News (Latest 7)
Walmart Unwittingly Sells iPod Nano Knockoff as Actual iPod - October 06, 2008
Reader Mitchel Jones noticed something seriously wrong with the iPod display at his local Walmart. Was there another new iPod Nano? Has Apple finally abandoned its iconic wheel? The answer, as deduced by Mitchel himself, is much more depressing: retail fraud.
It wouldn't make sense for Walmart to be in any kind of dealings with a company like Friendship Star International Limited, whose knockof...
Super Talent 128GB SSD Drops Solid State Price Like It's Hot - September 29, 2008
It looks like solid state drive prices have plunged enough to finally jump out of early adopter territory. California-based flash memory maker Super Talent is now offering a 128GB SSD for $300 retail. That's $150 cheaper than a comparable offer from Dell and about $4.95 cheaper per GB than Intel's disks (though, granted, Intel's runs faster).
The 2.5-inch FTM28GO25H claims a 100MB read rate and...
HappyWakeUp S60 Alarm App Uses Your Phone's Microphone to Decide When to Wake You - September 24, 2008
HappyWakeUp is a new cellphone alarm app developed for S60 (the other open platform) that only wakes you when it knows you're in a light sleep cycle. How does it know? Well, Computerworld says HappyWakeUp actually uses the microphone from your phone to statistically analyze your sleep habits based on noises you make, and when placed under your pillow, it determines what phase of sleep you're in.
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Group Posts E-Mail Hacked From Palin Account - September 21, 2008
Vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin's private Yahoo e-mail account was hacked, and some of its contents posted on the internet Wednesday.
The internet griefers known as Anonymous took credit for the intrusion, and screenshots of e-mail messages and photos belonging to the Alaska governor have been published by WikiLeaks. Threat Level has confirmed the authenticity of at least one of the e-m...
Comcast Discloses Throttling Practices -- BitTorrent Targeted - September 21, 2008
Comcast came clean with the Federal Communications Commission late Friday, detailing how it throttled and targeted peer-to-peer traffic -- maneuvers it has repeatedly denied.
The cable concern said it indeed hit "particular protocols that were generating disproportionate amounts of traffic." The peer-to-peer protocols, Comcast said, include Ares, BitTorrent, eDonkey, FastTrack and Gnutella -- v...
Asus Launches AiGuru SV1, World's First Skype-Certified Videophone - September 18, 2008
Skype video calling just got a lot more Grandma-friendly with Asus' new AiGuru SV1. It's a dedicated Skype-compatible standalone videophone with a "simple-to-use, icon-based interface" meaning Granny can speak to you and see you without having to mess around with computers. There's a 7-inch LCD, integrated VGA webcam, it connects over 802.11 b/g Wi-Fi or ethernet to a router, and even packs a batt...
Raon Everun Note, A Beefy Tiny Laptop for Under $900 - September 17, 2008
Mini-notes like the MSI Wind are nice and everything, but for the really good stuff, sometimes you still need to import. The Raon Everun Note looks like a fantastic little machine, weighing a scant 1.63 pounds but featuring a full-out AMD Turion 64x2 Dual Core 1.2GHz procesor, 128MB of ATI discreet graphics power, 7" 1024x600 touchscreen, 85% full size keyboard, 60GB hard drive, 1GB RAM, XP, Wi-Fi...
Tutorials (Latest 3)
History of Storage Solutions - Author: MalikTous, July 26, 2005
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...
Changing clock speed on a mainboard - Author: MalikTous, April 08, 2005
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...
Replacing your mainboard - Author: MalikTous, April 07, 2005
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...
