November 14, 2008
Wii FitWow. Apparently this guy from Gizmodo has been using Wii Fit for six months. And this is what happens afterward: "Let me tell you something about eating in my family. It was always my job, as directed by all grandparents, to finish not only everything on my plate, but everything on the entire table. This was the first habit to go, since this is the exact opposite of what you want to be doing wh...
October 15, 2008
Energy Star Setting Consumption Guidelines For Game ConsolesEnergy Star is finally prepared to set guidelines on energy consumption for these devices. In order earn an Energy Star seal of approval, manufacturers will have to use less than one watt during 'off' mode, and less than 5 watts in standby. The devices must also automatically power down after sitting idle for an hour. Furthermore, any set-top box and DVD/Blu Ray/Movie playback functions have to co...
October 15, 2008
Asus Returns to Its Roots the $300 Eee PC 701SDXThere have been signs Asus might be returning the thoroughly cheaper notebook roots. EeePCNews.de has shots of what they think is the new $300 Eee PC 701SDX. This seven-inch Eee isn't a whole lot different from past models, it's just got a slightly updated chassis and dumps the integrated webcam to cut costs.
October 15, 2008
Next Xbox Will Upgrade Xbox 360 Games to Look Amazing, Use New Controller FeaturesXbox Evolved says that the next Xbox (720 or Next, whatever) won't just be backward-compatible with games, it'll be forward-compatible.Forward-compatibility would mean that games made for the 360 will be able to take full advantage of the next Xbox's muscle to look more amazing and like that generaation—not just cleaner textures and higher resolutions, but better frame rate, draw distance, t...
October 15, 2008
Nokia Announces Touch Screen N - Series PhoneAfter Nokia set its first touchscreen phone, the 5800 XpressMusic,they will be launching a new touchscreen smart phone for the N-series, wedged neatly between the iPhone and Blackberry Storm. "We will have a lot of touch screen phones coming up, including an N-series device very soon," Nokia India's Marketing Director Devinder Kishore said. Although official details and release dates have yet to b...
October 15, 2008
Why Does the MacBook Pro Have Two Graphics Cards?The biggest update to the new MacBooks—on the inside anyway—is their graphical muscle, which has been hooked up with some Barry Bonds-level steroids. Apple ditched Intel's crummy integrated graphics and chipset (basically the traffic controller between the processor and everything else) entirely, opting for a new one from Nvidia that combines the chipset and a GPU on a single chip̵...
October 15, 2008
All the New MacBook DetailsYesterday, Apple revealed new additions to the MacBook family: The totally redesigned aluminum 15" MacBook Pro and 13" MacBook, plus a slightly revamped MacBook Air and white plastic MacBook, "value" priced at $1000. Apple also showed off the long-awaited iSight-endowed Cinema Display monitors. Here's a rundown of the keynote and the announcements: The News • MacBook Pro announcement and...
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by MalikTous, July 26, 2005
History of Storage Solutions
Feeding information The means for feeding digital information to a computer or other device designed for operating with such inputs has evolved over the last two centuries. While modern digital computers are the most frequent users of this mechanism of data input, the use of digital data predates computers. Card-based information An early use of digital data was a loom designed for pat...
by MalikTous, April 08, 2005
Changing clock speed on a mainboard
Changing the clock: Basic processor speed control This popular item is spoken of in every forum, but still mysterious to most users. Microprocessors are sold set to a rated speed as the result of testing done before they are encapsulated, as well as from the range designed into the chip at the production line. The resulting ‘rated speed’ is added to ID pins or auxiliary ROM space on the su...
by MalikTous, April 07, 2005
Replacing your mainboard
Mainboard changeout Most people never consider this subject, it isn’t the item of the day in the Dell and HP popular sales programs… often, though, an ailing system can be repaired by exchanging the mainboard vice the entire box. Problems ranging from total failure to boot, to inability to find hard drives, to simple audio device failure, may call for a new system but be cheaply resolved b...