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|  | Microsoft to Release Four Critical Patches
Friday, September 05, 2008
On September 9 Microsoft scheduled four critical patches to be released to fix errors in Widnows Media tools including Widnows Media Player and Windows Media Encoder. The patches also intend to fix errors in Microsoft Office (Office XP, 2003, 2007 and Microsoft Office OneNote), Internet Explorer bugs, several Windows XP bugs and many others. “The patch labeled "Windows Bulletin" promises to be a massive update, fixing multiple Windows bugs in IE, and several operating system errors on XP and Vista as well as glitches in Microsoft .net Framework, Microsoft Office, Digital Image Suite, Visual Studio, Visual Fox Pro, Forefront Client Security, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008.” - ChannelWeb. |   |
| Google and Chrome - A Plausible Future?
Friday, September 05, 2008
So Google Chrome is launched and everyone is using it. What do you think? What made Google build their own browser? Will it replace Firefox or Internet Explorer? Is Google trying to change the way cloud computing is developing? There are plenty of questions. TheTechLounge has posted an interesting article predicting the possible future of Google and Chrome. Read the article over here. “But they want to get people used to the idea that they can browse with Chrome. Because while Microsoft starts small and works to big, starting with a Windows computer, then bringing in hardware people, software people, developers, artists, musicians, and whoever else they can populate their ecosystem with, Google is working from the other direction: collect and study every bit of data, develop a brand, build an infrastructure, create the idea of a platform, and then make something new.” - TheTechLounge | |
| Windows 7 Will Boot Within 15 Seconds?
Thursday, September 04, 2008
Microsoft’s Windows 7 engineering team is working hard to launch Windows 7 with a great numbers of improvements over previous Windows releases! In a recent MSDN blog post, which is dedicated to the engineering of Widnows 7, various points of improvements including most importantly, the “Boot time” were discussed. Microsoft has a dedicated team focused on Startup performance and they have set a goal of having a boot time of 15 seconds or less. Sounds promising, doesn’t it? Read on here. “Startup can be one of three experiences; boot, resume from sleep, or resume from hibernate. Although resume from sleep is the default, and often 2 to 5 seconds based on common hardware and standard software loads, this post is primarily about boot as that experience has been commented on frequently. For Windows 7, a top goal is to significantly increase the number of systems that experience very good boot times. In the lab, a very good system is one that boots in under 15 seconds.” – MSDN Blogs. | |
| ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series Architecture Analysis
Thursday, September 04, 2008
ATI recently launched their Radeon HD 4800 series, a GPU product line that many analysts say has puts them back in the top dog position over NVIDIA. What's so advanced in the 4850 and 4870 architecture? Bit-tech have run a whole bunch of tests and delved deep into the whitepapers to find out. “David Kirk was one high-ranking exec that used those words and during a recent interview we had with him, he effectively gave AMD a business lesson and claimed that the company couldn't afford to survive. Not surprisingly, this irked a number of people at AMD and although we've offered the company several opportunities to respond to Kirk's assessment, it seems as if AMD would rather let its products do the talking.” – Bit-tech. | |
| | Google Plans to Launch Its Own Web Browser, Google Chrome
Tuesday, September 02, 2008
According to a blog post on the official Google blog, the company plans to launch a new web browser named Google Chrome. The blog also confirms that the browser will be available for download on Tuesday (today!). Google has a good name when it comes to web innovations and we can expect this upcoming browser to be quite promising. Google claims that they have designed a slick, smooth, fast and simple browser. Initially, the first beta will be available for Microsoft Windows users only (which is sure to ruffle a few feathers) but they plan to release versions for Mac and Linux too. “Because we spend so much time online, we began seriously thinking about what kind of browser could exist if we started from scratch and built on the best elements out there. We realized that the web had evolved from mainly simple text pages to rich, interactive applications and that we needed to completely rethink the browser. What we really needed was not just a browser, but also a modern platform for web pages and applications, and that's what we set out to build.” - Google Blog.
Update: The first beta of Google Chrome is now available for download. Grab it here! | |
| Abit is Quitting Motherboard Market, Confirmed!
Tuesday, September 02, 2008
Abit, a (USI) Universal Scientific International acquired Taiwanese company, well known for their high-end gaming motherboards, will stop manufacturing all motherboards by the end of this year, exclusively confirmed by HEXES. “HEXUS.channel has confirmed this as fact from sources close to South East Asian distributors, all of which will be notified by their abit sales contacts from today onwards. Apparently abit will continue to deliver mainboards until the end of the year and will honour RMAs and warranties for three years subsequently.” - HEXUS.channel. Thanks to Cas for posting this news to our forum. | |
| Speculations on Microsoft’s Next Xbox Summarized
Tuesday, September 02, 2008
We are all hearing rumors about Microsoft’s next generation Xbox. Different sources have different notes about the future of the Xbox but nothing is confirmed yet! Everyone wonders if it will feature Intel Chips or a Blu-ray drive, or will it offer huge storage? To summarize these endless speculations, Techradar has summarized some of the rumors in this article.
“Will Microsoft launch its next-gen Xbox in 2011? There have been a couple of articles recently that have speculated on just that. We look at whether the 'Xbox 720' will feature a return to Intel chips, the inclusion of a Blu-ray drive, and more storage than you can ever fill.”
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| | Google Introduces New Search Feature
Monday, September 01, 2008
Google has introduced a new feature, Google Suggest, on its homepage. This new feature offers suggestions whenever you start entering any keyword into the search text box. Jennifer Liu, a Google Product Manager, in a blog explained about this feature with some examples. The main highlights of this feature are: - It helps formulate your querie
- Reduce spelling errors more efficiently
- Saves keystroke
“Today we're excited because Google Suggest will be "graduating" from Labs and available by default on the Google.com homepage. Over the next week, we'll be rolling this out so that more and more of you will start seeing a list of query suggestions when you start typing into the search box.”
I tried myself and it works great, but only on www.google.com. If you try Google Suggest on a regional Google site like: http://www.google.com.au/ or http://www.google.co.uk/ it doesn’t work! | |
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| Still Getting Used to Life with an LCD HDTV |  |
| | Location: Blogs Fiona's Ramblings |
| | Posted by: fiona | 6/26/2008 4:29 AM | A new HDTV takes a bit of getting used to, so it turns out. Several things really stand out to me. First, TV shows that I thought were really top quality look a little amateurish. And hot male characters’ worry lines no longer look rugged and full of character, just plain old. The detail of HDTV is so crisp that flaws and faults are no longer hidden. I watched one show the other night that I’ve been watching for about seven years, set in a hospital emergency department (All Saints, for you Aussie readers). When I used to watch it, I was never really aware that the ER was just a set, but the fake walls and doors were plain to see in HD. Non-HDTV is also like a good make-up artist for actors, or a soft focus lens or bad lighting. In HD, somehow the whole thing looks more amateurish, because it’s more true to life. CG and blue-screen work also stands out more. With a non-LCD HDTV, a back drop done with blue screen sort of blends in and allows you to be comfortable with the illusion. But with our new LCD HDTV, it stands out like a B-grade movie. My daughter was watching an episode of Charmed last night where some characters were standing on the top of the San Francisco Bridge. I remember watching the scene about a year ago on our old TV and I didn’t think anything of it. Watching that same scene last night, it was like watching something a high school movie class put together! The other huge difference is the color. If there is a show you know well, when you first get your HDTV, watch some of the show you’ve seen before. Clothing and scenery you know well just seems vibrant, with more shades and hues of the colors than before. | | | Permalink | Trackback |
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