An overheated computer is an unhappy computer. This handy program reads temperature and fan RPM data collected by your system’s BIOS, displays it in the Windows system tray, and alerts you when there’s trouble. You can use this application to manage your resources and alarms by doing things like setting an alarm to go […]
Boost in capacity and performance adds to appeal of perpendicular drives.
The reorientation of hard drives has begun: The first drives to use perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) technology to pack more data into less space are out. And our tests reveal that they not only boost storage capacity but perform faster as well.
In our tests of […]
For those who haven’t updated their virus signatures and perform a full system scan, I suppose it’s a good time to do it now. With probably over 300,000 infections worldwide, the Blackmal/Nymex virus is programmed to start deleting eleven different types of files on the third of each month, starting with Friday, February 3 2006. […]
Ubuntu uses only open/free formats, so it doesn’t include playback support for formats such as MP3, Windows Media Audio (WMA), and Audio Video Interleave (AVI) that may have some restrictions. If your country has no such restrictions or legal issues with these formats, the Restricted Formats article on the Ubuntu wiki can help you […]
Short for wireless fidelity and is meant to be used generically when referring of any type of 802.11 network, whether 802.11b, 802.11a,dual-band, etc. The term is promulgated by the Wi-Fi Alliance.Any products tested and approved as “Wi-Fi Certified” (a registered trademark) by the Wi-Fi Alliance are certified as interoperable with each other, even if […]
Microsoft is moving full steam ahead with a plan to permanently modify the way Internet Explorer renders multimedia content on Web pages, but in what amounts to an admission that the changes could be disruptive, the software maker plans to give Web developers an extra 60 days to continue making preparations.
The IE update, which results […]
First dual-core portables tested prove to be multitasking powerhouses.
Notebooks are receiving a power boost as Intel brings dual-core technology to its mobile processors. Like dual-core desktops, new dual-core laptops in our tests showed the biggest improvements when doing two tasks at once. And you still get good battery life.
Eschewing the Pentium M name, Intel’s new […]
Dual-Core Tech Powers Longer-Running Notebooks, Broadband Entertainment
Las Vegas, 3/25/06 — How confident is Intel Corp. CEO Paul Otellini in the chipmaker’s new notebook and home-PC platforms? Put it this way: You don’t invite Morgan Freeman, Tom Hanks, and Danny DeVito to join you onstage if you’re afraid of being upstaged.
Otellini’s Thursday keynote at Las […]
With the introduction of 32GB NAND SSD, Samsung has ignited a revolution in the data storage market.
Monday, March 27, 2006: New Delhi: Yesterday, I was reading A. C. Clarke’s `3001: The Final Odyssey’, where he writes about the futuristic storage devices in which a man’s whole life can be stored in a simple disk […]
