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 Friday Tech Madness - tech
(hx) 01:26 PM CEST - Sep,26 2003
  • Digital downloads defeat piracy policies - Around a quarter of business software in use in the UK is illegal and the problem is growing, according to the Business Software Alliance (BSA). Mark Floisand (pictured), UK chairman at the BSA, said that there are a number of reasons behind this growth, not least the fact many companies are unaware that they are using pirated or unlicensed copies. A common entry point is the growing number of websites that offer pirated software, often called warez, and the ease with which illegal software can be downloaded from the internet. The technical commands have become less complex, and transferring files has been helped enormously by the growth of broadband connections, the BSA said.
  • Motorola and Nintendo Join Forces to Define Wireless Portable Gaming - According to press release, Motorola  is supplying high-speed, low-power chipsets to enable an advanced wireless adapter accessory for use with Nintendo's GBA and GBA SP. This fusion of Nintendo's leadership in the portable gaming market and Motorola's own wireless communication technology together create wireless gaming history; enabling a revolutionary portable gaming experience for users. The 2.4GHz radio frequency (RF) chipset enables up to five players to play each other wirelessly, allowing for flexible, mobile game playing. The wireless adapter with the new Game Boy Advance software "Pokemon FireRed" and "Pokemon LeafGreen" will be launched in Japan first half of 2004.
  • Alcatel handset rings in MMS changes - Alcatel has launched a new handset that can transmit images, sound and text at the same time.
    The 'One Touch' 735 mobile phone also has the functions now expected of third-generation handsets, including a four-colour, progressive x8 zoom digital camera, multimedia messaging service capabilities, GPRS roaming and 1.8MB of memory. Other features include 3D gaming using the 128x128 pixel screen (held horizontally for panoramic views), a patented five-direction 'DriveKey' designed to give the feel of playing console games, and three sample games that come bundled with the phone (there is also a facility to download more).
  • Computex Fall 2003: Day Three/Four : THG coverage | Computex coverage of Case trends and products | Computex 2003 Day 3 @ Ninjalane (& Day 4 including large gallery of Booth Babes) | TweakTown Coverage | OCWorkBench coverage(day4)
  • Dell announces LCD TV, digital audio player, and music download service - As expected, Dell announced several new products Thursday, including a music player and a music download service, designed to help the Round Rock, Texas, company ease its way into the digital home. Dell also introduced a 17-inch LCD television and a new Axim personal digital assistant during a conference call for analysts and the media.
  • Microsoft shows off prototype camera - Microsoft is showing around a prototype product, called the Ring Cam, designed to make web conferences more like face-to-face meetings. Combined with web-conferencing software that Microsoft acquired this year, remote-meeting participants would be able to view and hear a live, 360-degree image of participants in another location.
  • New chip device speeds up disk drives - Dubbed the 88i6535 Serial ATA system on a chip, the device ups the data rate to 3 gigabits per second and handles tasks such as managing the disk drive interface and converting analog signals to digital data. The new chip is suited for devices such as blade server computers, laptop computers, portable music players, personal video recorders and car-navigation systems.
  • Intel revs up Celeron to 2.70GHz - The .13 micron desktop chip is built using the 478 pin arrangement and has a 400MHz system bus. It costs $103 when you buy lots of them.
  • Seagate Enters External Hard Drive Market  - Seagate Technology Inc. entered the external hard drive market on Wednesday, announcing 160-GB and 200-GB models that have already begun to ship to retailers.
  • FutureMark Clarifies Run Rules  - In a statement released yesterday, benchmark maker FutureMark laid out a refined set of guidelines that seek to limit application-specific optimizations to its 3DMark03 benchmark.
  • Casio Exilim EX-Z3 Digital Camera Review - The Z3 is stylish and well built; it has an extensive set of features; the day-to-day controls are well thought out; and the larger screen is a nice inclusion. Transfer of images from the cradle is straightforward as is battery recharging. Macro image quality and detail is also very good. There are key-chain cameras on sale that are smaller than the Z3, but these have fiddly controls and a tiny display. There are larger cameras on sale that take higher quality images, but these are awkward to carry around. The Z3 is a nice compromise between the two extremes and in this regard it will certainly find a niche.
  • AMD Athlon 64 Based Notebook PC Review - The notebook weighs about 2.5 kg. Judging by a powerful battery and a bulky cooler AMD's new processor is not a competitor for the Intel Pentium M. It's not that light and slim. Well, the mobile Athlon 64 differs from the desktop one only in a metallic cover on the die, that is why the Mobile Athlon 64 3000+ consumes up to 85 W. This particular sample consumes 81.5 W. As a result, the AMD Mobile Athlon 64 is targeted at powerful notebooks like DTR (desktop replacement) and universal models, i.e. the models which actually work in the steady-state conditions and which, if necessary, can function in the offline mode. Hence its main competitor will be the Intel Pentium 4-M.
  • AMDs Athlon 64 and FX-51 Battle Intels Pentium 4 Extreme Edition - Sudhian Media has posted a comparison review between AMD's Athlon 64 and Intel's Pentium 4 "Extreme Edition"
  • Crossover Mission II Water Cooling Kit Review - Viper's Lair take a look at the Crossover Mission II Water Cooling Kit.
  • PC Power and Cooling TurboCool 510W Deluxe PSU Review - EnvyNews has posted a review of PC Power and Cooling TurboCool 510W Deluxe PSU.
  • Zalman ZM400A-APF 400watt PSU Review - The implementation of active PFC (Power Factor Correction) means a higher power factor (94% at full load, up from 75%) and less harmonic resonance. Active PFC uses active elements such as IC, FET and diodes to create a PFC circuit, whereas passive PFC uses passive elements (as the name implies) such as an iron core inductor. Although the passive method is more cost efficient, the power factor is significantly lower and harmonics are greater and harder to control, leading to higher levels of EMI. Another advantage of active PFC is that it can accept a full range (90-260v) of AC input, so no 115/230v switch is necessary (notice the sticker between the on/off switch and the plug).
  • Samsung Syncmaster 192T Review - Design Technica has posted up a review on the Samsung Syncmaster 192T. "Of the LCD panels we have seen, the Samsung 192T stands out as the all around best performer. While ghosting is inherent to all LCDs, it was minimal enough to make games playable, the image quality overall was excellent, as was the display's brightness."
  • Video card review mania - Gainward GeForce FX 5900 Ultra 1600XP 256MB Golden Sample | XFX GeForce FX5600 Ultra 128MB | Albatron Gigi FX5600 Ultra 128MB  | BFG Asylum GeForce FX 5600 Ultra Video Card
  • M-Audio Revolution 7.1 review - Ohls-Place has posted a review ofe M-Audio Revolution 7.1 and they liked the card: "So what do I think of the Revolution 7.1 and is it worth the $100.00 price tag? I absolutely love it, period. I have now taken my Promedia 5.1 speakers and added my Bose Wave radio as a second set of speakers to creat a 7.1 stereo system and let me tell you it will rock your socks off and even my wife is totally stunned by how well it sounds."
  • TEAC DW-548D Combo Drive Review - EnvyNews has posted a review on TEAC's DW-548D Combo Drive. The burner is rated 48X Read, 24X Rewrite, and 48X Write and the DVD at 16X.
  • Logitech MOMO Racing Wheel Review - Fans of driving simulation games tend to be among the pickiest lot when it comes to controls. If money is spent on a wheel, it has to be high quality and needs to provide an experience somewhat close to that of actually being in a car. These wheel kits used to be pricey and beyond the reach of most gamers, but thanks to Logitech those days are over. The MOMO Racing wheel offers a nice wheel system for a good price. Will this wheel kit get you where you want to go, or will it drive you around in circles?
  • Flash your Hercules 9800 to a 9800 Pro!  - The Madshrimps have written a descriptive guide on how to get the maximum out of your Hercules 9800 None Pro.  "You need to have Samsung (2.8, 3.0 or 3.3ns) in order to flash you're video card correctly. Ask your vendor or look at the labels on your video card. All Hercules 3D prophet 9800np cards seem to have Samsung 3.3ns memory."
  • Make your Xbox rock at 1.4GHz -  Firm on the show floor in Taipei is offering the chance to buy an Xbox that uses a Celeron 1.4GHz/256K cache chip rather than the feeble 733MHz Pentium III that ships with the console. Friendtech is also offering a mod for the Xbox which provides S-Video and A/V output, 5.1 surround sound and a hard disk upgrade. The package it sells includes the console, a gamepad, an S-Video AV cable, a bag, a power cable and manuals. The chip inside this machine can be switched from a so called "standard speed" of 740MHz to a "turbo" speed of 1480MHz.
  • The Athlon 64 FX at 2.8 GHz - When working with this system, a few interesting facts popped up. The system was actually running at 14 x 200 MHz, and could be set at multipliers ranging from 4 (800 MHz) to 14 (2.8 GHz). All AMD Athlon 64 FX are de facto unlocked and it seems that the maximum multiplier for this stepping is 14.  The only thing from stopping you from overclocking with the multiplier seems to be the BIOS. The ASUS SK8N inside the nVENTIV Mach II featured a special ASUS bios that allowed us to change the CPU core voltage and multiplier.
  • AGP Secondary Lat Timer BIOS Feature Published - Adrian's Rojak Pot  just posted a special update of the new REVISION 8.0 BIOS OPTIMIZATION GUIDE. This time they have specially released the AGP Secondary Lat Timer BIOS feature. "This mysterious BIOS option has plagued me (and many BOG readers) for months. Even a search on the vaunted Google search engine revealed just 17 links! All of which had virtually no information on this BIOS feature. Two links actually point back to Adrian s Rojak Pot. The name itself is very misleading as the AGP bus does not have a secondary latency timer. But even certain motherboard manufacturers insist that it does nothing but point to the location of the mysterious secondary latency timer of the AGP bus."
  • Macromedia Studio MX 2004  review - At only $899, Studio MX is an incredible bargain. It delivers not only the four stellar authoring programs but also ColdFusion MX 6.1 Developer Edition for building and deploying Web applications and services. The only deal better is the Macromedia Studio MX 2004 with Flash Professional version, which for only $100 more delivers the more robust Flash developer (with advanced features such as support for forms, database connectivity, an enhanced video encoder, and more). PCMag has posted a review of programs that have been updated for this release: Dreamweaver, Fireworks, and Flash.
  • Python 2.3.1 Final - This is a bug-fix release for Python 2.3 and supersedes the original Python 2.3 release. No new features have been added in Python 2.3.1. Instead, this release is the result of two months of bug hunting. A number of obscure bugs that could cause crashes have been fixed, as well as a number of memory leaks.
  • Google Toolbar 2.0.102 - Google Toolbar increases your ability to find information from anywhere on the web. The toolbar appears along with the Internet Explorer toolbar.
  • BitTorrent 3.3 - According to the official BitTorrent website, long awaited release 3.3 is out (direct link).
  • KaZaA Lite K++ 2.4.3 - Kazaa Lite K++ 2.4.3 is now available for download.
  • Real Alternative 1.05 - Real Alternative will allow you to play RealMedia files. This way you can play RealMedia files without having to install RealPlayer.
  • QuickTime Alternative 1.14 - QuickTime Alternative will allow you to play QuickTime files (.mov, .qt and other extensions) without having to install the official QuickTime Player.
  • Avant Browser 8.02 Build 102 -  Avant Browser (download) is a fast, stable, user-friendly, versatile web browser. Avant Browser is a multi-window browser which features with many functions such as Pop-up Stopper, Built-in Google Searching, Safe Recovery, Integrated Cleaner and Advanced Browsing Options.
  • Hot CPU Tester v4.0 -7Byte's Hot CPU Tester Pro 4 is a system health and stability tester. It tests CPU, chipset and virtually all parts of motherboard for errors/bugs, defective parts and components.

Comments from posted - 12:21 AM CEST - Sep,27 2003
HAHAH THE BOTTOM LINE WITH PIRACY and to some regard society TODAY IS THIS. TECHNOLOGY EVOLVES SO FAST THAT THE REGULATION OF THAT TECHNOLOGY FALLS BEHIND DRAMATICALLY. THIS IS EXTREMELY DANGEROUS and harmfull for everyone. IF YOU CAN'T KEEP SOMETHING UNDER CONTROL THEN ITS GOING TO BE USED TO CAUSE HARM TO OTHERS. JUST LOOK AT weapons today. criminals are getting bigger and more dangerous weapons today. the heavy duty criminals of today don't simply carry guns they got military style weapons like mortars ,rpg anti-tank weapons,anti-aircraft weapons. how long do you think it will take for a psycho to get a nuke? answer: nukes WILL be in the hands of criminals in 10-70 years GUARENTEED. thats why we need to expand of the planet and need spaceships cause the governments on this planet are losing control of the world buy relaxing security on technology and security in general. A lot of people have this deluted idea that no one is going to use a nuke again.

Comments from Stallionposted - 05:56 AM CEST - Sep,27 2003
Take a breather, Sunshine. You may need to go into space, but it'll be a opne-way trip and you won't have a 'spaceship'.

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