Nov
28
If you are visual person Visual Dictionary Online can help you find the correct term or name of almost everything. Currently 15 major themes and more than 6,000 images are available
Just an example:
Nov
23
Give One Get One – Update
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The program is now extended to 31.12.2007.
Maybe it will be good Christmas present…..
Nov
3
How “Turkish delight” —> “Cyprus delight”
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From 21 October the product well known as “Turkish delight” should be called “Cyprus delight”.
That was the last day for objections.
Nov
3
RIP: ThinkPad
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Lenovo report good results and will no more use ThinkPad brand for their notebooks.
“By making substantial progress on all of our critical priorities over the past few quarters, we’re now a stronger, healthier company,†Amelio added. “One important sign of this progress is our decision to completely transition our Think products from the IBM brand to the Lenovo brand two years earlier than planned. Concurrently, we’ve recently launched our own ‘Best Engineered PCs’ advertising campaign and global sponsorship of the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympic Games to promote our brand worldwide.â€
Oct
25
Gmail now supports IMAP
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On Intertop Google vice-president announced that Gmail will now support IMAP.
This will allow account owner to sync their e-mail between different mobile devices.
Oct
24
Exploit for Acrobat released
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Few hours after Adobe released patch for Acrobat reader exploit was released.
Currently you may receive e-mail with YOUR_BILL.pdf or INVOICE.pdf as attachment. When user opens file Trojan horse is installed to the system.
It is HIGHLY recommended to update to Acrobat reader 8.1.1.
How?
Launch acrobat and go to help –> check for updates.
Oct
19
Firefox 2.0.0.8 – Security update released
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Another security update of Mozilla Firefox is available.
Only addition is that now Mac OS X “Leopard” is supported.
Oct
17
Best use of PlayStation 3
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Recently scientists discovered the power of Sony PlayStation 3.
But not to play games, but to crunch numbers.
Gravity project utilizes 8 PS 3 running Linux – connected in cluster to replace 200 Supercomputer nodes.
Overall, a single PS3 performs better than the highest-end desktops available and compares to as many as 25 nodes of an IBM Blue Gene supercomputer. And there is still tremendous scope left for extracting more performance through further optimization.
This “mini” supercomputer is used to help measure these theoretical gravity waves – ripples in space-time that travel at the speed of light that Einstein’s Theory of Relativity predicted would emerge when such an event takes place.
Oct
7
VMWare server update
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VMWare announced release of VMWare server version 1.0.4.
This is a bug and security fix release.
See here for details.
Oct
6
First USB monitor
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On CeBIT 2007 Samsuns announced the first (maybe) monitor SyncMaster 940UX who can connect to PC via USB cable, not only via VGA/DVI ones.
Using UbiSync technology you could connect up to 6 monitors to single PC.
The monitor includes GPU to render video so you do not need video card on the computer.