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Apple to offer a $100 store credit to iPhone purchasers
2007-09-06 22:05:00 The following note from the man himself is posted on Apple ’s homepage. To all iPhone customers: I have received hundreds of emails from iPhone customers who are upset about Apple dropping the price of iPhone by $200 two months after it went on sale. After reading every one of these emails, I have some observations and conclusions. First, I ... More About: Business , Credit , Iphone , Store
techtoppicks CMS
2007-08-22 07:04:00 I would like to invite everyone to check out our beta-run techtoppicks CMS based off of the open source Pligg software. The Tech CMS will be a place where users can submit content and leave comments on other submissions. I hope everyone will be excited in using the new CMS and get heavily involved. Please ... More About: Science , Hardware , Software , Linux , Internet
Seagate Announces 7200.11 Barracuda and ES.2 1TB Hard Drives
2007-06-27 20:52:00 Seagate has announced two hard drives for consumer and enterprise markets, the Barr acuda 7200.11 and Barracuda ES.2 hard drives. The new hard drives use Perpendicular Magnetic Recording (PMR), spin at 7,200 RPM, 32 MB of cache, and Seagate’s renowned five-year limited warranty. The new drives are designed to lower operating temperatures as well as power ... More About: Hardware , Seagate , Hard , Hard drives
Intel now shipping their first mini-itx motherboard
2007-06-27 08:32:00 As specualated months ago Intel has now gotten their feet wet with their first mini-itx motherboard. Their D201GLY hits a very nice price point as well at $79.95. The one weird thing we noticed is that the board ships oddly enough a SIS chipset. Best feature of all is that it comes with an integrated Celeron processor. If you are ... More About: Hardware , Mini , Shipping , Motherboard
techtoppicks contest winner announed!
2007-06-24 20:00:00 We concluded out contest on Friday for the 1GB Super Talent ReadyBoost flash drive free to the user that had the most comments for our articles within a one week period. The winner as you can see in the Top Commentators section in the right hand sidebar is a reader by the alias “Geeked”. Congratulations ... More About: Contest , Contests , Winner , Anno
Speed up your connection with OpenDNS
2007-06-24 18:53:00 If you haven’t heard of OpenDNS by now, I’ll fill you in. OpenDNS is a free service that will help speed up your connection by decreasing DNS resolve times. How does it do this? OpenDNS keeps a large cache of resolved domain names to IP addresses, when you type in a website address into your ... More About: Internet , Connection , Speed , Connect , Speed up
Introducing YouGamers by FutureMark
2007-06-24 17:15:00 Futuremark Corporation recently released a new website geared towards the gamers market giving their professional analysis, interviews, and reviews of the latest games and events in the industry. The website dubbed YouGamers is a visually attractive, full-featured site that has one groundbreaking technology, the Game-O-Meter. YouGamers has created an applet that you can quickly run through ... More About: Gaming , Mark , Intro
The latest in Apple iPhone Specs
2007-06-24 16:27:00 Apple has released various specs that most users will want to know and will find very important in their purchasing decisions. The latest specs deliver everything from features to size, as well as talk time with various functions. Along with the specs Apple also released a graph with comparative analysis between the Apple ... More About: Apple , Gadgets , Iphone , Apple iphone , Late
Gigabyte introduces a dual DVI HDCP compatible 8500GT
2007-06-22 06:39:00 Gigabyte has just released a Geforce 8500GT that is in a league of its own. It features Dual DVI outputs, both of which are also dual-link. According to Gigabyte’s specs the card also supports HDCP (High Definition Content Protection) and is Windows Vista suitable. It also has the usual DirectX10 support, 256MB of RAM, TV out, SLi, ... More About: Hardware , Gigabyte , Intro , Compa , Compatible
Visiontek releases Quad output X1650XT
2007-06-19 00:27:00 Visiontek has released a beast of a new card for those looking to run multiple monitors or have crossfire runing on a single card. They have basically sandwiched together a couple of X1650XTs via a PCI bridge. I should warn you up front though, the fan on this bad boy is also a beast. It is ... More About: Hardware , Visi , Vision , Visio , Lease
Control your DirecTV box via USB or serial from your Media Center
2007-06-18 11:33:00 The summer season is beginning for many of my favorite television shows and I thought I would give a tip to the Media Center owners out there. Anyone out there who has used a set top box with an IR blaster knows how undependable they are. I don’t know how many times ... More About: Media Center , How-To , Control
Mahalo Search looking for Part-Timers
2007-06-18 07:29:00 Mahalo Search , a human powered search engine started up by Weblogs Inc. co-founder Jason Calacanis and funded by Sequoia Capital, Elon Musk (Founder of News Corp. & Paypal), AOL, as well as Mark Cuban (owner, Dallas Mavericks) is looking to hire part-time editors to create search results for their search engine. Mahalo will pay $10-$15 for ... More About: Internet , Part , Look , Mahal
Customize your Vista Logon screen..Free!
2007-06-18 01:57:00 Stardock recently released a Vista compatible version of their freeware LogonStudio software. The software allows you to easily change your Vista or XP login screens however you like. LogonStudio also comes with a built-in visual editor for even further personal customization. Download the freeware @ Stardock Software More About: Screen , Free , Custom
Sanyo introduces new concept projector
2007-06-16 04:40:00 I ran across this post from AkihabaraNews and it caught my eye, as a projector owner and fan myself this seemed quite revolutionary in its right. Introducing the Sanyo LP-XL50 Ultra Short Focus projector. Sanyo’s latest projector can literally project an image up to 80″ in size from the same flat surface the projector is mounted on… ... More About: Gadgets , Projector , Once , Concept
Researchers developing aluminum foil light source
2007-06-15 19:38:00 Researchers at the University of Illinois have developed a light source that can be manufactured by immersing common household aluminum foil into an acidic solution. The acidic solution into which the aluminum foil is submerged converts it into sapphire, a form of Aluminum oxide. The solution also casuses the foil to form a diamond like ... More About: Science , Source , Light , Ping
techtoppicks contest: Win a 1GB Readyboost flash drive
2007-06-15 17:37:00 We are holding our official first contest, one of many to come. The prize is a Super Talent USB ReadyBoost Flash drive, 1 GB in size. There is an image below for anyone that would like to see what it looks like. Now for the rules: By next Friday (June 22nd, 2007) we will award the flash ... More About: Hardware , Contest , Flash Drive , Drive
Space Shuttle Atlantis crew prepares for repairs
2007-06-15 01:39:00 The crew of Space Shuttle Atlantis is folding back solar arrays on the International Space Station in preparation for Friday’s Space walk to repair a portion of the shuttle’s thermal blanket that pulled away on the rear of the shuttle. The crew is probably extremely on edge at the moment from being awaken this morning ... More About: News , Pace , Pair
Sony releases W910i cellphone with Nintendo Wii-like control
2007-06-15 00:25:00 The Sony Ericsson W910i adds another member to Sony?s line of Walkman phones. It is designed is an all-in-one device capable of music and video playback, gaming, and mobile internet access. The most innovative feature in the phone is its Wii-like controls for playing games or changing music tracks. Users can also select ... More About: Gadgets , Nintendo , Nintendo Wii , Cellphone
Creative delists themselves from the Nasdaq stock exchange
2007-06-14 21:46:00 In a not so surprising move Creative has voluntarily removed themselves from the Nasdaq stock exchange, citing burdensome reporting obligations and lack of volume. By August they will move over to only being listed on the Singapore SGX-ST which already comprises of 90% of their daily trading volume. For Creative this is probably a very ... More About: Business , Exchange , Stock
Silentpcreview launches new ECO site
2007-06-14 21:25:00 Silentpcreview.com has joined the green movement and launched a new site named ecopcreview.com. The new site is dedicated to eco-computing from every angle. They will not only cover energy saving tactics but also the general environmental impact of computers during the manufacturing stage as well as the disposal stage. More About: Site , Lent
Apples plugs holes in Safari with 3.0.1 BETA
2007-06-14 19:04:00 Just three days after its initial release Apple has fixed the security holes that were exposed in their Safari 3.0 browser. Head on over to Apple’s download site to get the newest BETA release. It’ll be interesting to see how long it takes for holes to be exposed in this version. More About: Software , Beta , Apples , Hole
Samsung launches 70? LED backlit LCD HDTV
2007-06-14 18:13:00 If you’ve got plenty laying around Samsung has just the product for you. They have launched a 70″ LED backlit LCD television. The TV features full 1080P resolution, an amazing 500,000:1 contrast ratio, and a 120HZ refresh rate. It also appears to have inputs galore with 3x HDMI inputs and a USB port (most likely a wiselink port) thrown ... More About: Hdtv
The Revolution will be televised in HD: Comcast to offer 800 HD stations by
2007-06-14 17:39:00 In their never ending roshambo match with DirecTV, Comcast has vowed to offer 800 HD channels by the end of 2008. After DirecTV claimed they would have 100 HD stations by end of year, Comcast fired back saying they would have 400 by the end of this year and additional 400 by the end of 2008. Given ... More About: News , Revolution , Stat , Levis
Ubuntu to get better dualview support
2007-06-14 07:03:00 Deep within the pages of the Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon Tribe 1 alpha pages are various hints about what’s to expect from the upcoming releases. I have always been a huge fan of having two monitors running from the same PC, it greatly increases productivity. The Ubuntu team is working on integrating a better UI ... More About: Software , Support , Bett , Dual
Add a Vista SideBar to XP
2007-06-14 06:33:00 Like the Vista Sidebar but not Vista? Website MSTN (Microsoft Software & Technology News) has a page for all those XP fans that would like to run the Vista SideBar on XP. One faithful user took the time to pull all of the files together from around the net and create a simple installer that ...
Use Orbit Download & Grab++ to download music, videos, and flash files
2007-06-14 06:23:00 OrbitDownloader with the Grab++ program will mutually work together for you to download music files, videos, and flash .swf files directly from embedded sites. The software runs in the background and scans the site for files and lists them for easy viewing and selection. You will need both OrbitDownloader and Grab++ installed for it to ... More About: Videos , Software , Internet , Music , Flash
Introducing Microsoft Surface
2007-06-14 06:08:00 I know to many this post is a little late in coming, but to those that are new this will be our brief introduction into Microsoft ’s upcoming technology Surface . Surface is an interactive tabletop powered by sensors and a projector underneath the table that allows a single person or many people to use their hands ... More About: Hardware , Software , Microsoft Surface
UAC driving you nuts? Tweak UAC
2007-06-14 05:55:00 TweakUAC is a brilliant piece of software for Vista users that will allow you to “turn off” those irritating elevation prompts - “This program needs your permission to continue” without disabling the protective features of UAC itself. As the author posts, many people are concerned that by running UAC in quiet mode which the software ... More About: Software , Driving , Nuts , Ving , Tweak
Download of the Day: Copernic Desktop Search
2007-06-14 05:45:00 We have recently reviewed Copernic Desk top Search to see how it felt against Google Desktop Search as well as Windows Desktop Search. Copernic has a nice feel and is very quick and stable. Copernic also has a nice easy to use interface and a very nice feature I have personally come to love: customized searches. ... More About: Software , Download
Sandia National Labratory forming better metal through irradiation
More articles from this author:2007-06-14 00:50:00 The giant brains over at Sandia National Labratories are working on exciting new experiments to create superalloys through irradiation. The new meatals they are creating are basically the holy grail for aerospace, weapons companies, airlines, car companies and basically any industry that uses metal. They are lighter, stronger, and faster (ok maybe not faster) via: Sandia.gov More About: Science , Metal , Form , Bett 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
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