Weekend News Roundup 2/19/07

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AMD Releases Final “R600″ Specs
Nvidia’s GoForce 5500 mobile platform demoed in action
Nvidia’s Monster 8950GX2 Video Card Gets Outted
Sony hints at downloadable HDTV and movies on PS3

Weekly Picks

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Last week my pick was the 640MB version of the Geforce 8800GTS. Well this week a new version came out with only 320MB of memory on it. I think Its much better, mostly because of the price.
PNY Geforce 8800GTS 320MB

Image from amazon.com
With all of the same specs as the 640MB version but with half the [...]

iSight Prices Skyrocket

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Since Apple dropped the iSight from its product line up many people have been searching for the Apple webcam. The camera have been becoming a very expesnive item for some people. The prices have began to skyrocket with some of the buy it now prices up to $350 or more! It seems imminent that Apple [...]

Thermaltake’s 1,200W Power Supply

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It’s amazing that it has come to this, this new power supply by Thermaltake has the highest output of any power supply so far. In our quest for faster and faster computers they are using more and more power but this seems to be a bit much. This is not for the regular joe though, [...]

SlySoft AnyDVD HD backs up HD-DVD’s

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SlySoft makers of AnyDVD, CloneDVD, CloneDVD Mobile, and CloneCD have released a beta of AnyDVD HD which now supports backing up of HD-DVD’s. This comes right on the heels of arnezami’s announcement on the Doom9 forums of the processing key. You gotta wonder how they are backing up those HD-DVD’s.I haven’t tried the software myself [...]

Writing Perl Scripts With Vista Speech Recognition

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Doesn’t work as well as they say I guess. I haven’t had a chance to try it out but I’ve heard its pretty good. This video shows otherwise.

IBM has new Memory Breakthrough

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IBM has deviced a way to double the speed of microprocessors, well kinda, the way it works is it reduces the memory bottleneck. IBM said that they were able to take DRAM up to speed with SRAM (which is much faster). What is good about this is that SRAM takes up much more space than [...]

Macs show color #e3823a Differently

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SmugBlog has a post talking about how Macs show this color differently than PC’s do. It has some interesting examples that show that Safari will show this pictures slightly differently, even on the same web page.

Diggnation at Beach Chalet Pictures

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If you love podcasts, and digg, you have to love Diggnation. They recently had a live taping at Beach Chalet and Laughing Squid has a Flickr set up of pictures from the show, check’em out.

WebWait - Benchmark Your Website

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WebWait is an interesting site, it allows you to test how long it takes to download a web page. Page size isn’t as big of a deal as it used to be with broadband internet becoming so readily available, but its still important. With this site it downloads the entire page to your web browser [...]

Chris Pirillo Wants Call For Help on YouTube

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Well all of you TechTV lovers know that Chris Pirillo was once the host of the show Call For Help when it was here in the states, well now he wants you to call for help on YouTube. He has a video up of him asking all of you out there that need help to [...]

One Key to decrypt all HD-DVD and Blu-Ray

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We all know that HD-DVD and Blu-Ray encryption have been cracked, but now all of the current disks have been cracked in, well, a new way.
“arnezami” on Doom9 forums announced that he has found the processing key. Previously every different disk needed a seperate key so you would need to extract the key from memory [...]


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