Archive for May, 2009
3D Realms in more trouble
As reported by Techie Views on the 9th of May, 3D Realms (the developers of the Duke Nukem series of video games) had shut down earlier this month due to lack of funding. Of course many avid gamers were disappointed with this news, but it seems that there is someone who is much more [...]
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PC in a keyboard
Asus will be releasing in late June a fully functional netbook built into a keyboard. It also incorporates a 5-inch touch panel and wireless HDMI out. The Asus Eee keyboard will run on a 1.6 GHz Intel Atom CPU, 1 GB of RAM, 16GB or 32GB SSD Hardisk and Bluetooth.
To check out Asus’ [...]
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How to check for Bad Memory
Most Windows user become frustrated when some application or Windows itself crashes. One of the reasons can be software programmed badly, even though most users usually think that the culprit is Windows itself! What most users (especially novices) don’t realise is that these crashes might occur because of malfunctioning hardware, especially bad memory.
The [...]
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Mobile Satellite Communications in the EU by 2011
Mobile TV, Mobile radio and high speed mobile internet access should be commercially available across the EU by not later than May 2011. “Mobile satellite services have huge potential: they can enable Europeans to access new communication services, particularly in rural and less populated regions,” Telecoms Commissioner Viviane Reding said. The services will for the [...]
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Software Tip
Did you know that you can control Windows without the use of the mouse? I will not argue on the fact that in most situations it is not recommendable to do such a thing but as many have already found out some keyboard shortcuts will give you faster access to some of the most [...]
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Windows 7 set for a 23rd October release
Bobby Watkins from Acer UK told Pocket-lint that “23rd October is the date the Windows 7 will be available.” He also added that “There is a 30 day upgrade time so that customers don’t wait to buy a new computer, so if you buy during that 30 day period, you’ll get a free upgrade to [...]
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Uniblue releases update for PowerSuite
Uniblue has just released an update (2.0.1.1) for PowerSuite, which is a collection of their three flagship products. These are RegistryBooster, SpeedUpMyPC and DriverScanner. The new version of PowerSuite also comes with the latest version of SpeedUpMyPC (4.1.0.1). Localization in a number of languages has also been added.
For more information on PowerSuite click here: [...]
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The death of Duke Nukem?
3D Realms, developers of some of the most popular video games of the last decade has shut down due to a lack of funding. This means that the much awaited Duke Nukem Forever will never see the light unless some other company buys the rights.
For more information on 3D Realms click here: http://www.3drealms.com
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Twitter Hacked
Last month a New York teenager identifying himself as Michael ‘Mikeyy’ Mooney has claimed that he managed to inject two worms into the social network Twitter.
The first worm sent tweets to Twitter users in order to invite them to visit a certain website. Consequently when users visit this website, their computers become infected and in [...]
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SATA: 3rd Generation
AMD and Seagate have recently unvelied the specifications for the third generation of Serial ATA. The new specification will be called SATA 6Gbps and it will be two times faster than the current 3Gbps Serial ATA standard. Apart from the improvement in speed, SATA 6Gbps is fully backward compatible with the current 3Gbps standard [...]
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