Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Gainward BLISS 8800 GTS HDCP Compliant Review

Welcome to the world of Gainward, a world beyond your senses! And as of that moment all talks have been around DirectX 10, because the new GeForce 8 series are really for the next level in gaming. During all our benchmarks the GTS kept on humming stable with no hickups to finally set the top speed at 650/2000MHz. Would you have thought so?

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Unboxing the new Razer Tarantula Gaming Keyboard. Lots of Pics....

If you're into gaming, you've probably heard of this new keyboard from Razer, with it's 'BattleDock', custom removable function keys, and USB/Audio hub. Here's some unboxing pics ahead of a video review...

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Questsin guesses Missing items in a List

Enter a few related items in a list, and Questsin will guess upto 15 more.People, Places, Synoymns, chemicals, animals, anything goesWorks Great!

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Model M vs Melon

This short video tests the myth that an IBM Model M keyboard can be used to kill a man and you can still type after..We use a slightly broken model M from 1988 and a Zenith keyboard sporting a Bull logo from the same year..Instead of a lamers head we bash some melons.

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Muscle and Bone From an Ink-jet Printer

A Pittsburgh-based research team has used an innovative inkjet system to print unique "bio-ink" patterns that directed adult muscle-derived stem cells from mice to differentiate into both muscle cells and bone cells.

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Wanted: Repair person for Dig Dug tabletop machine

"If I can’t get it working again, the developers have threatened to stop coding. The repair has even stumped Kevin believe it or not. Please help me keep the digg staff happy and send your qualifications to: diggdugg at digg dot com. We are located in San Francisco so our only requirement is that you are local."

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Wanted: Repair person for Dig Dug tabletop machine

"If I can’t get it working again, the developers have threatened to stop coding. The repair has even stumped Kevin believe it or not. Please help me keep the digg staff happy and send your qualifications to: diggdugg at digg dot com. We are located in San Francisco so our only requirement is that you are local."

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The Eye Of Sauron made out of a Tesla Coil (PICTURE)

The effect of an eye is achieved by rotating a 7 foot aluminum tube around a Tesla coil. Via Hackaday. Check out more Tesla coil action here: http://www.tesladownunder.com/

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James Kim's Body Found

Spotted from helicopter

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Unboxing HP's new Pavilion dv9000t flagship laptop computer.

Core 2 Duo, 2GB RAM, 17inch screen. This is one heck of a machine. Neo-Fight.tv takes an out-of-the-box look at HP's newest laptop.

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Donate your old thumb drives to African school labs

Inveneo is holding a tax-deductible thumb drive drive. If you have an old thumb drive, make use of it and mail it to Inveneo. They will distribute your drive to a student, aid worker or business entrepreneur in a country such as Uganda, Rwanda and Mali. Low-capacity thumb drives are the AOL floppies of the 2000s.

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Vadim Cepheus Q80 Reviewed: The Ultimate Gaming PC?

The Vadim Cepheus Q80 has been reviewed by bit-tech.net, and whilst it looks the absolute beast, it's ultimately been let down by NVIDIA and Vista :-( Shoulda spec'd it with XP instead. Gotta love the kick ass water-cooling though! Anyone got £5k burning a hole in their pocket??

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Video Games Console Evolution

Although this is not in a precise chronological order, this pictorial gives a pretty good idea about the video game consoles evolution in the last decades

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The Gigapxl Project captures image nearing 4 GIGAPIXELS!! Direct link :)

Weighing more than 100 pounds, the camera captures images at 4 gigapixels -- a resolution high enough to photograph four football fields and capture every single blade of grass.a real-world 90-degree panorama would need to be searched with 12X tripod-mounted binoculars before one could hope to accumulate an equivalent amount of information.

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HP should know 192.168.x.x is private space.

I'm looking at buying a new laptop so one of the place I went to was HP's website. After seeing a model I'd like to look at I noticed I can't view any of the specs. To see what I'm talking about click either "view" button.

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Strange Laptops You Don’t See Everyday

The E-Book, Turntable Notebook, $336,557 Laptop, Steampunk Laptop, Duke Nukem Notebook, XBox 360 and Wii Laptop

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$299,000 Table for 12 - Video

The centerpiece of the Cisco TelePresence 3000 is three 65-inch plasma displays mounted facing a meeting table that seats six. With life-size, high-definition video of meeting participants from a second location, the screens create a passable illusion of a "virtual table," with up to 12 participants seated around the same table.

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AMD + ATi: The Fall-Out with Comments from people in the industry

Investors had mostly mixed reactions - AMD + ATi has some serious long term implications on our industry. Read this post from the president of VoodooPC with responses to comments.

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AMD + AMD: Consumer Advocates go nuts...

The other day I wrote the comment “…cut throat competition is NOT good for consumers”. Suddenly I was hit with a barrage of emails from consumer rights advocates trying to tell me how wrong I was.

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MIT Says Optical Chips Coming in 5 Years

Engineers and physicists at MIT have devised a new method for integrating photonic circuitry onto a silicon chip, a discovery that could soon add the power and speed of light waves to traditional electronics.

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Little-Known Tweak to Boost Hard Drive Performance!

This tweak involves a registry change to force Windows to use UltraDMA-6 mode (133MB/s) for transfers with your drives. Windows has a particularly strange way of handling transfer modes for storage devices, so you could be running slowly and not even know it. I was able to boost the transfer rate of my hard drive by 6X with this tweak!

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Six Gadget Ettiquette Tips

Gadgets go with us everywhere now. Our cell phones are cameras, gaming devices and even Internet portals. Some of us have a utility belt full of gadgets and they can interfere with our life in ways that ettiquette gurus would have never thought of twenty years ago. Here are six gadget ettiquette tips to keep you from making common mistakes.

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Toms Hardwares Beginner's Guide to Motherboard Selection

It's easy to forget that many newcomers lack the requisite knowledge to take advantage of the advice we give.

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Mr. T: The "T" in I.T.

Mr. T saves the I.T. world from corporate zombies, a cold-hearted consultant, and dumb disk arrays!

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Modded Xbox 360 Plays Burned Games

Textbook from www.360mods.net shows how to modify the Samsung drive in an Xbox 360 to play burned games using the firmware hack.

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Messy network pics: be glad your network doesn't look like this

I'd hate to be the guy made to do some of these cleanups.

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Digital Trends: Optical HD Battle Is Over, HD-DVD Wins

Right now it appears impossible for Blu-Ray to gain a substantial lead on HD-DVD, even after massive investment, they likely could only close the gap. The killing blow may have been done by Microsoft who decided to bring to market a $200 HD-DVD option for their Xbox 360. With a 6x advantage by year end, you’d have to conclude that HD-DVD has won.

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ATI Radeon X1950 GT & Windows Vista - Not Friends Yet?

Although it may seem impossible, ATI has apparently done just that. The new Radeon X1950 GT is being shipped without a working Vista driver, even though it’s "certified for Windows Vista". So, what does Vista certification mean? A working driver right now? Or merely a promise of future support?

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Want to ask AMD a question, Then submit a comment here.

Today is a big news day for AMD and ATI. What you might not know is, tomorrow, AMD has invited some journalists out to their headquarters to preview the next generation AMD performance platform.There is going to be a lot of Q and A sessions, and I want to give everyone a chance to propose questions to ask! You can ask anything about 4x4, any...

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SanDisk introduces 32GB Flash-based notebook drive

The hard drive is a critical component of every modern computer system. It loads and stores practically everything about the computer, from the OS to all the programs to every data bit and document. Yet the hard drive is based on a mechanical spinning disk system that is ultimately prone to failure, usually due to the stress of heat and motion.

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Slow WiFi? USE WiFi Speed Spray!!

This is the funniest thing iv seen on the net all year. "Simply spray the area around your computer. Usually five or six sprays is all it takes. As your computer sends data, each bit also carries hundreds of invisible WiFi Speed Spray™ "scrubbing" molecules. It works at the speed of light. and even penetrates lead walls"

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GeForce 8800 GTX and GTS Evaluated using Real World Gameplay - G80 is HERE!

Today marks the announcement of NVIDIA’s next generation GeForce 8800 series GPU technology code named “G80.” We have two new hard-launched video cards from BFG Tech representing the 8800 products. Gameplay experience TWIMTBP?

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Hitachi Animation: Life without the Hard Drive

From the company that brought you Perpendicular Recording animation, Hitachi Global Storage Technology now brings you a cute animation and song about life without the hard drive.To provide full disclosure I'm a Social Media professional at Hitachi Data Systems, a sister company to HGST. http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/

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How to make the simplest electric motor

You have one drywall screw, one 1.5 V alkaline cell, six inches of plain copper wire, one small neodymium disk magnet, and no other tools or supplies. You have 30 seconds to make an electric motor running in excess of ten thousand RPM. Can you do it? Surprisingly enough, you can. Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2f6RD1hT6Q

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RoboDS Public Interface

You can now control my prototype RoboDS bot located in my basement in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. Please go to natrium42.com/robot. Yes, the robot does have a laser :PThe setup consists of open RoboDS prototype and DSerial2, 3 cameras, an old computer acting as a camera server and my webhost. One camera is a Canon PowerShot A70 and provides pe[...]

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RoboDS Public Interface

You can now control my prototype RoboDS bot located in my basement in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. Please go to natrium42.com/robot. Yes, the robot does have a laser :PThe setup consists of open RoboDS prototype and DSerial2, 3 cameras, an old computer acting as a camera server and my webhost. One camera is a Canon PowerShot A70 and provides pe[...]

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Messy network pics: be glad your network doesn't look like this

I'd hate to be the guy made to do some of these cleanups.

read more | digg story

Toms Hardwares Beginner's Guide to Motherboard Selection

It's easy to forget that many newcomers lack the requisite knowledge to take advantage of the advice we give.

read more | digg story

Modded Xbox 360 Plays Burned Games

Textbook from www.360mods.net shows how to modify the Samsung drive in an Xbox 360 to play burned games using the firmware hack.

read more | digg story

Digital Trends: Optical HD Battle Is Over, HD-DVD Wins

Right now it appears impossible for Blu-Ray to gain a substantial lead on HD-DVD, even after massive investment, they likely could only close the gap. The killing blow may have been done by Microsoft who decided to bring to market a $200 HD-DVD option for their Xbox 360. With a 6x advantage by year end, you’d have to conclude that HD-DVD has won.

read more | digg story

ATI Radeon X1950 GT & Windows Vista - Not Friends Yet?

Although it may seem impossible, ATI has apparently done just that. The new Radeon X1950 GT is being shipped without a working Vista driver, even though it’s "certified for Windows Vista". So, what does Vista certification mean? A working driver right now? Or merely a promise of future support?

read more | digg story

SanDisk introduces 32GB Flash-based notebook drive

The hard drive is a critical component of every modern computer system. It loads and stores practically everything about the computer, from the OS to all the programs to every data bit and document. Yet the hard drive is based on a mechanical spinning disk system that is ultimately prone to failure, usually due to the stress of heat and motion.

read more | digg story

Slow WiFi? USE WiFi Speed Spray!!

This is the funniest thing iv seen on the net all year. "Simply spray the area around your computer. Usually five or six sprays is all it takes. As your computer sends data, each bit also carries hundreds of invisible WiFi Speed Spray™ "scrubbing" molecules. It works at the speed of light. and even penetrates lead walls"

read more | digg story

GeForce 8800 GTX and GTS Evaluated using Real World Gameplay - G80 is HERE!

Today marks the announcement of NVIDIA’s next generation GeForce 8800 series GPU technology code named “G80.” We have two new hard-launched video cards from BFG Tech representing the 8800 products. Gameplay experience TWIMTBP?

read more | digg story

MIT Says Optical Chips Coming in 5 Years

Engineers and physicists at MIT have devised a new method for integrating photonic circuitry onto a silicon chip, a discovery that could soon add the power and speed of light waves to traditional electronics.

read more | digg story

RoboDS Public Interface

You can now control my prototype RoboDS bot located in my basement in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. Please go to natrium42.com/robot. Yes, the robot does have a laser :PThe setup consists of open RoboDS prototype and DSerial2, 3 cameras, an old computer acting as a camera server and my webhost. One camera is a Canon PowerShot A70 and provides pe[...]

read more | digg story

RoboDS Public Interface

You can now control my prototype RoboDS bot located in my basement in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. Please go to natrium42.com/robot. Yes, the robot does have a laser :PThe setup consists of open RoboDS prototype and DSerial2, 3 cameras, an old computer acting as a camera server and my webhost. One camera is a Canon PowerShot A70 and provides pe[...]

read more | digg story