Intel Announces NOR Flash Memory Products for Emerging Low-Cost Handset Segment
Subject: General Tech | August 1, 2006 - 02:07 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 1, 2006 —
Intel Corporation today introduced its first NOR flash memory products
aimed at the emerging low-cost cell phone segment. The new products
have a new pin sharing package to minimize pin count and are configured
to work with low-cost, single-chip baseband and RF solutions from
leading chipset suppliers.
A super way to re-encode your day
Subject: General Tech | August 1, 2006 - 12:23 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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To Linux users, ffmpeg is probably a program you have heard of, but not if you are a Windows user only. That is all about to change, The Inquirer has spotted Super, a FOSS video converter able to change files from any one codec to another. Check this out before you go nuts from re-encoding files 8 times before getting it in the format you want.
Previous Versions could save you, or catch you
Subject: General Tech | July 31, 2006 - 12:13 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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Ars Technica looks at the new incarnation of Sahdow Copy that will likely ship with Vista. Having 5 previous versions of files can be very handy, if you've mistakenly changed and saved a file, but it can also making getting rid of files difficult. You will also have to be careful the backups don't bloat your hard drive to death.
Microsoft Flight Simulator X gets a little more real
Subject: General Tech | July 28, 2006 - 12:12 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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Microsoft has partnered with Aero-News, a world wide real-time news service for aviation and aerospace. Flight Sim X will be gorgeous already, but this partnership raises the possiblity of real time weather and other new and unique features.
The Quadfather gives a press conference
Subject: General Tech | July 28, 2006 - 11:51 AM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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An ATI VP gave a ten minute presentation on what the ATI-AMD merger will mean to consumers. Head to [H]ard|OCP to find out what was said.
ATI CrossFire(TM) and Intel® CoreT 2 Extreme platforms now available
Subject: General Tech | July 27, 2006 - 05:09 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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MARKHAM, CANADA - July 27, 2006 - 'Boundless gaming' comes home today as ATI
Technologies (TSX:ATY, NASDAQ:ATYT) announced that leading system
integrators and OEMs from around the world are bringing to market the
powerful combination of ATI's RadeonR X1900 CrossFireT multi-GPU graphics
and the IntelR CoreT 2 Extreme processor.
NVIDIA® SLI(TM) SELECTED BY GLOBAL PC BUILDERS FOR INTEL® CORE(TM) 2 DUO LAUNCH
Subject: General Tech | July 27, 2006 - 05:05 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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SANTA CLARA, CA—JULY 27, 2006—NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA), the worldwide leader in programmable graphics processor technologies, today announced that many of the world's leading system builders have elected to launch new enthusiast gaming Intel Core 2 Duo-based systems exclusively with NVIDIA SLI technology.
But who will take care of the tubes?
Subject: General Tech | July 27, 2006 - 12:20 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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The Register was a fly on the wall at a meeting at ICANN where the USA has more or less given up control of that body in favour of more international control. It will still be an almost exclusively English-speaking commitee, and it is yet to be seen if the decision will have any real impact on most peoples use of the internet.
Having trouble holding onto your mouse
Subject: General Tech | July 26, 2006 - 03:05 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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After gaming for 12 hours straight, do you find the mouse slipping out of your grasp, and getting you killed? If you don't want to buy the weird mouse with the fan in it, take a look at what Think Computers found, Mouse Grips V2.0.
A warning for those a little slow on the patching
Subject: General Tech | July 26, 2006 - 12:23 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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With patch tuesday now immediately followed by explot wednesday, getting those Windows updates has become a little more pressing. CNET has some info on the 2 newest proof of concept vulnerabilities, so patch before they find their way into the wild.
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