News

  • Seagate launches 1-inch 6 GByte hard drive - Seagate yesterday launched a 6 GByte? hard drive that is targeted at the music player market and expands its smallest form-factor hard drive family.
  • Comming soon, Google Calendar! - Sunbird watch out, google is up to something and it looks as if it will be a new web based calendar application. You’ve heard it here first!
  • Google Agrees to Limit Resolution of Israel Satellite Photos - Google, which offers satellite photos of locations across the globe, has agreed to limit the resolution of footage of sensitive military installations and vulnerable sites in Israel.
  • Been There, Seen That Why is Hollywood so obsessed with remakes? - Hollywood studios have been turning increasingly inward for inspiration. Megaplexes were deluged with remakes this year, with three retreads rolling out in the last nine days alone—King Kong, The Producers, and, yesterday, Fun With Dick and Jane.
  • File-Sharing Winners and Losers of 2005 - The year 2005 was an excellent year, depending of course on your point of view. For the tech industry, BitTorrent? soared to new heights while Steve Jobs enjoyed record breaking iPod sales. Yet not everyone shared this success. The RIAA continued its fight against P2P? networking with little effect, as Sony-BMG disgraced itself and the DRM concept.

Links

  • The Physics of Snowflakes - Just in time for the holidays, learn the physics behind snowflakes! Be sure to check out the Photo Collections for some beautiful pictures!
  • pando - is a tiny app that lets you email any size file or folder to anyone, free. Beta currently limited to 1GB per email

Review

Buying a computer for the gamer vs for the office

  • Processor
    • Sempron for office users & low end gamers
    • Do not use Celeron
    • Athlon 64 or Pentium 4 for gamers
  • Motherboard
    • Low end motherboard - AGP or PCI Express
    • Gaming boards - NVIDIA chipset
  • RAM
    • 1GB Ram - Gaming
    • 256 or 512MB - Office
  • Hard Drive
    • 40GB or 80GB for office computer
    • 200GB or larger for gaming
    • Recommend Serial ATA for gamers
  • Video Card
  • Sound Card
    • Digital output for gamers
    • 5.1, most motherboards support it
  • Case/Power Supply/Fans
    • 400W or larger for gamers
  • Operating System
    • Windows XP Professional or Home
 
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