Archive for July 5th, 2007
Jul
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Intel's plan to drop the Q6600's price to just $266 thus making it accessible to more people was centered around July 22 but it seems that a few online stores got ahead of themselves (in a good way) and dropped the price of the quad-core to as low as $300. Still bearing an official
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Jul
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The TextImage plugin for WordPress displays your post text as a PNG image instead of sending it to the browser as normal HTML. You can specify the text color, background color, font, font size, and image width you want to use.
Why would you want to do this? Text rendered as an image cannot be read by
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Jul
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Microsoft Corp. today announced that it intends to expand its presence in Canada by opening a new software development center in the greater Vancouver, British Columbia, area. The Microsoft Canada Development Centre will open in the fall of 2007 and will be home to software developers from around the world.
“Microsoft is a global company, and our
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Jul
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Microsoft's memory-hungry Vista operating system -- along with falling dynamic RAM prices -- is boosting semiconductor sales.
The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) reported this week that worldwide sales of semiconductors hit $20.3 billion in May -- 2.4% higher than sales of $19.8 billion in the same month a year ago.
The San Jose-based trade association, citing figures from
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Jul
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HDClone Free Edition enables you to move the content from an entire hard drive to another, larger one. The program installs itself on a bootable floppy or CD, and include it's own operating system, so it runs completely independent from Windows.
Once HDClone has created the bootable floppy or CD for you, you can use it to
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Jul
5
Mozilla said Thursday that it had teamed with eBay to offer a version of its Firefox browser that is optimized for use with the auction site. In addition, eBay has released an add-on for those who want to add the functionality to an existing copy of the browser. The browser and add-on are available for several
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Jul
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Despite the fact that Windows Vista is a resource hog, the fact of the matter is that feeding too much resources into the latest operating system from Microsoft can be just as bad as not giving it sufficient horsepower. The Redmond company has informed of a scenario where users go all out and invest in a
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Jul
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Windows Home Server is a product designed to be implemented at the core of a home network. Delivering sharing, back-up, storage and remote access capabilities, Windows Home Server was introduced by Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates at CES 2007 in early January. Ever since the early days of 2007, Microsoft has claimed that Windows Home Server will
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Jul
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Apple Inc. has filed for a patent describing a computer mouse having a touch-sensative shell capable of accepting multi-touch finger gestures, similar to the surface of the company's iPhone handset.
"The invention relates to a configurable mouse with an extended sensing surface, which provides the mouse a customizable, programmable or adaptable way of generating inputs," Apple wrote
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Jul
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With the first three DX10 games out there in the wild, we wanted to take a close look at what we can expect from the first generation of titles built around the new API.
When it was drafted, DirectX 10 promised to once again change the way developers approach real-time 3D graphics programming. Not only would graphics
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Jul
5
Until you are ready to shell out $600 for the new iPhone, you can trick out your current phone with the ringtones taken straight off of the iPhone.
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Jul
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Login Logger v 0.1 keeps track of recent logins to Wordpress for all users, as well as all failed logins. It records username, time, IP address and how long since each login attempt as well as time since last active for each user. These tables can be accessed from the Users menu, and the list of failed logins can be cleared at any time.
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Jul
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The Java SE Runtime Environment contains the Java virtual machine, runtime class libraries, and Java application launcher that are necessary to run programs written in the Java programming language.
It is not a development environment and does not contain development tools such as compilers or debuggers. To run your application, a user needs the Java SE Runtime
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Jul
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Asustek Computer Inc., owner of Asus brand has made its name renowned mostly as one of the best motherboards manufacturer. Besides acting in the computer field, Asus has also become an important developer of high-quality and innovative technologies in many other fields such as communications and consumer electronics. If
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Jul
5
Microsoft Corp. said on Thursday it would launch the advanced version of its Xbox 360 game console, Xbox 360 Elite, on October 11 in Japan, a country where sales of its game gear lag far behind rival machines from Nintendo Co. Ltd. and Sony Corp.
The new console, which comes with a 120-gigabyte hard disk drive and
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