Sep
17
There are rumors that AMD will release CPUs with 3 cores.
Why?
Mostly because Intel cannot do it….
and it fills market share between 2 core and 4 core CPU
and because is possible to utilize some of defect CPUs
Sep
17
From regular post to your Inbox
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There are amny service providers that offer you to sen your e-mail as regular mail, but now there is a company that offers the opposite.
To receive for you your regular mail and send it to you as e-mail (Unopened of course). Then you can decide what to be done with the mail move to trash or scan it or even forward to me.
Unfortunately it is not free, but for some offices it could be really convenient.
Sep
14
Racing is dangerous….
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TG Daily has a story of an inventor and his crash after his demonstration.
I wonder why he ride a racing bike without a helmet and special equipment.
Hopefully he seemed to be OK so he can learn something from this experience.
Sep
13
P2P Cellular network?!
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TerraNet found new application of P2P (peer to peer) technology – Cellular network.
They plan to implement technology looking for other P2P capable cell phones in 2 km radius and using them to transfer calls without using cellular network.
The main use of this technology may be local calls or as replacement of PTT (push to talk)/ WalkyTalkies.
Another maybe lifesaving use of this technology is in case of disaster all cell towers may be down, but communication will be still possible.
Sep
5
Will wireless replace all wires into house?
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High definition video transmission was latest territory where wires had monopoly.
Now AMIMON announced their new wireless product (WHDI) capable of transmitting uncompressed HD video.
 AMIMON’s WHDI technology is based on a unique video modem approach. WHDI supports delivery of uncompressed 1080p (with equivalent video rates of up to 3 Gbps) in a 40MHz channel in the 5GHz unlicensed band, in compliance with FCC regulations. Uncompressed 720p, 1080i and 1080p 24/30p (with equivalent video rates of up to 1.5 Gbps) can be delivered in a 20MHz channel, conforming to worldwide 5GHz regulations. Range is beyond 100 feet through walls (entire home), and latency is less than 1 millisecond.
Lower resolutions fit in 20MHz and fit worldwide.
They also announced that firs products will be available next year.
Sep
4
Hotmail Upgrade
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Hotmail recently without much noise upgraded user e-mail storage space from 2G to amazing 5G.
Sep
3
Google to publish full news stories
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Google news moved from simply linking to news stories to publish full stories after deal with four news agencies.
News stories from the Agence France-Presse (AFP), Associated Press (AP), UK Press Association (PA) and the Canadian Press will now be hosted on the Google News site. In addition Google will detect duplicate stories.
Sep
2
Google Earth = Flight simulator
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It is reported that new version of Google Earth includes a Flight simulator of F-16 or SR-22.
It seems that this goodie is included only in Windows version.
Sep
1
KompoZer is now at 0.7.10
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New version (0.7.10) of the “Web authoring system” – KompoZer is available.
Fixes were added to Application itself, HTML editor and CSS editor.
Language packs will be available soon on the web site.
To download the rpm go to http://hbcom.info/kompozer.
Changelog (0.7.7 => 0.7.10):
- Application
- fixed: the extension manager is now able to use the extensions proper locales (BIG thanks to Motohiko!)
- fixed: the same source code now builds on Linux (gcc4.1), MacOSX (gcc3.5), Win32 (vs7.0) and OS/2 (?).
- fixed: (win**) KompoZer and Nvu can run simultaneously (various similar bugs have been corrected)
- fixed: (win9x) KompoZer now has its own icon in the taskbar (Motohiko again)
- fixed: the icon has been changed (thanks Alain & Aubin!)… /Besser so?/ 😉
- HTML Editor
- fixed: the toolbars can be customized without relaunching KompoZer
- fixed: links can be styled in WYSIWYG (‘why do my links stay blue?’)
- fixed: display a clickable label on objects, scripts and hidden form inputs (‘normal’ & ‘HTML tags’ views)
- added: red dotted borders around <div> containers (‘normal’ & ‘HTML tags’ views)
- added: undo/redo buttons in the main toolbar
- fixed: hiding the rulers improves speed and reliability
- fixed: bug in the vertical ruler that causes Nvu/KompoZer to be stuck in ‘source’ mode
- modified: the markup cleaner does not remove empty blocks with ID/class attributes any more
- modified: the markup cleaner now considers <ol>, <ul>, <li>, <dl>, <dt>, <dd>, <pre>, <address>, <blockquote> and <tr> elements as blocks
- CSS Editor
- fixed: CaScadeS is now disabled in ‘HTML Source’ mode
- modified: easier creation of style rules
- added: ‘Edit selector’ dialog in the CSS editor
- fixed: exporting a stylesheet now always use relative URLs
- fixed: in the ‘general’ tab, the stylesheet’s URL is displayed in a fixed-width, read-only box (to avoid this bug reported by Charles Cooke)
- fixed: a few bugs in the ‘background’ tab (opacity, background-position)
- fixed: small UI bug in the ‘border’ tab
- added: spin buttons in the ‘box’ tab
- modified: the top / left / right / bottom properties are reordered ‘clockwise’, to be consistent with the CSS specification (top / right / bottom / left)
- modified: no more ‘expert’ mode in the CSS editor
- modified: -100px on the CSS editor window width
- modified: single window for all inline styles
- added: in the status bar, tags are written in italic if they have inline styles
Aug
31
Yahoo Mail receives liftoff
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Yahoo Mail received new interface with integrated IM and functional right click on the messages (Not like others) even in Linux.
In addition you have possibility to quickly switch to your yahoo home page just by clicking the tab.
Other yahoo services like calendar are also integrated .
The overall look is improved, it is still little bit slow, but do not forget that it is BETA.
Enjoy your too.