Archive for November, 2009

Nvidia ION hack for netbooks

Even though netbooks are certainly a great innovation, and many manufacturers (big and small) have released many different models in the past two years, all of them used to include graphics powered by Intel. Now, as you might all know very well, Intel are very good for CPUs but not so good as regards [...] Related posts:
  1. DirectX 11
  2. Problems with latest NVIDIA Drivers
  3. New Atom to power future Netbooks

Google working on an Operating System

Google are working on a new mainstream O/S, after having already delivered Android for the mobile phone market. The new O/S will be called ‘Chrome’ like Google’s web browser, and will be based on web technologies. However, the new O/S is not expected to be suitable for everyone because for instance photo, video [...] Related posts:
  1. Google Chrome OS will come in different editions
  2. Google Chrome
  3. You Tube to stop working on IE 6

Early Windows 7 sales going strong

Between the 22nd and the 29th of October (the first week that Windows 7 was on sale), the percentage of Windows 7 sales were 234% when compared to the first week of Vista sales. This was indeed very good news for Microsoft and hence their latest operating systems looks to be on the way of [...] Related posts:
  1. The Wait is over: Windows 7 released to manufacturing
  2. Windows 7 set for a 23rd October release
  3. Pirated versions of Windows 7 will get security updates

Baby Cry Translator

Pedro Barrera and Luis Meca have created an application for the iPhone which they claim can tell you why a baby is crying. Anyone who wants to test if this is really true and have an iPhone can download the application from here: http://ax.itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/browserRedirect?url=itms%3A%2F%2Fax.itunes.apple.com%2FWebObjects%2FMZStore.woa%2Fwa%2FviewSoftware%3Fid%3D332636983%26mt%3D8 Related posts:
  1. iPods/iPhones overheating?
  2. Apple to offer free iPad O/S upgrades till version 4 only
  3. Apple releases iPad but rivals are coming soon

Quake Classic on the iPhone

On the 22nd of June 1996 id Software released Quake, a first-person shooter video game which required a 66 Mhz and 8 MB of RAM to run. These specs will surely make a lot of people laugh nowadays, but at that time most PCs came equipped with a 33 Mhz cpu and 4 MB [...] Related posts:
  1. Firefox Mobile coming soon
  2. Windows Mobile 7 coming in 2010
  3. iPods/iPhones overheating?

First service pack of Windows 7 scheduled for 2010

According to Wzor and Neowin, Microsoft are already thinking of releasing the first service pack of Windows 7. According to these two sites the following is the release schedule: January 2010: Beta 1 Summer 2010: Release to OEMs Autumn 2010: Release to end users It is to be noted that between Beta 1 and ‘Release to OEMs’ [...] Related posts:
  1. Windows Mobile 7 coming in 2010
  2. Microsoft releases Service Pack 2 for Office 2007
  3. Windows 8 Server coming in 2012 ?