Hot on the heels of other manufacturers launching their versions of Nvidia’s 9600 GT chipset, Asus today unveiled the ASUS EN9600GT series of graphics cards. This card which comes in 3 versions namely EN9600GT TOP/HTDI/512M, the ASUS EN9600GT TOP/HTDI/512M and EN9600GT/HTDI/512M. Among these cards, the EN9600GT TOP will come with boosted speeds across the board in relation core, shader, and memory clock performance. These boots will be from 650MHz up to 720MHz, 1625MHz up to 1800MHz, and from 1.8GHz up to 2GHz respectively.
These cards will also incorporate the Glaciator Fansink – a specially designed fansink that is able to effectively dissipate heat away from the GPU to help lower temperatures – much like real-life glacial storms. Besides cooling capacity, it is also ultra quiet with operating levels of only 25dB – almost imperceptible in a quiet room; and caters to users who require maximum cooling without excessive fan rotation noise. Finally these cards will be fully HDMI compliant and certified.
Vinay Shetty, Product Manager, Component Business, ASUS India says,"The ASUS EN 9600GT TOP /HTDI / 512M graphics card is designed to synchronize the strengths of the Chipset and ASUS innovation and technology to give users that little extra when it comes to performance and quality. With 10% Engine clock Boost and Extreme cooling solutions gamers can now experience superb gaming and better graphical performance."
Logitech has revealed Cordless Desktop MX 5500 Revolution its latest wireless keyboard, Mouse combo featuring ergonomically designed keyboard that sports a range of 30 feet thanks to Bluetooth 2.0 Enhanced Data Rate (EDR) wireless technology and it also incorporates a small LCD display unit for showing time and date,handy calculator,temperature,email updates and more. The Logitech MX Revolution cordless laser mouse has Microgear precision control wheel which offers the user two modes of navigation.
User can quickly browse through long documents and Web pages, spinning the scroll wheel freely to move through more than 10,000 lines of a spreadsheet just in seven seconds. Alternatively, the scroll wheel can be set to click-to-click mode, which allows precision movement through lists, slides or photos.
The keyboard, mouse and receiver combo comes pre-paired so you don’t need to go through the hassles of pairing the devices every time, MX 5500 desktop’s receiver can also be used as a Bluetooth hub, enabling other Bluetooth devices, such as a Bluetooth-enabled cell phone or a PDA, to connect to a computer through the hub.
Logitech Cordless Desktop MX 5500 Revolution is expected to hit the stores in Feb with a price tag of $169.99( Rs 6670 )
Researchers of Melbourne University has come up with a wireless technology which promises high speed short range data transfers with speeds of upto 5
Researchers of Melbourne University has come up with a wireless technology which promises high speed short range data transfers with speeds of upto 5 Gbps within a radius of 10 meters. The new wireless technology is named GiFi operates on the 60GHz frequency band, which is currently mostly unused. The GiFi Chip developed by the Australian researchers measures 5mm square and is manufactured using existing complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) technology, the same system that is currently used to print silicon chips.
The best part about this new technology is its cost effectiveness and power consumption, it only consumes 2 watts of power for its operation with antenna(1mm) included and the development of Gi-Fi chip costs approximately $10( Rs 380) to manufacture.
In theory this technology would transfers GB’s of your fav high definition movies in seconds. So GiFi can be considered as a challenger to Bluetooth rather than Wi-Fi and could find applications ranging from new mobile phones to consumer electronics.
Mass production of the technology might not start before 2009.
NVIDIA has revealed its all new GeForce 9600GT which will definitely blow you up if you have recently purchased 8800GT because the price of the new GeForce 9 Series graphics card is well under 200$. This time NVIDIA has revealed its mid range card first to gauge the market reaction and will definitely follow up with more deadlier graphic cards later on.
The Nvidia GeForce 9600 GT is a card which promises to hit a sweet spot for gamers, offering excellent performance while simultaneously being easier on the wallet. The new card is based on DirectX 10 is expected to provide solid performance at the same time being power efficient.
“NVIDIA continues to innovate in hardware technology so that game enthusiasts and consumers can fully experience the incredible graphics offerings in Microsoft’s operating systems, including Windows Vista,” said Kevin Unangst, senior global director of Games for Windows, Microsoft. “The new GeForce 9600 GT GPU further extends NVIDIA’s ability to deliver improved DirectX 10 performance on Windows Vista at an affordable price point, so that anyone and everyone can have an amazing gaming experience.”
The new GeForce 9600 GT GPU has improved performance-per-watt ratio compared to its predecessor as well as improved compression efficiency. In addition to 64 stream processors-each individually clocked at a blazing-fast 1625 MHz-and a 256-bit memory interface running at 900 MHz, the GeForce 9600 GT GPU is designed for the new PCIe 2.0 bus standard and features backwards compatibility with the original PCIe standard.
XFX has released GeForce 9600 GT graphics card in India with estimated retail price of Rs 13,990/- 3 years warranty included.
Rapidshare is probably one of the biggest filehosters in the planet. Even if it is the most used file sharing service it still lacks some basic features, like the unavailability of searching the hosted files in rapidshare.
This is where third party rapidshare search engines do the job for us. Just type in your your keywords and they will hunt down files relating to that keyword hosted on rapidshare.
Here is a complete list of 30 Rapidshare Search Engines. Use them well and have fun.
- Filez
- HellaFiles
- RapidShared
- ShareMiner
- FilesBot
- RapidOSearch
- RapidSearchEngine
- RapidshareLink
- OneClickFiles
- SearchShared
- EatPaperRapidshare
- FileSearcher
- MegaDownload
- RapidshareURL
- Rapidoogle
- Avun
- Flesearch
- Filestube
- Filecrop
- Rapidshare1
- Rapidlibrary
- Gappon
- Search4file
- Rapid2share
- Loadevery
- Shareminer
- Rapidfox
- Linkosearch
- LoadingVault
- Hellafiles
Good news for folks in the mobile game industry. According to a new report from Parks Associates titled "The New Frontier: Portable and Mobile Gaming", off-deck sales of mobile games will grow from less than 10% in 2007 to nearly 30% in 2012.
This move to off-deck will enable the mobile game market in the US to grow from $700M in 2007 sales to $1.7B in 2011.
“Off-deck marketing and distribution, combined with new business models such as mobile game advertising, episodic content delivery, and micro-payments, will rekindle industry growth," said Yuanzhe (Michael) Cai, director of broadband and gaming at Parks Associates.
The article from eMarketer highlights how off-deck sales help the mobile gaming market grow in a few ways:
- Independent developers and publishers who don't have to have their games approved by carriers can potentially offer a wider range of game types, bringing in more gamers.
- Off-deck transactions could also mean more money to game publishers by reducing the carriers' cut. Similarly, such transactions could lower prices for consumers, prompting more sales.
This is music to Movaya's ears as we plan to help power a significant percentage of that $600M in off-deck game sales in the US in 2012.
EKA, The Supercomputer developed by Tata’s Pune based Computational Research Laboratories, has been ranked the world’s fourth fastest and fastest in Asia. This information was disclosed in the 30th Top500 Supercomputer list. Its a proud moment for India and us Indians as its the first time such system from India has made it to the Top 10 =D>
A total of 9 supercomputers developed in India have appeare in the top 500list including one more system (179th) developed at Tata Sons’ wholly owned subsidiary Computational Research Laboratory (CPL) in Pune, where EKA was developed. Others include a system developed by Indian Institute of Science (58th) and 6 IBM systems (ranked at 152nd, 158th, 336th, 339th, 340th and 371st). The fastest supercomputer in the world is BlueGene/L System, a joint development of IBM and the Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and installed at DOE’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California.
BlueGene/L System recorded a speed of 478.2 teraflops per second (trillions of calculations per second) while EKA recorded 117.9 teraflops per second. EKA is a sanskrit word and means Number One.More information about EKA:
Site
Computational Research Laboratories, TATA SONS
System Family
HP Cluster Platform 3000BL
System Model
Cluster Platform 3000 BL460c
Computer
Cluster Platform 3000 BL460c, Xeon 53xx 3GHz, Infiniband
Vendor Hewlett-Packard
Hewlett-Packard
Application area
Not Specified
Installation Year
2007
Operating System
Linux
Interconnect
Infiniband DDR
Processor
Intel EM64T Xeon 53xx (Clovertown) 3000 MHz (12 GFlops)
The Nano USB Bluetooth dongle is the smallest Bluetooth USB dongle I have ever seen. It is perfect for people who do not have embedded Bluetooth functionality on their laptops and don’t like to those bulky adapters.
The Nano USB Bluetooth Dongle features a transfer rate of 2.1Mbps and weighs just 39g. In addition to this its way too small in size, its even smaller than a coin! You can connect a Bluetooth device with the dongle within a distance of 33feet.
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FixMyMovie is free web-based service which allows you to easily improve the quality of your video clips. It is capable of curing many of digital video’s common ailments. It’s a great tool especially if you have videos which were shot in your cell phone and webcam. To use this, all you need to do is just upload your video file and FixMyMovie will get the job done for you.
Features:
- Improves the quality of low resolution videos taken from mobile phone, digital camera or webcam.
- Almost all video types supported.
- Grab high resolution screenshots from any place in the video.
- Compare original and enhanced versions side-by-side.
Tab browsing for Firefox is almost perfect for most average to intermediate users. But for a geek everything has to be picture perfect. Here are few Tab extensions that extracts more out of the already lean and mean Firefox browser.
Tab Mix Plus
Tab Mix is probably the most used tab extension. Most of the cool features came with Firefox 2. It includes such features as duplicating tabs, controlling tab focus, tab clicking options, undo closed tabs and windows, plus much more. Also the session manager gives it total control over crashes.
Fancy Numbered Tabs
Replaces the close tab graphic with numbers to help with quick tab navigation via CTRL + [1-8] or Alt + [1-8].
Tree Style Tab
This extension is quite interesting, it replaces the normal bar tab structure and provides a tree-style tab bar, like a folder tree of Windows Explorer. You can collapse/expand sub trees, really handy when browsing with too many tabs.
Separate Tabs
This extension automatically sorts your tabs according to the domain name.
Tab Scope
Shows a popup on tabs and enables you to preview and navigate tab contents through popup.
TabRenamizer
Scared of someone looking over your back, TabRenamizer is a smart extension that lets you rename your tabs. No scare of getting caught while watching porn.
Tab Catalog
This shows contents of all of tabs as a thumbnail-style list. Much like the Opera Speed dial.
TabHistory
Want to view a site that you previously visited, but now eve the history doesn’t shows its.TabHistory is an interesting extension that provides a history of visited tabs.
Open Image In New Tab
Adds right-click context menu item for opening images in new.
FaviconizeTab
This extension adds a new “FaviconizeTab” option to the context menu of the tab. It makes the width of the tab to the size of a small Favicon.
Search the addons website of Firefox for more wonderful and interesting extensions.These are only my favorites.
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