Monday, June 30, 2008

How to optimize Opera Browser 9.5

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How to optimize Opera Browser 9.5Do you want to speed up your Opera Browser 9.5? Well, you are in the right place then! We are gonna set up some options, it will be really easy and totally safe...
I swear =)
I'm not an Opera fan, I like more Firefox even if the latest version is giving me some troubles (especially with streaming videos...), but it is for sure a very popular browser so let's go on with the optimization!

First of all, start up the program then just follow this guide:

1) Go to "Tools" > "Preferences"
2) Select the "Advanced" tab
3) Choose "Browsing" then select "Redraw instantly" inside the "Loading" box
4) Go now to "Network" and set "Max connections to a server" to 32 and "Max total connections" to 64
5) Type opera: config in the address bar and press Enter;
6)Click on "Network" and make sure that only these voices are checked "Allow Pre Authentication", "Enable Content Blocker", "Enable NTLM" and "UTF8 Escape URLs";
7) Click the Save button;
8) Click on Performance and remove the checkmark from all items, except for "Synchronous DNS Lookup";
9) Click the Save button. DONE!

Happy Surfing!

Sunday, June 29, 2008

How to avoid you hard disk running endless

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Defragmentation: How to avoid you hard disk running endlessRemember that the computer bottleneck is ALWAYS the hard disk... You badly need to have it fully optimized!

Especially if you have a non-unix based system then you should really think about hard disk optimization... That's because windows file system get "fragmented" in a really short time. It's like having your own desk messed up when you are trying to find something... it can become a real problem!


To avoid your hard drive running endless you just have to arrange it... How? It's easy! You must download, install and use a whatever "disk defragmentation" utility but not the windows one, because it really sucks! Here you are a my personal list:

1) Diskeeper: This is the best defragmentation software I know, I really like it and it never failed me... Anyway it's not a freeware, you can actually try a Demo version or... Read a my old post!

2) Perfect Disk: This one is really good too... It has more defragmentation methods but it takes longer then the Diskeeper. It also is a non-free software!

3) Auslogics Disk Defrag: This is a FREE program! It has good reviews but I personally never tried it! You can give it a chance =D

These utilities are very easy to use, each one has an intuitive interface: just find a "defrag now" button and you are done! If you need any further help, just post a comment and I will be happy to help you out :)

Saturday, June 28, 2008

Start listening to the music you like for free!

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Do you want to listen to all the music you like for free and in an absolutely legal way? Good! There are a lot of website that can help you! Here you are a list of them with a little personal review:

Start listening to the music you like for free!
1) Jogli - it has a very good script behind, they have indexed almost all music videos on youtube! Very fast and smooth, you can also see the video and the text of the song.

2) Seeqpod - I think this is the most famous one, it's very very good and I heard something about the iPhone and the opportunity to directly download .mp3 files using Safari as "iPhone Agent"... But i didn't try!

3) Deezer - This site is really well done, you can actually listen to music while browsing other tracks, it has a good embedding fuction too. Some banners around...

4) Songza -I like the site embedding fuction and the control box is very cool... By the way it is a little bit "poor" in my opinion.

5) Meemix - I don't really like it... I think it's too much messed up, but it has some nice fuctions like the "Mood Control".

How to watch full movies online for free!

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How to watch full movies online for free!Do you want to watch a movie for free at your home in total relax? Well, if you don't require the best audio-video quality then this post is right for you! You don't need to download anything but as many codecs as you can in order to avoid playing problems. I suggest you to download latest DivX webplayer that includes most of the codecs you will need: download divx player!


Now, you are ready to choose your prefered movie! So let's go and seek it on "watch-movies.net"!

In my opinion this site is great because users are free to "rate moHow to watch full movies online for free!vies" and "vote for links quality", it means that "you can't fail choosing the right working link"! Take a look at my screenshots and have fun!

Friday, June 27, 2008

Why you shouldn't buy an iPhone

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Why you shouldn't buy an iPhoneI want an iPhone!! Yeah, me too!!! That's what I can hear anywhere... But, why do you want one? I would never spend that money for a mobile phone... Never!
By the way there are really more reasons not to buy an iPhone, I have listed the best eight in my personal opinion:

1) The camera: it's not that good... It only has 2 megapixel, it has not a flash and it hasn't a night mode. Really bad :(

2) Flash & Java: yes, the iPhone doesn't support both of them!

3) Istant Messaging: there aren't chat programs on the phone, you can only use this fuction with SMS that costs a lot!

4) Do you want to go on holiday somewhere else then an urban area? Well, watch out your call rate before!

5) It's not compatible with COMMON (low-cost) headset and bluetooth car kit, you need Apple's ones!

6) The battery: did you know that if you currently break your iPhone's battery then you can't simply change it with a new one? Yeah, you have to take it at the first assistence center or buy a completely new phone!!

7) Paste & Cut fuctions aren't included in the software...

8) MMS? What the hell are them?! Apple seems to be not interested in this messages technology...

Well, there are more reasons for sure... But for me these are the top ones!

Thursday, June 26, 2008

How to use more then 4gb of RAM with Windows Vista 32bit (x86)

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Do you already know that Windows Vista 32bit (x86) is not able to use more then 3.5gb of RAM? If not, well, now you do... But don't worry, today I will explain a little trick to avoid this problem and let your "favorite" OS, read and USE (with the Service Pack 1 you can actually SEE the right quantity of RAM but it doesn't UTILIZE all!) a higher ammount of memory!
In short we will just replace some files, so don't worry because that's easy! Let's begin:

Windows Vista 32bit 8gb of ram1) We need some files from Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition... You don't have it? Not a problem! Just go here and download the package!

2) IMPORTANT: Since this technique is pretty unstable I suggest you to make a complete backup of your Computer before continuing, so that if something after the hack goes wrong or you are unsatisfied about the results you can always proceed with a fresh and clean restore! Take at least, a backup copies of these original files:
  • %systemdrive%\Windows\System32\licensing\pkeyconfig\pkeyconfig.xrm-ms
  • %systemdrive%\Windows\ServiceProfiles\NetworkService\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\SoftwareLicensing\tokens.dat
3) Go to "Start" and run "Services" (in the search box), find and stop the "Software Licensing service".

4) Take ownership and grant full control permissions to logged on user account or Administrators user group for the 2 files (you can download and include this registry file, it will adds a new voice inside the right click menu that allow to gain full control on any files):
  • %systemdrive%\Windows\System32\licensing\pkeyconfig\pkeyconfig.xrm-ms
  • %systemdrive%\Windows\ServiceProfiles\NetworkService\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\SoftwareLicensing\tokens.dat
5) Now you can replace those original files with the ones download before!

6) Restart and you are done!

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Notebook Asus M50SV Benchmarks

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Hello guys!

Here you are all my benchmarks done on my personal notebook, an Asus M50SV with the following techical details:

CPU: Intel Core2Duo T9300 2.5Ghz 800Mhz FSB

Memory: 3Gb DDR 667Mhz in Dual-Channel Asynchronus

Hard Disk: 250Gb 5400Rpm

Video Card: 9500M GS 512Mb DDR2 (475/950/400 Default)

SCORES:

PC Mark Vantage: 3839 (with the overclock it doesn't really change…)

PCMark05: 5532

3DMark06(1024x768): 4489

3DMark06(1024x768 Overclocked):
  • 4929 (525/1050/451)
  • 5155 (550/1100/475) [81°] [Gaming]
  • 5262 (575/1150/475) [82°]
  • 5548 (650/1300/475) [85°] [Gaming eXtreme]

3DMark06(1280x800): 4000 (about)

3DMark06(1280x800 overclocked): 4969 (650/1300/475) [83°] [Gaming eXtreme]


NOTE: Memory at 510mhz crash!

I made all the overclocks with RivaTuner, “Gaming eXtreme” mode it's not that stable, should modify the voltages… But I don't suggest it to anyone because it's dangerous for your card.

Gaming FPS experiences:

Counter-Strike Source: Everything ON at 1280x1024 using the Gaming eXtreme overclock the average FPS is 76 but computer crash after 2 hours of playing... Using a not overclocked system the average FPS go down to 61.

Rainbow Six Vegas 2: 1024x768 with max details but setting AA not over 4x, the game is smooth… If you want to increase the resolution the I suggest you to turn completaly OFF the AA! This game stay stable even after hours of playing and using the eXtreme Gaming overclock!

Assassin’s Creed: This game is really cool but it's really hardware hungry! It crash even with a little overclock so it's really unuseful... Anyway you can actually enjoy this game by setting a resolution of 800x600, max details with no AA and no overclock!

If I will have the time to tests other games, I will update this post!

I hope this is useful for someone who is going to buy a M50SV,

Regards!

How to optimize Firefox 3

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Mozilla Firefox 3 optimization speedupIf you are unsatisfied about the speed of last Mozilla's browser then this is exactly what you need! We are going to set up some options inside the configuration file, to do so the first thing you should do is typing "about:config" in the address bar... You will able to see the Firefox control panel.


Now we need to modify some entries: if you can't find one of these entries then you have to create it (just right click anywhere in the control panel then choose "New" using the proper desired value, remember to use Boolean when it needs to be "True or False"!):

  • network.dns.disableIPv6: true
  • network.http.max-connections: 48
  • network.http.max-connections-per-server: 24
  • network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy: 12
  • network.http.pipelining.firstrequest: true
  • network.http.pipelining: true
  • network.http.pipelining.maxrequests: 32
  • network.http.proxy.pipelining: true
  • nglayout.initialpaint.delay: 0
  • network.http.request.max-start-delay: 5
  • extensions.checkCompatibility: false
Now your browser should be faster but if you want to "go over" then you should try this little extension that speed up Firefox startup: Chrome Cleaner.
Thanks to the previus changes you will be able to install this extension in Firefox 3 even if it's not officially supported: after downloading the file you just have to open it using Firefox and follow the instructions.

Restart your browser and go to (actually I'm not using the English version so I'm sorry if the following path it's not 100% exactly!) "Tools" > "Add-Ons" > "Chrome Cleaner" > "Options" and then click on the "Clean!" button. Done!

Happy surfing!

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Unlock protected PDF files

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PDF documents can be protected by their own creator by disabling some fuctions like "print", "copy", "editing" and many more... To unlock such files you must download this little powerful and FREE utility: "PDF Unlocker".


It's very easy to use, once installed and started you just need to "drag and drop" your protected PDF file inside the software! Done!
It can remove passwords from 40 to 128 bit...!

PDF Unlocker Software

Top 10 Softwares for iPhone and iPod Touch

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Do you have an iPhone? Yes? Good!
iPhone pictureHere you are an unique Top 10 Softwares to power up your mobile phone!
Some of them work great for iPod Touch too!
Please, note that it isn't ordered by relevance!!!


  1. iFlckr: Uploader for Flickr
  2. Locations: WebCam live from the whole world
  3. THTouch: Poker: Texas Hold'em
  4. Fring: Skype, MSN, ICQ for your iPhone
  5. Customize: Themes, Skins etc.
  6. iPhone Video Recorder: enable video recording!
  7. SkySMS: Send free SMS via GPRS!
  8. Converter: Converter for iPhone
  9. MxTube: Youtube Downloader
  10. Raging Thunder: Very cool OpenGL Racing Game
You should really try this game too... Cubic Man!
The application that most attracted my interest is SkySMS, really a cool software! Check this video:


3D Monitor from Philips

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Here you are the new Philips 3D display, that will bring you completely inside your favorite video game! This new monitor grants a 3D visual style in any game without the need of the proper 3D glasses that we are used to wear in these circumstance.
As we all well know, Philips is a great high-technology producer and this 3D Display will be also of high quality, surely it won't disappoint who will purchase it.


Main screen tech details are the following: it's a 1080dpi HD, it has a response time of only 8ms, 700 cd/m2s of brightness and 2000:1 contrast ratio. Sizes? A "little" 22'' and a huge 52''! Philips display will be available for the fourth quarter of this year and nothing about the price has been announced. The technology that allow the 3D visual without the use of 3D glasses, is named "WOWvx" experimented by Philips.

Monday, June 23, 2008

It will comes from Microsoft, the first "wearable Mouse"

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On 21 June 1967, Douglas Engelbart got the patent for his display X,Y position indicator: the mouse.
Engelbart intent was to improve the way to work with a PC and with his invention he fully reached the objective, marking the evolution of Personal Computers in all respects.
From that date the development of "pointing devices" has never arrested, and directly from Microsoft comes a possible (and near) revolution.

Precisely on October 2006, Microsoft has registered a patent for a new prototype mouse, which details have remained hidden up to their official publication.
It's about a mouse conceived in a completely different way from as we are used to, a "wearable" mouse, you put it on your own hand and it let you aim with your fingers.

Conceptually the idea of a wearable mouse could be a true convenience, but how much it will weigh? Will it be so efficient and practical as they hope?
wearable mouse from MicrosoftIn the picture some parts are enumerated: 114 and 116 are respectively right and left click, and they should be pressed with the thumb, the number 110 it's a useful button for enable/disable the mouse, that cannot be always on.
For the rest of the tech details we all need to wait the official launch!

Sunday, June 22, 2008

Top 20 OpenSource softwares from the net

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There are so many free alternatives and Open Source softwares, that can replace without any problem the most famous programs. In today's article, I will present you the best 20 OpenSource programs on the world wide web, surely, someone of you will find the program that was looking for, for quite a long time. Here is the list:


  1. Gimpshop: The OpenSource program for graphics. Good alternative to the famous Photoshop.
  2. Inkscape: it has the same functions of Illustrator. Really excellent and well done.
  3. Miro: Good OpenSource media player, among its functions also the possibility to download video from Youtube and to manage blogs Feed RSS.
  4. MediaCoder: It allows to extract the audio from the video, and to convert them in other formats. Excellent to reduce the size of the video, decreasing the resolution without losing quality.
  5. Audacity: For the employees of the sector (and not only) this is the program number one for audio files tweaking. It has the possibility to save jobs in mp3 format.
  6. Media Player Classic: together with VLC it's excellent, the best media player. It plays all kind of videos, all the formats both audio and video. Really well done. Besides it automatically installs all the necessary codecs needed to play videos also with Windows Media Player.
  7. HandBrake: It converts DVD to AVI files in order to let you save them in your hard disk.
  8. RogueScanner: This program allows you to check if there are not authorized users on your Wireless or LAN. Once started, it lists you all the connected devices to the net. It works only with Windows XP.
  9. ClamWin: Good free antivirus.
  10. Filezilla: Very known, it's a FTP client of great power. A must have!
  11. TrueCrypt: It's able to crypt an entire folder or all the files it contains.
  12. 7-Zip: This is WinRAR best rival, it allows the creation of compressed archives, in any format. It also creates .7-Zip compressed archives.
  13. AbiWord: A good alternative to Microsoft Office Word, it's a text editor that allows you to create some enough elaborate text files too.
  14. eMule: Who doesn't know it? This is one of th best p2p software. A must have!
  15. Ares: Other p2p program, unlike eMule it has an easy interface. Good program.
  16. FeedReader: A free Feed RSS reader.
  17. K-Meleon: K-Meleon is a very light and high-speed Browser. Need a try.
  18. Stellarium: This program displays all kind of Stars and constellations in our space. It's similar to Google Earth but it let you see the space.
  19. Pidgin: This program make you chat using any kind of chats from MSN to Yahoo.
  20. DOSBox: This is an old DOS emulator that can be usefull to let you play old dos programs.

Saturday, June 21, 2008

Movie of the week: Kung fu Panda!

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Hello folks! This movie is really funny... I hope you can enjoy it even if the quality is not that good if you enlarge the video; but who care when things are free?!




YouSerial & YouTorrent

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youserialThis is really a huge serials archive... I didn't try any key so I can't tell you if it works or not, but it doesn't cost you anything since is totally free. The site is in someway related to the pirate bay, another famous website containing tons of torrent files. Links are the following:
There are also other two websites that I want to show you... The fyoutorrentirst one is very popular, like The Pirate Bay, the second one instead, is still on beta testing but it promise to become a day, the ultimate torrents source:Let me if they work properly! Enjoy.

Friday, June 20, 2008

Skype 4.0 Beta: great news!

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skype 4Skype has made available in the last hours, a first beta version their VoIP software. This release will contain some important features and it promise to don't disappoint anyone.


Developers spent great resources for the reorganization of functionalities and already existing options: with Skype 4.0 users will be more supported during the installation/configuration procedure. According to the first diffused informations from the official blog, Skype 4.0 will implement a hardware autodetect configuration tool.

This brief video shows the new graphic elements and the better integration with VoIP, video and chat functionalities. The new solution adopted in Skype 4 should also improve the management of multiple windows, for those who would like to speak with more people.

Here you can download Skype 4.0... But don't forget that it's still a BETA!

Thursday, June 19, 2008

Canon: an USB mouse with numeric keypad and calculator embedded

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"PC Launches" informed us about a curious Canon peripheral device destined to the PC world. We refer to a particular USB mouse, that hides under its body, a keyboard with double functions.

canon mouse usbThe top part of this mouse can be opened and it contains a small LCD panel as a traditional calculator, while on the underside there's a numeric keypad with buttons for the most elementary operations. The purpose? Provide a calculator and also a keypad in a single device to benefit who must digitize numbers with a great frequency. There are so many users that, following the great notebook diffusion, need to use an external USB numeric keypad because it's hard to find it integrated on the laptop keyboard.

Very often, in fact, the numeric keypad on portable PCs, is available only using the second fuction button, that prevent the contemporary use of other frequently needed keys. Canon choosed to offer an alternative to this method, at a small price of 32$, according to the source.

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

How much worth private data stolen from internet? Here is an unbelievable listing of charges!

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personal informations listingOur personal informations have clearly no price. But everything has a price and everything has a Market... Also the data (even stolen) of your bank account. McAfee Avert Labs has discovered a list, published on the web, used by criminals for purchase and sell credit card numbers, accounts passwords and other stolen data.


A discovery made by accident, when researchers landed on a site that was proposing, at very expensive prices, "high quality data". And let's see, then, this tariff. A Washington Mutual Bank account, in the United States, with a 14.400$ balance costs around 600e, while an English Citibank account with a 10.000£ balance costs 850e.

Let's go on with the examples: codes for logging in a Bnp Paribas account (french) are the most expensive: over 30.000e cash for "only" 2.200e! Inside that database were present spanish and brasilian banks. Obviously, as in a common purchase, they were also giving guarantees: if the buyer would not be able to get inside the proper bank account with the furnished codes, he were allowed to ask for an other password (always stolen...) for another account, within 24 hours.

Only few days ago an enormous server that contained more than 1,4 Gigabytes of illegal data and more than 5000 stolen "log files" were caught: among these files, private and professional emails, bank accounts and private medical assistance informations, financial institutions and important companies reserved data.

CleanAfterMe: a program for who doesn't want to leave any trace on the PC

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cleanaftermeClean After Me is a portable application that allow us to clean up the operating system after the usage, in order to assure our privacy. Unlike other disk cleaner, this tool removes temporary files, but without being installed on the system.

Program interface is really intuitive and grant the access to all options. Check-boxes are separated by category, which are: Windows Explorer, Firefox, Windows General and Windows Advanced.

This let us quickly select which category we want to clean up. This software in short, delete every single trace left by using the computer.

ClearAfterMe is available for Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, and Windows Vista. You can find CleanAfterMe on Nisoft webpage!

Go-OO: an OpenOffice revisited edition

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go-oo open officeGo-OO, stands probably for Go Open Office, it's based on the original OpenOffice but it adds new interesting features and improvements then the basic version developed by Sun.


First of all it supports all Microsoft Office extensions like .docx, .pptx and .xlsx and they can be loaded without any problem. Another important feature is the inclusion of SVG and the support for Microsoft Works.

Also improved the interoperability with Excel, the support for VBA macros, enhanced EMF and Grid rendering. For Linux users the coolest characteristic is that it will allow 3D presentation building and the integration of Gstreamer.

Do not expect a look change... A negative note is that the application cannot be installed if on the pc is present a new version of OpenOffice.

Auzentech: new X-Fi audio card with HDMI 1.3

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Auzentech has announced the new audio card Auzen X-Fi HomeTheater 7.1, a PCI Express solution based on the known Creative X-Fi audio processor, built with external and internal HDMI 1.3 interfaces, the internal one will works only via Nvidia hardware.

This new card can manage high definition audio tracks, in Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio. Amongx-fi audio card auzentech all the supported standards, Dolby Digital and DTS are highlighted because of the one cable connection to multi-channel systems and for the EAX 5.0 useful for gamers thanks to the positional audio experience.

According to what reported by the vice-president and General Manager of Creative audio distribution, Steve Erickson, they have worked on a new architecture for the X-Fi processor in order to reach the best integration with PCI Express interface.

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Realized a flexible and radiations heavy resistent transistor

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flexible radiations resistent transistorIt comes from the space, or almost, a material for the construction of flexible transistors that will allow a new electronic devices production. That's what come up from a Northwestern University publication where the characteristics of the new material are illustrated.

Northwestern University research group has build a transistor that makes use of a new type of dielectric material called "SAND" or "Self-Assembled NanoDielectric". Prof. Tobin Marks, leader of the group, explained that to reach such an objective has been necessary follow an alternative way in silicon dioxide usage.

The objective was to create a material that would introduce specification that the silicon dioxide is not able to offer: flexibility, transparency and printable. Basic characteristics are a reduced thickness, an elevated insulating capability and the ability to stabilize electrons that move through the semi-conductor thanks to an elevated dielectric constant.

This material has also an elevated radiations resistance, getting NASA interests for a possible usage in spatial missions. SAND was tried last 22 March, when it has been applied to the International Spatial Station in order to verify radiations resistance. That SAND sample will stay one year on the station as a experiment conducted from Nasa to investigate material's behaviour in external space environment.

Tobin Marks has declared: "All remained amazed. These experiments showed that SAND has the potentialities to revolutionize the whole field. This type of transistors are not only good for spatial applications, but that represent an evident prove of their sturdiness."

Among the principal promises made by this new material there is the production price cut for solar cells, ultraflat display, mobile phones components with reduced dimensions and medical equipment. Maybe it will also utilized in RFID identifications field.

More informations at Northwestern University.

EFiX wants to bring Mac OS X on a common PC

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efix macos x on common pcWhen Apple has embraced Intel processors and, with them, the x86 architecture, many people started dreaming the possibility to also use Mac OS X on not-Apple PC.

Apple, has obviously tried to protect more their own operating system, allowing the installation only on Apple hardware, even if, as everyone know, nothing is 100% "inviolable".

We remember what happened during the past months, when the unknown company Psystar has proposed on the market a PC equipped with the Mac OS X operating system... We do not have any more news about that company.

That story instigated the resentment of the known Netkas, the author of the EFI emulator that allows Mac OS X working on not-Apple systems: the emulator would have been freely used by Psystar violating EFI license that forbid a commercial use of the software.

Now a new technology, denominated EFiX, promise to bring Apple's OS on common PC.

EFiX has introduced a new hardware solution that allow to install an original copy of Mac OS X on a "normal" PC without the application of any patch.

According to few informations, EFiX should be a simple USB key that must plugged-in before booting the computer.

On the net there is a demonstrative video, made by Netkas, which has positively welcomed the EFiX solution. Netkas, in fact, has publicized the video on the proper blog with enthusiasm, even if it's not know if he's also involved somehow in the project.



In the video it is possible to see how the system succeeds in booting procedure and allows the user to select setup language. Despite this, the installation process doesn't recognize the correct hardware and it doesn't continue. Netkas explains that this happen because that's a Macbook restore DVD which specifically search Apple hardware... So using a MacOS X DVD retail version the mechanism should work.

Firefox 3 Download Day!

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firefox 3Firefox is from years the eternal rival of Internet Explorer, Microsoft's browser. Today however we will assist to a firefox memorial win. This Tuesday June 17 th 2008, the third version of Firefox will be released, the more attended.

It is not only the day of Firefox 3 launch but it is also the Download Day. Today, in fact, Mozilla wants to enter in the Guinness Records with the "Computer software more downloaded in 24 hours." Mozilla has arranged this Download Day hoping to reach 5 million of Downloads, but just a million would allow Firefox to enter the Guinness. At the moment 1,624306 joined the project.

To succeed in this record, today we must all download a version of Firefox 3, from the official site, and install it on our PC. Firefox 3 as said before, is the Browser more attended from Mozilla, and with this new version so many new functions also arrive. The most important is surely the new engine called "Gecko", you can find all Gecko feature on this site, also a new function that will allow to save pages as PDF files has been introduced. The navigation has been made softer thanks to the elimination of the sent back message that appear when you turn back after a compiled and sent form.

So many people are wondering because they should download Firefox 3 if they already use Internet Explorer... Well, it's simple! Firefox is surely more beautiful graphically and the source code in comparison to the rival is far away better, it's completely customizable and the most important aspect is surely the safety: Firefox beat Internet Explorer 7 in security!

Monday, June 16, 2008

Two new Core 2 family processors

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cpu q8000 series 45nmIntel is preparing new Core 2 Quad processor series, characterized by a reduced cost in comparison to others on the Market: these cpu will be marked as "Q8000 series", the first one will be named "Core 2 Quad Q8200".

Technical specifications are a clock frequency of 2,33GHz, combined with a quad pumped 1.333 MHz BUS clock: the L2 cache will be 4Mb, for an official price of 203$ for 1.000 processors stock.

The 4Mb L2 Cache, combined with a 45 nanometer, will allow to obtain a limited die surface for these processors. These characteristics justify the low price for a quad core cpu.

Instead of Q9000 Core 2 Quad models, these processors won't integrate VT and TXT Intel technologies.

Intel will also introduce a new series of processors Core 2 Duo, the E5000, built with 45 nanometer die. The first model of this series will be the E5200 Core 2 Duo, it will have a 2.5GHz clock frequency and a BUS speed of 800 MHz with 2Mb L2 cache. Attended price will be around 84$, always for 1.000 units stock.

MSI Wind, 2008: up to 500 thousand units deliveries

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MSI Wind NotebookMicro-star International, also called MSI, is particularly confident in the capabilities of the proper Wind notebook and is convinced to be able to reach a deliveries volume between the 300 and the 500 thousand units within the end of 2008.

According to Joseph Hsu, the company president, Wind's deliveries will help MSI to reach 2 million of notebooks shipped in the 2008. The preceding year MSI has been able to achieve 1,1 million notebooks deliveries.

MSI has aimed on all the emergent markets like East Europe, Central and Southern America, China and India. They are convinced that this strategy will take them in the top ten notebooks producers in the 2010, reaching a volume of deliveries of 4,5 million of units.

Intel and USB 3.0 development

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intel usb 3Some days ago we have spoken about protests made by AMD and NVIDIA towards Intel, guilty, according to the two competitors, to make obstructionism on USB 3.0 development. Always according to AMD and NVIDIA, this abearance would put Intel in a position of advantage, about 6-9 months, in the release of a compatible chipset with the new standard, with negative repercussions on competitors products.

It's what comes from pages of an Intel employee's blog, Nick Knupffer. Intel is not developing USBs 3.0, but specification for the host controller, that allow the realization of USB 3.0 compatible components.

Mr. Besides Knupffer confirms that Intel is spending a lot of money and resources in those specifics that will be free for all. They are sending back the accusations from AMD and Nvidia. Always according to Mr. Knuppfer Intel would not have released a complete documentation yet because those specification aren't ready.

2010: PCI Express 3.0 video cards

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The new specifications will allow to sensitively increase the quantity of power directly furnished to the video card from the Slot. A peak of 300 Watts will be reached, capable of power up next GPU generation that producers will introduce in the market next year.

pci express 3 video cards
These display adapters will be based on a 3 Slots design, to be able to support the higher temperature. New cables will be used, a 2x4 pins, presumably very similar to those 2x4 pins currently used by some top range video cards able to deliver more power.

The slot on the motherboard will be the same as the PCI Express 2.0: so mechanical and electric compatibility with the PCI Express 16x will be maintained, as already happened changing from PCI Express 1.0 to PCI Express 2.0

VMware Fusion 2.0: Now support Mac OS X Leopard Server

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During the last Thursday, VMware has declared that Fusion 2.0, famous virtualization software for Mac, will also support Mac OS X Leopard Server.

vmware fusion 2 macos x leopard serverThe new functionality will be available in the next public beta release, the implementation was possible thanks to a variation on the Mac OS X Leopard Server license that allows users to initialize the operating system in a virtual environment.

The software will support up to 8GB of ram for each virtual machine and many other important characteristics like dual-core processors and 64-bit operating systems. Users will have the opportunity to use different server OS, for example: Windows Server 2003, Linux and Mac OS X Server. VMware Fusion 2.0 distributed as a free update to all Fusion 1.x users.

Nokia will release "cheap" touch screen mobile phones

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nokia mobile phone touch screenWithin the end of the year, Nokia will start selling cheap touch screen mobile phones - this is what come from some recent declarations of Anssi Vanjoki, Nokia senior vice president, to the press agency Reuters. Therefore Nokia has the intetion to propose solutions starting from entry level.

Presumably the new solutions touch screens proposed by Nokia will be based on the Symbian S60 and can be simply used with fingers or using a stylus furnished with the telephone.

Vanjoki has declared that the arrival on the market of the Apple iPhone has incremented the attention towards touch screen technology, creating a large market in which Nokia is interested. The Finnish company is working on a prototype denominated Tube.


The competition starts to be very hard: we remember that Apple is introducing the new iPhone 3G, while the Korean Samsung has announced the new Samsung i900 Omnia, that will presumably be launched on the European market during July.

Wine 1.0 soon available!

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wine 1.0 emulatorDevelopers of Wine, legendary implementation open source of Windows API, have confirmed through a post appeared on the official site of the project, to be next to the end of the job for the final release of Wine 1.0. According to Alexandre Julliard, leader of the project, the throwing of Wine 1.0 will happen next 20 June.

The throwing will happen therefore in proximity of the fifteenth anniversary of the project: in reality it doesn't exist one precise day for the birth of Wine, nevertheless the most meaningful dates are June 1 st 1993, when Dan Dulitz announced to be writing something similar to Wine and July 8 th 1993, when the first voice was published in the ChangeLog of the project.

Currently Wine is able to run over 1300 Windows applications inside Unix environment, for example Microsoft Office 97, XP and 2003 and Internet Explorer 6. Always thanks to Wine, many users are able to play games like World of Warcraft and Guild Wars without any problem.



From the source code of Wine some important commercial derivations were born besides as Cedega and Codeweavers; particularly this last one has gotten a certain notoriety thanks to the support of Adobe Photoshop CS2 and Picasa.

HP DreamColor LP2480zx: a billion of colors!

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hp LP2480ZX monitor dreamcolorAt Berlin we had the opportunity to see the first display TFT HP endowed with DreamColor technology: the model HP DreamColor LP2480zx with a 24 inchs LCD and a native resolution of 1920x1200 pixels.


The true novelty of the HP DreamColor LP2480zx is to seek in the data element related to the chromatic range: the company declares a chromatic range equal to 1 billion of colors (for each red, green or blue channel 10 bit are used), versus the typical solution of 16 million colors to which we are used to.

hp LP2480ZX monitor dreamcolor technical details
HP DreamColor LP2480zx allow digital creator to solve one of the most complicated problem: colors lack of coherence during the process of creation of the image.

Price? Around 3499$!

Movement sensors for Playstation 3

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ps3 playstation 3 movement sensorsAlso Sony is working on a controller with movement sensors as the famous Wii remote. According to indiscretions brought by the authoritative GamesIndustry, the new controller will be composed by two separated unit, each one with an accelerometer.

According to GamesIndustry sources, Sony commercial partners already have the new peripheral in order to let them envelope new products supporting this controller. It's not clear when Sony will officially announce the new gamepad for PlayStation 3.

The actual console controller for the new generation of Sony, the SixAxis, is endowed with a system of gyroscopic sensors that allows to translate the rotational and translational movements in simulated actions, but it doesn't have an accelerometer. SixAxis doesn't even support vibration, Sony has introduced the evolution known as DualShock 3.

Also Microsoft is going to introduce on the market a controller with accelerometer and advanced characteristics. In this case, even if there are no official confirmations, the controller will have four buttons in the frontal party, an analogical stick, a microphone and it would interact with the Live Vision camera.

Kuma dual core? AMD confirms these CPU

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AMD has denied the news of a cancellation for their own processors roadmap of the CPU known with codename "Kuma", dual core solutions for the market entry level segment.

Jake Whitman, spokesman of AMD, has confirmed that AMD is lined up at the present moment for the throwing of the Kuma processors family for the second halves 2008. This is what declared and taken back by the site cnet:

"We're still on track to launch a dual-core--code-named Kuma--part in the second half of '08. It will be 65 nanometers, still be based on the Star's core. So, that's coming."

"We have never said anywhere along the lines that Kuma was somehow associated with Phenom. Dual-core Phenom? I've never seen that on a road map."

It's the case to analyze in detail how much declared. The AMD spokesman confirms that during the second halves of the year new processors dual core will be introduced , derived directly from the architecture note with the name in code of Star and built with productive technology of 65 nanometris initially denying the information appearedonline.

cpu Kuma Dual Core AMDSpecifying these processors are based on Star series core, it's clear that these cpu will have the same typology of core that is currently present in the cpu Phenom X4 and Phenom X3. We suppose that these processors won't integrate cache of third level or L3, present instead in the other two solutions, to help containing general die dimensions and production cost.

The future existence of processors Phenom Dual Core is also denied, but in this case a precise statement is necessary. AMD won't use the brand Phenom for processors dual based core on architecture Kuma but it will continue to adapt Athlon X2 for such cpu. Anyway these new processors will use identical core as Phenom X4 and Phenom X3, made exception for the cache L3, so it's not wrong to refer to these processors as solutions Phenom Dual Core to underline the presence of the new architecture instead of the K8 typically used for the cpu Athlon X2.

New display LCD EzLink with USB 2.0 interface from Asus

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display LCD EzLink usb 2Asus has recently announced the availability of the new series of monitors LCD EzLink, composed by two models VW223B and VW202B. This new series name is refered to the technology of connection EzLink, that allows to connect more monitors to the computer through a common USB 2.0 interface, providing all the necessary flexibility for multi-screen applications.

Both the models VW223B and VW202B climb on panels LCD Wide Screen with a resolution equal to 1680x1050 pixels, while the diagonals are respectively of 22 and 20,1 inchs. The displays have a 15 pins D-Sub connector and a USB 2.0. In case of USB connection, it will be necessary to install a special driver that will manage windows positioning on the various secondary monitors. Here you are all the detailed specifications:

display LCD EzLink usb 2 technical details

AMD and Havok, accord of collaboration

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amd havok physx ageiaAMD and Havok have announced an accord for a collaboration to optimize the effects of physics simulation using the CPU and GPU AMD solutions. We remember that Havok Inc. have been purchased from Intel for 110 milions of dollars. Rick Bergman, senior vice president and responsible of the division Graphics Products Group of AMD, has declared: "With the growth of the complexity and the visual fidelity of the video games, AMD wants to draw advantage of the opportunities to improve the experience of game. Collaborating with the leader of the sector for what pertains to the physical simulation by software, AMD is able to optimize their own bases to offer the best possible visual experience to the videogamer." Inside the plan of collaboration Havok and AMD anticipated the optimization of all the Havok's technologies for the operatività with the processors AMD x86, further to a complex phase of study for the exploitation of the characteristics of parallel computation of the GPUs ATI Radeon. The choice of AMD is particularly meaningful and represents an answer to the acquisition of Ageia from NVIDIA the last month of February. AMD thinks that the approach of Havok, whose technologies are based on open standards, will result in a convincing game experience for what concern the physics simulation in comparison to the Physx of Ageia.

Firefox 3.0 will be released on June 17

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Mozilla Foundation has finally made known that Firefox 3.0 will be released next 17 June. After 34 months of intense job, the developers have finally established that the new version of the popular web browser is ready to be released.

firefox 3.0According to what affirmed in a post appeared on the blog of the development team yesterday, the indicators that show the maturity of the product seem to be: the feedbacks received by the consumers, the state of trepidation of the community and the press, the availability of compatible versions of good part of the existing Add-Ons and a wide community of tester that assures that the new release is compatible with the majority of the websites.

At the same time a third Release Candidate of Firefox has been released. The difference between the preceding version RC2 is only one and regards a bug that exclusively tormented the version for Mac OS X. The versions of Firefox 3 RC3s for Windows and Linux systems have not suffered some change instead.

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