is a program for Windows systems which removes adverts, popups and general
browsing annoyances from all popular browsers and web-utilizing programs (as
well as most banner displaying and popup generating programs like ICQ,
Morpheus, Kazaa, Grokster, Opera, iMesh, Bearshare, LimeWire, etc).
- DiscJuggler 4.10.1084 -
DiscJuggler can
simultaneously drive multiple CD recorders and replicate virtually any
standard CD. It features direct digital-to-digital CD duplication from a
CD-ROM drive to multiple CD-R drives, audio CD duplication with support for PQ
and R-W subcodes, and on-the-fly audio stream resynchronization, and
on-the-fly software regeneration of ECC/EDC and scrambling.
- NeroMIX 1.3.1.12 -
NeroMIX can create data, audio CDs, or on-the-fly 1:1 CD copies for
backup. By using the celebrated Nero CD-Recoding engine, the same stability,
speed, and power will ensure reliable and effortless recording.
- Nero EasyWriteReader 4.0.0.10 -
This tool was developed
to enable you to add CD-MRW support to your system and includes the UDF reader
for Windows 95, 98 and ME.
- Nero CD Speed 1.02g -
Nero
CD Speed is a CD-ROM benchmark which can test the most important features
of a CD-ROM 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.
- Kazaa Lite Toolbar 1.9.2 -
Kazaa Lite
Toolbar is a customizable toolbar and Web address bar integrated to Kazaa
Lite interface. It's useful to open favorite web pages, Web e-mail, shared
folder or external tools (like Antivirus, Windows Media Player, AVIPreview,
Sig2Dat, etc.) directly from Kazaa Lite. Also works with Kazaa Media Desktop.
The toolbar also includes a file organizer that classify the downloaded files
in separate folders based on the file extension.
- Y'z Dock 0.8.2 - A new version v9.8.2 of
Y'z Dock is available.
- TVTool 7.2 Beta - A new version of
TV Tool (download)
has been released. This is the program that enables your video card TV-Output
and seems to be the best external one.
- QuickTime 6.3 - Apple's multimedia software suite
QuickTime has
been updated to
version 6.3. Built on MPEG-4 and powered by QuickTime, 3GPP extends the
reach of rich multimedia to a new generation of handheld wireless devices. As
the first widely distributed, freely available multimedia technology to
deliver 3GPP capabilities, QuickTime enables users all over the world to share
3GPP content with others via both computers and mobile devices
- Windows XP SP2 Beta Build 1213 leaked - TechConnect have got their
hands on the latest
Windows XP Service Pack 2 build 1213. It's a beta, so try only at your own
risk.
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| Comments from NOTHING | posted - 06:06 AM CEST - Jun,04 2003 | | Well, if you visit hardware forums you'll know the big ruckus over 3DMark03 and nVIDIA. First, "CHEAT" and now, "OPTIMIZATION". Haha. To me, both Futuremark and nVIDIA's credibility are worthless now. |
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| Comments from Erboz | posted - 09:38 PM CEST - Jun,04 2003 | | They are 2 democratic companies in the purest sence of the word. " Psssst! I'll hand you some cash, if you could alter your review, and change the word cheat into optimize.... Thanks! Nice doing business." |
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| Comments from NOTHING | posted - 02:10 AM CEST - Jun,05 2003 | | Hahaha....well put Erboz.
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| Comments from Hjarry | posted - 01:11 AM CEST - Jun,06 2003 | | I second that - superb comment, Erboz. |
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