Archive for: September 28, 2007

Those who live for nothing increasingly than to cram their SSD to the brim with useless details, only to mass delete the bulk of it, rinse, and repeat, we’ve found the perfect drive for you. Hitachi ULSI Systems Co., a subsidiary of Hitachi, has reportedly “developed a solid state disk on which …

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Gadgets, Storage

RivaTuner is a complete powerful tweaking environment providing you everything you may need to tune NVIDIA GPU based display adapters The widest driver level Direct3D OpenGL and system tuning options flexible profiling system allowing to make custom settings on per application basis both driver level and low level hardware access modes unique diagnostic and realtime hardware monitoring features and exclusive power user oriented tools like built in registry editor and patch script engine make RivaTuner 39 s feature set absolutely unmatched nbsp
RivaTuner is the most powerful tweaking utility for NVIDIA and ATI display adapters running under Windows 98 98 SE ME 2000 XP The purpose of this utility is to give you access to all the undocumented features of Detonator and Catalyst drivers Drivers have a lot of undocumented registry entries Some of them don t affect anything but there are some that are very useful In general they cannot give you big performance boost but they can improve image quality and solve some compatibility problems RivaTuner will help you to change all undocumented registry entries
RivaTuner supports all NVIDIA display adapters starting from Riva TNT family up to the latest GeForce 7 series and widest range of NVIDIA drivers starting from the oldest Detonator 2 08 up to the newest ForceWare drivers family
In addition to complete NVIDIA hardware support RivaTuner also provides limited support for display adapters based upon ATI RADEON 8500 and newer ATI graphics processors All RivaTuner 39 s features besides driver level tuning options are also available on supported ATI hardware

Maxthon Formerly MyIE2 is a powerful web browser with a highly customizable interface It can open multiple web pages within one browser window and uses little system resources Maxthon has a greatly integrated amp customizable interface which supports Skins Default Turbo Qute Mozilla_2 Safari TCPort X_Phoenity Plug Ins AI Roboform FlashSave ViewSource EnableRightClick Up a Directory Weather IE Extensions amp specific toolbars example GOOGLE Toolbar It also incorporates 2 POPUP blockers Auto POPUP blocker amp a POPUP blocker list filter and a Content Filter Maxthon is based on the Internet Explorer engine your most likely current web browser which means that what works in IE works the same in Maxthon but with many additional efficient features like

Tabbed Browsing Interface
Mouse Gestures
Super Drag amp Drop
Privacy Protection
AD Hunter
Google Bar Support
External Utility Bar
Skinning
Plugins
Compatibility amp Low on Resources
More There are even more features that Maxthon can provide you such as Page Zooming Simple Collector Web Services Password protecting Tabs URL Aliases and many others All of them working efficiently while you surf the Internet with Maxthon

Maxthon 2 0 will inherts its successor 39 s great features and bring you a flexible joyful amp convenience web surfing experience


Maxthon 2 0 Features
Advanced proxy function allows the use of different proxy for different web site automatically ensuring the best browsing speed and web site accessibility
User Interface Multi Thread technology greatly reduces the chance of browser lockup e g caused by some ajax operations and browser crash
Modular design loads only used components ensuring the most efficient use of system resources
Highly customisable skinning and interface system ...

Rather than simply suing Apple, Steve Jobs or AT&T individually, Dongmei Li decided to throw all three under the bus. The suit, which was reportedly filed that week in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, accused the trio of “price discrimination, underselli…

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Apple, Cellphones, Gadgets, iPhone

Microsoft Vista, how far you've come. Why, I still remember clearly the days when you were just a scrappy little OS that no one liked. Heck, I was out on the floor at last year's DigitalLife, showcasing a beta version of you to any curious party who might be passing by. Now look at you. There's a whole booth on the DigitalLife '07 showroom floor dedicated to PCs, accessories, and apps that are certified to work with you. Heck, there were even a few digital photo frames specially tuned to your color profiles.

Yep, everything in Microsoft's booth [pictured] is Vista-friendly, including the PR people, who are, like way into Aero.

Call Michael Arrington what you will -- uberblogger, analyst, provocateur -- the guy works his butt off to cover the Web 2.0 industry and Internet startups.

Ziff-Davis asked Arrington to moderate a DigitalLife panel on disruptive technologies, after which Kyle Monson and Chloe Albanesius sat down with him for a frank discussion on what he himself thought were the most disruptive technologies in the tech world today, and what Arrington's role is in defining those technologies. Click here for the interview..

Snippet:

Q: You did call yourself a journalist on the panel.

Arrington: Sometimes I am, depends. But sometimes I'll say "according to a source", but I've learned all this stuff. I've learned that sometimes you've got to cover your ass. But, you know, sometimes I wake up and I'm in a pissed off mood and I trash a company. You're never going to do that when you have an editorial process.

OK, we'll bite. On a reference from Michael Arrington, we checked out Payittome, which offers an interesting concept: you upload a picture of something you want, and someone richer than you buys it, pays you, and earns the right to turn your picture into a link to their site.

You can upload a picture of just about anything (people have posted shots of beer (which paid off) an iPhone (which hasn't) and a car (good luck).

Send your picture and your paypal address to payittome@gmail.com, and the picture will later appear at this related Web site (why it doesn't have a payittome URL seems a bit odd; perhaps this will change). Since this is a one-man operation authored by a guy with a government job in Belgium, I suspect that there may well be a delay in posting, especially if this takes off.

The one weakness of the site (aside from the manually processed entries) is that advertisers don't get a clear, obvious indication of their presence. The only indication that Oprah bought a kid a new car (hypothetical, at this point) would be to hover the mouse over the link, or click through. Still, given that the MillionDollarHomepage, SaveKaryn.com and GiveBoobs.com (the last link is NWS and contains pics of naked boobs) worked, maybe it will pay to jump(start) a new Web trend.

Ubuntu is a free open source operating system that starts with the breadth of Debian and adds regular releases every six months a clear focus on the user and usability it should quot Just Work quot TM and a commitment to security updates with 18 months of support for every release Ubuntu ships with the latest Gnome release as well as a selection of server and desktop software that makes for a comfortable desktop experience off a single installation CD

iTunes lets you create your own personal digital music library allowing you to manage and play your music collection with drag and drop simplicity iTunes the software part of the equation that lets you pack 7 500 songs in your pocket automatically synchronizes with the sensational new iPod at high speeds over FireWire iTunes gives you the ability to generate dynamic Smart Playlists that reflect your preferences and listening habits With iTunes it rsquo s easy to create CDs that play back on in your car your home stereo Macs and on Windows based PCs iTunes 4 adds the ability to share music among your Macs play and encode AAC files and view album art

Users of previous-generation USB modems from Sprint and Verizon — the gargantuan USB720 comes immediately to intellect — know that they’re a little on the portly side (and that’s being kind). whether you’re going to have that huge mass hanging off the side of your lappie, it’d be nice whether …

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Wireless

ASUS is showing off their design chops again nowadays with the introduction of the U6S. That nudges their total laptop model tally to 48 by our count — we’re not talking custom builds intellect you; ASUS now offers forty-fracking-eight different series of laptops with an endlessly complex mat…

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Gadgets, Handhelds, Laptops

Miray Software has released [scroll down a bit] the first version of its newly developed embedded RTOS, Symobi. “Symobi was introduced in professional circles for the first date on the Systems 2006 exposition. Symobi is a graphical RTOS with a newly designed architecture, according to state-of-the-a…

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