Tech Style Goes Tactile
Subject: General Tech | November 28, 2005 - 12:40 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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SANTA CLARA, Calif., and NEW YORK, Nov. 28, 2005 — The laptop PC is finally ready for its close-up. Previously confined to a world of monotone grays and blacks, touchable laptop PCs are now poised to break into the fashion spotlight. Intel Corporation and Toray Ultrasuede (America), Inc., innovative leaders in technology and fashion, today unveiled 'ultrafashionable' concept laptop PCs.
Duel of the Dual-Cores
Subject: General Tech | November 28, 2005 - 11:59 AM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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The Inquirer reports on a showdown hosted by News.com between AMD's and Intel's dual core CPUs. The results were a little one sided.
"News.com pitted AMD versus Intel dual core CPUs and tested areas including day to day computing,
gaming, multitasking, photo editing, MP3 encoding, video encoding and bangs per buck, or price
performance as others call it. That's seven rounds of the "prizefight".
According to this, out of a total points of 100, AMD got 100 and Intel got zero.
Friday Game Roundup
Subject: General Tech | November 25, 2005 - 02:23 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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"I bought the retail version of NFS:MW today and finally got the chance to update my Need for
Speed: Most Wanted Tweak Guide. If you haven't read it yet, I definitely think you should give it
a try.
Play your Xbox for more than 360 seconds
Subject: General Tech | November 25, 2005 - 11:36 AM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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A simple workaround to the crashes on the Xbox360 has been discovered, and The Inquirer is there to tell you about it. The power is once again a problem, though hopefully not to the extent of the original release.
"Dan, from Duluth, or 'goldeneyemaster' as he is known, told the game spot forum here that hethinks the main reason that the xBox 360 freezes is because the power supply overheats.
MP3 Sunglasses 2: The Return
Subject: General Tech | November 24, 2005 - 12:58 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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Oakley has just put out the Thump2, the followup to the original MP3 player in a pair of shades. If you completely missed the first release, The Tech Lounge takes the time to compare the originals to the new edition. Love 'em or hate 'em, you should probably at least be able to recognize them.
"From California -- Lil' John's Thump sunglasses have been combined with Arnold Schwartzenegars
Terminator shades in Oakley's sequel of their original smash hit of MP3 playing eyeware in Thump
2, Revenge of the
ATI announces another uncoming chipset
Subject: General Tech | November 24, 2005 - 12:04 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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The Inquirer caught ATI talking about a new chipset that might be ready to launch in the first quarter of 2006, called the RS485. It will be made to handle the upcoming M2 AMD processors, though it will not support Crossfire, it will support DDR2.
"The chipset is called the RS485 and it supports one single graphic slot only. It's designed over
a new reference motherboard as it has to accommodate new AMD DDR 2 CPUs. Those CPUs will bring a
lot of memory and socket changes but they won't surface before sometime in Q2 next year.
When good mice go bad
Subject: General Tech | November 23, 2005 - 05:47 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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Try high accuracy mice on a variety of surfaces and you may smell a rat. The manufacturers are not trying to weasel you out of your money, they are trying to find a solution, so try not to be too shrewish, and constantly badger them with complaints. In fact, you otter head to CoolTechZone, to read up on their findings from 2 compaines, Logitech and Razer, to see just what is up.
"In a brief commentary, Razer confirmed that the current variant of laser technology does indeed
Physics 101 for PCs, starts in February
Subject: General Tech | November 23, 2005 - 11:47 AM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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The ASUS Ageia PhysX card should be available in February, according to this article by CoolTechZone. Still no word on the bus it will use, or an actual date though.
"We are all aware of AGEIA and its desire to bring a PhysX processor for physics processing in
order to make games look and feel more realistic. We all want the characters to move and act
realistically, and that's exactly what AGEIA's PhysX will accomplish once it debuts.
Intel Brings Home Extreme Multicore Gaming For The Holidays
Subject: General Tech | November 22, 2005 - 01:05 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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NEW YORK, Nov. 22, 2005 — The era of multi-core PC gaming is here and at the Intel-sponsored Cyberathlete Professional League (CPL) World Tour Grand Finals some of the best players, hardware and software come together. 'We have spent the last year empowering more than 10,000 software developers with thousands of multi-core development platforms,' said Bill Kirby, director of planning in Intel's Software and Solutions Group.
We're doomed I tell you! Doomed!
Subject: General Tech | November 22, 2005 - 11:48 AM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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Ok, I guess we've all heard it before, and we're still here, so the sky probably isn't falling. A javascript exploit has been found on the web, which can allow code execution on your machine, when you use IE. The Inquirer has a story up, as well as a link to a site which has posted the code used in the exploit, so you can see what is going on.
"UK group of hackers has published a zero-day exploit which puts means IE users only have to visit
a site to be attacked.
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