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|  | NIVIDIA Announced Key Sponsors for NVISION® 08
Thursday, July 24, 2008
NIVIDIA has announced the key sponsors for NVISION 08, the first-ever visual computing mega event for visual computing professionals and enthusiasts. According to NVIDIA’s list, the key sponsors are Christie Digital Systems, EVGA, HP, Microsoft, and PNY Technologies. But that’s not all! Another list of other sponsors includes Adobe, Gigabyte, MSI etc … NVISION 2008 will be held on August 25th, 26th and 27th in San Jose, California. “Visual computing is top-of-mind for many HP customers,” said Jim Zafarana, vice president, marketing, Workstations Global Business Unit, HP. “Our customers are breaking new ground in video game development, online content creation, animation and production for television and movies and more. HP is delighted to join NVIDIA to bring the NVISION audience the best in visual computing.” – NVIDIA. |   |
| Kevin Johnson, Online and Windows Chief is Leaving Microsoft Corp.
Thursday, July 24, 2008
On Wednesday, Microsoft Corp. said that Kevin Johnson, the executive in charge of Microsoft Windows and Web operations is leaving the company. Johnson will work to ensure a smooth transition. Microsoft also announced that the platforms and services division will be split into two groups: Windows/Windows Live and Online Services and these groups will report directly to the CEO Steve Ballmer. CEO Steve Ballmer said, ““Kevin has built a supremely talented organization and laid the foundation for the future success of Windows and our Online Services Business. This new structure will give us more agility and focus in two very competitive arenas,” “It has been a pleasure to work with Kevin, and we wish him well in the future.” On the other hand, Yahoo has reported that Johnson will join Juniper Networks Inc., a networking hardware maker as a chief executive officer. | |
| Take Part in World War II
Thursday, July 24, 2008
There are very few games on PC that impress me at the moment but Call of Duty is one of them. The whole game takes place in WWII. The game is all about exchanging gunfire, knocking down an enemy and proceeding to the next level. Mr. Chris, one of our forum regulars, loves this game and he’s shared his opinion about it in this forum post. Why do you love or despise COD?
“Call of Duty is a blast! Game looks so good, all the graphics are top notch, especially the outdoors stuff. Weapons models are very accurate. There are a few tough spots so far (I just made it to Red Square) but nothing major. “ | |
| Stylish Media Players from Cowon
Thursday, July 24, 2008
At a first glance this may look like a photo frame. Actually it’s a portable media player from Cowon, with a 5 inch TFT screen. It packs a 60-80GB HDD – more than enough storage to keep you entertained on a long journey. Named Cowon P5, the player allows you to experience movies, songs and pictures in high quality as WVGA screen with 800x480 resolutions. The P5 is available in red, black and metallic platinum. - Techfresh. 
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| Image sensing Dragon Fly
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Technology has improved to a level where it has become tough to differentiate between natural and artificial products. Just over the size of a Euro coin this Fly can sneak peek your activities by flying around you. This an electronic fly created by DELFLY, weighing around 3gms, is lighter than a real dragon fly. This image sensing fly can transmit video back to a PC, making it perfect for spying activities. But don’t get too excited, this bug is not for sale, but you can watch DelFly Micro in action. | |
| Intel Offers Linux Certification, Rebuffing Microsoft Certification
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
This morning, I was bit surprised when I saw a news on APCmag where they have reported that Intel is endorsing professionals Linux certifications, snubbing the old Microsoft certification. This news made me wonder if Intel has turned out to have a conscious about open source or do they have some other reasons? Whatever the reason is, it is a good news for Linux lovers and professionals. “Intel makes its living by selling processors, and with the established worldwide market for desktops and laptops having almost reached saturation, tapping into new markets is a matter of survival. And the operating system that will power those next billion computers is increasingly seen as Linux: an OS that’s free, open, extensible and has lesser hardware requirements than Windows.” | |
| Introducing Mike - Console Guru
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
You are going to see a lot of new content pumping onto tkArena over the coming months. tk stands for Tech Knowledge but I'll be the first to admit that so far, we've focused on PC Tech. That's all about to change with the addition of Mike Wells to the team. Mike is a bonafide console addict and he's going to be blogging and providing news on everyone's favorite living room toys for us. Check out his new blog here. | |
| Building a Blu-ray HTPC, ep 5: Software Installation
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
The last episode of Blu-ray HTPC finished the HTPC assembly and in this latest episode, John and Fiona go through the installation of Windows Vista on the Blu-ray multimedia PC. After the OS installation, the video continues with the installation of important drivers and softwares. Well, if you are an installation expert, watching this one may feel bit mind-numbing J. But for those of you who are new to the Vista installation, you may find it very interesting and you might learn a little. Check out the latest episode here.
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| Hi-Fi Birthday Cake
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Birthdays are all about friends, gifts, parties, and delicious cakes – and even that’s moving to hi-tech. If you have an uber-geeky kid, you can make their birthday even more memorable. Instead of ordinary wax candles, now you can use LED lights as candles! The interesting part of this cake is that your kid can blow out the LEDs. Instructables has a recipe for preparing this DIY electronic birthday cake in five simple steps. “The circuit for this project consists of 20 LEDs arranged in Charlieplexed fashion connected to 5 I/O pins of an 8-pin microcontroller. I used Tiny45 microcontroller. I chose a few colors of LEDs for the birthday candles. I used red, blue, green and yellow LEDs. The circuit is powered with four 1.2V batteries (NiCD or NiMH).” | |
| Opera Launches a New Mobile Browser
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
For those of you who need a change in mobile browsing, check this out. Finally, Opera has released their new version of a mobile browser, the Opera Mobile 9.5. If you have a Windows Mobile device you can download the browser from the official Opera site for free. Opera Mobile 9.5 has improved usability, a new user interface and improved speed. - Opera. “Opera Mobile is the answer to the demands of global mobile Internet community . The first beta of Opera Mobile 9.5 comes outfitted with added performance, a new UI and the developer tool Opera Dragonfly.” | |
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| jDome - The Next Generation of Vapourware |  |
| | Location: Blogs John Gatt's Babblings |
| | Posted by: John Gatt | Tuesday, May 13, 2008 1:28 PM | Earlier on this year, I covered the benefits of widescreen vs pan and scan gaming. The most interesting thing about widescreen gaming is the field of view it provides. This guy, John Nilsson, is trying to take that field of view one step further wit the use of larger resolutions projected onto a dome. jDome is his new invention which has been patented but is till in prototype stage. Although this guy doesn’t make a great video presenter I do find the product, the jDome, to be kinda interesting, although it may be more of a novelty than a practical application. The room required to set this up is a lot more than most people would have available in their average lounge room or study. The idea is fairly simple. If you’ve ever stood behind a projector screen you would have noticed that the image shines through the screen and is mirrored on the other side. If your projector has the ability to mirror the image, kind of like a rear projection TV, then you’re able to project onto a dome type screen, sit inside and have the game displayed around you. There are a couple of downfalls I can see – without proper ingame support, things like the HUD (heads up display) will be oddly positioned in the bottom section. Obviously, games like World of Warcraft, which he mentions on the site, are not cut out for jDome, since they are not from the 1st person point of view. FPS games on the other hand are. I suppose a better idea might be to make a semi-circle display, or even a curved rectangle. But a complete dome falls short due to the bottom never being displayed correctly in games. Even if you consider flight sims, the cockpit instruments would be skewed when projected at the bottom of the dome. And also, to get the proper positioning, the cockpit controls would be under where you’re keyboard’s meant to be, if you go by the positioning he uses in his demo video. I have a feeling this is vapourware – but it’s interesting to see none the less. | | | Permalink | Trackback |
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| Re: jDome - The Next Generation of Vapourware | By Paul Bourke on Monday, June 02, 2008 9:39 PM | | The iDome does the same thing but higher quality and no distortion.<br>http://local.wasp.uwa.edu.au/~pbourke/projection/UnityiDome/<br>This is truely a 180 degree of visual information, the jDome is 120 at best.<br>Of course it's somewhat more expense .... still just one projector. |
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| Re: jDome - Vapourware - well, see what others think | By John Nilsson on Friday, June 06, 2008 7:21 AM | | jDome's first public test:<br>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvQfpsIQLuE<br> |
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